KKD NOT FREE YET; ATTORNEY GENERAL TO DECIDE

State prosecutors are waiting for Attorney
General’s direction on how to proceed with the rape
charges against entertainment icon Kwesi Kyei
Darkwah (KKD) after the chief witness withdrew the
case from court.
The alleged victim, Ewuraffe Orleans Thompson,
formally wrote to notify the Magistrates Court of her
withdrawal of the case on Monday January 12,
citing fierce media repot of the case as one of the
reasons.
ASP Afia Tenge told Joy News the Attorney
General's Department would have to be brought in
the matter.
"Once she has said she is not interested in this
case whatever letter she has brought to the police
we have to refer it to the Attorney General because
the docket [on the case] is already at the Attorney
General's office...I am sure we have done that [sent
the letter to the Attorney General]. We are waiting
for the Attorney General's advice", said ASP Tenge.
ASP Tenge however refused to disclose details of
investigations and facts gathered so far by the
police on the alleged rape case.
A lawyer and Lecturer at the Ghana Law School has
said the state has the final say on the rape case.
Opoku Adusei said in criminal matters the accused
is deemed to have committed the offence against
the state and it is only the state that can decide to
or not to prosecute the case.
Meanwhile KKD has apologised to the alleged rape
victim for the public ridicule and disgrace his action
has caused her.
In a letter dated January 12, 2014 he begged for
God’s forgiveness and further appealed to the
media to spare the two families any further agonies.
Source: Joy Online