{"id":80364,"date":"2015-01-08T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T07:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=80364"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:22:01","slug":"kkd-to-reappear-in-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=80364","title":{"rendered":"KKD to reappear in court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ace broadcaster Kwesi Kyei Dakwa (KKD) who is in Police custody for allegedly<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/30\/kkd-denied-bail-charged-with-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>raping a 19-year-old<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>will re<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">appear before a district magistrate court today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KKD has denied the rape allegation and said he had \u201cconsensual sex\u201d with Ewureffe Orleans Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>In his lawyer\u2019s bail application , he argued that\u00a0the facts do not show \u201cthere was any physical or verbal threat of harm or physical restraint used to compel the victim to have sex with the accused, yet, the prosecution contends the use of force.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78194\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KKD-with-Nana-Asante.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78194\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KKD-with-Nana-Asante.jpg\" alt=\"KKD (left), with one of his lawyers Nana Asante Badiatuo.\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KKD-with-Nana-Asante.jpg 720w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KKD-with-Nana-Asante-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KKD (left), with one of his lawyers Nana Asante Badiatuo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;KCBuJzZmpn2mNuDWksXQt865im7lhGcP&#8221;]They further argued among others that,\u00a0even though there were two other persons in the room during the alleged rape incident, the facts of the prosecutor do not state that \u201cany one of them heard noise from the so-called victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the security footage from the African Regent Hotel showed the Ghanaian celebrity, KKD, and the said victim of a rape, were captured on the hotel CCTV camera, kissing before and after the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>However in a charge sheet,presented by the lawyer of Ewureffe,\u00a0the incident happened in a suite at the\u00a0African Regent Hotel on December 27, 2014 when the accused invited her to help him powder his face before a programme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KKD denied bail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a related development, a human rights court has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/07\/kkd-remain-behind-bars-one-week\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">denied the showbiz icon bail.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hearing for his bail application seeking his release on Wednesday was\u00a0\u00a0adjourned to January 13, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The presiding judge, Justice Essel Mensah adjourned the case because the prosecutor argued he received the bail application from KKD\u2019s lawyers on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s request for more time to study the application was accepted by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ace broadcaster Kwesi Kyei Dakwa (KKD) who is in Police custody for allegedly raping a 19-year-old\u00a0will reappear before a district magistrate court today. KKD has denied the rape allegation and said he had \u201cconsensual sex\u201d with Ewureffe Orleans Thompson. In his lawyer\u2019s bail application , he argued that\u00a0the facts do not show \u201cthere was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78467,"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":[38,6],"class_list":["post-80364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80364","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=80364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}