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A Father is accused of abduction of his daughter. The drama between Davido and his Baby Mama, Sophia Momodu are presently in a very public and shocking legal battle over the custody of their daughter.
Naij.com published a copy of the petition filed against Davido and his sister.
See the full petition below.
Davido has also released his side of the story in details. See 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
“The case of the prosecution is as clear as the daylight,” the judge held, adding that the failure of the convicts to supply the evidence that they had lawful permit to deal in crude oil further strengthened the prosecution’s case.
“It is not right for either Nigerians or foreign nationals to deny this country its God-given natural resources through illegal means. Accordingly, this court hereby sentenced each convict to five years term of imprisonment on count one with effect from March 27, 2015 with an option of N5m fine,” the judge held.
“For purposes of clarity, each convict is to serve five years term of imprisonment with effect from 27 of March, 2015, or pay fines of N20m for all the four counts.”
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You may not be an angel
‘Cause angels are so few on earth
But until the day that one comes along
I’ll string along with you
You may not be perfect
‘Cause perfection is beyond mortality
But until the day humanity becomes faultless
I’ll find satisfaction in your weakness
You may not be the most beautiful
‘Cause they said the beautiful ones aren’t born yet
But until the day Helen of Troy resurrects
I’ll find you the fairest of all women
You may not be in tune with fashion
‘Cause you don’t expose your flesh and shape
But until modernity ceases to be insanity
I’ll always cherish your local simple taste
You may not be a prayer warrior
‘Cause you don’t pray for me to win lotteries
But until the day you stop interceding for me
I’ll always appreciate your mid-night conversations with God
©2015 Isaac Matui Thomas ‘Miles---Thoughts of a Man
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When a photo of Abubaka Audu and his much
younger wife went viral many months back,
many were left wondering and confused as to
whether she was his daughter or wife. Alas, the
release of a second photo cleared the
confusion and the true story was revealed. She
wasn’t his daughter but his third wife. Her name
is Olivia and she is an half-caste. She hails from
the Tiv-part of Benue State as her mum is from
Ugba/Unongo family. She is an undergraduate
of UNIJOS.
In 2010, Audu was alleged to have abandoned
his wife, Mrs. Aisha Audu with her 3 children in
the US. Aisha then filed a paper at the District
Court of Maryland Montgomery County where
she sought protective order against Prince
Audu accusing him of assault.
Ben Murray-Bruce
The Nigeria of Our Dreams: Never Forgotten
Angels
Being a speech delivered by the distinguished
Senator Ben Murray Bruce at the occasion of
the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the 60
Angels of Loyola Jesuit College on November
29th, 2015,
I thank you for inviting me to this tenth
anniversary celebration of your and our sixty
angels who passed away on the 10th of
December 2005 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In honour of their memory, I would like to ask
all of us to please stand and observe a
minute' s silence.
Children are very important in the cycle of life.
In one of my favourite songs, 'The Greatest
Love of All' sung by both George Benson and
Whitney Houston, the song writer said:
"I believe the children are our future.
Teach them well and let them lead the way.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier. Let
the children's laughter remind us how we used
to be. "
This is a message we need to hear in Nigeria
again and again because we, and by we I mean
the elite , of which I am one, have monumentally
failed this nation.
I remember when I was the Director General of
the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, I read an
interview in ThisDay Newspapers about the son
of a particular former Nigerian leader who
talked about how much he loves his polo horse
to the extent that when it was sick he flew the
horse to Switzerland for treatment at an
outrageous price.
Now, I happen to have visited some of the
communities around the mansion where this
child of privilege lives and it is peopled with
children who go to some of the most
horrendous schools you can imagine.
Some of these schools do not have enough
desks. Some do not even have complete roofs.
All of them do not have enough teachers.
Yet we have the son of a man who once ruled
this nation spending lavishly on a horse while
schools within his radius are crumbling.
Now the reason I mention this is because his
father once gave an interview in the same
ThisDay Newspapers in which he revealed that
he achieved the height he reached in life
because of the free and qualitative education
he received from Nigeria in the 50s and 60s!
Why do our elite behave this way? Why do we
climb the ladder of success that was freely
given to us and then remove it when we get to
the top?
Why do we enjoy the shade that good men from
yesterday planted for us only to uproot the
trees instead of planting more?
You see, I think we do this because as a nation
we have lost our ability to empathize with the
poorest Nigerians for the simple reason that
our elite are not stake holders in Nigeria.
When you move about with armed policemen
who block you from the common man and
block the common man from you, how can you
empathize with him ?
When your children school abroad and you
never bother to know where the children of
your driver and your cook go to school, how
can you empathize with them?
When you are flown to Europe for a headache
and you never patronize the general hospital
in your state, how can you empathize with the
masses?
Today, we are fighting terrorism in Nigeria and
we are focusing on a military battle with guns
and bullets.
But the truth is that over the years, Nigeria
has neglected the children of the peasants in
the Northeast of Nigeria to the extent that
52.4% of males in the Northeastern region of
Nigeria have no formal Western education
whatsoever.
If a nation will not spend her wealth
educating her youth, that nation will spend
the same wealth fighting insecurity amongst
those same youth.
If we had spent the billions we are now spending
to fight terrorism in educating ALL Nigerian
children in the 80s, we would not be spending
trillions fighting terrorists today.
Lets plan for tomorrow!
What we need are policies that will force our
elite to become stakeholders in Nigeria and
only then would they be able to empathize with
what the average Nigerian goes through.
I propose that the President should start this
empathy revolution by ordering that his
minister of education must educate his
children in Nigeria and that his minister of
health must patronize our local health
facilities.
This will have the effect of turning them to
stakeholders. Currently they are only
onlookers. Stakeholders empathize.
Onlookers are indifferent.
I believe that the 8th National Assembly, of
which I am a part, must pass a bill to make it
mandatory that education must have the
highest sectoral allocation in every budget
cycle at the federal level.
You see, the cycle of poverty in Nigeria is going
to continue if we do not build more schools
like the Loyola Jesuit College all over
Nigeria.
And I must commend the Jesuits. Ever since
Saint Ignatius Loyola founded this esteemed
order, they continue to make this world a
better place by moulding the minds of youths
all over the world through moral and
intellectual education.
I call on the Federal and State Governments
to come to the Jesuits to learn how not to
waste the minds of our youths.
When they learn that lesson, terrorism will
become a thing of the past and the young man
who takes his horse to Switzerland for
treatment can ride it openly without the fear
of been blown to smithereens by terrorists.
Recently, some Nigerians took to putting
French flags on their Social Media profiles to
identify with and remember those who died
during the recent Paris attacks.
It is sad that while we want to identify and
remember those who are very far away from us,
we do not seem moved enough to put Nigerian
flags on our profiles when terrorists strike in
Nigeria or when tragedy befalls us.
I am glad to say that the teachers and parents
of the Loyola Jesuit College are an exception
to this behaviour and you are a beacon of hope
and a silver lining on often cloudy days.
Once again I commend you for what you have
done for education in Nigeria and even more so
for how you have kept alive the memory of the
60 angels who lost their lives on that tragic
day in 2005.
In their honour, permit me to read this poem by
Kechi Okwuchi, your former student and one of
only two survivors of that tragedy:
A tribute to the Angels
By Kechi Okwuchi
It seems like yesterday
Full of excitement
We chatted non-stop
All the way to the plane
It seems like yesterday
We made plans, discarded them
Made new ones
Our future bright
It seems like yesterday
When we dropped out of the sky
To noise, to pain, to…silence
To glory
It seems like yesterday
That God had different plans
To take us to greater heights
A future not foreseen
On angels’ wings we flew
Racing past the clouds
Racing up to glory
Enveloped by His Grace
Though not with you in glory
I am a part of you
Left behind to continue the legacy
Left to run the race
As long as there is breathe in me
Dearest 60, you are not forgotten
Through the pain of yesterday
A million tomorrows are born.
Thank you for inviting me to this most
honourable of events. May God bless you and
may God bless Nigeria.
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