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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.
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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.
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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.