Popular Nigerian OAP, Dotun Kayode, has accused the United States embassy in Nigeria of aiding his estranged wife’s elopement with his two daughters.
Naija News reports that Dotun’s estranged wife, Taiwo Omotayo Oyebanjo, filed for divorce in 2021.
She had alleged domestic violence, emotional abuse, and a forced abortion, which Dotun had consistently denied.
Dotun, in his counterclaims, had stated that his wife and her family started hindering his access to their daughters.
Making fresh claims on his social media handle, Dotun called attention to the US embassy’s role in the dramatic turn of his custody dispute.
He accused the embassy of flouting a court order and aiding what he described as international child abduction.
Dotun said his estranged wife unlawfully removed their two children from Nigeria and took them to the US three years ago without his consent, despite an active divorce and custody case at a federal high court.
He claimed to have had the children’s original passports and that a court order prevented the children from being taken out of the jurisdiction.
Dotun demanded accountability from the embassy, specifically calling out the former consular general, Mary Beth Leonard, for what he believes was a compromised, biased process that facilitated his ex-wife’s actions.
He said, “Be assured, papers were most likely forged, or games played.
“The American embassy in Nigeria is an enabler of child abduction. Very biased. No proper investigation.
“They destroy families and do not protect kids. I have written for years and kept quiet for 3 years. It’s time. I have realised you all think you uphold a fair system, but you are very unfair.”
The OAP asked the embassy to either provide his children or offer him a fair explanation for how their strict two-parent consent policy was circumvented, thus enabling what he terms international parental child abduction.
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