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An Accra Circuit Court (Domestic Violence and Gender-Based Division) presided over by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku has set January 22, 2018 to rule on a submission of no case filed by lawyer for hiplife artiste Eugene Ashe, aka WisaGreid.
His lawyer Jerry Avenogbor in August, 2017 filed the submission, arguing that his client has no case to answer in respect of the matter before the court.
This was after the prosecution, led by Inspector Judith B. Asante, disclosed that the prosecution had closed its case.
The Attorney General’s Department later served a notice to respond to the submission of no case but DAILY GUIDE has gathered that they did not.
Wisa Greid’s lawyer has also confirmed to the paper that he has not been served with any response from the Attorney General’s Department.
That, notwithstanding, the court has set the date to rule on the application based on its merit.
At the last sitting, Inspector Edward Odame of the Police Criminal Investigation Department was cross-examined on a witness statement he had tendered.
This was because the witness, one Jerry Narh, who had given the statement to the police, was not available to speak to the witness statement.
The defence lawyer was sceptical over the authenticity of the document, indicating that the statement was not signed and if it was signed, the court could not be sure that the said Narh signed it.
The ‘Ekiki Mi’ hit singer is standing trial for allegedly showing his manhood during a live performance on December 24, 2015 during the ‘December 2 Remember’ event at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
A video of the artiste stripping and rubbing his manhood against his female dancer on stage was put on social media, compelling his management to apologise for what it described as the artiste’s “rash and irresponsible behaviour”.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak