Nii Odartey Lamptey and the ex-wife Gloria
Gloria Appiah, divorced wife of former Black Stars player, Nii Odartey Lamptey, has returned to court, insisting she is entitled to half of her ex-husband’s properties although she was booted out of the marriage after a DNA test revealed all three children she claimed were for the footballer were actually from another man.
This June, an Accra court ruled Gloria did not deserve half of Odartey Lamptey’s properties because of the reasons and circumstances of their divorce.
The court, therefore, ordered that within 30 days, Gloria should vacate Odartey Lamptey’s seven-bedroom house she was occupying at East Legon, a plush community in Ghana’s capital city.
Per the ruling, Gloria was to make do with one of the houses of the footballer situated at Dome, another part of Accra.
The court further awarded 40 percent of a GH¢500,000 sum as alimony to Gloria.
Reports on Thursday suggest, however, that Gloria has returned to court to appeal the June 2017 ruling. She is said to have filed an appeal which argued that she is entitled to 50 percent of Odartey Lamptey’s assets.
After the June 2017 ruling, this was what Odartey Lamptey told journalists, “I thank God for taking me through this fight successfully because I didn’t know how far I could go. I’m grateful that the toils that I have gone through for the past 21 years did not go in vain. Though I’ve lost a few properties, I’m very content that at the end of this case, I have retained most of them and I’m still alive too.”
“When I was informed that the (three) children were not mine, I know how I felt. Playing the role of a father to children I thought were mine for 21 years and realising otherwise later, I nearly committed suicide. God gave me renewed energy and courage to withstand these pains and today, I can say I have gotten over them all.
“And today, with the final judgement, I thank God that my properties, my school and others I have kept them. She can take the little awarded her. Today the divorce has been granted and that burden that was on me is gone. Now, I’m a free and happy man, ready to start life again,” he revealed.
The reason for which Odartey Lamptey decided to conduct a paternity test on the three children remains unknown, but the results of the test shocked Ghanaians and subsequently led to the breakdown of their marriage.
Odartey Lamptey has since moved on. Currently, he has three children with his new found love, actress Ruweida Yakubu.