Strangers Advised Me To Kill My Son – Nigerian Singer, Jodie Opens Up

Jodie and her son

Joy Eseoghene Odiete, the Nigerian gospel artiste, merely usually often called Jodie, was as quickly as a household determine throughout the Nigerian music scene after her trendy tune, Kuchi Kuchi, was launched in 2010.

Several years after her absence, the Kuchi Kuchi crooner has come out to reveal reason why she has not been producing music as sooner than.

In a sequence of posts on her Instagram internet web page, @jodiegreat, the singer disclosed her wrestle as a mother of a child with explicit desires.

Born with cerebral palsy, Jodie’s son Chinua, clocked six on April 9, 2022.

Taking care of her teen, she claimed, has been financially and emotionally draining to the aim the place she has resorted to begging.

In the posts she titled “Open Letter to Nigerians,” the songstress sought help for mothers who resort to extreme means to look after his or her youngsters with explicit desires.

“I am not a lazy person. I sang a song, Kuchi Kuchi in 2010, which Kings and Queens have listened to and enjoyed.” She wrote on Wednesday, “I’m utilizing the gentle spot that music could have created to make this enchantment. In the previous six years, I’ve hawked beaded jewelry in places of work. I’ve bought hair care merchandise. I’ve begged. I’ve borrowed.

“Who is aware of? Maybe the essence of Kuchi Kuchi was not for my recognition, however to reply to the silent cries of moms who gave beginning to particular wants kids.

“Maybe its essence was to speak for the blood of the special needs children that have been spilled IN SECRET by helpless mothers who did not know what else to do. I know this because some strangers have advised me to kill or abandon my son because such children are sent to swallow up finances.”

The mother-of-one lamented her lack of friendships attributable to her dire state of funds which turned her proper right into a “beggar.”

She moreover stated, “Special needs children do not eat normal food. Special needs children need a lot of medical, emotional, etc. care. Special needs children require the help of well-established world-class organisations, because it is not their fault that they were born that way.”

Jodie, who was as quickly as married to music producer, David Nnaji, revealed in an interview with The Nation that her marriage broke down after she welcomed her son. In her Wednesday posts, the songstress revealed she has been unable to stay in relationships because of her soul is “shattered.”

She extra bemoaned the stigmatisation of mothers like herself who’re usually tagged “evil spirits” or wrongly accused of attempting to abort their little one.

Jodie moreover urged associated authorities to step up and assist mothers coping with the issue of caring for his or her explicit desires youngsters.

“This public and shameless cry is for the special mothers of Nigeria. Our fighting chance in the already tough terrain of the country has been cut short because we have to carry overgrown babies on our back, how can we hustle? I plea to the powers that be to start one step at a time urgently and do something,” she wrote.