On Air Personality, Nedu Wazobia has clarified that Lagos stare police command didn’t forcefully seize his two kids from his former wife, Uzoamaka Ohiri, and hand them over to him, as reported by some media outlets.
Nedu (real name Chinedu Ani) and Ohiri have been engaged in a messy feud in the last one month.
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She had called out her ex-husband, accusing him of domestic violence, and alleged refusal to take care of his two children.
Reacting, Nedu posted a DNA test result of their first child and only son, which showed that he was not the boy’s biological father.
Ohiri then argued that the paternity of their son wasn’t a secret while charging Nedu to focus on his biological kids.
Lagos police had later invited Ohiri while she granted multiple interviews to share her side of the story.
On Tuesday, it was reported that the ex-partners were with Lagos police authorities at the state criminal investigation department (SCID) in Panti where two children were taken from Ohiri and handed over to Nedu.
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However, in a statement revealing the details of the incident of handing over children, Nedu stated that the handover was instead consented to by both parties.
He wrote;
Neither I nor the police forcefully took my kids away from my ex-wife. It was a unanimous agreement. Please feel free to read her handwritten statement and also see the bag with which she brought their clothes. The children in question were taken to Owerri to live for over a month without my consent or permission.
My ex-wife took that decision without consulting me. I paid for the flight for her to go and bring them back to Lagos after it was agreed by all parties that it was better they were returned to Lagos as they school in Lagos.
Nedu also said that the police’s invitation of his ex-wife was in the background of a cyber-bullying case filed against her.
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The OAP wrote;
I am a person who believes in doing things the right way and so far on this matter, I have stayed within the provisions of the law. A case was filed against my ex-wife for cyber-bullying and other grievances.
She was invited to respond and the matter is ongoing alongside custody resolution. I am tired of the sensational manner in which this news is being dispersed. I do not grant interviews or speak on the matter to the press.
I would advise my ex-wife and her cousins/sister to follow suit. We are not dealing with inanimate objects here but living and breathing beings who will one day deal with the consequences of this fall-out.
I truly want to continue to focus on my career, my family, and my life as I am not the first or the last man to have a failed marriage.
Nedu also posted the statement written by his ex-wife at the SCID, wherein she stated, among other things, that she was handing the children over because she had challenges with rent.
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In the statement, she said she would be given full access to the children while they remain in her ex-husband’s custody.
The statement she wrote at the SCID reads in part;
I, Uzoamaka, on this 28th day of September, 2021, handed over my daughters, Kaylah six years old, and Praise, four years old, to their father, Mr. Chinedu Emmanuel Ani.
I brought them back from Owerri where they were staying with my mother, Mrs. Uzoamaka Ohiri, because our rent in Lagos had expired so my kids arrived in Lagos on the 27th of September, 2021.
Mr. Chinedu has agreed that as the children are with him, I Uzoamaka will have uninterrupted access to the kids and if their school is changed, I will be informed until the court grants any one of us custody of our daughters.
In addition to explaining how he took over the two female children, the comedian also posted receipts of the air ticket he booked for his ex-wife to fly the children down to Lagos from Owerri where they were staying with their maternal grandmother.
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However, Ohiri told The PUNCH that the Police and Nedu forced her to hand over her kids against her will.
Uzoamaka said that, for several days when she was reporting at the SCID, she was treated as a crime suspect by the Police, while her lawyer was usually not allowed to be in the interrogation room with her.
The comedian’s ex-wife said Nedu was allowed to bring in phones and take pictures at the SCID, while she was always made to leave her phone at the entrance, which, she said, was evidence that the Police were partial.
She alleged that her phone was eventually seized by the Police, all in a bid to prevent her from writing anything about her ordeal on social media.
The 37-year-old mother-of-three wondered why the Police would get involved in a purely civil case and why it was at a Police facility that the children were handed over to Nedu.
She said;
That is so untrue. Those people have dealt with me so much. They have threatened me and forced me to do things that I didn’t want to do. My children were not meant to be back in Lagos. Those people have threatened me so much.
Yes, we’ve been having rent issues. Yes, we’ve been asking him to support and help us, which he has refused to do. So, these people have done a whole lot.
She stressed;
There is nothing like willingly giving him my children. There was nothing like that. Nedu is just hell-bent on getting rid of me. I have a lawyer, but every time he came with me to the Police, they would send him out; but Nedu would be allowed to enter with at least five people, including one NGO woman, Landa, his prophet and his co-workers. They all troop in while they don’t allow me to see my lawyer.
