The National Agency for the Prohibition
of Trafficking in Persons and other related matters on Wednesday quizzed
embattled artiste, David Adeleke, aka Davido, over the allegation of
child abduction levelled against him by his erstwhile lover, Sophia
Momodu.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Davido
was at the office of the agency on Oba Aladejobi Street, Ikeja GRA,
Lagos, to state his own side of the story.
This is just as 27-year-old Sophia wrote
the Clina-Lancet Laboratories, demanding the original copy of the
result purportedly issued by them, indicating she tested positive for
cannabis.
Our correspondent had reported that Sophia had petitioned NAPTIP alleging that Davido had abducted her daughter, Imade.
She further said the artiste was
planning to take Imade to the United States of America without her
consent, urging the agency to act fast.
The Adeleke family had been intercepted
at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on December 29, 2015,
where immigration officers seized the baby’s passport, and prevented
them from travelling out of the country.
Davido had denied the allegation of
abduction, saying he was only taking the seven-month-old to the American
Hospital, Dubai, for treatment after she was infected with cannabis
which she reportedly sucked from her mother’s breast.
He later released a test result purportedly issued by a Lagos clinic indicating that Sophia was infected with cannabis.
NAPTIP summoned Davido over the incident and he reported to the office on Wednesday.
Davido’s manager, Kamal Ajiboye, while
confirming the development, said his boss was at the NAPTIP’s office to
state his side of the story.
He said, “They just asked him to state
his side of the story. I know he was there today to sign his statement
through his lawyer. I cannot say to what extent the matter is going or
if it is going to court.”
The Zonal Coordinator, NAPTIP, Lagos
State, Mr. Joseph Famakin, who refused to be specific on Davido’s visit,
said all the parties involved in the case had honoured the agency’s
invitation.
He said, “All the parties were invited and they have been honouring our invitations. We are investigating the case.”
Meanwhile, Sophia has written the
management of Clina-Lancet Laboratories, demanding the original copy of
the result showing she tested positive for cannabis.
The letter, written by her lawyer,
Gbolaga Ajayi, of S. O. Ajayi & Co, and dated January 5, said Sophia
saw the result for the first time on the Internet.
It read in part, “Our client gained
knowledge of this pathology report that your company issued concerning
her for the first time on the social media on Sunday, January 3, 2016.
We have our client’s instruction to request you to promptly furnish her
with the original copy of the pathology report, as the said report was
never given to her.
“In view of the sensitive issues that
have emanated from the said report, which are still trending on social
and print media, we have our client’s instruction that you should also
provide a detailed report on the process/procedure that your company
adopted in carrying out the medical check on our client, which yielded
the report that was issued about our client by your company.”
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