Odartey Lamptey’s ex-wife has asked the Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe Agbevey, to award her 50 percent ownership of Odartey Lamptey’s Glow Lamp International School and Golden Lion Soccer Academy, among other properties, in addition to the Dome Kwabenya house.
Glow Lamp School and other assets of the football star, including a soccer academy, have done well over the years, with a lot of money coming in from the school. Gloria Odartey Lamptey told the court that it would not have happened if she hadn’t influenced the investment and led its implementation.
Gloria “Odartey Lamptey” argued in court documents that while her then-husband, now ex-husband, was busy with his footballing career abroad, she spent a lot of time ensuring the school was built to modern standards and after it was completed, she served as Proprietress guiding the school in particular to its current status as one of the best in Accra.
Glow Lamp School is one of the best schools in the greater Accra Region, having scored 100 percent in the last ten BECEs in a row.
Gloria Lamptey sought a court order granting her 50 percent ownership of the school, which reportedly earns more than Ghc1.5 million in profits before taxes each year.
Veil of incorporation argument
The court however dismissed Gloria’s claim after listening to the lawyers for Odartey Lamptey who pleaded with the court “not to disturb the veil of incorporation of the school as it is a separate legal entity from Mr. Odartey Lamptey as a person.
The lawyers also argued that at the time Mrs. Odartey Lamptey served as supervisor of the project and then as proprietess, she was paid a monthly salary as a staff of the school and couldn’t have turned around to say she did it out of charity.
Justice Cecilia Don-Chebe Agbevey after hearing argument from both sides completely quashed Gloria’s motion to have the ex-footballers assets equally divided, especially the school – Glow Lamp.
Gloria was however allocated Nii Odartey Lamptey’s property located at Dome as he had proposed but what Gloria actually said she wanted is Nii Odartey Lamptey’s 7-bedroom mansion in East Legon.
