A Kumasi High Court is set to rule on Friday, November 28, on the alleged civil marriage case between the late Charles Kwadwo Fosu, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, and Akosua Serwaah Fosu.
Her Ladyship Dorinda Smith Arthur, the presiding judge, announced the ruling date during the ongoing hearing on Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
So far, a total of 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.
The plaintiff’s counsel has presented the original civil marriage certificate between the plaintiff and the deceased to the court, as requested. The certificate, along with other key documents, was admitted as evidence despite challenges over its authenticity raised by the counsels for both defendants.
During cross-examination of James Beniako Boateng, a tax analyst and witness for Ms Ofori, he stated that, to his knowledge, the late Daddy Lumba had ended his marriage with the plaintiff.
He explained that during his marriage ceremony with the second defendant on April 10, 2010, the deceased told the family of Ms Ofori that his marriage with the plaintiff 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 said.
However, he added that the deceased did not provide any document to prove the dissolution of his marriage to the plaintiff, and no media were allowed to record or photograph the ceremony.
Mr Boateng recounted that he got to know Ms Ofori in 2006, during her final year in secondary school. She later enrolled in a nursing school, but the deceased reportedly asked her to drop out in her second year, which she did.
According to him, the deceased and Ms Ofori were in a relationship for four years before getting married and now have six children. After marriage, Daddy Lumba initially stayed with Ms Ofori at Tantara Hills in Accra before moving to their East Legon home in 2016.
He also noted that he saw the deceased in a wheelchair after a spine surgery in 2013, but never bedridden as claimed by others.
Mr Boateng further recounted that in 2018, when the plaintiff visited Ghana to perform her late mother’s funeral rites, Ms Ofori was asked by Daddy Lumba to prepare the Tantara Hills house for her reception. “She prepared the place for her arrival not as a maid, but as the current wife of the late Daddy Lumba,” he said.
