{"id":170751,"date":"2015-11-30T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=170751"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T13:02:31","slug":"ekow-micah-acquitted-and-discharged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=170751","title":{"rendered":"Ekow Micah acquitted and discharged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged Reggae Artist, Ekow Micah who was facing trial for unlawful possession of narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>In his judgement, presiding judge, Justice Aboagye Tandor, said he arrived at the decision because the defence raised sufficient doubt over the case of the prosecution which had the duty of proving Ekow Micah&#8217;s guilt.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OADa4y79hzu6KMIMP4Nd08JvWDGIXnUu&#8221;]The reggae musician, Ekow Micah, was arrested by the police in August this year, and accused of allegedly possessing over 127 grammes of cannabis sativa found and concealed in his\u00a0back pack.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police (ACP) ACP Atibillah, earlier told the court that\u00a0a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp was found concealed in Micah s \u201cback pack\u201d after an extensive search was conducted at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>He however <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/11\/12\/ekow-micah-denies-possessing-wee\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>denied these allegations<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>and pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged Reggae Artist, Ekow Micah who was facing trial for unlawful possession of narcotics. In his judgement, presiding judge, Justice Aboagye Tandor, said he arrived at the decision because the defence raised sufficient doubt over the case of the prosecution which had the duty of proving Ekow Micah&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,6],"class_list":["post-170751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}