The police say they have also arrested some suspected kidnappers and cultists in the state.
State, South-south Nigeria, said they had arrested a suspected ritualist with a human skull.
The suspect, Edu Ime of Mbak Etoi in Uyo Local Government Area, was arrested on 15 May at a popular Urua Ekpa Junction around Calabar-Itu Highway, Mr Durosinmi said. Reviewing the police achievements in Akwa Ibom in the last three months, Mr Durosinmi said 269 suspects had been arrested for offences ranging from murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape and cultism.The police spokesperson, Mr Macdon, said the police in the state also arrested a gang who, on 14 April, kidnapped a vice chancellor of a private university in the state.He identified the suspect as Prince Okon, a former domestic worker sacked by the vice chancellor because of “criminal tendencies”.
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