{"id":81780,"date":"2015-01-13T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81780"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:11:40","slug":"kkd-seeks-bail-human-rights-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81780","title":{"rendered":"KKD seeks bail at the Human Rights Court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Human Rights Court will today hear an application for bail filed by lawyers for ace broadcaster Kwesi Kyie Darkwa, popularly known as KKD, after being accused of raping a 19 year old lady, Ewuraffe Orleans Thompson.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">KKD is currently in Police custody after a District court in Accra earlier refused to grant him bail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His lawyers have resorted to a higher court to seek bail for him as according to them, the District court does not have the locus to grant their client bail over a case such as rape.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">KKD has maintained that he did not rape Ewuraffe Orleans Thompson, and that they had a \u201cconsensual\u201d sexual intercourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Akoto Boateng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Human Rights Court will today hear an application for bail filed by lawyers for ace broadcaster Kwesi Kyie Darkwa, popularly known as KKD, after being accused of raping a 19 year old lady, Ewuraffe Orleans Thompson. KKD is currently in Police custody after a District court in Accra earlier refused to grant him bail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77860,"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-81780","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\/81780","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=81780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}