BROTHER OF KKD IN TROUBLE

The London Metropolitan Police (LMP) are
investigating a case in which Yaw A. Darkwah,
brother of celebrity broadcaster and fashion
icon Kwesi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) is alleged to have
threatened to send thugs to a London-based
Ghanaian lady, Dilys Fit Chic Sillah for posting
videos of herself on YouTube doing some analysis
of the recent KKD alleged rape case.
Dilys posted three videos on Youtube critically
analyzing the manner in which the KKD case was
handled at the legal, socio-cultural and
psychological levels. At no point did Dilys say
that KKD was guilty of the offence. Neither did
she say the 19-year-old lady was innocent.
But KKD’s brother, Yaw Darkwah sent a message
to Dilys’ Facebook inbox threatening to send his
“trolls” to Dilys if she talked about KKD again.
A copy of the message he sent to Dilys is
available to Adom News and it read, “Talk about
HIM again and I will send my trolls to you”.
According to Dilys, subsequent to that initial
threat, he (Yaw Darkwah) and his so-called
trolls sent several other very insulting and
threatening messages to her on Facebook.
She therefore reported the matter to Facebook
and also to the London Metropolitan Police on
Tuesday January 20, 2015. The case reference
number at the LMP is CAD7285/20-01.
The police followed up to her house on
Wednesday January 21, 2015 and picked up the
evidence against Yaw Darkwah and his trolls.
The evidence comprised of about 40 different
insulting and treacherous Facebook message.
“The police also promised to make a formal
complaint to Facebook themselves,” Dilys said.
In one of the messages, available to Adom New,
Darkwah posted about the how untouchable the
Darkwah family was and dared Dilys to post any
more messages on social media about KKD.
Darkwah wiped from Facebook
Meanwhile, following Dilys’ report to Facebook,
Yaw Darkwah’s official Facebook account is now
completely wipe out.
ADVERTISEMENT
It is not clear if Facebook wiped him out or
wiped the content out to hide evidence. But the
account now reads “Content not available.”
Prior to the wiping of Yaw Darkwah’s Facebook
account, Adom News sent two messages to Yaw
Darkwah on Facebook requesting him to avail
himself of the opportunity to tell his side of the
story but he did not respond to the request.
Dilys however told Adom News she was not
perturbed by the threats of Yaw Darkwah but
was worried that 19-year-old Ewuraeffe
Orleans Thompson may have been subjected to
similar threats, which compelled her to abandon
the court case against KKD.
“I am going to continue to speak to the various
aspects of this issue, how it has been poorly
handled and how that affects young people and
victims of abuse in our society,” she said. “I
think we need serious reforms in our legal and
socio-cultural environment because characters
in such cases need better protection than those
in the KKD saga got.”
Dilys is convinced the matter was not handled
well from the legal, socio-cultural and
psychological angles. She said if a similar case
had occurred in London the characters would
have been sure of maximum protection and
psychological assistance all the way to the end
of the case.
“The way we put the girl’s name, her pictures
and her hospital report into the media was very
bad – if this had happened in the UK there was
no way the lady’s details will get out into the
media the way it did. We behave as if women
elsewhere are better than women in Africa and
that is what worries me as a Ghanaian woman
living in the UK,” she said.