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Yaw A. Darkwah (left) and Dilys Fit Chic Sillah.
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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. 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.
Credit: Myjoyonline.com
