Kwaw Kese: I demand $1 million in compensation from Ghana Police for their 2015 arrest of me for smoking weed

In his opinion, the fact that many foreigners had gotten away with breaking the law made his arrest for weed use in public unfair.

Kwaw Kese recently stated on Hitz FM that he will consult with his attorneys to pursue the proper legal measures.

 They have no evidence, not even with mine, that I was doing that. They couldn't possibly demonstrate it in order to claim, "We saw Kwaw Kese doing this." I was imprisoned because of gossip about it. They have no images to support their claims.

"This is the same Ghana; the same police who arrested me are now using weapons as bodyguards to protect someone who is not from Ghana to smoke in public. It's all captured on camera, live, and they get away with it,” the man asserted. 

Kwaw Kese said that the event had a detrimental effect on his reputation and his then-emerging profession. 

"I have evidence, proof, that other foreign nationals have come to do the very same crime for which I was imprisoned. Kwaw Kese continued, "If this is the so, I must receive payment for the shame they brought upon me and my reputation.

In 2015, Kwaw Kese was found guilty of drug charges and given a day's jail sentence along with a GH˖1,200 fine. 

Five years later, in 2020, Popcaan, a Jamaican musician, visited Ghana for the Year of Return and was observed smoking what appeared to be marijuana in public. 

Kwaw Kese at the time called out Ghana Police, furious that the Jamaican musician had been released off the hook. 

He wrote, “Only in Ghana foreigners can f**k up like this. When @kwawkese smoked in public he was arrested. So this means our Law set only to control on the citizens but foreigners are free to go. 

“The most painful part is Ghana police. None of them was able to speak the truth out because of the small coins which will be given out … Ooh Ghana”.