Rapper Kwaw Kese, from Ghana, has said that he is thinking of suing the Ghana Police for $1 million in damages after being detained and found guilty of marijuana use.
In his opinion, the fact that many foreigners had gotten away with breaking the law made his arrest for marijuana use in public unfair.
Kwaw Kese recently stated on Hitz FM that he will consult with his attorneys to pursue the proper legal measures.
“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 said that the event had a detrimental effect on his reputation and his then-emerging profession.
“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.
In 2015, Kwaw Kese was found guilty of drug charges and given a day’s jail sentence along with a GH˖1,200 fine.
Five years later, in 2020, Popcaan, a Jamaican musician, visited Ghana for the Year of Return and was observed smoking what appeared to be marijuana in public.
Kwaw Kese at the time called out Ghana Police, furious that the Jamaican musician had been released off the hook.
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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