The father of the boy Madonna is adopting has criticized Malawian human rights organizations who are planning to challenge the singer in court. As previously reported, the country's Human Rights Consultative Committee postponed their planned action earlier this week in order to further investigate the case, but now say they will launch their legal campaign next week. The group's chair, Justin Dzonzi, is quoted as saying: "We will meet the judge sometime next week and proceed with an injunction pending the process of adoption granted to Madonna last week by the High Court."
The father of the one year old boy Yohane Banda has responded angrily, saying "Where were these people when David was struggling in the orphanage? These so-called human rights groups should leave my baby alone".
Explaining the desperate circumstances that led him to give up his son, Banda, whose wife died just a week after giving birth to David, continued: "I was alone with a baby, I had no money. I couldn't buy him milk. That's why I surrendered him to the orphanage. Orphanage life is no good. We leave kids there because we can't look after them properly ourselves. Now my son has been taken by a kind-hearted woman, these people want to bring him back to the orphanage".
The child's grandmother, Asianati Mwale, added: "Where were they when I and my son were trying to get someone to look after this child? Do they even know what we have had to go through to save the life of David? We trust that Madonna will look after our child well and he will have a better life".
David Banda is, of course, now in London with Madonna. He must be monitored for a period of eighteen months by Malawian officials, before the adoption can be approved.