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African Dancehall king and MTN icon Emmanuel Andrew Samini went through his third marriage ceremony in three year last Tuesday May 10, 2011 at the Registrar General�s Department in Accra in a very brief and private signing ceremony with only a few family members present. When the news broke out on Tuesday evening that the �sweet Mistake� singer has registered a woman, many people wondered if he is married to a third woman. �What happened to his earlier two marriages�? �Has he already divorced his two wives to marry a new woman?� were two of the many questions that was asked. This reporter missed the marriage registration ceremony but when later, Peacefmonline.com Entertainment reporter, Eugene Osafo-Nkansah, who was the only media person to break protocol, entered into the conference hall at Golden Tulip in Accra on Tuesday evening at about 8p.m., Samini was spotted in a sea blue African wear with a lady sitting by him. On both sides sat the couple�s parents at a secret engagement dinner. The well endowed woman in a cream straight dress happily sitting beside Samini, was revealed as Christiana Aboagye who is Samini�s first wife and mother of his two daughters. His first born Toyila Samini (now seven (7) years) and little baby girl Ayana Samini who will be one year Old in September. �I am very surprised that my little marriage ceremony has attracted so much attention, Samini told this reporter in an exclusive interview yesterday morning. This marriage is not new I have been married for over three years now. We just decided to register our marriage and also celebrate the occasion with our kids. All I can say is that it is not true I am taking a third wife. I don�t know anything about what people are talking about�, Samini said. He expressed regret that when it comes to his private life, people say all sort of things �So I just leave them to write what they want to write and I also sit quietly to mind my own business. If you can remember I said on the Ghana Music Awards stage that for the first time all my three daughters are with me in Ghana. So people have to know that their mother is obviously in Ghana as well. So I don�t see how I will marry someone else. I don�t understand! �The woman I am married to today is the mother of two of my three daughters. She is already my wife so I don�t know where this news is coming from and I don�t know the big deal about this. Because this is my wife they are talking about. A woman I practically live with when I go to Canada and she lives with me when she is in Ghana so this old news�. The 2006 MOBO Awards winner said his wife Christiana Aboagye known among her friends as Sister, who live in Canada have been in Ghana about six months now on holidays with their two daughters and it was only right to use the opportunity to formerly register and celebrate three years of their marriage. �They have been here for over six months and they have a few weeks to go back to Canada I wanted to put everything in place for them to be happy before they leave�. It may be recalled that Graphic showbiz broke the news in No. 612 edition of the paper with the headline �Samini Takes 2 Wives� which stated that he had gotten married to two different women within a year.