Court clears Daddy Lumba’s funeral, dismisses wife’s injunction bid

A High Court in Kumasi has cleared the path for the final funeral rites of legendary Ghanaian musician Charles Kwadwo Fosu, widely known as Daddy Lumba, to proceed in December 2025.

Delivering her decision, Presiding Judge Dorinda Smith Arthur stated that under Ghanaian customary law, authority over a deceased person’s body lies with the family. She added that restraining the family would not be in their interest or that of the public.

“Accordingly, the application for interlocutory injunction is hereby refused,” the judge ruled.

The court’s ruling follows an interlocutory injunction application filed by his wife, Akosua Serwaa, seeking to stop the family from going ahead with the funeral arrangements until certain issues were resolved.

The dispute arose after Akosua Serwaa challenged the family’s authority over the burial process, prompting legal action to determine who held the right to organise the funeral.

Following the court’s decision, the family announced that Daddy Lumba’s final funeral rites will take place on December 6, 2025, as originally planned.