Hip-hop musician Asem has been invited to report to the Ministries Police Station on Friday February 4, to aid investigations into allegations that he had drugged, defiled and impregnated a minor in her first year at an Accra-based Senior High School.
Asem, known in private life as Nana Wiafe Asante Mensah, was recently reported to have lured a school girl into his Achimota home and had sex with her while she was intoxicated by a drug he allegedly put in her drink.
The music star has denied the allegations and given hints that he intends to pursue the matter in court. Lynx Entertainment, the record label handling Asem, has also issued a press statement distancing him from the alleged crime.
News-one gathered that though Asem was originally asked to report last Wednesday, he did not honour the police invite. Reports say a gentleman who turned up at the police station and introduced himself as a brother of Asem was not allowed to represent him at the meeting. The meeting was thus rescheduled to Friday morning.
A police source says Editor of Flex entertainment newspaper, Samuel Baah, who was also invited over the same issue had his statement taken but was asked to return on Friday because Asem did not turn up.
The Flex newspaper, a fortnight ago, carried a story to the effect that Asem had forcefully had sex with the teenage student by name Queenie and impregnated her in the process. The matter became complicated when Queenie and her biological mother disagreed over her real age.
The alleged victim claims to be seventeen (17) but her mother is swearing heaven and earth the girl is fifteen (15). Interestingly, both daughter and mum say the alleged pregnancy had been aborted and that they did not report the alleged defilement when it occurred in 2010.
“I liked Asem as a music star so I decided to visit him at his Achimota residence one day as a friend … When I got to his house, he gave me a drink and before I knew it I was feeling dizzy in the process.
"I thought I was just feeling sleepy naturally so I allowed myself to sleep. I only woke up and realized that my virginity had been broken with blood on me. “That was when I knew I had been raped. I could not tell my mum who happens to be a teacher in a Senior High School since she would not have taken it kindly. I only went to the Maamobi Polyclinic and the doctor told me I was pregnant. I told Asem I was pregnant but he did not mind me till even now, though I hid it from my mum.”
Asem studied Communications at the Ghana Institute of Journalism and had his secondary education at St. Peter’s Senior High School. He is currently one of the best artistes on the Lynx Entertainment record label and is celebrated for hit songs like ‘Give Me Blow’, ‘2010 Filla’, ‘Wu B3 Da Ntem’, ‘No More Kpayor’, ‘School De Be’ and ‘Pigaro’.
Nana Oye Lithur, a human right activist cum lawyer, suffered some kind of brutalities at the hands of some policemen at Parliament on Tuesday.
The vociferous woman was beaten mercilessly together with a group of people she was leading to Parliament to petition the members of the legislature to pass the Right to Information Bill which has been delayed.
Immediately the group known as the Coalition on the Right to Information-Ghana, got to the main entrance of parliament house they were stopped by the heavy armed police presence at the place following which they were warned not to enter the House. According to the police, they had been given an order from above that Oye Lithur and his Coalition must not be allowed to enter parliament House to present their petition to the leadership of the House.
Not enthused with the directive of “Order from above” the famous human right activist and her Coalition decided to force their way into the House because the police, had earlier allowed a group of supporters Union to enter the House. This situation compelled the police to meet them with stiff opposition by beating them up mercilessly resulting in a lot of them, some of whom are disabled, being injured in the process. The ugly incident continued for quite over thirty minutes before calm was finally restored at the place.
A Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded in prison custody three palm-wine tappers for kidnapping and defiling a 15 year old girl for four days.
They pleaded not guilty and will re-appear on February 14. Prosecuting, Police Detective Chief Inspector Oscar Amponsah told the court, presided over by Mr Samuel Obeng Diawuo, that on December 1 last year, the suspects Kwesi Awuni, 26, Peter Nsow, 24, and Paul Sankara, 25, all lived at Bogoso.
He said the victim on that day, was peeling palm fronds outside her house at Brakwa Line, a town in Bogoso, when Peter approached her, offered her a drink which he alleged could assist her to work better.
The prosecutor said as soon as the victim took the drink, she got drunk and Peter then carried her to Sankara’s room where they detained her and took turns to have sex with her over a four-day period and threatened to kill her if she raised any alarm.
The prosecutor said a search within the neighbourhood led to the discovery of the victim in Sankara’s room where a report was made to the Police and the victim was rushed to the hospital because she could not walk.
