{"id":79330,"date":"2015-01-05T05:29:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T05:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79330"},"modified":"2015-01-05T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:32:11","slug":"kwaw-kese-trial-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79330","title":{"rendered":"Kwaw Kese trial begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of hiplife artiste\u00a0Emmanuel Botwe popularly known as\u00a0Kwaw Kese is expected to begin today, Monday January 5, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Nana Kwesi Buetey confirmed this to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the last hearing, the Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Judge William\u00a0Boampong\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/30\/kwaw-kese-finally-granted-bail\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>granted him bail on health grounds<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10407476_10152923159464136_6646072044174703668_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68100\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10407476_10152923159464136_6646072044174703668_n.jpg\" alt=\"Kwaw Kese Arrested\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10407476_10152923159464136_6646072044174703668_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10407476_10152923159464136_6646072044174703668_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u00a0is standing trial for <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/24\/kwaw-kese-remanded-prison-custody-2-weeks-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>allegedly smoking publicly, a substance suspected to be Indian hemp<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;bPbW51Ho0f3exTOhiBcrj1m2YLcURiBM&#8221;]He was arrested by the Police in Kumasi on November 22, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Kwaw Kese had been shuffling between jail and the hospital since his arrest and <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/23\/kwaw-kese-to-spend-christmas-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>pleaded with the judge to grant him bail<\/strong><\/span><\/a> after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He has since pleaded not guilty in the matter even though the prosecution said in one of the court appearances that <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/12\/kwaw-kese-denied-bail-again\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>medical tests on the musician<\/strong><\/span><\/a> have revealed he had smoked the substance.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kwaw Kese has started a <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/17\/kwaw-kese-campaigns-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>campaign against the use of illicit drugs<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, warning the youth against using such dangerous drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of hiplife artiste\u00a0Emmanuel Botwe popularly known as\u00a0Kwaw Kese is expected to begin today, Monday January 5, 2015. His lawyer, Nana Kwesi Buetey confirmed this to Citi News. At the last hearing, the Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Judge William\u00a0Boampong\u00a0granted him bail on health grounds. The rapper\u00a0is standing trial for allegedly smoking publicly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":77074,"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":[32],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-79330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79330","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}