Nigeria Police Force says it cannot investigate the stealing of pants for spiritual reasons because there is no evidence.

Force Police Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, was responding to questions on ritual practices and ‘get rich quick’ schemes.

Mba said, “Stealing of underwear for whatsoever reason is a recent phenomenon, before now, we had cases of rituals killings but we can’t investigate things that are not empirically verifiable except when there is convergence of the act like cases of murder or an attempt or related crimes.”

He said substance abuse fuels crime, asking youths not to delve into it.

Mba said drug and substance abuses were strong conscience suppressors that influence youth into the wicked acts of fetish and ritual killings for get-rich-quick, while they would continue to fight the menace of drug abuse head-on, they want youths to desist or be ready to bear the consequences