Ghanaian rapper, Kwaw Kese has disclosed that he’s contemplating taking authorized motion towards the Ghana Police with $1M damages for his arrest and subsequent conviction for smoking marijuana.
In his view, his arrest for publicly smoking marijuana was discriminatory contemplating that many foreigners had gone scot free once they flouted the legal guidelines.
Speaking on Hitz FM just lately, Kwaw Kese mentioned he’ll talk along with his legal professionals to take applicable authorized motion.
“Even with mine, they don’t have any proof that I was doing that. There’s no shot that they could show that to say ‘we saw Kwaw Kese doing this’. It’s a hearsay and I was jailed for it. They don’t have any picture to prove it.
“This is the same Ghana, the same police that arrested me are now bodyguarding with guns, guarding somebody who is not a Ghanaian to smoke in public and it is live on video and everything and that person goes scot-free,” he claimed.
Kwaw Kese additionally famous that the incident negatively affected his picture and blossoming profession on the time.
“I have proof, I have evidence that shows that other foreign nationals have come to do the same thing I was jailed for. If this is how it is, then I have to be compensated for the disgrace and what they did to me and my name,” Kwaw Kese added.
Kwaw Kese was tried for narcotic offences and was sentenced to a day’s imprisonment and a advantageous of GHȼ1,200 in 2015. (Read Universal Music buys majority stake in Don Jazzy’s Mavin)
Five years down the road, Jamaican musician Popcaan was seen smoking what was suspected to be marijuana publicly in Ghana when he got here down for the Year of Return in 2020.
Outraged that the Jamaican musician was left off the hook, Kwaw Kese referred to as out Ghana Police on the time.
He wrote, “Only in Ghana foreigners can f**k up like this. When @kwawkese smoked in public he was arrested. So this means our Law set only to control on the citizens but foreigners are free to go.
“The most painful part is Ghana police. None of them was able to speak the truth out because of the small coins which will be given out … Ooh Ghana”.
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