pleaded with the singer not to send his child back to Malawi, old.
"My message to Madonna is that she should not be discouraged, be strong. As we agreed and we expect that after three to four years the child shall come back for us to see him," Yohane Banda told Reuters Television late on Wednesday.
there are no ill intentions," he said.
Oprah Winfrey broadcast on Wednesday, when she expressed concern son David.
be raised and educated by the 48-year-old star, but said he was himself as the child's father.
like the orphanage would have done...
to raise the child and educate the child. We never wished that the child should come back. What we are saying is that the child should not come back," he said.
groups, which have gone to court to try to block what they say is an illegal adoption that could amount to child trafficking.
rights groups have a case.
"I'm the father of the child in this case.
If they wanted to correct anything they should have called me or the family," Banda said. "It is not for them to fight for me and for the so-called rights of my child."
The American singer told Winfrey that she and her husband, British film director Guy Ritchie, had met the boy's father in court and obtained his consent.
children - daughter Lourdes, 10, and son Rocco, 6. Final approval for the adoption order is expected in 18 months.
boy back for visits.
After receiving an education and a better life, she said, he might some day be able to return to his homeland and help people there.
other children although his father is alive. Madonna said she was "From my perspective, there was no one looking after David's welfare.
News RSS