Cassandra Banda, the first wife of business billionaire Alhaji Asuma Banda has allegedly filed for divorce after close to five decades of their relationship.
A report by mynewsgh.com reported court records in which Mrs. Banda is seeking the annulment of their marriage with a settlement.
She contends in the court filings that she should be granted 60% of Banda’s inheritance noting the role she played in assisting the now-ailing billionaire from his early days when they met in London.
Cassandra met and married the then 41-year-old Asuma Banda in London in 1974 but she argues that the marriage “has now reached a stage of irreconcilable differences following years of alleged philandering by her husband which she mostly disregarded,” the Mynewsgh.com article added.
Alhaji Asuma Banda has lately been in the headlines after viral recordings of a custody struggle surrounding his bedside at the 37 Military Hospital were posted on social media.
His two sisters subsequently petitioned to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former president John Mahama and the National Chief Imam to intercede in the custody concerns.
A court has handed custody and care of Banda to his second wife Edwina Baaba Coussey Banda who he married in 1991.
The one-time Anktrak Air CEO turned 89 this year and will clock 90 years by next year June.