The High Court in Accra has added a caveat that, because of the costs incurred as of now, if by 2 pm today the applicants don’t pay GH¢2 million, the funeral home, Transitions, would release the body of Daddy Lumba, and the funeral scheduled for Saturday, December 13, 2025, will come off as planned.
This came up, after the court called the lawyers of both sides and issued the caveat.
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Earlier, the High Court had restrained the head of the family, Kwame Owusu, from going ahead to organise the final funeral rites of the music icon on Saturday, December 13, 2025.
The court ordered him to convene a family meeting, involving all sides, within three days to plan the funeral.
The order from the court followed an application for an injunction by some of the maternal family members of Daddy Lumba, including his sister Ernestina Brempomaa, and his uncle, Yaw Opoku.
The funeral home, Transitions, where the body is being preserved, was also restrained from releasing the body to the head of the family for the planned Saturday event.
But after the court called the lawyers back, a caveat was issued that the applicants should pay GH¢2 million by 2 pm today. This is to help cover the costs incurred by the family head as of now towards the preparation of the Saturday, December 13, 2025 event.
Graphic Online's Justice Agbenorsi reports from the court that Daddy Lumba's maternal family members are the applicants in the persons of Obaapanin Afia Adomah, Robert and Georgina Gyamfi, Ernestina Brempomaa Fosuh, and Nana Afia Kobi.
The defendants are — Kofi Owusu (family head), Cal Bank (managers of the DL Foundation), and Transitions (funeral home)
The applicants, for whom the injunction ruling went in their favour, are to pay the GH¢2 million to the family head, Kofi Owusu, because of the costs he has incurred in organising the family as of now.
His lawyers were asking for GH¢5 million, but the court ordered GH¢2 million.
The mode of payment was not specified, so it can be either cash or cheque.
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