The controversy surrounding the funeral of late highlife legend Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, popularly known as Daddy Lumba, continues to deepen as his first wife, Mrs. Akosua Serwah Fosuh, is not relenting in her quest to be the only woman to perform the widowhood rites.
In a new letter that has surfaced online, Saturday November 1, 2025, she is insisting that she alone is legally entitled to perform the widowhood rites of her late husband, not any family head or relative in Ghana.
She tells Ladyship Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur, who is the judge handling the case through her lawyer Mr. William Kusi, Esq., that her late husband was a German citizen, not a Ghanaian, and therefore the rights over his remains and funeral arrangements lie under German jurisdictional principles, vested in his lawful spouse and children.
The letter also provided detailed evidence of the musician’s renunciation of Ghanaian citizenship in 2002. According to Mrs. Fosuh, her husband formally applied for German citizenship in the year 2000, which was duly granted, after which he renounced his Ghanaian citizenship by submitting a written declaration to the Ministry of the Interior through the Embassy of Ghana.
The process, she noted, led to the issuance of Certificate of Renunciation of Ghanaian Citizenship in 2002.
Emphasizing the legal implications of that act, Mrs. Fosuh argued that once renunciation is completed and a certificate issued, the individual ceases to be recognized as a Ghanaian citizen and forfeits rights associated with Ghanaian customary family status.
The widow’s letter also cited German civil law, under which, she said, the right to custody, burial decisions, and funeral arrangements of a deceased person belong exclusively to the legal spouse and surviving children, not to extended family members.
She therefore contended that it would be contrary to both Ghanaian and international legal principles for my husband to have been recognized as a German citizen during his lifetime, traveling globally on a German passport, yet to be treated as a Ghanaian subject to customary control only upon his death.
Mrs. Fosuh’s letter comes just days after the Kumasi High Court refused her injunction application seeking to stop the scheduled funeral of Daddy Lumba on December 6, 2025.
The court’s decision cleared the way for the Abusuapanin, Mr. Kofi Owusu, to proceed with arrangements.
