The Kumasi High Court Five has extended the deadline for concluding hearings in the highly publicised case challenging the legality of the marriage between highlife musician Charles Kojo Fosu (Daddy Lumba) and Akosua Serwaa Fosuh.
Presiding judge Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur moved the deadline from November 21, 2025, to Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to incomplete proceedings.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Mrs. Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, was unable to finish the cross-examination of the only witness for the first defendant, Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu.
Court proceedings were also hampered by intermittent power cuts, which lasted about 20 to 30 minutes each. Earlier, the hearing faced an hour’s delay awaiting a scholar from the Manhyia Palace summoned to educate the court on Akan marriage, divorce, and funeral rites.
During cross-examination, Abusuapanin Owusu, the first defendant, admitted he was not personally close to Daddy Lumba and had limited knowledge of his personal affairs.
However, he maintained that the information in his witness statement—regarding the marriage to the plaintiff and the second defendant, Odo Broni—was gathered through his own investigations and family sources.
Abusuapanin Owusu claimed that the plaintiff returned the head-drinks to the deceased’s family, an act he said signified a divorce, though he did not personally witness the exchange. He stated his investigations confirmed that Daddy Lumba later married the second defendant, Odo Broni, in 2010 and had six children with her.
He added that the deceased became ill about 10 years after moving to Germany and later returned to Ghana due to poor health. Abusuapanin Owusu stated that the plaintiff was absent when the musician’s condition worsened, and it was during this period that the second defendant took care of him until his recovery.
