A Kumasi high court will on Friday, November 28, rule on the alleged civil marriage case between the late Charles Kwadwo Fosu, also known as Daddy Lumba, and Akosua Serwaah Fosu. 

Her Ladyship Dorinda Smith Arthur, the presiding judge on the case, announced this during the ongoing hearing of the case in Kumasi on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. 

A total of five witnesses from all parties in the case, made up of three from the plaintiff (Mrs Akosua Serwaa Fosu) team, and one each from the first defendant (Abusua Panin Kofi Owusu), and the second defendant (Priscilla Ofori) team, have so far testified in the case. 

Additionally, the plaintiff’s counsel has presented the original copy of the civil marriage certificate between the plaintiff and the deceased to the court as requested by the court. 

The certificate, along with other important documents, was admitted to court as evidence, despite concerns about its authenticity, which was raised by the first and second defendants’ counsels. 

During the cross-examination of James Beniako Boateng, a Tax Analyst and a witness for Ms Ofori, by the plaintiff’s counsel, he said to his knowledge, the late Daddy Lumba ended the marriage between him and the plaintiff. 

He explained that the deceased, during his marriage ceremony with the second defendant on April 10, 2010, stated emphatically to the family of the second defendant 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,” said Mr Boateng. 

However, he said the deceased did not present any document as proof of the dissolution of his marriage with the plaintiff to the family of the second defendant. 

According to him, no media were allowed to take photographs or record at the ceremony for publication or keeps. 

Recounting his knowledge about Ms Ofori and Daddy Lumba, Mr Boateng said he got to know Ms Ofori when she was in the last year of her secondary school education in 2006. 

He noted that the second defendant proceeded to a nursing school, but the deceased asked her to drop out in her second year, which she did. 

According to Mr Boateng, the deceased, together with the second defendant, stayed in a relationship for four years before getting married and now have six children. 

After marriage, the late Daddy Lumba stayed with Ms Ofori at Tantara Hills in Accra before finally moving to their matrimonial home at East Legon, Accra, in 2016. 

Mr Boateng said he once saw the deceased seated in a wheelchair after his spine surgery in 2013, but did not see him bedridden as claimed by others. 

He admitted that once in 2018, the plaintiff visited Ghana to perform the funeral rite of her deceased mother and Ms Ofori was asked by the late Daddy Lumba to prepare the house at Tantara Hills for her reception. 

“She prepared the place for her arrival not as a maid but as the current wife of the late Daddy Lumba,” said Mr Boateng.