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A Nigerian couple, Alhaji Rashid Bello and his wife, Fauzia Bello who were arrested on Thursday at Amosima near Moree in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese (AAK) district of the Central Region with human parts, was on Friday remanded into police custody by a Cape Coast Magistrate Court. The couple shed uncontrollable tears when the magistrate, Kwame Ohemen Mensah remanded them to re-appear on September 22, 2011. Their plea was not taken by the court. In an interview with Daily Guide after court proceedings on why the court did not take the plea of the couple, Detective Chief Inspector Samuel Adjei disclosed that it was because the case was fresh. He said the police only wanted the court to be aware that the couple was in their custody for investigations. Presenting the facts, Chief Inspector Francis Kingsford Ockom said in the early hours of Thursday September 1, 2011, the Cape Coast Metropolitan Crime Officer, ASP Emmanuel Tetteh and his outfit, having carried surveillance in the area following information about a number of illegal activities there, decided to carry out a swoop which led to the arrest of the couple. He disclosed that the police, upon searching the couple�s house at Amosima, found a big �Ghana must go bag� full of human parts in their private toilet. The police further searched the washroom and realized that there was a strange stench emanating from the toilet. Fauzia Bello, upon sensing danger, tried to divert the attention of the police by flashing the toilet but was stopped and a covered bucket full of human parts was retrieved. Chief Inspector Ockom explained that during interrogation on how they came by the human parts, the two refused to give the police a concrete reason, leading to their arrest. He indicated that the body of the deceased had since been deposited at the Central Regional Morgue for autopsy, investigation and identification. When questioned on their nationality by Justice Ohemen Mensah, the two said they were not from Nigeria as they told the police but from the Volta Region. However, information gathered by DAILY GUIDE revealed that Alhaji Bello�s father is a Nigerian while the mother hails from Togo but was born and raised at Kojokrom near Kpando in the Volta Region. The wife, Fauzia Bello, also hails from the Northern Region but had lived with the husband in the Volta Region.