A man believed to be in his early 40’s has been arrested for exhuming a queenmother’s body at Ekumfi Gyinankoma in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region.
Kojo Essel who is claimed he lives in Agona Swedru and other suspects who are on the run was caught exhuming the queenmother’s body at the community cemetery on the midnight of Saturday, February 19, 2022.
Speaking in an interview with journalists, an eyewitness who is a hunter in the community said he caught the men in the cemetery exhuming the body of the late queenmother from the grave.
According to the hunter, he was able to retrieve cutlasses, shovel, pinch bar, pickaxe, crowbar, hammer, and six bag sacks from the grave looters.
The hunter narrated that he marched the suspect to the Chief’s palace that night.
He said a search conducted in the bags of the suspect led to the retrieval of two fresh human skulls, fresh human penis, corpse beads, four corpse breasts, rusted necklaces, and teeth.
The suspect confirmed the incidents saying that they were two in number.
According to the suspect, they went to the cemetery to exhume the corpses in search of jewelleries.
He confessed that necklaces, beads, skeletons, and other body parts were removed after they successfully exhumed two corpses before attacking the grave of the Queenmother.
He added that someone directed them to the Ekumfi Gyinankoma cemetery to search for those items.
For his part, the Chief of Ekumfi Gyinankoma, Nana Kwame Donkoh said he was asleep when he heard the youth shouting that they had caught a grave looter.
The chief said the matter was reported to him, he and his people followed the suspect to the graveyard to show them where they looted the corpse only for them to notice that the items belong to the queenmother of the community who died recently in an accident.
The Chief added that this was not the first time such an incident has happened in the community.
He said they find corpses that have been exhumed anytime they go to the cemetery.
He gave the assurance that all the needed rituals will be performed to pacify the gods of the land before a decision is taken by the chiefs and the elders of the community.
