Years after he was arrested for smoking wee publicly, Ghanaian rapper, Kwaw Kese is looking for compensation.
The ‘Adodam’ rapper has disclosed his intention to take legal action against the Ghana Police Service after his arrest in 2015.
He will demand $1 million as damages, citing that his arrest for publicly smoking marijuana was discriminatory because many foreigners had gone scot-free when they did the same.
“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 said on Hitz FM.
“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.
