Paternity Rumour: "I Took All My Children For A DNA Test For Security Reasons – Fela Kuti

In an interview with Channels Television, Afrobeat Maestro and the son of late Fela, Femi Kuti has cleared the air on the paternity test that proved that his two children were not actually his which went viral on social media last week.

According to Femi, the eight-year-old incident was with a woman "girlfriend" whom he was involved with back then.

“They wrote it as if it happened yesterday so that I will feel very sad. Do i look Sad to yo? Even then i was not even sad. It happened eight years ago. One of my girlfriends was talking on the phone with one of her lovers and I entered the room took the phone and discovered she was talking to a lover. And there was already a rumour in the Shrine that one of my children does not look like me and my sister advised me to address the issue. For security reasons and for the sake of the family, I took all my children for a DNA test and I found out that two were not my children,” he said.

Meanwhile, Chocolate City, the Management team of the veteran saxophonist in an official statement addressed the rumours about the recent DNA test he carried out on his children.

The statement reads;

News published about Afro Beat Legend Femi Kuti that surfaced on the internet on Friday about two of his five children not belonging to him after taking a paternity test was not a recent occurrence but actually happened over 8 years ago.

Encomium Magazine recently published an interview with Femi Kuti 8 years ago where he spoke about his music, career and personal life. During this interview he spoke on the identity of 5 of his children and then revealed that two of these 5 children were not his and that he had since making this discovery returned the children to their mother.

Reports labeling this story as recent are false, this old interview was simply rehashed by some blogs and newspapers in a bid to steer up controversy and have something to sell, some blogs even went as far as publishing pictures of his legitimate children in a bid to pass them off as the affected children. Femi Kuti is a loving and responsible father who takes the privacy of his children very seriously and so we request that blogs, newspapers and magazines kindly take off the pictures from their platforms as this is an invasion of their privacy as well as a security risk for the children.

Thank you for your cooperation.