According to a report by Ghanaweb on Sunday, Jun 21, 2026, a Ghanaian man based in Asia, Apraku Kelvin Darlington, has demanded a DNA test after his wife allegedly told him he is not the biological father of the child they have been raising together. He made the revelation on Lawson TV’s Afisem programme, a show that resolves domestic disputes.
Kelvin said he met his wife, Ernestina Nti Konadu, a nurse based in Offinso in the Ashanti Region, on Facebook in 2015. The couple dated for four years before getting married, and later had a child whom Kelvin took responsibility for from birth.
He explained that at the time the child was born, he was working as a trotro mate but still performed his duties as a father. A year later, he travelled to Asia to work and continued supporting his family financially from abroad. He said he paid GH¢15,000 for his mother-in-law’s surgery, provided accommodation for his wife and child, and sent money home every month, with his siblings also chipping in with provisions and financial support. Kelvin claimed he spends more than GH¢5,000 monthly on the child.
He said he was shocked when his wife called him one day to announce that she wanted to end the marriage and that the child was not his. According to him, she also said he would no longer have access to the child, and went as far as instructing the school he personally enrolled the child in to bar him and some of his family members from seeing the child.
Kelvin said he reported the matter to his wife’s parents but got no satisfactory response. He told his mother-in-law he intended to take a DNA test, and that if it proved he wasn’t the father, he would demand a refund of all the money he had spent raising the child. He claimed his mother-in-law responded that if he could calculate how many times he had slept with her daughter and pay for that, they would in turn refund his money.
After the disagreement, Kelvin said he asked his wife to return his marriage ring and a bottle of schnapps, which she allegedly sent back through a delivery person. He added that he had already processed passports for his wife and the child, and insists a DNA test must be carried out to settle the paternity question once and for all.
