Ghanaian rapper Emmanuel Botwe popular known as Kwaw Kese has revealed that he has been smoking cannabis (weed) for 20 years.

The "Ataa Ayi" hitmaker who was arrested and detained by the Kumasi police in 2015 for smoking weed in public has opened up more about his addiction.

Even though he claimed in 2015 that he had stopped smoking after his arrest and even started a campaign against drug abuse, he has been secretly smoking.

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Kwaw Kese, in an interview on Joy FM Tuesday, August 8, disclosed that he hasn't stopped puffing the dangerous drug.

"I still smoke weed...I have been smoking for the past 20 years. Smoking weed is good for me. I still smoke weed and the police know it," he revealed.

Discussing his smoking experience while in prison, he said: "When I got to jail people there were still smoking.''