Eugene Arhin and Wife
Wife of Eugene Arhin, the Acting Director of Communications at the presidency, has amended her initial claims of massive property grabbing by the official.
This was after Mr. Arhin filed a response to the divorce petition filed by Mrs. Gloria Assan Arhin, in which he served notice to put her to strict proof regarding the claims she made in her initial petition, which had gone viral on social and traditional media.
In an amended petition filed at an Accra High Court on Monday, February 15, 2021, a copy of which was in the possession of DAILY GUIDE, Mrs. Arhin has now backtracked on several of her earlier claims, following the response filed by her husband.
Mr. Arhin denied what he described as “malicious claims” made against him by his estranged wife.
In the amended petition, Mrs. Arhin now claims that there is only a property in contention, which is an uncompleted five-bedroom house at Santor in the Kpone Katamanso District.
The uncompleted residential property, which was intended to be their matrimonial home, was on a two-plot of land said to have been acquired by Mr. Arhin in 2016 even before he started working at the presidency.
This was the same property Mrs. Arhin had alleged in her first petition to be located at East Legon, but had now amended in her new petition to state its location as Santor, in the Kpone Katamanso District.
The claims of several other properties which she listed in her first petition have also been abandoned. This is because Mr. Arhin, in his response to the petition, has denied knowledge of the listed properties and has subjected his wife to prove the existence of the properties.
Mrs. Arhin is laying claim to some second hand vehicles purchased during the marriage. They include a Toyota Avalon vehicle with registration GR 7108-18, a Toyota Lexus with registration GE 4646-18, Toyota Tundra with registration number GE 7108-18 and a Hyundai Elantra with registration number GE 4646-19.
Mrs. Arhin also abandoned the claims of been physically abused by her husband in her amended petition.
Her initial claims that her husband owned a five-bedroom residential property at East Legon which was supposed to be the matrimonial home of the couple, a four-storey building comprising of 16 separate flats at Bubuashie, Accra, an ongoing storey building comprising of 16 separate flats at Tuba, Kasoa, a storey building comprising of apartments located at Teshie, Accra, a residential property located at the AU Village at La, Accra, other houses at Senya Bereku in the Central Region and Ada Foah in the Greater Accra Region and a Ford F150 vehicle were not in the instant amendment.
Aside the financial contributions that Mrs. Arhin was claiming to have made towards the acquisition of the properties, she deposed that she was also in charge of supervision of the construction of the project and spent all her days on construction site supervising the workmen and ensuring the project went on smoothly, whilst also taking care of their home and three children for which reason she wanted the five-bedroom house situated at Santor to be settled in her favour.
She still insists the marriage be dissolved, since according to her, the marriage has broken down beyond reconciliation but wants custody of their three children with access to their father.
That aside, she wants the court to order Mr. Arhin to pay her the sum of GH₵2 million and for him to maintain the children, pay their school fees and health bills and the cost of and incidentals to the suit.
In his response to the petition, Mr. Arhin has denied almost all the claims she made and admitted to wanting to leave the marriage.
On the issue of the properties, he admitted to owing an uncompleted five-bedroom house at Santor and a barbering shop at Teshie, which is being operated by his mom to help her make ends meet.
He has also denied having any property at Senya Bereku or AU village as well as at Ada Foah and Teshie as initially submitted by his wife.
By Charles Takyi Boadu