Lagos State Police Command has arrested eight domestic workers of popular Nigerian singer, Davido and his fiancee, Chioma Rowland over the death of their three-year-old son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.
It was gathered that Ifeanyi, who was born on October 20, 2019, died by drowning on Monday, October 31, 2022, a few days after his third birthday.
On Tuesday, Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the incident, saying eight domestic workers were brought in for questioning in connection with the tragic incident .
Hundeyin said the domestic workers’ narrations would assist the police in ascertaining the circumstances surrounding the boy’s death.
Hundeyin noted that anyone not found culpable would be released immediately, adding the ones found culpable of negligence would be held back to assist the command in the ongoing investigation.
He said, “His (Ifeanyi’s) death is confirmed. His (Davido’s) domestic workers have been brought in for questioning and anybody found not culpable will be allowed to go immediately.
“About eight of them were brought in to narrate their version of what happened to assist us in getting what really happened.
“At the end of their narrations, whoever that is found not guilty of negligence or not culpable in anyway will be allowed to go.
“Anybody found culpable will stay back to assist us in further investigation. The domestic workers are about eight that were brought in.”
Davido and Chioma’s family are yet to make any official statement about Ifeanyi’s death, but many celebrities have taken to their social media pages to mourn the three-year-old boy.
This comes a few months after Davido took to social media to show off the Audemars Piguet watch which was reportedly worth $320,000 (N133 million) he bought for his son, Ifeanyi Adeleke.
It would be recalled that in a similar circumstance, Nigerian singer, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj and his wife Lineo Didi lost their first child after a drowning incident in 2018.
