The court shut down Daddy Lumba's funeral after his maternal relatives claimed they got pushed aside during planning. Kofi Owusu, the family head, can't move forward with arrangements, and Transitions Funeral Home has to keep the body until everything gets sorted out.
The judge said the family leader needed to actually talk with immediate relatives instead of just doing whatever, even though holding off on the burial means extra expenses. Court documents showed the close family members were completely left out of decisions.
The ruling tells Owusu to get everyone together within three weeks to pick a new burial date. Money collected for the funeral has to stay separate from the Daddy Lumba Memorial Foundation accounts, and the people who filed the complaint need to submit paperwork. The whole mess kicked off after the highlife star died at 60, bringing old arguments about Akan funeral customs back to the surface.
The judge said the family leader needed to actually talk with immediate relatives instead of just doing whatever, even though holding off on the burial means extra expenses. Court documents showed the close family members were completely left out of decisions.
The ruling tells Owusu to get everyone together within three weeks to pick a new burial date. Money collected for the funeral has to stay separate from the Daddy Lumba Memorial Foundation accounts, and the people who filed the complaint need to submit paperwork. The whole mess kicked off after the highlife star died at 60, bringing old arguments about Akan funeral customs back to the surface.
