Counsel for Jihad Chaaban, Lawyer Augustine Asarfo-Adjei has said that the case of alleged assault by his client has been misconstrued by the media and as a result has incited unnecessary public reaction.
According to him, the victim, Evelyn Boakye’s face was not dipped in a bowl of blended hot pepper as media reports suggest, instead he says, “it was a splash” and was purely accidental. He added, that the damage resulting from the splash was “very little” as the girl was present at work the next day.
“the facts as we have it now, is that it was just a splash of pepper into the face of the lady, it cannot be intentional, have you bothered to ask if she came to work the next day?, she was at work the following day, when the incident happened, she was on the night shift, the following day, 7am, she was at work”, he explained.
According to him, the media has conveyed misrepresented facts which in no way depict the actual details of the story as it happened. This he says has incited public rage and created unnecessary tension.
“The media has been engulfed with so much falsehood and I don’t know why the media will allow their space to be used to propagate fraud. I’ve been hearing a lot of things on the radio that he has been detained for 6 hours, and the victims face was pushed in blended pepper, question is, was it when the pepper was in the blender? Could the face have entered the blender? Those are some of the issues you should ask and get answers for but you just take the information and incite everybody against him”, the incident that happened has been misrepresented, He said.
Lawyer Adjei revealed that the accused, Jihad Chaaban is a Ghanaian and not Lebanese as media reports have suggested. He explained that, despite the fact that they are fair skinned, Jihad and his uncles are all Ghanaian.
“we don’t even know who the people are, in the media, a Lebanese, Lebanese, Lebanese, we should also look at people who commit crime by themselves, and not to generalize, if we put people in groups and say they criminalize, is that fair? The company is a Ghanaian company and his uncles you see with fair skin are Ghanaians”.
Lawyer Adjei said the misrepresentation of facts by the media could lead to the destruction of the same company employing several of Ghanaians.
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Source: ghanaweb.com
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In Italy,if a foreigner had a case with Italian citizen and the case is sent to Police,the police will tell you point blank that,because he's a citizen, 50% of the case is in citizens favor,now you can imagine where am coming from, Our lawyers are too greedy cos of money,how can you defend a foreigner,did he sing the national anthem when he was in school.... Phoolish Country
lets not haste in our condemination they guy is a ghanaian and biologically lebanese
This lawyer is a disgrace to the nation. I'm even surprised this LEBANESE even got a Ghanaian lawyer to represent him. And Mr Lawyer, for your information the guy is LEBANESE. Or has money now made you lose your brains and sight too? Then I bet your family is Chinese despite their appearance. It is because of people like you that these foreigners will always mock African's. Don't sell your dignity for money. Are u now indicating it is a humane act to put pepper in someone's eyes? Then bring your face over here and let me accidentally put pepper in your eyes cause you deserve it
Whether he dipped her face into the pepper or he splashed the pepper in her face, there was pepper in the face of the girl done by this wicked Lebanese. He must face the law. Lawyer be truthful.
You mean we should keep quiet because Ghanaians have been employed by the company. This is typical Ghanaian Lawyer. Thinking of his butty. Go to Lebanon and you just slap anybody and you will spear pepper. You will not even get any lawyer to support that but we sit her and look. When at all will we learn sense and out of our primitive and selfish behaviour. Mr. Lawyer, please wait and let somebody splash pepper on your daughter and come again. Excuse meeeeeeeeeeee!
This lawyer should just go to Lebanon and splash pepper on a face of worker there and see what will happen to him in five minute, sometimes i wonder why we even go to school, you know the truth but still want to lie because of money, one thing i didn't understand from him is that the guy is one person so we shouldn't generalised it,well if a guy from Ghana does something bad outside what name is giving to that person is not ghanaian ,so what is this lawyer talking about. This is why we die on the roads like animals.
Whether the guy is a Ghanaian or not is not the issue.And how did the magical pepper splash on the lady's face?What law school did this numbskull attend anyway?Truth be told many Ghanaians being paid paltry sums are maltreated by lousy employers all over the country. I suggest the GRA and labour department should get on their case and see if thy've dotted all their i's and crossed all their t's.the worst offenders are the little Chinese rats. These runts are destroying our forests and our rivers and corrupt politicians watch and do nothing.
You are an ***barred word*** Lawyer.***barred word***
Most lawyers die and r burried with their eyes wide open with tears trimming cos they dont tell the truth. I wont be surprised if this lawyer tells me he's a Russian but posses a dark skin. Jihad is a ghanaian indeed, f.u.c.k.i.n.g l.i.e.r!
The lawyer spoil the Case