A 45-year-old man, Kojo Essel, has been apprehended by the residents of Ekumfi Gyankoma for allegedly exhuming a Queen mother’s corpse.
Mr Essel was nabbed after breaking into the graveyard with the purpose of stealing beads and other adornments the deceased leader was buried with.
His accomplice, however, managed to escape.
An eyewitness who is a hunter in the community is said to have caught them in the act but one managed to scape.
He then marched the suspect to the Chief’s palace. Tools including cutlasses, shovel, pinch bar, pickaxe, and six sacks were retrieved.
Upon searching the bags, two fresh human skulls, fresh human penis, beads, four corpse breasts, torch light, teeth all belonging to the corpses they had exhumed.
The suspect in an interview confirmed the incidents saying they exhumed the corpses to search for necklace and beads for money rituals. He confirmed that they exhumed two corps from the cemetery.
The suspect has been handed over to the Ekumfi Essuohyia police for an investigation.
