Court Rejects Injunction To Stop Lumba’s Funeral

The High Court in Kumasi yesterday, Tuesday October 28, dismissed an interlocutory injunction application filed to stop the external family of late c Ghanaian musician, Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, popularly known as Daddy Lumba from going ahead with his final funeral and burial rites scheduled for December 6, 2025

The injunction application was filed by Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, claims she is the only widow of the late Ghanaian musician.

Now that the Court has dismissed it, nothing stops the family from going ahead with the planned funeral and burial ceremony.

The Presiding Judge, Dorinda Smith Arthur, in her ruling on said under the Ghanaian customary law, the authority over a corpse rests entirely with the family.

Lumba was a topic for headline news when he was alive and his death has not made it any difference.

Baba Jamal & Associates, lawyers for Charles Kwadwo Fosuh as at the time of his demise on Saturday July 26, 2025, have noted that the musician did not die intestate but actually wrote his last will and testament which gave specific and detailed instructions on how his property and assets should be distributed after his death.

“As the last lawyers of the late Daddy Lumba before his demise, we have in our custody some instructions from the late Daddy Lumba which serves as a guide to the family as to how he wants his funeral and burial to be conducted as well as the distribution of his estate”, a letter signed signed by Fati Ali-Yallah Esq and issued on official letterhead of Baba Jamal & Associates, noted.

The letter was issued on behalf of the Fosu Royal Family, the family of the late music legend, Daddy Lumba. It instructed all persons to stay away from all and any property of the late musician until an appropriate time to be so determined as fit.

“In respect of the properties of the late Daddy Lumba, we wish to state that all his properties forms part of his estate which the family together with the children of the late Daddy Lumba and their mothers shall work together to ensure fair distribution to all who are entitled to benefit. Until then, let all persons stay away from the properties till it is properly and legally dealt with”, the letter noted.

Baba Jamal & Associates wrote the said letter on the instructions of the Fosu Royal Family of Parkoso and Nsuta in the Ashanti Region, in response to complaints by Mrs. Akosua Serwah Fosuh about the funeral and estate of the late musician, Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, who she still insists is her legally married husband both under German and Ghanaian laws on civil marriage.

The clarity that Daddy Lumba left a written will with his lawyers has been made known in the middle of a heated controversy on whether or not he died intestate and speculations that the distribution of his estates could create some internal family disagreements.

Already, dust is yet to settle on a disagreement on which woman should be Daddy Lumba’s widow at the funeral planned for December 6 this year.

On one hand, Germany-based Akosua Serwah Fosuh, insists on being recognized as the widow of Daddy Lumba and has provided documentary evidence to prove that she entered into a civil marriage with the musician on December 23, 2004 in Bornheim, Germany under German Civil marriage laws and that the marriage still holds.

On the other hand, the Fosu Royal Family has made it clear that Akosua Serwah cannot hold herself as a widow of Daddy Lumba and that at best she is a former wife and mother of some of his children.

The Fosu Royal Family, argues that the civil marriage which legally joined Daddy Lumba and Akosua Serwah Fosuh as husband and wife does not exist anymore because she had presented traditional drinks to the family of the late musician when he was alive and expressed an intention to seek divorce.

The Family insists the only wife of Daddy Lumba known to the them and accepted by same is Odo Broni.

“Priscilla Ofori (a.k.a Odo Broni) is married to the late Daddy Lumba and was the woman who lived with him through thick and thin and were blessed with six (6) children for over fifteen (15) years they lived together till his final day on earth”, the Fosu Royal Family has noted.