Ghanaian Award-winning ex-footballer, Odartey Lamptey has disclosed that he almost used his gun when he discovered the three children he had taken care of all his life were not his children.
However, patience and the grace of God prevented him from taking that action which would have landed him in prison.
“When the issue happened I wanted to use my gun. It was in my Tundra but I decided I would not do anything to jeopardize my life so I did not use it. I was broken but I was very patient about it and that has led me to where I am today. I believe it was God who spoke to me and so I decided not to use my gun. It used to be in my Tundra but I decided not to touch the gun again.
I’ve my own children and family now and people even come to me to learn from how I have been able to emotionally handle it. My ordeal gave men awareness and the confidence to check the parternity of their children. Some have not been able to handle the shock but some have been able to,” he said while speaking to Dan Kwaku Yeboah.
On his relationship with the children, he indicated that his Lawyers advised him to stay away from them so he did and has not had any contact with them since the case was in court.
He, however, indicated that he has nothing against them because it is no fault of theirs that things turned out the way it did and he is always ready to support them when the need be.
About Odartey Lamptey’s divorce saga
The marriage between Odartey Lamptey and Gloria Appiah hit the rocks in 2013 after a DNA test revealed that the three children he had raised for years were not his biological children.
Odartey Lamptey recounted that close friends advised him to undertake a DNA test on the kids after receiving many recordings of activities of his ex-wife.
He, therefore, did the DNA test which he described as a defining moment which resulted in a divorce.
After the divorce, the footballer had to relinquish his 5-bedroom house in Dome and pay GHC400,000 in alimony to his ex-wife.
His ex-wife, Gloria, instead insisted on receiving the seven-bedroom East Legon Mansion, ultimately winning a lawsuit that ordered the footballer to vacate the house within an hour, leading to her occupancy.
However, in March 2022, a High Court ruling ordered Gloria Appiah to hand over keys to the East Legon mansion to the former Ghanaian football star within a month.
He is now married to Ruweida Yakubu. Their union started in 2014. Odartey has three children with Ruweida, consisting of two girls and a boy.