A Nigerian among men arrested for human bone trafficking in Banyo

Elements of the Banyo gendarmerie unit in the Adamawa region of Cameroon carried out investigations after a tip off from the population who claimed that human bone traffickers had been identified in the locality. This turned out to be true as Saidou Yokoda (37 years), Youssoupha Madou of similar age and both Cameroonians as well as 33 year-old Mohammed Adamou who is a Nigerian were arrested. They were in possession of a complete skeleton of a woman whose age whose age experts estimated to be 72.

Investigations revealed that the lady was exhumed from her grave in a locality called Ziri a day after she was buried and the body was hidden by the Madep river for almost two full months while waiting for a client. A man the arrested men say is called Sadou came looking for human bones and this demand led them into the dragnets of the national gendarmerie.

The skeleton has been returned to the deceased’s family for burial and the arrested individuals are at the Banyo gendarmerie unit awaiting transfer to a prison pending trial.