THE COURT case over the sharing of assets of the late Alhaji Ibrahim Sly Tetteh was yesterday brought to a halt by an Accra High Court.
This followed an application by Mrs. Winifred Tetteh, the second wife and Anita Adjeley Tetteh to discontinue the case they had brought against the National Chief Imam, Sheik Nuhu Osuman Sharubutu and Nii Larbi Tawiah Oninku, the head of family of Alhaji Tetteh, for deciding to share his assets under Islamic laws.
At the court presided over by Justice E.K. Mensah, counsel for the two applicants, Ben Quornooh of Alliance Legal firm, who was expected to move an application for interlocutory injunction, informed the court of the decision taken by his clients.
He therefore asked the court to grant their notice of discontinuance, which was obliged by the trial judge.
The two women, as plaintiffs, had wanted to stop the Chief Imam and the head of family from sharing the vast assets of Alhaji Tetteh under Islamic laws but rather under the Intestate Succession Law 1985 PNDC Law III since the man died without a will.
They argued that not only was the distribution of the estate under Islamic laws wrong but also contrary to the law of the land.
The plaintiffs disclosed that the family had concluded arrangements with the National Chief Imam to distribute the estate and therefore had given his wife, who they saw as a stumbling block, a seven-day ultimatum to consent to their decision or else they would proceed to share the property.
The plaintiff noted that if the court did not stop them, it would be detrimental to their interests as beneficiaries of the intestate of the deceased, since �those who will benefit will speedily dispose of the assets that will be given to them and we will not be able to retrieve them if at the end of this suit we become victorious�.
Alhaji Sly Tetteh, a Muslim, died intestate on September 3, 2011, leaving behind two wives and seven children.
The deceased left behind a vast estate including majority ownership of Liberty Profession Football Club, a Premier League Club as well as soccer academies in Kenya, Togo and bank accounts in Ghana and overseas, as well as landed properties scattered all over the country.
By Mary Anane
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