Court remands 3 for possessing human parts

The Breman Asikuma district court on Wednesday March 28 2017 remanded three farmers into prison custody for possessing human parts at Towuboase, a farming community in the area.

Suspects Akwasi Awudu 25, Bismark Botwe 20 and Donkoh stephen 22 who were charged for conspiracy to commit crime and unlawful use of human parts please not guilty to all charges and were remanded by the court presided over by Clement Asomah to reappear on 4th April 2017.

Giving the facts of the case, the prosecutor Chief Inspector Isaac Dzefe told the court that on 28th of March 2017 (Tuesday) at about 3:30am, Akwasi Awudu was spotted at dawn by some youth with a sack but when asked to stop on suspicion he had stolen something, he tried to flee. He was then given a hot chased and after a distance he was arrested by the youth.

They took the sack from him and saw human bones in it. Akwasi was then taken to the Asikuma police station where he mentioned two of his accomplices Bismarck Botwe and Donkoh Stephen who were subsequently arrested by the police

According to Evans K. Oboafi Junior who was in court for mynsewsgh.com, the suspects in their caution statements claimed e got the human parts from a grave they looted Monday night and was on his way to Swedru to sell them where it is on high demand by cyber fraudsters popularly called “Sakawa” in the local parlance before he was arrested.

Police personnel accompanied him to the cemetery where the grave was looted and it was indeed verified that one of the graves had been opened.