Herbert Mensah, Zenator In Court

Herbert Mensah & Dr Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings

The legal rumpus between Herbert Mensah, a businessman and the President of Ghana Rugby Association, and Dr Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Korle Klottey and daughter of former President Jerry John Rawlings, over the custody of their two kids yesterday commenced.

Both parties appeared before an Accra Juvenile Court presided over by Bernadine S.A.  Senco and proceedings were held in camera.

The case has been adjourned to December 22, 2015 and a source close to one of the parties hinted that Herbert, who has filed an application at the court to get access to his girls, has been asked to file some additional documents.

Mensah, also a football administrator, in his suit before the Juvenile Court entitled 'In The Matter Of An Application By Herbert Mensah And Dr Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings', through his lawyer Nene Amegatcher, will move an application to have access to the two children.

According to the suit filed last week Tuesday, the applicant is seeking 'reasonable access to the children' who he wants to spend their holidays and weekends with him or throughout their holidays and weekends with him either in his Ghana or London home after he made 48 attempts to get in touch with them to no avail.

He also wants, among other things, Zenator to furnish him with an update of the children regarding their health, residence and progress.

Herbert Mensah, who was in 2010 a spokesperson for the Rawlingses, was rumoured to be having an affair with the firstborn of former President Jerry John Rawlings. Even though he never denied the rumour, he parried questions on it during interviews and said his private life was private and that he did not wish to discuss anything of that sort in public.

He however recently took to facebook to express his frustration when he posted: 'What do you do, wronged and instead of seeking a legal route for settlement you choose dialogue and it is ignored?'

By Fidelia Achama