Following Richard Nii Armah Quaye’s recent interview with Delay, in which he made several claims and debunked assertions made earlier by his ex-wife, Joana Coffie, new details have emerged.
On April 26, 2026, the Ghanaian businessman appeared on Delay’s show, sharing his side of the story regarding his divorce from Joana Coffie.
During the interview, he claimed that his ex-wife was unemployed after his return from the United Kingdom and even around the time they got married in 2010.
He said he believed he returned between 2007 and 2009.
“When I came back, she was not working,” he stated.
However, court documents sighted by GhanaWeb on April 28, 2026, revealed otherwise.
Records showed that Joana Coffie worked at Frankies Food and Rooms Ltd from April to December 2005, then at Simbisa Brands Ghana Limited from January 2006 to December 2007.
Simbisa paid her SSNIT contributions until April 2008, after which she joined Top Recruitment Agency between 2008 and 2009.
Her SSNIT records further indicated contributions from 2009 while she worked as a cashier at UniBank Ghana until 2011.
Richard Nii Armah Quaye also told Delay that before marrying Coffie, he had convinced her to maintain a long-distance relationship despite rumours that their affair would not last.
“I got married in December 2010. Before I went to the UK, we were friends, but when I went to London, I used to give her new phones and money. When I came back, that was when we started our relationship.
“I am a very loyal person. When I went, people were saying that I was going to get married there, so she shouldn’t take me seriously… She was the first woman in my life,” he said.
Meanwhile, court documents presented a different account.
In his divorce petition, he stated that their relationship had been affected by what he described as Coffie’s abusive conduct before he travelled to the UK.
He further stated that it was Joana Coffie who pleaded with him to begin a fresh relationship after he relocated.
“Respondent says in answer to paragraphs 26 and 27 of Petitioner’s petition that their relationship was truncated due to the abusive conduct of the petitioner before he (Respondent) left for the United Kingdom, and it was rather the Petitioner who pleaded that the parties enter into a fresh relationship, which the Respondent refused as he did not believe in a long-distance relationship,” the document stated.
Read excerpts of the document below:
Source: Ghanaweb