Music star, David Adeleke popularly known as Davido and his sister, Miss
Ashely Coco Adeleke have been accused of child abduction, www.metronaija.com can authoritatively report.
According
to a petition addressed to the director general National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and seen by Naij.com, the pop
singer is accused of “attempted child trafficking and abduction of miss
aurora Imade Adeleke”.
A copy of the petition the newspaper has
also been sent to the President, Vice President, Lagos state governor,
the inspector general of police, the director general of the DSS and the
managing director of FAAN.
The petitioner, Miss. Sophia Ajibola
Momodu claimed she was tricked to visit the house of Mr. David Adedeji
Adeleke’s half sister – Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke’s with her baby, Imade
Aurora Adeleke on July 11, 2015.
“After getting to the
house on Baderinwa Alabi Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, our client’s baby
was forcefully taken from her and she was thrown out of the premises
with the threat that she would be decisively dealt with if she ever
bothered to return there. There were armed policemen in the premises and
our client’s survival instinct prevailed on her to make her leave her
breast suckling baby behind, with so much pain in her heart,” the
petition reads in part.
Yesterday, Tuesday, 29 December, Ashley
Coco Adeleke and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke reportedly tried to travel
to Dubai with the baby but was stopped by Mrs. Modupe Mofikoya, an
immigration officer who attended to the Adeleke travelling party.
Ms
Sophia said with the help of her family members, including Mr Dele
Momodu, she was determinedly resisted the attempt by Miss Ashley Coco
Adeleke and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke, from taking her baby Aurora
Imade Adeleke from Lagos yesterday.
“Our client believes that the
pair are trying to take the child to America and thus put her out of
the reach of the biological mother. At the moment, Miss Ashley Coco
Adeleke and our client’s daughter, Aurora Imade Adeleke are still in
Lagos and two of their respective international passports are in the
custody of the airport immigration services.
“Our client’s fear
now, is that Ashley Coco may use her Nigerian passport and Aurora
Imade’s American passport to travel through other Nigerian or West
African airports,” the petition added.
But speaking with our reporter, Kamal Ajiboye, Davido’s manager, denied the allegations raised in the petition.
“The
baby was taken away from her due induced drugs found in her (baby)
system which she obivioly got through the mother’s breast. David’s
family is only helping her and the baby,” he told our reporter over the
phone.
“David’s family prevented him (David) from reporting her
to the NDLEA and as we speak, the baby was recently treated in Dubai.
The baby cannot even breathe properly.
“The family has done
everything to take care of the mother and child. We rented an apartment
for her and she gets three hundred thousand naira monthly as upkeep.
What else will the family do? To be honest, not sane family will take a
child away from the mother for no reason,” Kamal explained.
Read the full petition below.
December 30, 2016
The Director General
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
No. 2028 Delaba Street
Wuse Zone 5
FCT, Abuja
Dear Madam,
PETITION
AGAINST MISS ASHLEY COCO ADELEKE & MR ADEDEJI ADELEKE FOR ATTEMPTED
CHILD TRAFFICKING AND ABDUCTION OF MISS AURORA IMADE ADELEKE
We
act as Solicitors for Miss. Sophia Ajibola Momodu, (hereinafter referred
to as our client) whose instructions we have to forward this petition
to your esteemed Agency.
Our client, a 27 year old, is the
biological mother of a baby girl with name, Aurora Imade Adeleke, who
was born on the 14th day of May 2015. The baby’s father is Mr. David
Adedeji Adeleke (aka Davido). The father and mother are unmarried.
On
the 11th July, 2015, our client was tricked to visit the house of Mr.
David Adedeji Adeleke’s half sister – Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke’s with
her baby, Imade Aurora Adeleke. After getting to the house on Baderinwa
Alabi Street, Lekki Phase I, Lagos, our client’s baby was forcefully
taken from her and she was thrown out of the premises with the threat
that she would be decisively dealt with if she ever bothered to return
there. There were armed policemen in the premises and our client’s
survival instinct prevailed on her to make her leave her breast suckling
baby behind, with so much pain in her heart.
By daybreak on the
next day, our client was again at Ashley Coco Adeleke’s house to take
her baby, but she was prevented by armed policemen from gaining access
into the house. She was again threatened and warned never to return for
the child.
Since July 2015, our client, who has now become so
disorientated, saddened and confused has been going to family members,
including her cousin, Mr Dele Momodu, and other well meaning Nigerians
to intervene and allow her get her baby back or at least allow her to be
able to have access to and care for her daughter. This was frustrated
by Coco Adeleke, David Adeleke and their father, Mr. Adedeji Adeleke.
These people boasted to our client and all her family and friends that
our client is a nonentity and of little substance in Nigeria. They also
claim that they have the financial wherewithal and political and
security clout to deal with her and her family anyhow and without any
consequence with the aid of their brother and uncle, Senator Isiaka
Adeleke, and other friends Mr Deji Adeleke purportedly has in
government. In a bid to justify their actions, Mr Deji Adeleke and his
daughter, Ashley Coco Adeleke, have been spreading several malicious and
unfounded allegations about our client.
While the attempts at
finding a peaceful and lasting solution were still ongoing, on Tuesday
the 29th December 2015, Ashley Coco Adeleke and her father, Mr Deji
Adeleke, tried to travel to Dubai with our client’s baby. The baby was
meant to be flown out of the country with Nigerian and American
passports. Prior to that date, our client and her cousin, Mr Dele
Momodu, had gone to alert the immigration services at the Murtala
Mohammed, Ikeja International airport of the likelihood of Ashley Coco
Adeleke travelling with our client’s baby by pretending to be the
Mother. Our client believes that her baby’s American passport was hidden
and is now likely to be in possession of Mr Deji Adeleke or Ashley Coco
Adeleke. It appears that the assistance of Emirates Airline was sought
as the baby’s American passport was not produced in breach of aviation
regulations. Neither was a letter of authority from the mother to
confirm her consent to the trip produced despite the airline being
alerted.
When Mrs. Modupe Mofikoya, the immigration
officer who attended to the Adeleke travelling party accosted Ashley
Coco Adeleke and asked for the mother of the baby, Ashley Adeleke
claimed that she was the mother. Immediately, the immigration officer on
duty collected her Nigerian international passport, she quickly
absconded from the scene with the baby and her father, Mr Deji Adeleke,
showed up shortly afterwards to try to clear his daughter’s mess.
Our
client with the help of her family members, including Mr Dele Momodu,
determinedly resisted the attempt by Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke and her
father, Mr Deji Adeleke, from taking Aurora Imade Adeleke from Lagos
yesterday. Our client believes that the pair are trying to take the
child to America and thus put her out of the reach of the biological
mother.
At the moment, Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke and our client’s daughter, Aurora Imade Adeleke
are
still in Lagos and two of their respective international passports are
in the custody of the airport immigration services. Our client’s fear
now, is that Ashley Coco may use her Nigerian passport and Aurora
Imade’s American passport to travel through other Nigerian or West
African airports.
We know that the actions of Mr Deji Adeleke and
Miss Ashley Coco Adeleke contravene many provisions of the law. One is
Section 13 of the Childs Right Law 2007 of Lagos State (as adapted from
the Federal Act), which guarantees Aurora Imade Adeleke’s right to
parental care and protection. That law also forbids separation of a
child from her parents. Another is Section 24 of the same law, which
also prohibits abduction of a child from the lawful custody of her
parents. Neither Mr Deji Adeleke or Ms Ashley Coco Adeleke has any
lawful right to the custody of Aurora Imade Adeleke. Even the unmarried
father, Mr David Adedeji Adeleke, only has limited rights to the child
and certainly not to the exclusion of our client, the natural mother as
the Adeleke’s are trying to do.
We are of the sound view that
your Agency is the most viable organisation that can intervene in the
plight of our client and save her from the untold trauma that she is
going through in the hands of Mr Deji Adeleke and Ashley Coco Adeleke,
who has her own child that she keeps with her. We have advised our
client about the statutory powers of your Agency to potently investigate
and enforce all the provisions of the law that deal with abduction and
trafficking in persons.
We urge you to use your good offices to
intervene in the case of our client and protect a baby who should still
be under her mother’s care from being abducted and smuggled abroad.
We thank you.
Yours faithfully,
O. AJAYI & CO./Gbolaga Ajayi Esq.
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