The controversy over who holds the rightful authority to perform the funeral and widowhood rites of the late Ghanaian music legend, Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, has taken yet another dramatic turn.
A Facebook user who is believed to be a lawyer, Sander Kuusik has openly criticized the legal approach of the musician’s first wife, Mrs. Akosua Serwaa Fosuh.
In a Facebook post, Mr. Kuusik blamed the widow’s lawyer, Mr. William Kusi, Esq., for what he described as serious professional and procedural lapses that could cost his client the entire case.
He began his post with a declaration that Akosua Serwaa might losing everything and if that happens, no one should be blamed but her lawyer.
According to him, it was shocking and unacceptable for Mrs. Fosuh’s counsel to have written directly to the judge presiding over the case, Ladyship Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur, insisting that his client was the only person legally entitled to perform the widowhood rites of her late husband.
A part of the post seen Kuusik’s wall read: “First of all, how do you even write to a Court? What is this supposed to be? Evidence? How does this even make sense? An out of court statement not even given on oath is clearly hearsay. It cannot be admitted into evidence and cannot be considered by the Court.”
He went on to describe the act as a potential contempt of court and added that any lawyer who allows or encourages ex parte communication with a judge is crossing a serious ethical line.
The netizen also dismissed the foundation of Mrs. Fosuh’s argument that because Daddy Lumba was a German citizen, only she, as his legal spouse, has the right to perform his widowhood rites under German law. He argued that citizenship and ethnicity are not interchangeable and that Ghanaian customary law still applies to Lumba by virtue of his Asante lineage.
Mr. Kuusik concluded his post by asserting that Lumba’s German citizenship is irrelevant to the ongoing case and that any related issues should be dealt with in a German court, not in Ghana.
His remarks follow the circulation of Mrs. Fosuh’s letter to the Kumasi High Court dated Saturday, November 1, 2025, in which she argued that her late husband had formally renounced his Ghanaian citizenship in 2002 after acquiring German nationality.
