The jilted ex-girlfriend of midfield superstar Michael Essien is continuing with her jealous fit of rage by sending the Chelsea enforcer to the courts in Ghana.

Contrary to media reports in Ghana on Wednesday that Essien sent his ex-lover for justice in country, Ghanasoccernet investigations at the Accra High Court have revealed that Dela Ackumey rather dragged the Black Stars player to court.

This comes after her quest to seek a huge divorce compensation package in millions of UK poundsterling, claiming she was married to Essien, was thrown out by a court in England.

Her final desperate attempt has left her with no option but to return to Ghana to fight her claims led to a hearing at the Accra High Court on Tuesday.

Ackumey claims she was married to the Chelsea star while Essien insisted to the English courts that she was only a girlfriend.

The Ghana football star told the English court several months ago that the knocking rites did not amount to marriage and he was cleared.

But Ackumey, who started the case in Ghana in 2007, realised that he was not having her way and the compensation package she wanted, travelled to England as a student and pursued the case where divorce settlements are huge.

But after her attempts failed in England she has returned to Ghana as her last resort which led to yesterday's hearing.

Ms Ackumey's legal representative told Justice A.K Ofori-Atta that she has video evidence to prove that the Chelsea ace performed the marriage rites in the presence of her relatives.  

Essien, who will be flying in from his London base to testify, heavily disputes her claims.

At the court, presided over by Justice A.K Ofori-Atta, counsel for Essien, stated that according to his client, the rites performed did not amount to marriage in the Anlo tradition, where Ackumey comes from, and even if that was the case, then it was contrary to the instructions he gave and stressed that it was not a marriage rite.

Counsel for Miss Ackumey told the court that plaintiff had made attempts to have the matter settled amicably but was unsuccessful on the issue of whether a marriage rite was performed or not.

Neither Essien nor Dela were in the court on Tuesday, as they were both out of the country but Dela had indicated she had wanted to give evidence via video conferencing, which counsel for Essien disagreed with.

It would be recalled that Dela Ackumey sold her story to the News of the World, a British tabloid, that Michael Essien cheated on her several times but she forgave him.

But friends close to Essien retorted that she was dumped after the Chelsea star discovered that she had bizarrely harmed herself which was caught on tape by the CCTV in his house in London.