Central Regional Communications officer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kwesi Dawood has been remanded into police custody for two weeks by a circuit court in Cape Coast.
Mr. Dawood has been accused of having sex with his biological daughter having sex with her daughter when she was 15-years-old and beating her.
Accordingly, he was in court yesterday to face charges on incest, defilement and assault.
Mr. Dawood had earlier been was granted GH¢30,000 bail with two sureties on Wednesday, on the charge of aborting the pregnancy of her biological daughter at the same court.
Presenting the facts of the case, prosecutor, Chief Inspector Daniel Mensah Gadzo, said, the biological daughter of Kwesi Dawood, felt unwell in school and confided in her school counsellor about the ordeal she’s been through at the hands of her father.
The matter was subsequently relayed to the mother of the victim who reported it to the police.
Mr Dawood has also been accused of aborting the pregnancy he was responsible for and in concert with one Atta Mensah, his colleague at the NADMO office at Agona Swedru in 2020.
According to the prosecutor, the accused subjected the daughter to severe beatings such that the victim had to run to seek refuge with her grandmother.
Lawyer for the accused prayed the Court for his client to be granted bail.
However, the plea of the lawyer was not granted as the presiding judge, Dorinda Arthur-Smith, remanded the accused, Kwesi Dawood, into police custody to reappear on the 27th October.
