Can you imagine paying rent in a home you have put up together with your husband?
Well, this is happening right in the city of Kumasi where a 42-year-old woman (name withheld), who has been married to her husband, Mr Kwaku Amponsah for 23 years and has for four years, paid GHC1.00 as rent to him daily.
Mr Amponsah insists that if his wife was living in a kiosk in Accra, she would have been paying GHC1.00 as rent.
Having endured this for four years, she decided to quit.
She has agreed to a divorce but is demanding a share of the property which she put up with her husband.
Speaking to The Spectator, about two weeks ago, the woman said Mr Amponsah hails from London Bridge in Cape Coast, in the Central Region and they have five children.
Mr Amponsah, she said worked at the Goil Depot at Kaase in Kumasi, and they had been married for 23 years.
She said in 1997, both of them contributed to purchase a parcel of land at Sokoban Krofrom, in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of Ashanti Region where they put up a two flat apartment.
After completion of the house in 1998, they moved in from Ahinsan where they lived in Mr Amponsah�s family home.
She said a few months afterwards, her husband lost his job and all the family expenditures rested on her.
She said at a point, her husband was not taking care of the children and her frequent complaints over shirking his responsibilities resulted in a misunderstanding between them. As she could no longer handle the burden, she rented a room and moved out of the matrimonial home.
According to the woman, her husband asked for the dissolution of the marriage and she accepted to return the �drinks� to the family.
She said he had refused to give her a share of the property she contributed to put up and, therefore, took the matter to Fox FM�s �Nya Asem Hwe� programme hosted by Agya Atta and Mmrantehene for assistance.
When Mr Amponsah was summoned before the programme panel in the presence of The Spectator, on Wednesday, he admitted collecting GHC1.00 from his wife daily since he was out of job and needed to survive.
He said that his ex-wife had no share in the property and that he was prepared to sell it off but as to whether he would give his ex-wife some of the proceeds if he should sell the house, Mr Amponsah was adamant.
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