Judgement In Wisa Gried’s Case Set For April 25

An Accra Circuit Court has fixed April 25 to deliver its judgement in respect of the case of Eugene Ashie aka Wisa Gried.

Wisa Gried is a hiplife artiste who has been accused of displaying his penis while performing on stage.

The court was presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku. She has ordered Mr Jerry Avernogbor, Wisa’s counsel to file his address by April 10.

This was after prosecution had ended its cross examination of Sylvanus Mawuli Ahiagble, a defense witness.

Earlier, Defence counsel led Ahiagble to testify before the court.

The defense witness also happens to be an artiste. He told the court that he and Wisa planned to have publicity stunt since they were new in the music industry. That was on December 24, 2016.

According to the defense witness the plan was that Wisa was going to pull out a fake manhood on stage.

Ahiagble, however, said he stood behind the stage. Hence he did not witness Wisa executing the said plan.

Defense witness said Wisa never displayed his manhood but a doodle.

This was an answer to a cross examination by Prosecution Chief Inspector Judith B. Asante.

The defense witness again mentioned that before Wisa’s incident, he had recorded a couple of songs. And same could be verified via the internet.

Defense witness admitted that he and Wisa planned to deceive the public with the fake manhood.

Ahiagble said he would be surprised to hear that Wisa displayed his manhood and not doodle.

When asked why Ahiagble did not accompany Wisa to the Police station he told the court that the Police did not invite him.

Background

Wisa Gried, of the ‘Ekikimi’ fame, was arrested for allegedly exposing his penis in public. This was while he was performing at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on December 24, 2015.

He has, however, denied a charge of gross indecent exposure and is on a ¢8,000.00 bail with one surety.

On December 25, 2015, the Accra Regional Police was alerted over a nude video posted on the Internet from an unknown source, in which Wisa intentionally exposed his penis, while performing live on stage.

According to the Prosecution the Police contacted the managers of Artiste to produce him at the Regional Police Headquarters for investigations, which they did.

The prosecution said investigations into the matter disclosed that on December 24, Airtel Communications Company and Citi FM, an Accra-based radio station, organised an event dubbed: ‘Decemba 2 Rememba’ which included the accused as a guest artiste.

In the course of the show, the accused, while dancing with a female dancer identified as Monica Kumadeh, suddenly removed his penis out of his pair of jeans and began to caress the buttocks of the dancer.