[2022]DLHC11742 • June 16, 2022 • High Court
EDWARD OFORI AMOAH vs. MADAM STELLA ANDREWS &WILLIAM BORTSI E. ANDREWS
The Plaintiff, Edward Ofori Amoah, an international businessman based in the USA, entered into a customary marriage in Ghana with the 1st Defendant, Stella Andrews, while having a subsisting monogamous marriage in the USA. The Plaintiff alleged that he financed various property development projects in Ghana through the Defendants, who acted as his agents under a Special Power of Attorney. He claimed the Defendants failed to account for substantial sums of money remitted for these projects and wrongfully registered properties in the 1st Defendant's name. The Defendants denied agency status, claimed the 1st Defendant's properties were self-acquired through her business, and counterclaimed for declarations of title to several properties.
read morei. Introduction: [1] The time has come to talk of many things — of a man who had contracted a monogamous marriage in the United States of America and his apparent belief that he could contract a valid customary marriage in Ghana — of a young woman who allegedly being aware of the existing marriage of the man and nevertheless agreeing to marry him and actually organizing and ‘hiring’ people to represent the man as his family members at the marriage, — of the validity of marriage that produced four children, three of whom are presently alive — and of provision of substantial amounts of money by the Plaintiff to the Defendants to supervise projects for him and the Defendants’ alleged abandonment of the Plaintiff and failure to account for their stewardship — and whether the 1st Defendant has used the Plaintiff’s monies received for the projects to acquire properties in her name at his blind side and whether the instant suit is just an action by a bitter man (Pla...