Popular media personality OAP Dotun has publicly accused the United States Embassy in Nigeria of playing a direct role in helping his estranged wife, Taiwo Oyebanjo, move their two children to the U.S. without his approval, despite an active custody case still pending in a Nigerian court.
Dotun and his ex-wife, who is the sister of music legend D’Banj, have been in a prolonged legal fight over custody of their daughters for three years. Dotun has consistently claimed that Taiwo and her family have blocked him from seeing the children, despite a Nigerian court granting both parents joint custody.
The Alleged Violation
In a series of strong social media posts, Dotun alleged that the U.S. embassy “connived” with his ex-wife to take the children out of the country three years ago. This action, he says, violated a Nigerian court order that barred either parent from traveling internationally with the minors.
He explained that he held the children’s original passports and that the court required his written consent for any international travel. According to him, the embassy issued brand-new passports to the children—who are U.S. citizens by birth—without notifying him, confirming consent, or investigating the existing restrictions.
“The American embassy in Nigeria is an enabler of child abduction… very biased. No proper investigation,” he wrote, adding that he had kept quiet for three years before deciding to speak publicly.
Call for Explanation
Dotun directly pointed fingers at former U.S. Consul-General Mary Beth Leonard, accusing her of presiding over a “compromised and biased process” that ignored the embassy’s own two-parent consent policy. He suggested that “papers were most likely forged, or games played,” insisting that the process enabling the relocation was irregular.
He argues that the alleged actions deprived him of his parental rights and escalated the dispute into an international case that should never have existed.
“Even though my children are U.S. citizens, their mother is not. Issuing new passports without my consent or a court mandate shows a failure to protect the rights of a non-American father.”
Dotun has demanded an explanation from the embassy, concluding with a plea and a warning that resonates with U.S. efforts to clean up its immigration system: “It’s 3 years now American embassy; Where are my kids?… The American embassy it’s time to provide my kids or give me a fair hearing. Una don buy better market.”
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Source: Africa Publicity
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