The relatives of business magnate, Alhaji Asoma Abu Banda, are fighting over his wealth as the Antrak Group of Companies CEO battles for his life on a sickbed.
Banda is currently bedridden after suffering an illness for sometime.
His illness is threatening the peace in his home as his first wife, Cassandra, and second wife, Edwina, battle for custody of him.
According to Ghanaian media outlets, his first wife, Cassandra with her children, accused the second wife of the business tycoon, Edwina, of preventing others from having access to him.
The reports say the first wife and her children as well as other family members stormed the 37 Military hospital where he is receiving medical attention to forcefully eject him but this was resisted.
Videos trending on social media showed the family members exchanging words in his hospital room as the frail business tycoon looked on.
In one of the videos, one of the businessman’s sons showed the frail hands of the father and claimed one of his sons had been signing his documents and cheques claiming that their sick father who appears immobile is the one signing the cheques.
The release of Alhaji Banda to his second wife by the hospital authorities has triggered a response from his family.
Speaking at a press conference, the family head Mohammed Abu Banda stated that the family saw that action by the second wife as an attempt to keep him away from the family.
“All the wives have done well. We are not here to support any of them. All we need is for him to be handed over to us. If we take him to our hometown and take good care of him and he is getting better, we can share the days for the two wives to come take care of him,” Sena Radio quoted him to have said.
The news of the confusion comes many months after a son of Alhaji Asoma Banda, Fadel, got arrested for allegedly breaking into his father’s house.
Fadel was reported to have broken into the house with the help of others because his stepmother, Edwina, had denied him access to his father.
Alhaji Asoma Abu Banda is the first African to own a ship and first Ghanaian to own an aircraft.
Banda ventured into private business in 1975 and established with partners, a shipping company in London, OT Africa line, and Antrak Group of Companies (London and Ghana).
Due to his able leadership and business acumen, more than 146 branches of his companies have been opened in countries across the world, creating jobs for over 500,000 people globally.
Alhaji Banda’s investments in the transport industry, particularly in Ghana, continues to assume greater heights.
Today, he is the proud Chairman of Antrak Air, a hundred percent Ghanaian – owned Company, and the first of its kind in the history of the aviation industry in the country.