Wisa
Hiplife artiste Eugene Ashe, aka Wisa Greid, has been ordered by an Accra Circuit Court to open his defence at the next adjourned date.
This comes at the back of the court’s decision to annul a submission of no case filed by lawyer for the ‘Ekiki Mi’ hit singer.
His lawyer in an application filed in August 2017 averred that his client had 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.
But the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku in her ruling on the submission of no case held that the prosecution had established a prima facie case, hence the need for Wisa to open his defence.
She subsequently adjourned the matter to February 5, 2018 for Wisa to tell the court his side of the story.
The prosecution has presented three witnesses to the court in relation to the matter – but none of them is an eye witness to the incident.
The authenticity of a witness statement by Jerry Narh, the disk jockey (DJ) on the night, was questioned by Wisa’s lawyer because the witness was not in court to testify to the witness and the statement according to the lawyer was not signed.
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