{"id":193317,"date":"2025-10-11T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193317\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:14:08","slug":"nobody-can-stop-daddy-lumbas-funeral-captain-smart-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193317\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nobody can stop Daddy Lumba&#8217;s funeral!&#8217; \u2013 Captain Smart declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Nobody-can-stop-Daddy-Lumba-s-funeral-Captain-Smart-declares-2004651?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43372857.295.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Smart (L) insists nobody can stop Daddy Lumba's funeral in December\" title=\"Captain Smart (L) insists nobody can stop Daddy Lumba's funeral in December\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/> <\/a>Captain Smart (L) insists nobody can stop Daddy Lumba&#8217;s funeral in December<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Media personality Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly known as Captain Smart, has stated that nothing will stop the funeral of the late highlife legend Daddy Lumba from taking place as planned on December 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his Onua Maakye show on October 10, 2025, Captain Smart dismissed reports that a court injunction filed by Lumba\u2019s wife, Akosua Serwaa, could halt the ceremony. He insisted that the funeral would proceed as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Read-details-of-Akosua-Serwaa-s-marriage-certificate-with-the-late-Daddy-Lumba-2004462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read details of Akosua Serwaa&#8217;s marriage certificate with the late Daddy Lumba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaddy Lumba\u2019s funeral will be held on December 6. No one can stop the funeral from happening,\u201d he said during an interview with comic actors Jeffery Nortey, Aka Ebenezer, and Opoku Bilson.<\/p>\n<p>The Media General broadcaster went further to challenge any court officer or bailiff who might attempt to enforce the injunction on the day of the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Smart maintained that the presence of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the ceremony would make it impossible for anyone to interfere with the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a bailiff and you see Otumfuo sitting under his palanquin at the funeral, bring the court injunction. Bring it there. We will be waiting for you,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Daddy-Lumba-s-funeral-planning-committee-responds-to-Akosua-Serwaa-2004487\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy Lumba&#8217;s funeral planning committee responds to Akosua Serwaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 8, 2025, the family of the highlife legend, who died on July 26, 2025, at the age of 60, announced that his final funeral rites would be held on December 6 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator of Lumba\u2019s funeral planning committee and former Manhyia North MP, Collins Owusu Amankwah, shared the burial arrangements and detailed activities for the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>However, after the announcement, reports emerged that Akosua Serwaa had secured a court injunction against the family head, Kofi Owusu, Transitions Funeral Home, and Odo Broni.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared on social media, Akosua Serwaa said she had been excluded from all funeral preparations and described learning about her husband\u2019s burial date on social media as \u201cdisrespectful and distressing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Court documents that surfaced on October 9, 2025, confirmed that she is seeking to prevent the funeral from going ahead until the court rules on her concerns regarding her position as the legitimate widow of the late musician.<\/p>\n<p>  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@onuaonline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@onuaonline?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@onuaonline<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can stop Daddy Lumba\u2019s funeral rites from taking place on December 6\u201d \u2014 Captain Smart. #OnuaMaakye<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound  - onuaonline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-onuaonline-7559586582203812619?refer=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound  &#8211; onuaonline<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>Watch as Ghanaians share their favorite Highlife tunes<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>AK\/MA<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Smart (L) insists nobody can stop Daddy Lumba&#8217;s funeral in December Media personality Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-193317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}