Kumasi High Court to rule on Daddy Lumba's marriage dispute tommorrow

A Kumasi High Court will on Friday, November 28, 2025, deliver its ruling in the case challenging the alleged civil marriage between the late highlife icon, Charles Kwadwo Fosu, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, and Akosua Serwaa Fosu.

The presiding judge, Her Ladyship Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur, announced the ruling date during proceedings on Tuesday, November 25, 2025.

So far, five witnesses have testified in the case—three for the plaintiff, Mrs Akosua Serwaa Fosu, and one each for the first defendant, Abusua Panin Kofi Owusu, and the second defendant, Priscilla Ofori.

Counsel for the plaintiff has presented the original civil marriage certificate between Mrs Fosu and the late musician, as directed by the court. Despite objections and questions over its authenticity raised by lawyers for both defendants, the court admitted the certificate and other key documents into evidence.

During cross-examination, James Beniako Boateng, a tax analyst and a witness for Ms Priscilla Ofori, told the court that to the best of his knowledge, Daddy Lumba had already ended his marriage with the plaintiff before marrying Ms Ofori.

He explained that at the marriage ceremony between Daddy Lumba and Priscilla Ofori on April 10, 2010, the deceased informed Ms Ofori’s family that his earlier marriage with Mrs Fosu had been dissolved.

“I was present at the marriage ceremony of the late Daddy Lumba and Priscilla Ofori when he was asked about his marriage with Akosua Serwaa. I was there to represent my wife, who is a sister to Priscilla Ofori,” Mr Boateng told the court.

However, he admitted that no document was presented to prove the dissolution of the previous marriage and added that media coverage of the ceremony was not allowed.

Mr Boateng further recounted that he met Ms Ofori in 2006 during her final year in secondary school. She later enrolled in a nursing training institution but reportedly dropped out in her second year at the request of Daddy Lumba.

According to him, the couple dated for four years before getting married and now have six children together. After their marriage, Daddy Lumba initially lived with Ms Ofori at Tantara Hills in Accra before relocating to their East Legon residence in 2016.

He also testified that he saw the late musician using a wheelchair after undergoing spinal surgery in 2013 but said he was never bedridden as had been earlier suggested.

Mr Boateng also revealed that in 2018, when the plaintiff returned to Ghana to perform her late mother’s funeral rites, Daddy Lumba instructed Ms Ofori to prepare the Tantara Hills residence for her arrival.

“She prepared the house not as a maid, but as the then wife of the late Daddy Lumba,” he stated.

The court is expected to determine the legality of the competing claims when it delivers its ruling later this week.