Davido's babymama Sophia Momodu's
lawyers today wrote a petition addressed to the Director General,
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, accusing
Davido and his family members of “attempted child trafficking and
abduction of (Davido's daughter) Miss Aurora Imade Adeleke".
Read the petition...
December 30, 2015
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 Adelekes 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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Thursday 31 December 2015
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