One would have thought Kwaw Kesse has learnt the lesson of his life when he was incarcerated briefly for smoking weed, popularly called wee in Ghana.
The veteran Ghanaian rapper was arrested in 2014 whilst smoking cannabis in public, to which he was imprisoned for 24hrs and fined an amount GHc1,200. In an interview with Joy Fm’s Doreen Andoh, the rapper said he cannot give up smoking.
He said:
“As we age, you can’t hide the truth forever…I smoke and it’s good for me…I’ve been smoking for almost 20 years or more; there’s never been any implication.
I still smoke…before I got arrested, I was doing music to please people, I was ‘spoiling’ every stage which I still do and I was smoking weed doing that so I don’t want people to be like ‘because he got arrested, he’s stopped what he is doing’ Then I have to stop music; I still smoke weed…I used to be hiding it [but] now I want the world to know.
I know a lot artistes smoke who smoke, nobody cares. Why is it because Kwaw Kese says he is Abodam and he’s caught smoking weed…me I don’t care, I smoke and the police know I smoke.
I know some people in Parliament who smoke weed…I know a doctor who smokes weed and he still performs alright.
I’m not advocating for people to go and do it. People are hypocrites…I don’t want to be a hypocrite anymore. I can’t come and sit here and say I don’t smoke and go back [home] and smoke.”
