Alhaji Abass` wife hits back from LondonI NEVER DUMPED MY HUBBY… I also did not flee with the kids
Mrs. Bertha Abass, wife of Alhaji Issah Abass, an Accra-based businessman who was recently set free by the Court of Appeal, for conspiracy and engaging in prohibited business relating to narcotic drugs, has denied a claim by her husband that she dumped him after he was arrested and jailed by an Accra High Court in 2007.
She has also denied that she fled with her kids to London, when he was put behind bars.
“It is not true that I deserted my husband. When the case happened, I came to Ghana two times. I was born in London, and the kids have been in London for sometime now. I never fled to UK with them,” she said.
Speaking exclusively to an Accra-based radio station, Hot FM, in reaction to the story this paper carried yesterday, Mrs. Abass, who refused to make public the current state of her marriage, said three days after the news broke that her husband had been arrested, she came down to Ghana to sympathise with him.
She was therefore surprised that Alhaji Abass could accuse her of deserting him.
“All that I can say is that I did not abandon my husband. It was also not true that I fled with the kids. I don't want to wash my dirty linen(sic) in public,” she said, when pushed to explain further.
According to her, “I was not in Ghana when the case happened. I was in London, and I have been in London all my life. Indeed, it was an agreement between us that the kids should stay in London.”
When quizzed on whether she was still in marriage with her husband, Mrs. Abass noted, “That is a matter between me and my husband. We are happy that he has been released. We wish him well,” she submitted.
In an interview on Hot FM, an Accra-based radio station, Alhaji Abass accused his wife of deserting him after he had been arrested and jailed for narcotic offences.
According to him, she also fled with the kids to the United Kingdom (UK). “My brother, I don't know whether or not she has divorced me, but she ignored me all this while, and left with my kids,” Abass said.
Recounting life in jail to The Chronicle, he said prison was a terrible place, adding that worst of all, were the transfers from one prison to the other.
He intimated that his experience took him through six prisons in two years, namely, Nsawam, Yendi, Koforidua, Ankaful, Takoradi and Sunyani. “Even someone who has committed murder could not be taken through this ordeal,” he lamented.
Alhaji Abass noted that he met his pal, Mr. Kwabena Amaning aka Tagor, at Nsawam Prison when he was brought from Sunyani to receive medical attention at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
Tagor was also on transfer from Yendi at the time.
He emphasised that since he was suffering from kidney problems, he was admitted at the hospital for five months, where he was operated to remove stones in his kidney.
The businessman said what was so pathetic was that he was abandoned by the government, as a result he had to pay for his medical bill, which cost him GH¢35 a day for all the five months he spent there.