Acrimonies between the popular Nigerian hip hop star David Adeleke, aka “Davido”, and the estranged mother of his child, Sophia Momodu over alleged trafficking of their seven-month-old baby, Imade Adeleke, gets more troubling on Tuesday as Davido released on the internet, alleged medical report confirming that Sophia is a chain smoker of cannabis.
In their earlier feuds, Sophia had actually challenged the popular artiste and his family to publish the medical report claiming she has cannabis in her blood to prove the allegation of taking her baby away from her custody.
Davido narrated, in a series of messages posts on his instagram page on Tuesday, about how Sophia allegedly “trapped” her with the pregnancy when the second trimester of Sophia’s pregnancy was closing.
He said the baby was in Sophia’s custody for two months until she got severely sick and Adeleke’s family had to intervene.
“Imade was in her custody for 2 straight months, unchallenged and uninterrupted, until the baby took badly and severely ill in July.
Imade cried, ceaselessly, for 48 hours. She was rushed to the hospital where her condition confounded medical experts. Several tests were conducted on her and later on the mother.
“Medical reports, herein attached (exhibit 1), proved that Sophia’s blood was polluted to the maximum level with cannabis and she had by the process of breast feeding infected her child with complicated medical conditions associated with the use of alcohol and especially cannabis. The trouble spot for made was her lungs. She had difficulty breathing largely because of the contaminated breast milk and the severity of the “Second Smoke” of marijuana inhaled by the poor child.
“The medical experts at the hospital were enraged by the callous treatment of Imade by her own mother and declared her unfit for the caring and the nursing of a delicate baby. The team determined that they would hand over the baby to the Children’s Welfare Authority of Lagos State Government.
My family started to plead with the hospital management. For the first time, Sophia too was sober, sorry and contrite. We pleaded that the baby would be kept from the mother once she was returned to us, and that we would take over responsibilities for Imade’s welfare,” Davido writes.
In a related twist, Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation Magazine and also Sophia’s uncle, in messages on his instagram condemned the alleged medical report, saying it was “an attack on a defenseless lady who merely asked that she be allowed to enjoy the fruit of motherhood”.
According to Momodu “Even a Laboratory result alleging she’s a cannabis smoker was splashed everywhere. She was said to have infected her own baby with cannabis. The vicious authors expected some gullible people to believe them. Nothing could have been cruelest. Our initial reaction was to maintain the ceasefire but this latest attack against a defenseless lady who merely asked that she be allowed to enjoy the fruit of motherhood was the limit of recklessness and rascality,”
Imade Adeleke breathing exercise administered nightly to help her lungs because of exposure to second hand smoke and cannabis infected breast milk.
