For What Tangible Reasons Did the Police Arrest Afia Schwarzenegger’s Maid?

In the wake of the public revelation of the shameful adultery or the culturally-abominable polyandry by the famous Ghanaian comedienne Afia Schwarzenegger, I learnt that her maid had subsequently been arrested by the police. From the news and various YouTube postings by various enemies and supporters of the actress and herself, the maid was the source of the whole Afia Schwarzenegger saga.

From a voice-recorded message I chanced to receive on the WhatsApp, she notified Lawrence Abrokwaah, the husband of the actress when the actress had sneaked in with a new secret love who was caught red-handed nakedly in bed with her doing their own dirty thing.

My beef is, why should the police arrest the maid, incarcerate her pending her probable prosecution? Was she wrong to have tipped-off the husband on the abhorrent and traditionally-condemnable promiscuity by Afia Schwarzenegger? Did Abrokwaah harm or kill the wife in which case the police would be absolutely right to arrest and charge the maid with aiding and abetting crime hence an accomplice?

Abrokwaah from a recorded video evidence posted on YouTube, WhatsApp and other social media outlets did threaten her with some harmless liquid he alleged to be corrosive acid but was indeed not; however, a ploy to compel her into submission to tell why she had cheated on him.

Why then should the maid who was helping to protect innocent Abrokwaah from contracting any sexually transmitted disease (STD) in case the man caught bonking Afia was a carrier of any such diseases be arrested? They surely had unprotected sex concluding from the video. Therefore, Abrokwaah risked the chance of attracting STD if indeed the man was a carrier and passed it on to adulterous Afia Schwar.

The police could at best invite the maid to be a principal witness and at worst caution her but not to arrest her as though she had committed a gargantuan crime unprecedented in the criminal history of Ghana. I don’t understand why the police often get things wrong with the depiction of acts of unprofessionalism. Is it their propensity to involve in corruption that is doing their head in to often get things wrong or what?

I am sure the maid’s behaviour does not amount to an arrestable offence and no judge will condemn her to a prison term or a fine for her action. At worst, she will be admonished against going that path in future since it can likely result in the death of a person where the husband or wife becomes overwhelmed with jealousy that leads them to commit murder etc.

Let me take this opportunity to disagree with a certain Pastor Yiadom who vehemently condemns the maid but declares support for Afia Schwar based on his religious beliefs and principles. Yes, he is entitled to his opinions as anyone else is entitled to theirs.

In Ghana, are we not being encouraged to inform on corrupt officials, armed robbers and anyone known to be engaged in nefarious activities in broad daylight or in the cover of darkness? Does it amount to judging the fellow involved in wrongdoing if one tips-off the authority on them? If I did understand the pastor, then yes of course.

He said, the bible says “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven” – Luke 6:37 and Jesus’ said “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her” is found in John 8:7. He dwelled on these bible verses to reprimand Ghanaians and especially, the maid, for talking about the Afia Schwar’s unfortunate ‘debacle’.

By judging and condemning, as cited from the bible, the Pharisees wanted the woman stoned to death. This means the woman was in the wrong and therefore must be killed whereas they were themselves sinners in their own other ways. In the case of Afia Schwar, nobody was calling for her head but castigating her for her behaviour and known badmouthing.

Anyway, opinions are like noses and everyone has one so I shall leave each one to their own opinions.

Lawrence Abrokwaah for unexplained reasons let the cat out of the bag so soon. Why did he make public the conversation he had with the maid which spurred him to undertake that nocturnal detective work to catch his wife in the act of sexual intercourse with another man in his (Abrokwaah’s) matrimonial home and bed? If he did put it out in the public domain without waiting to present it as evidence in court if the case escalated to that level, then he has not exhibited any sense of maturity but utter stupidity to endanger the life of his informant.

Rockson Adofo