China Video Mistaken For Drowning Of Davido's Son | general-entertainment

A video purportedly displaying the downing of the three-year-old son of Afrobeats star Davido is definitely CCTV footage of the downing of a two-year-old boy in China, the BBC Disinformation Unit has confirmed.

Police have additionally dismissed the video - which has gone viral on social media - as pretend.

“We are yet to start looking at the CCTV obtained from Davido's home. Any video you see online is not the real thing. It is fake,” police spokesman in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, advised the BBC.

Davido's son, Ifeanyi Adeleke, drowned on Monday night time in a swimming pool on the music star's house in Lagos, the primary metropolis in Nigeria.

The incident depicted within the video occurred on 23 August 2019 in China.

Davido and his fiancée Chioma Rowland, a well-liked chef and influencer, haven't but commented on their son's dying.

On Tuesday eight home employees of the superstar have been invited for interrogation - six of them have since been launched.

The police spokesman confirmed that a type of nonetheless being questioned is the late Ifeanyi's nanny.

“We hope to transfer them to the state criminal investigative department today [Wednesday] for further questioning,” he mentioned.