Shocking reports filtering into the offices of the Daily Searchlight indicates that a prominent Member of Parliament (MP) who doubles as a Minister in the John Evans Atta Mills-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has sacked his legally married wife from their matrimonial home under bizarre circumstances and gone for his wife's cousin as his sexual partner.

He is now said to have been having a sexual affair with his wife's cousin who has just completed one of the famous Universities in the country, and has gone to the extent of promising to marry the lady, which is said to have raised eyebrows between the families of the longstanding coupled who are blessed with five children.

According to reliable sources close to the one time love birds, the matter has gone before a member of the Council of State to take steps to solve it but efforts by that Council of State member to solve the matrimonial problems has hit a snafu thereby leading to the two of them to live apart.

The sources added that the Minister (name withheld for now) has since refused to give his legally married wife any money to make ends meet with, which has affected the wife so seriously that she is unable to get money to board even "trotro" whenever she wants to travel or go to town, while the Minister, who is considered as very robust, is going about having fun with his wife's sister, the University graduate, who the Minister is alleged to have rented an apartment for in the capital.

To add injury to insult, the MP who doubles as Minister has abandoned the only two children, a boy and a girl, he has with his wife, and as a result of that the elder child who is a girl is currently seeking greener pastures outside the Republic of Ghana country while the other who is a boy is also struggling to pay his fees at the University.

Our information is that the University chap sometimes have to seek support from his Uncle to enable him pay his school fees and also make ends meet. The Minister is reported to have been married to his wife for about thirty years and the woman had stood solidly behind him in times of hardships, especially when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party was in opposition for the eight years, and therefore, the latest move by the Minister has come as a shock to their close associates, with most of them considering the Minister's move as an abomination.

The sources continued that the cousin or lady who is at the centre of controversy was said to have been sponsored by the wife of the Minister through her University education, and because of her problems, the Minister's wife requested that she live with them (the couple).

The relationship between the Minster and his wife's cousin, according to the sources, began some three years ago when the woman traveled out of town and requested her cousin to take charge of her matrimonial home.

The NDC Minister was said to have taken advantage of his wife's absence and engaged in sexual affairs with the lady, and since then the love affair between the two has become stronger, thereby leading to the Minister sacking his wife. The lady is currently staying at Mamprobi, a suburb of Accra, and the happenings is said to be causing serious problems in the family of the woman and her cousin as the lady has been warned strongly to stay away from the Minister for the peace of the family.