A Goaso Circuit presided over by Charles Kwasi Acheampong has remanded three sakawa boys for exhuming a body at the Presbyterian cemetery and stealing parts last Sunday.

The suspects have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime, hindering the burial of a dead body, being in possession of human body parts and stealing.

All charges MyNewsGh.com confirmed are all under the criminal and other offences Act 29/60.

Their pleas were not taken and were remanded in police custody to reappear on August 8, 2019, while a directive was given to the police to hand over the body parts to the family for reburial.

Peter Foh, 35, Yaw Yeridie, 31, and Berko Isaac, 30, were arrested at about 11 pm on Sunday with human parts at Abuom near Sankore.

Police in Kukuom in the in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region have confirmed to MyNewsGh.com that the body that was exhumed by the suspects was the mother of a chief in the area.

Kukuom District Police Commander, DSP Lawrence Adomberi disclosed that police are yet to take a statement from the Kontihene whose mother was buried some months ago.

Upon their arrest, they confessed to the police it was a female grave at the Aboum Presbyterian Cemetery that was exhumed and the parts concealed in a box.

The development is said to have thrown the entire town in a state of shock as this was among a few of the strange things to have happened in the area.