Family Head says he was informed of customary marriage between Daddy Lumba, Odo Broni
Appearing under cross-examination, Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu, head of the Ekuona family at Parkoso, said he did not witness any ceremony himself but learnt of the supposed marriage.
A senior figure in the family of the late highlife icon Charles Kwadwo Fosuh — popularly known as Daddy Lumba — has told a Kumasi High Court that he was informed the musician took Priscilla Ofori, widely known as Odo Broni, as a customary wife.
Appearing under cross-examination, Abusuapanin Kofi Owusu, head of the Ekuona family at Parkoso, said he did not witness any ceremony himself but learnt of the supposed marriage from Odo Broni and other relatives after the musician’s death in 2025.
The testimony comes amid a heated legal battle brought by Akosua Serwaa Fosuh, who is asking the court to declare her the sole surviving spouse of the late musician and to bar Odo Broni from presenting herself as his widow.
Odo Broni, who has six children with the musician, maintains she was customarily married to him.
Serwaa Fosuh’s lawyer, William Kusi, pressed the family head on whether he had attended any wedding ceremony in 1991 between the musician and Odo Broni. He conceded he had not and said his first encounter with her was after Lumba’s death.
According to Abusuapanin Owusu, he was later told that the musician and Odo Broni entered into a customary marriage in April 2010 at Tantra Hills.
He said he was taken aback when Odo Broni revealed she had six children with the late singer and then introduced him to relatives who allegedly witnessed the marriage rites, including those who accepted the head drink.
He added that the late musician’s younger sister, Faustina Fosuh, who is currently unwell, corroborated the account.
The Abusuapanin admitted that at the time of the musician’s death, he recognised only Akosua Serwaa as Lumba’s wife.
In line with custom, he sent drinks to Serwaa’s family to formally notify them of her husband’s passing.
However, he said he was later informed by members of his own family that Serwaa had previously returned her head drinks (tsirnsa) — an act traditionally interpreted as the dissolution of a customary marriage.
The case, which has drawn national attention due to the stature of the late musician and the level of dispute between the parties, is ongoing at the Kumasi High Court.
