Reports have it that Police Command in Cross River State has arrested the Pastor of United Evangelical Church, Michael Bassey, 45, for unlawful possession of a human skull.
It also apprehended 25 other suspects for various offences committed in the state.
Briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Calabar, Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Sikiru Akande, said that the pastor was arrested upon a complaint from a concerned citizen on the threat to life.
Akande said that the suspect was arrested at No. 56 Uwanse by Asuquo Ekpo Street in Calabar South.
The police said the suspect was arrested with one human skull tied with the complainant’s picture and a carved human image with red clothes.
CP Akande added that the investigation is still ongoing and that the suspect would be arraigned in court.
The CP also paraded one Christian Edem-Eyo, 34, for allegedly killing and beheading one Uduak Okpo, aged 65, and buried her head and the body separately on June 6.
The Commissioner also said that the suspect would soon be charged to court accordingly.
However, reacting to the allegation, Bassey told newsmen that he was not into any diabolical act.
He said he was conducting healing services for his congregation members before his arrest, adding that he did not know anything about the human skull.
On his part, the murder suspect, Edem-Eyo, told newsmen that he killed Okpo because she belonged to the marine world and was terrorising him spiritually in the compound.
