Collins Oteng, also known as Okomfo Kolegae, is a Kumawood actor and skitmaker who supposedly lost his mother. Based on reports, the mother of well-known Kumawood actor Okomfo Kolegae has died.
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, Poleeno Multimedia confirmed the sad news of the comedy actor’s mother’s death on social media. Actress Emelia Brobbey is among the many Ghanaians who have flocked to social media to express their condolences.
Okomfo Kolegae is yet to make an official com inment on his social media accounts, and it is still unclear what caused his mother’s death. Other than a few instances in which the humorous actor has previously discussed her, not much is known about the Kumawood actor’s late mother.
Okomfo Kolegae discussed his familial problems and the significant role his mother had in raising him without his father, with whom he is estranged, in a 2023 interview with award-winning media personality Delay.
He claims that because their father was absent from their life as they were growing up, his mother, a merchant, ended up being the only provider for him and his three siblings.
The funny actor revealed that his mother had threatened to disown him if he tried to care for his estranged father because of the difficulties she had endured as a single parent raising him and his siblings.
Additionally, Okomfo Kolegae’s mother passed away less than three years after his wife, Millicent Oteng, and unborn child passed away in the hospital on November 20, 2022, during childbirth.
