David Adeleke a.k.a Davido continues to receive condolences from all over the world concerning the death of his son Ifeanyi on Tuesday.
They include rapper Nicki Minaj: “My deepest condolences to Chioma & @davido during this time,” she wrote on her twitter page. Wizkid also put off the launch of his new album.
But a human rights lawyer Abakpa Adoyi Matthew has argued that the police holding the kid’s nanny and chef is immaterial as it could not be established in law, they have anything to do with his death.
Nine domestic staff were questioned by the police after the 3-year-old was found dead in the swimming pool, however only the nanny and chef were held back by the police for further investigations.
Mr. Adoyi Matthew said: “If you are in your own house as we speak, and you have such a deep swimming pool in your house, the first thing is to caution your children not to go close to the swimming pool.
“As far as I’m concerned, he was drowned because any adult can also be drowned. His father said he could swim. They didn’t conspire to kill the boy. So in this case, before you can establish criminal negligence, the terms of reasonableness must be applied.
“In the eyes of a reasonable man, what this person has done; is it negligence? And that you want to receive a call and you are with a child inside the house and you just stepped away only to return and not find the child. From a reasonable point of view, can you be held guilty for that? I don’t think so. That is my opinion.”
” Is it probable that when you leave a child of Ifeanyi’s age, he will just run to the swimming pool to swim? If you ask him to sit there, he should obey and sit there. It would have been different if the domestic staff worker had asked him to fetch water from around the pool, and he fell in. That could be an act of negligence.
” While I console with the family, and I acknowledge that it could be painful knowing that there is nothing more than losing a child, they should be consoled and ask God to replace him for them. In fact, if I were Davido, nobody would be in the cell over the boy’s death by now. You could order the release of all of them to have your cool.
“But if anybody should be charged over the death of Davido’s Ifeanyi, the father should also be charged because he exposed his child to a dangerous activity. It’s against the child’s right for exposing a 3-year-old to activities that can endanger his life. Technically, it has happened that way.”
