Adwoa Safo buried her father, Apostle Prof. Emeritus Ing. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, on July 30, 2026, at Gomoa
Mpota - hours after the Accra High Court granted her brother's camp a 10-day interim injunction ordering her
to stop. She went ahead anyway, and the national farewell followed the next day at Black Star Square in
Accra as originally planned.
That single fact - a live court order, ignored, with a body already in the ground - is the part of this
story that matters most right now. Everything else, the family feud, the gunshots, the disputed dates, built
up to this moment. Here's the full picture, as of August 1, 2026.
How we got here
Apostle Safo Kantanka, founder of the Kristo Asafo Mission and Kantanka Automobile, died on September 11,
2025, at age 77. Adwoa Safo, former Dome-Kwabenya MP and ex-Gender Minister, announced the funeral programme
at a May 29, 2026 press conference: burial at Gomoa Mpota on July 30, a national farewell at Independence
Square on July 31, and a thanksgiving service in Kumasi on August 8.
Her brother, Nana Kwadwo Safo Akofena I - head of the Safo family and leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission -
wasn't in the room when she announced it, and he didn't accept it either. He pushed his own June 25 date,
then declared Adwoa Safo's July dates "null and void," citing unresolved disagreements over their father's
final wishes and control of the burial arrangements. Family members close to him also accused Adwoa Safo of
being estranged from their father for years before his death - a claim she has not directly addressed on
record.
Adwoa Safo held her ground. Speaking on Accra's Angel FM, she said the funeral committee had already
consulted the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and former President John Agyekum Kufuor, and that the dates
were final. On Citi FM on July 28, she went further, warning Akofena and his supporters that disrupting the
funeral would breach their bail conditions - a reference to an earlier legal matter tied to the family
dispute.
Then, on July 21, a shooting occurred at a Kwabenya residence during a contested installation event for the
Kristo Asafo Mission's new leadership, according to the Ghana Police Service, which said Adwoa Safo was
denied entry to the premises before the incident. She later told YEN that 48 bullets were fired into her car
and that she underwent surgery afterward. The precise sequence linking the Kwabenya shooting to her surgery
claim has not been independently confirmed by police or a hospital, so treat the "assassination attempt"
framing as her account until an official report says otherwise.
The injunction - and the burial that happened anyway
The real turning point came on July 29, one day before the burial. The Accra High Court granted Akofena's
side a 10-day interim injunction, restraining Adwoa Safo from proceeding while a substantive case over the
funeral arrangements stayed pending. Legally, that should have stopped everything.
It didn't. Thousands of mourners gathered at Gomoa Mpota on July 30 regardless, and the burial took place at
the Kantanka Automobile Manufacturing Centre - reportedly fulfilling the Apostle's own wish to be laid to
rest there. Social media chatter claimed police had intercepted a hearse carrying the body as it left
Transitions Funeral Home. Adwoa Safo's spokesperson, Seth Kofi Kissi, denied that on Neat FM the following
day, saying the body was never held at Transitions and that he personally collected it from wherever it was
actually kept before it reached the funeral grounds. That specific claim - where the body was really held
before burial - has not been verified by any Ghanaian outlet with police or funeral-home confirmation, and
Filladey Media treats it as unconfirmed for now.
The national farewell went ahead on July 31 at Black Star Square, again without Akofena, who was
conspicuously absent from both events. He later posted a Bible verse widely read online as a pointed
reaction to losing control of the process. A thanksgiving service is still scheduled for early August in
Kumasi, though reports differ on the exact venue - some say Asante Mampong, others Prempeh Assembly Hall,
others Jackson Park - so that detail remains unsettled as of this writing's date.
what does defying a High Court injunction actually cost her?
Ghanaian coverage so far has stayed focused on the funeral drama - who showed up, who didn't, whose version
of the casket story is true. What's missing from that coverage is the legal exposure. An interim injunction
is a court order. Proceeding against one is, in principle, contempt of court, and Ghanaian courts have
jailed people for less dramatic defiance than burying a body mid-injunction.
Whether Adwoa Safo actually faces contempt proceedings now depends on what the substantive case decides and
whether Akofena's legal team pushes it - and that's the open thread every other outlet has left dangling. If
the court treats the burial as settled fact and moves on, this becomes a family story with a legal footnote.
If it doesn't, Adwoa Safo could be fighting a contempt case over a funeral that's already over, which would
be a genuinely unusual turn for Ghanaian celebrity-adjacent litigation.