The direct family, comprising Lumba’s first (legal) wife, Akosua Serwah Fosuh, and their children, claim the funeral arrangements were made without their consent.

In a press statement issued on Thursday, 9th October 2025, the direct family, represented by Mrs. Akosua Serwah Fosuh, described the public announcement of the musician’s funeral plans as “deeply distressing,” saying it was first heard of through social media.

According to them, Abusuapanyin Kofi Wusu and a supposed funeral committee had “acted in their own interests” by fixing a funeral date for 6th December 2025 without consulting the deceased’s immediate family.

The statement said the move showed “a complete lack of respect” for Mrs. Fosuh, who is still mourning her husband and making arrangements to travel to Ghana for the funeral.

The release also noted that since Daddy Lumba’s passing on 26th July 2025 in Accra, there had been “a continuous and deliberate effort to marginalise” his legal wife in funeral discussions. The family further revealed that the cause of death remains under investigation.

They reminded the public that the late musician was legally married to Mrs. Akosua Serwah Fosuh on 23rd December 2004 in Bornheim, Germany, and that under German law, bigamy is strictly prohibited.

Citing Section 1306 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch), the family said, “A marriage may not be entered into if one of the persons is already married,” stressing that any second marriage under such circumstances is “legally void.”

The family said they had therefore taken legal steps to halt all funeral and burial activities “until proper dialogue and consensus are achieved.”

“To all Lumba fans and music lovers across the world, we deeply appreciate your love, loyalty, and patience during this difficult time,” the statement read. “We kindly ask you to disregard any unofficial announcements regarding funeral arrangements.”

It added that a “respectful and dignified farewell” will eventually be given to the late musician, befitting his legacy and the love he shared with millions through his music.

Daddy Lumba, one of Ghana’s most celebrated highlife icons, passed away in July 2025 at the age of 60. Known for his unmatched artistry, he produced over 30 albums during his four-decade career, including timeless hits such as Aben Wo Ha, Theresa Abebrese, Yentie Obiaa, Menya Mpo, and Woho Kyere. His music remains a staple in Ghanaian homes and continues to influence new generations of artistes.

Source: Joy Entertainment

On Thursday, January 2, the court granted the request of the NDC parliamentary candidate, Henry Boakye Yiadom, against the EC, Ernest Kumi, and the Clerk of Parliament, prohibiting Kumi’s swearing-in.

Counsel for the NPP, Gary Nimako Marfo Esq., who moved the application, argued that the ex parte injunction was filed based on a petition that was improper before the court. He urged the court not only to set aside the injunction order but also to dismiss the petition itself.

He further submitted that the results of an election can only be challenged 21 days after they have been published and gazetted.

However, the lawyer for the NDC parliamentary candidate, Bernard Bediako Baidoo, disagreed, stating that the submissions made by Gary Nimako Marfo were flawed.

He argued that once election results are declared, they can be challenged and that there is no need to wait for the gazette before contesting the results.

In his closing submissions, Gary Nimako Marfo sought to raise additional arguments to support his case, but the judge, His Lordship Senyo Amedahe, stopped him after the NDC lawyer objected, pointing out that he was essentially re-arguing his case.

Several legal authorities were cited in support of the application, with the NPP urging the court to dismiss the case, as the injunction is only an interim one, which lapses after 10 days. The injunction application would then be repeated for further argument.

After the hearing, the head of legal affairs for the NDC in the Eastern Region, Isaac Minta Larbi, told journalists, “The NDC was properly before the court, without blemish, and the court should take a firm stand so we can demolish them. We opposed their application on valid grounds, and we believe that, in the end, we will have a positive outcome.”

Counsel for the NPP, Gary Nimako Marfo, declined further comment on the matter.

Meanwhile, newly-elected MPs are to be sworn into office on the midnight of January 7, 2025.

Afriyie, who previously served as the GFA’s Vice President, was the only candidate who sought to challenge Kurt Okraku for the presidency following the conclusion of Okraku’s first term.

However, Afriyie, who is a former Black Stars Management Committee chairman, was disqualified from the race before the elections took place.

In an interview on Asempa FM’s Ultimate Sports Show, Afriyie revealed that he had initially planned to seek an injunction to block the elections.

He shared that Okraku had arranged for Pinnick to visit Ghana and convince him to withdraw his plans.

“Kurt [Okraku] brought Amaju Pinnick to Ghana to speak to me to prevent me from placing an injunction on the elections. I wasn’t answering Kurt’s calls, but the sports minister, Mustapha Ussif also pleaded with me to meet Amaju,” Afriyie revealed.

After agreeing to the meeting, Afriyie reconsidered his approach.

“I met Amaju, and after considering his advice, I decided not to go to court. Instead, I chose to take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),” he explained.

According to the writ, Mr. Amable is calling for an end to treasury bill issuances that finance government operations, citing the government’s failure to secure parliamentary approval for these transactions.

He argues that this approach breaches provisions in the 1992 Constitution, warning that unchecked borrowing will continue to harm the economy.

The Attorney General of Ghana is named as the defendant, and the injunction application requests the Supreme Court to rule that the actions of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Ghana are unconstitutional.

The application partially reads, “The relevant borrowing contracts, conducted without parliamentary approval, are liable to be declared void for unconstitutionality. This poses a grave risk to Ghana’s financial sector, impacting banks, savings and loans companies, micro-finance institutions, asset management companies, insurance companies, pension funds, and individual investors. The state’s unconstitutional actions jeopardize the capital of Ghanaian investors and the financial sector at large.”

The filing highlights violations of Section 30 of the Bank of Ghana Act, 2002 (Act 612), and Section 61 of the Public Financial Management Act, which mandate parliamentary oversight for borrowing via temporary advances, loans from the Bank of Ghana, and the issuance of treasury bills, bonds, and other debt instruments.

Mr. Amable’s injunction request is narrowly focused on stopping new borrowing transactions and does not seek to disrupt the government’s obligations on existing debt, provided that repayments do not involve funds from new, unapproved borrowing.

Source: Adomonline

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This decision, handed down on Monday, November 11, 2024, follows a previous court adjournment on November 7.

The NDC had requested that the court dismiss the disqualification of its candidate and allow her to participate in the December 7 election. The case was presided over by His Lordship George K. Gyan-Kontoh.

Earlier, Edudzie Tamakloe, lead counsel for Joana Gyan Cudjoe, urged the court to expedite the case, stressing that further delays could hinder her right to stand in the election.

His Lordship Gyan-Kontoh agreed, emphasizing the need for a prompt resolution and encouraging both parties to consider an out-of-court settlement, though this did not materialize.

Today’s ruling clears the way for Joana Gyan Cudjoe to run in Amenfi Central.

Expressing gratitude after the ruling, she stated, “We thank God for everything that has happened today, especially my new lawyers who came in to rescue me… I thank God and all the NDC members, executives, and all the Western Region NDC. I must say I am very happy.”

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The stay of execution was filed a few hours after the High Court in Cape Coast granted an injunction filed by one John Mevemeo, a resident of Millennium City-Kasoa in the Central Region, against the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof Johnson Nyarko-Boampong.

Mr Mevemeo is challenging the University of Cape Coast’s decision to renew Prof Nyarko-Boampong’s appointment until July 31, 2026, arguing that it violates the 1992 Constitution and should be declared null and void.

The lawyers of the University of Cape Coast and the Vice-Chancellor are contesting how the learned trial judge came to its decision to grant the injunction application.

According to the lawyers, the learned judge erred when he granted the interlocutory injunction filed on the 31st day of July 2024 by the plaintiff.

They argue that the judge erred when he erroneously failed to consider that the plaintiff/applicant did not have any right cognizable under the law in terms of the contract that existed between the University and the Vice-Chancellor.

Furthermore, they aver that the learned judge also erred when he erroneously failed to conclude that the plaintiff applicant could not demonstrate any form of hardship that it would suffer should the injunction be refused.

A further contention by the lawyers is that the learned judge erred when he failed to consider the mootness of the application as the Vice-Chancellor had already commenced his renewal term before he was notified of the injunction.

To them, the judge failed to consider that the balance of convenience was in favour of the University and the Vice-Chancellor.

Based on the above grounds, they want the ruling of the High Court dated the 4th day of September reversed.

Source: Richard Kwadwo Nyarko

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About 35 NPP members led by Kofi Sarpong secured a fresh injunction against the primary that was to be held on January 27.

The fresh injunction is in relation to a pending legal tussle which started in February 2022 over the validity of polling station elections.

The case, which lasted over a year, was dismissed by the High Court in Mampong, paving the way for the conduct of elections for electoral area coordinators and constituency executives.

As a result, election could therefore not be held in Asante Mampong as scheduled for all constituencies the NPP had sitting MPs.

However, a three-member panel led by Justice Georgina Mensah-Datsa on Wednesday dismissed the application.

The ruling of the court therefore paves way for processes to begin for the conduct of the election.

Addressing the media after the proceeding, counsel for the respondents, Francis Opuni Kesse expressed satisfaction with the ruling.

“We went to court based on an application for an interlocutory injunction against the conduct of parliamentary elections at Mampong and so as respondents, we opposed and counsel made their respective arguments before the court and the court held that it will better serve the party that the application be dismissed so that application is no more and so as it stands, the party can go ahead to organize elections,” he said.

For the part of the counsel for the plaintiffs, Emmanuel Osei Abu-Bonsra, he said they will reconsider a next line of action.

“I am not satisfied with the ruling but I respect the decision of the court and I will advise my clients on what to do next because we have other options to explore.

“We can go to the Court of Appeal and even the Supreme Court and we can even go for a review, so we have not yet exhausted the channels available to us,” he added.

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A five-member panel presided over by the Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, struck out the application following the failure of the applicants or their lawyers to appear in court to move the application.

When the case was called on Tuesday, there was no lawyer or representative representing the NDC or any of the political parties.

A Deputy Chairperson of the EC, Bossman Eric Asare and lawyer for the EC, Justine Amenuvor, were, however, present in court.

Other Justices of the apex court who struck out the application were Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, Barbara Ackah Yensu and Ernest Yao Gaewu.

Application and criticisms

The EC decided to conduct the limited voter registration exercise only at its district offices.

Following that decision, the NDC and four other political parties — the Convention People’s Party (CPP), the All-Progressive Congress (APC), the Liberal Party Ghana (LPG) and the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) dragged the EC to the Supreme Court, arguing that the move by the EC was unconstitutional as it would impede people’s right to register and vote.

The suit, filed on September 7, 2023, also included an application for injunction seeking to stop the EC from going ahead with the registration exercise until the determination of the suit.

The EC, however, started the exercise on September 12 and concluded it on October 2, 2023.

Many notable persons, including former President John Dramani Mahama, criticised the Supreme Court for not hearing the application when the voter registration exercise was in full force.

Former President Mahama said the inability of the apex to hear the injunction was a blot on justice delivery.

“This is unprecedented and does not augur well for public confidence in the justice delivery system,” he wrote on social media.

Legal vacation

At Tuesday’s hearing, the Chief Justice explained for the benefit of journalists present in the courtroom that the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal do not sit during the legal vacation which is in the months of August and September.

Justice Torkornoo said while the rules of court and laws allowed the High Court to hear cases on a limited basis during the legal vacation, there was no such dispensation for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

She added that it was based on the legal vacation that the court sat on the application by the five political parties at the earliest date possible which was Tuesday, being the very first Supreme Court sitting in the new legal year.

“The Supreme Court could not have dealt with any application except by an extreme special fiat,” the Chief Justice said.

Substantive suit

In a suit invoking the original jurisdiction of the apex court, the five parties were of the view that limiting the exercise to the EC’s district offices would not be suitable and accessible to every Ghanaian who was desirous of exercising his or her constitutional right to be registered as a voter.

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The motion was for the execution of a bond for keeping the peace under section 22 of the Criminal and other offences (Procedure) Act 1969, Act 30.

Police want to secure an order from the court to direct the respondent, Odehye Kwasi Akuffo, to desist from parading himself as Okuapehene when he is not Okuapehene de facto or de jure.

In Akuapem Mampong Court on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, shortly after Chief Superintendent Sheila Kesse Abayie Aggrey Buckman introduced herself as a prosecutor for the Ghana Police Service to move the motion.

Counsel for the respondent, Lawyer Ansah Asare reminded the court that, his client has filed a prohibition order at the Koforidua High Court to stop the hearing of the motion at the district court which has been served through the registrar.

Lawyer Ansa Asare averred that, there is no provision in the Constitution of Ghana that prohibits a royal from dressing as such, therefore, an accusation that Odehye Kwasi Akuffo dressed and paraded as Okuapehene has no merit since he only dressed like a royal.

Nonetheless, he said the District Court has no jurisdiction over the matter.

He described the motion for the execution of a bond against Odehye Kwasi Akuffo as a ploy to disturb the peace of Akropong.

Sheila Abayie Buckman, however, rose to her feet to rebut the defense counsel’s claims, stating on record that, the decision by the Ghana Police Service to bond Odehye Kwasi Akuffo was for the maintenance of peace in Akropong and Okuapeman in general.

The presiding judge, Her Worship Felicia Anan-Antwi, ruled that, under the circumstances of the prohibition order, the court stays the motion for execution of the bond.

The court therefore adjourned the matter to October 17, 2023, pending the determination by the high court.

The court is expected to hear the case on Friday, May 12, 2023, instead of Monday, May 15.

The new date is crucial for the NDC since all is set for their presidential and parliamentary primaries on Saturday, May 13, 2023.

But ahead of the hearing, Mr Nketia has said the party has followed all due processes with the necessary documents provided, hence there is no way the injunction will derail the electoral process.

“We have not flouted any rule. We have done everything we said we were going to do. So in any court we will stand, we know we will have no problem.

“But the issue is since the court is yet to sit on the case, we will wait for that and we are confident the case will be dismissed,” he said on Accra-based Okay FM.

Dr Duffuor, an aspirant of the presidential primary, on Tuesday filed a suit against the party following what he says are some discrepancies his team has identified in the party’s voters register to be used for the exercise.

In a writ submitted to an Accra High Court, Dr Duffuor claimed that the party failed to provide the necessary photo album register in compliance with the party’s rules, five weeks prior to the elections.

He added that a partial photo album register was given to his team on May 4, although they had requested for it in March.

Furthermore, he claimed that the hard drive provided to his representatives contained 220 constituencies, contrary to defendant’s supposed 228 constituencies.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Commission(EC) has stated they will not supervise the election until all legal issues are resolved.

Commenting on the development, Mr Nketia said the decision of the EC is a step in the right direction.

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The Apex Court also granted prohibition order against the High Court Judge from further sitting on the matter.

The Eastern Regional Youth and Women’s Organizer election held on November 11, 2022, at Nsawam-Adoagyiri saw Richard Etornam Nyarko then deputy Regional youth organizer defeat the incumbent Regional Organizer, Emmanuel Okai Minta with 55 votes as against 52.

However, Emmanuel Okai Minta proceeded to the Koforidua High Court on grounds that constituency youth organizers, their deputies and other youth executives making a total of six delegates from Afram Plains South and Atewa West were not eligible to take part in the election because the Functional Executives committee of the party had nullified the elections in the said constituencies in a press release.

Therefore, they ought not to have taken part in the election.

The plaintiff prayed the Koforidua High Court to place a perpetual injunction restraining Richard Etornam Nyarko from holding himself as Regional Youth Organizer or any other executive within the Regional executive committee until a fresh election is conducted.

A declaration that Atewa West and Afram Plains South illegally voted at the youth wing elections held on November 11, 2022, and an order to annul the Eastern Regional Youth wing election by virtue of the aforesaid infractions.

On December 8, 2022, the Koforidua High Court presided by His Lordship Nana Yaw Gyamfi Frimpong granted the injunction application against Richard Etornam Nyarko and went on to make a pronouncement that nullified the Eastern Regional Youth Organizer election even though the substantive case is yet to be determined.

The ruling of the court came less than 48 hours before the national youth organizer conference of the NDC held in Cape Coast in the Central Region on Saturday, December 10, 2022 hence Richard Etornam Nyarko could not take part in the election.

Again, he has since not been able to carry out his functions as Regional Youth organizer.

This compelled him to file Judicial Review Application at the Supreme Court praying the apex court to quash the ruling of the High Court in Koforidua claiming the judge erred when it proceeded to grant almost all the reliefs endorsed on the writ of summons when he was granting the injunction application which is something that is considered to be prejudicial in view of the fact that until the case in court has been fully heard, the High Court had no jurisdiction to decide the matter and deliver ruling against him in the manner that the court did.

Richard Etornam Nyarko in his Affidavit in Support of the Application invoking the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court further stated that the Koforidua High Court did not have the jurisdiction to do what it did for which reason the Supreme Court should bring up the order and quash it.

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He also prayed the Supreme Court to transfer the case to a different judge because having basically determined the matter, the High Court in Koforidua cannot be made to sit on the case again.

Richard Etornam Nyarko, therefore, sought an Order of Certiorari and Prohibition from the Supreme Court against the High Court in Koforidua to quash the Ruling and Order of the High Court and to Prohibit the High Court Judge from sitting on the case.

Delivering the ruling Tuesday, April 18, 2023, the five-member Supreme Court panel led by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang unanimously granted the reliefs by the plaintiff quashing the ruling of the High Court and prohibited the Judge from sitting on the case.

His Legal team headed by Lawyer Isaac Minta Larbi of Okore Chambers, in Koforidua- Adweso, and also Chairman of the NDC Legal Team, Eastern Region expressed gratitude to the court.

It will be recalled that, on February 5, 2023, the Bibiani Gold Mines military guards allegedly brutalised residents of Zongo and Old Town.

Some residents, who were involved, were injured seriously and sent to various hospitals.

Some five residents of Bibiani Zongo sustained various degrees of injuries after a violent clash between them and the military personnel guarding the Bibiani Gold Mines.

Out of the five injured persons, two sustained gunshot wounds and the remaining three had minor injuries.

Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Candidate-hopeful visited them, empathised with them and vowed to fight for them.

True to his words, he has yesterday March 14, 202 filed an interlocutory injunction against the mines demanding an immediate resettlement of the two communities – Zongo and Old Town.

He, therefore, assured the affected residents to stay calm as justice will soon prevail.

Their six designated ballot boxes have been rendered purposeless, following an injunction placed on them together with local proxy voters.

This, leaders of TESCON have described as unfair, especially as they said they were not priory informed of the injunction until about few minutes ahead of the voting.

A representative of the College of Nursing, Ntotrosu, Ahafo branch, Oppong said the announcement came as a shock to them and they are yet to be furnished with a reason for the decision.

He fears the injunction is strategic as a genuine dispute to warrant their barring has not arisen, per his perspective.

Another representative of the NPP student wing of Tanoso Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Samideen Ibrahim, in an interview with Joy News reiterated the importance of TESCON and the youth in politics.

“We the TESCON, per the constitution are mandated to vote because we have been selected by the school. We were already at the grounds when the announcement was made. They didn’t give us any reason or evidence why we should not vote. I am very disappointed because we travelled far from the north to be here because of the conference

“For the party to move forward we have to do away with use and dump politicians. They should not block us that way because we are the youth and we have the future of politics.”

The leaders noted they work tirelessly to bring new members on board for the NPP and thus, breaking the 8 would be impossible without them.

They lamented the party executives’ decision to deny them the same rights they were conferred with when the confederation was formed.

“The leaders promised to work with us and if they treat us like this, how are they going to break the 8? They are not thinking about the youth, so I will not be surprised some executives will be taken out after this election. The youth has 60% of votes during elections so if you take us out now, how will you break the 8?”

An Accra High Court granted the injunction following an application by the Service on Wednesday.

The court, presided over by Justice Comfort Kwasiwoo Tsiawoo, held that the way the protesters intend to carry out the demonstration poses a security threat, hence the decision.

The demo was being organised by convenors of the FixTheCountry Movement against the Agyapa deal, cessation of the Achimota Forest Reserve and not to tamper with the country’s security.

They requested to be allowed to contract private security personnel to protect the demonstrators.

Among other things, they also stated in a notice to the police that the demonstrators and the contracted private security personnel will be armed with weapons.

Also, the armed demonstrators were to picket at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and the Ghana Police Headquarters.

But their move has been heavily condemned by a section of Ghanaians and groups following which they have rendered an unqualified apology.

The injunction application was dismissed by a 7 member panel of judges – Justices Nene Amegatcher, Nii Ashie Kotey, Mariama Owusu, Avril Lovelace Johnson, Gertrude Torkornoo, Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu and Yonny Kulendi.

Three Members of Parliament – Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu; Mahama Ayariga, the MP for Bawku Central; and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the MP for North Tongu; demanded the Apex Court restrains the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) from implementing the E-Levy until the final determination of their suit challenging the constitutionality of its passage by Parliament.

The injunction application filed by their lawyer, Godwin Kudzo Tameklo, on April 19, 2022, “avers that millions of people will suffer irreparable harm if the E-Levy Act is not put on hold and the court determines that its passage was unconstitutional.”

According to the suit, GRA would be unable to reimburse the millions who would have paid the E-Levy while the 1992 constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, would have been undermined.

The Court, therefore, dismissed the application stating that, should the substantive case be heard and ruled unconstitutional, the GRA should keep an accurate record for reimbursement.

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In response to the ruling, Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, said he is satisfied with the Court’s directive to the GRA until the substantive case is determined.

The Tamale South MP described this part of the Supreme Court’s ruling as “refreshing and heartwarming.”

“At least some people will not be in a rush to collateralise it until the substantive matter is determined. We raised this matter because it is of public interest, constitutional significance,” he told the press after the ruling.

“We are very happy with the performance of our lawyers. We only pray that Ghana is not going to have two sets of laws. One that serves and protects the elected elite of government and one that serves the political minority of the opposition,” he added.

They are Asamoah Mohammed, Mohammed Habib Bawumia, Tuah Opoku Paul and Mohammed Elias.

The plaintiffs claim there had been a deliberate attempt by the constituency executives and the Elections Committee to deny aspirants nomination forms.

They also claim the Committee offered the forms to their preferred aspirants.

Attempts to get copies of the nomination forms, they say, had proved futile because the defendants were clandestinely selling the nomination forms to their favourites, depriving other prospective candidates’ attempts to contest for their respective positions in various polling stations mentioned in their statement of claim.

Mr Ansu Kumi, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections Committee, Mr Gyabaa Yeboah Christian the Secretary to the Sunyani East Polling Station and Electoral Area Elections’ Committee, Mr Frank Musah Damtarl, the Constituency Chairman and a member of the Committee and other seven people had been singled out by the plaintiffs for failing to open nominations on the expected date of February 19, 2022.

They were also accused of failing to communicate the venue for picking the nomination forms as was mandated of them and despite petitioning the party’s election committee, the plaintiffs stated no attention was paid to their grievances.

The plaintiffs are seeking an order from the court to cancel the entire electioneering process due to irregularities.

The plaintiffs want the defendants who are in the custody of the nomination forms for the election to make same available to all eligible prospective candidates in the upcoming elections in the constituency.

They are also seeking an order from the court to compel the national executives of the party to take charge of the sale of nomination forms as well as an order that no prospective aspirant would be denied access to the purchase of the forms.

Maxwell Mahama, the Communication Officer for the NPP in the Sunyani East constituency, speaking to Adom News said he was in support of the plaintiffs since the defendants failed to do due diligence to the process.

When sitting began at the High Court on Monday, Mr Charles Ofori, who held the brief of Captain Retired Nkrabeah Effah Dartey, informed the Court that he had been served with a notice of appearance, statement of defence and an affidavit of the defendant in opposition to the injunction application.

Mr Ofori said: “We are pleading that we are given time to respond to the processes filed to enable my Lord to have a broader view of the case before you.

“We plead that this case be adjourned to June 9.”

Ms Afua Brown Eyeson, represented the Respondent.

On May 17, this year, the Madina District Court was informed about an interlocutory injunction filed by Mr Dedjoe at the High Court to restrain the deceased’s family from burying her.

Mr Dedjoe, in the application, said he was in custody and that the family could not proceed with the burial and final funeral rites of madam Dedjoe in his absence.

Seth Charles Bladzu, the deceased’s father informed the Madina Court that as a result of the injunction, he would be at the High Court and may not be at the Madina District Court on Monday.

The prosecution said the complainant, the deceased’s father, a retired administrator, resides at Sogakope in the Volta Region.

The prosecution said the 43-year-trader, now deceased, was married to Mr Dedjoe and both lived at East Legon, Accra.

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According to the Prosecution, for some time now, Mr Dedjo and the deceased’s relationship had been marred with some misunderstandings leading to conflict between them.

The prosecution said on March 1, this year, a misunderstanding ensued between them and as a result, Mr Dedjoe assaulted the wife who sustained injuries and then went to the Madina Polyclinic for treatment.

It said when she returned home, her condition deteriorated and on March 6, 2021, she became unconscious and was rushed to the Lister Hospital for treatment but was pronounced dead on arrival.

The prosecution said a report was made to the Police and Mr Dedjoe was arrested and during investigations, Mr Dedjoe admitted assaulting the deceased with slippers.

The prosecution said a post mortem examination was yet to be carried out on the deceased.

Mr Dedjoe is facing a provisional charge of murder.