President Dr Bingu wa Muthar
ika, of the Republic of Malawi, Icheoku appeals to you to use your good offices to enlighten the anti-adoption groups in Malawi. Make it known to them that Madonna's intended adoption of their little girl will be highly beneficial to her as well as Malawi; which stands to gain more than lose with a successful adoption. Such adoption by Madonna is comparable to a family who is betrothing their daughter to a wealthy in-law? Get it? 
fortunes have smiled down from heaven. Little Mercy James has a date to keep with destiny and so, let no man sabotage that! Please Mr. President, do not allow Malawians, by your failure to intervene to save this adoption, to become known as a petty, jealous Africans who cannot stand a successful woman trying so hard to improve the lot of a little Malawi girl? Do this for little Mercy James; do it for Malawi; do it for Africa; let Madonna adopt the little girl. It can only help! If there is any law implicated otherwise, let there be passed immediately, a bye-law or your executive order, amending such provision. This will facilitate the hands of the appellate court to intervene and save the adoption by reversing the judgment today denying the petition. Do that and you will have your name etched in later history as that fore-sighted, progressive African president of Malawi, who understood that the present world order is changing and that land boundaries are becoming unpopular? The little girl has a fate with her destiny and let no man be on her way; to simply deny her this golden opportunity which is knocking on her door, is homicidal! Posterity will not be kind to all and/or any of the conspirators and antagonists of such a Godly act of and by Madonna. Let the decision be vacated so that Madonna can have her Malawi daughter.
ika, of the Republic of Malawi, Icheoku appeals to you to use your good offices to enlighten the anti-adoption groups in Malawi. Make it known to them that Madonna's intended adoption of their little girl will be highly beneficial to her as well as Malawi; which stands to gain more than lose with a successful adoption. Such adoption by Madonna is comparable to a family who is betrothing their daughter to a wealthy in-law? Get it? The little girl Mercy James and her "brother" David Banda are undeniably Africans and upon majority, can decide to re-migrate back to Africa? Their story is in print and nothing can wish it away. All the sentiments notwithstanding, her odds with Madonna and in America is second to none and when compared with Malawi, Icheoku says, none existent. The opportunities are overwhelmingly better in America than Africa? It is going to be much easier for Mercy James to succeed in America than she would in Malawi with such untoward, unfavorable conditions?
Icheoku says you already have enough starving mouths to feed, and if in doubt take a look at the beautiful starving Malawian girl, pictured left above? Your country have so many Starving Janes to worry about little Miss Sunshine, Mercy James! These left-behinds as above left, are more than sufficient in number to keep your bureacrcy incharge busy? Please direct your energies to finding solutions for the likes of this, concentrate your energies on them and not spend it worrying about a little girl whose
fortunes have smiled down from heaven. Little Mercy James has a date to keep with destiny and so, let no man sabotage that! Please Mr. President, do not allow Malawians, by your failure to intervene to save this adoption, to become known as a petty, jealous Africans who cannot stand a successful woman trying so hard to improve the lot of a little Malawi girl? Do this for little Mercy James; do it for Malawi; do it for Africa; let Madonna adopt the little girl. It can only help! If there is any law implicated otherwise, let there be passed immediately, a bye-law or your executive order, amending such provision. This will facilitate the hands of the appellate court to intervene and save the adoption by reversing the judgment today denying the petition. Do that and you will have your name etched in later history as that fore-sighted, progressive African president of Malawi, who understood that the present world order is changing and that land boundaries are becoming unpopular? The little girl has a fate with her destiny and let no man be on her way; to simply deny her this golden opportunity which is knocking on her door, is homicidal! Posterity will not be kind to all and/or any of the conspirators and antagonists of such a Godly act of and by Madonna. Let the decision be vacated so that Madonna can have her Malawi daughter.
A Malawian court has ruled that US pop star Madonna has failed in her bid to adopt a second child from the country.
ReplyDelete"I must decline to grant the application for the adoption of the infant," judge Esmie Chondo said after a closed-door hearing on Friday.
The application has been rejected over residency rules.
Madonna, who flew to Malawi on Sunday, was not in court to hear the ruling over Chifundo James, three. Her lawyer said she would lodge an appeal.
A local journalist reads out the judge's decision outside the courthouse
The 50-year-old singer applied to adopt Chifundo James, whose name translates into English as Mercy, on Monday.
Had her application been successful, Chifundo would have been a sister to David, the first child she adopted from the African country, and her biological children Lourdes and Rocco.
Chifundo is in the same orphanage that previously housed David, now three years old.
Trafficking concerns
Madonna's application was rejected because of a requirement that prospective parents be resident in the southern African state for 18 to 24 months.
To deny Chifundo James the opportunity to be adopted by me could expose her to hardship and emotional trauma which is otherwise avoidable
Madonna in newly-released court papers
Head to head: Madonna adoption
The rule was waived in 2006 when Madonna was allowed to take her adopted son, David Banda, to London before his adoption was finalised in 2008.
In the ruling, read out outside the court, the judge also voiced concerns about the potential ramifications a ruling in Madonna's favour might have on adopted children's human rights.
"By removing the very safeguard that is supposed to protect our children, the courts by their pronouncements could actually facilitate trafficking of children by some unscrupulous individuals," she said.
The judge also noted that Chifundo had been placed in one of Malawi's best orphanages and no longer suffered the severe poverty endured after her mother died in childbirth.
"It is evident that Chifundo James no longer is subject to the conditions of poverty at her place of birth," she said in the ruling, made at the hearing in Malawi's administrative capital Lilongwe.
HAVE YOUR SAY Surely, once adopted, she could have gotten anything money can buy. But is that really everything a child should receive?
Esther, Belfast
Send us your comments According to court papers just released, Madonna had said she was "able and willing to securely provide for Chifundo James and make her a permanent and established member of my family".
"To deny Chifundo James the opportunity to be adopted by me could expose her to hardship and emotional trauma which is otherwise avoidable," she continued.
However, Madonna's efforts to adopt the three-year-old attracted criticism from some parties who said the little girl would be best off with relatives.
The performer was also accused of using her fame and money to fast-track the adoption process, a charge refuted by her spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg.
The singer, who was represented in court by her lawyer Alan Chinula, first travelled to Malawi in 2006 to film a documentary in the country.
Madonna to launch Malawi appeal
ReplyDeleteMadonna visited Malawi last month in her bid to adopt the little girl
Lawyers for the pop star Madonna are set to return to court in Malawi to appeal against a ruling denying her request to adopt a child.
Last month, the court ruled that the singer could not adopt four year-old Chifundo "Mercy" James.
It said prospective parents had to be resident in the southern African state for 18 to 24 months.
The man believed to be the little girl's father has also said that he opposes the adoption.
Madonna has already adopted a boy, David, from Malawi.
Chifundo James lives in the same orphanage from which Madonna adopted David in 2006.
She has been living there since her 18-year-old mother died shortly after giving birth.
James Kambewa, the man believed to be her father, has never met her.