A 32-year-old woman and her father have been charged with bigamy by the
police after she successfully got married to two different men legally
in Ghana.
According to a report by The Finder newspaper Patience
Belinda Gyamfi (the woman at the centre of investigations) got married
to Maximus Anumah, a member of staff at the 37 Military Hospital in 2012
and to Audrey Atikpo in January 2013 while she was still married to the
former.
The newspaper reported that Belinda’s marriage to
Maximus was held at a church in Labadi and registered at the Accra
Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) while and the second marriage was registered
in Somanya in the Eastern Region.
The report indicated that in
mid-January 2013, Belinda, who had not been blessed with a fruit of the
womb from her marriage with Anumah sought permission from her husband to
go to Edumfa Prayer Camp in the Central Region for fasting and prayers
to seek divine intervention so they could have children, to which her
husband granted the request.
It said unknown to Mr Anumah,
Belinda, her father and some family members had arranged a secret
wedding with another man, Audrey Atikpo, who came down from the United
States of America (USA). How they met is yet to be established.
The
report said, according to the second marriage certificate, Belinda got
married to Atikpo on January 31, 2013 and registered the marriage at the
Somanya Magistrate Court.
Atikpo then rented an apartment at
East Legon where he stayed with Belinda for some days and went back to
the US to process the necessary documents for Belinda to join him there.
According
to The Finder report, when Atikpo left, Belinda packed back to her
first husband’s house at Labadi in mid-February 2013.
It said, upon her return, Belinda always found faults with anything that Anumah did, resulting in frequent misunderstandings.
Some
months later, Belinda’s father brought drinks and GH¢300 to Anumah
saying his daughter wanted divorce, but Anumah rejected the items, the
report said.
Being suspicious of his wife’s calls from a
gentleman and a woman from the US, Anumah enquired about the calls and
Belinda told him that the man (Belinda’s second husband Atikpo) was her
cousin and the woman (Belinda’s mother in-law in US) her aunty.
Not
satisfied with the answers, Anumah started searching for his own clues
and it was in the course of the search, Anumah found a piece of paper in
their room bearing the name and address of Atikpo, The Finder reported.
According to the newspaper, Anumah logged on to Facebook, searched for Audrey Atikpo and sent him a friendship request.
Upon
accepting the request, and seeing Anumah and Belinda’s wedding photos
in Anumah’s Facebook photos, Atikpo confronted Anumah and the two men
both claimed to be the rightful husband of Belinda, The Finder said.
According
to The Finder, Atikpo called Belinda from the US and confronted her on
the matter and the following day, Belinda packed all her belongings from
Anumah’s house and went back to the house Atikpo rented for her at East
Legon.
Feeling fooled and cheated by Belinda, Anumah reported the case to the police, who are currently investigating the matter.
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