A 44-year-old man from Osun State has found out that all four of his children were not his, after nearly 17 years of marriage.
Kolawole Olanrewaju said DNA tests conducted on all four children aged 16, 12, 8 and 5 at DDC DNA Diagnostic Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State returned negative, indicating he is not their biological father.
Kolawole said he had been having a running battle with his wife, Toyin Olanrewaju whom he accused of engaging in extramarital affairs.
“I am seeking help from Nigerians. I want justice. I married her (Toyin) in 2007 and she gave birth to four children. I later found out that none of the four children is mine after a DNA test. She has been cheating on me. Whenever we quarrel, it is because of her waywardness,’’ Olanrewaju said.
“She has a property and whenever I chided her for indulging in adultery, she would say it was a matter of time. I didn’t understand that she was planning to move to her site as soon as she completed it so that she would be very free.
“Last year, she said she wanted house help and I advised her to get a male, but she insisted she wanted a female. I went to work one day and before I came back she had packed out.”
Kolawole decided to divorce Toyin, but in the process, he ran a DNA test on their children
“I did it for our first child and the result returned zero percent compatibility in our blood. I took the child to her house and as I was leaving, I overheard her telling somebody on the phone that ‘they have brought your child, come and pick him.’
“The man on the other end of the phone told her to bring the child to Osogbo. That was why I decided to do DNA for the three remaining children and it turned out that all of them are not mine,” he added.