Ghanaian medical laboratory technologist, Oheneba Ntim Barima, has recounted a moment when highlife legend Daddy Lumba confided in him that he had once been poisoned.
Speaking on United Showbiz on December 6, 2025, Oheneba claimed the late musician told him he was poisoned through a Ghanaian meal, specifically fufu.
According to him, Lumba said shortly after eating the meal, he began experiencing severe stomach pains.
Despite undergoing a scan, doctors initially suspected that the musician had swallowed cocaine, a conclusion that led them to leave him unattended for more than two hours.
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“They poisoned him, and he even told me where it happened. According to him, they poisoned him through fufu, so after he finished eating, that was when the complications began. He cries anytime he recounts this story.
“He told me that when the pain started, a scan was conducted, and they detected some round objects in his stomach. The white doctors thought he had swallowed cocaine, so they ignored him… After two hours, when they realised he wasn’t dying, they ran another scan and discovered it was poison,” he said.
Oheneba Ntim Barima, however, dismissed allegations that the late Lumba was poisoned by his first spouse, Akosua Serwaa.
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According to him, Daddy Lumba told him that it was some friends who were responsible for the poisoning.
“The man really suffered… I never said Akosua Serwaa poisoned him. He told me that some friends were the ones who gave him the poison. After the incident, he suffered several health complications,” he added.
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