Xheila (L), her father Nana Acheampong (M) and the late Daddy Lumba (R)
Ghanaian musician and daughter of the late Highlife legend Nana Acheampong, Xheila, has stated that she and her father will take lessons from the ongoing legal battles over Daddy Lumba’s final funeral rights.
Xhelia, real name Sheila Acheampong, said this in a radio interview with Nana Romeo on Okay FM after she was asked about the situation, noting that her father would have learned valuable lessons from it.
“The mistakes of the dead are a lesson to the living, and I know my father is a wise and knowledgeable man; he will take a clue from this,” she said.
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Xheila further explained that, having watched the legal dispute, she has resolved to be financially independent so that, in the event of loss or division, she would not be entirely dependent on inherited assets.
“I will try to be independent, so when the unexpected comes, I will not be too dependent on his properties … I can fend for myself. … If anything happens and someone takes all for himself or herself … I have my own,” she said.
Following the announcement of funeral rites for Charles Kwadwo Fosu, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, his wife, Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, sought a court injunction to halt the funeral, demanding recognition as the sole legal widow with the right to perform traditional widowhood rites.
She accused the family of excluding her from preparations and ignoring her marital status.
However, the Fosu Royal Family is in support of Priscilla Ofori, known as “Odo Broni,” who lived with Daddy Lumba in Ghana for over fifteen years and bore him six children, claiming that she was recognised as his wife by asserting that an Akan customary dissolution of the German marriage had occurred, making her the legitimate spouse under Ghanaian custom.
The family, led by Abusuapanyin Kofi Wusu, has moved to organise funeral rites according to Akan tradition, asserting that customary law gives them authority over the burial, a position supported by the Neequaye v. Okoe legal precedent.
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