My Shocking Discovery About My Children, Actor Abdul Salam Taofeek

Veteran Yoruba actor Abdul Salam “Tioruju Mondusi” Taofeek has shared how he found out that two of his five children were not his.

In a popular video from his chat on the African A-List podcast, he spoke about his late wife, whose name he did not reveal. He said this was the most painful moment of his life. His wife confessed in court that another man, named Kehinde, was the father of two of the children.

Taofeek explained, “I went to answer the court summons and was told she was filing for divorce. I agreed to it. That was when I found out that out of the five children, only three were mine and two were not. I asked her to specify which ones were mine.

“She said the first, Ibrahim, was mine; the second, Habeeb, was mine; the third was not mine, yet I was the one who named all of them. She said the fourth was mine and the fifth was not. The case proceeded, and the other man was called to court.”

He added that his late wife admitted to a legal issue caused by her affair with Kehinde. Taofeek said the pain she caused him was deeper than any other hurt he felt in his life.

“It pains me that she is now dead. She died last year. She never ended up marrying that man. She died without marrying him because he already had a wife and four kids. I asked for a DNA test for all five children and wanted it presented in court.

“The court ruled that if he could not comply, the children would remain mine. I eventually left her with all five children, as I had my own kids. The children are now with me, except for the two, but they do come and go,” Taofeek explained.

He mentioned that he first suspected something was off when he got home from work and found his wife missing. His favorite child told him she had left home three days earlier while pregnant, and he could not reach her for days.

“I called her phone, but it was not going through. The next day, I called again, and she said that wherever she was, no one should look for her. I asked, 'Including me, your husband?' At that time, she had four sons for me and was pregnant with the fifth. She gave birth without telling me, so I got angry and cursed her. I went to her mother’s place to report her, but when I arrived, I saw her picture with another man in the sitting room.

“Her mother took it down when she saw me enter. I confronted her and cursed her after seeing the picture. My wife came home, and we fought. She told me I was not the father of the pregnancy. It became a serious fight. On the third day, she called to tell me she had given birth and that I should come for the child,” he said.

This led him to have both her and Kehinde arrested. “When we got to the station, she was questioned. She said I was her husband and that the other man, Kehinde, was the baby’s father. They asked her who owned which child. She said the older children were mine and that the new baby belonged to Kehinde. They also asked whether all her previous pregnancies had been in my house, and she said yes.

“The man was arrested. The next day, I went to the police station, where Kehinde begged me to let the matter go. He said he would stay away from my wife and kids and that his own wife must not find out. I told him I would not accept the new baby as mine.