Former Super Eagles star, and ex-Dynamo Kyiv striker, Brown Ideye, has reacted to the alleged paternity case made against him by a Ukrainian lady, Yana Voloshchenko.
In her story that went viral on the internet, Voloshchenko had accused Ideye of fathering and abandoning her with three children without any care and child support.
Reacting from his Al-Yarmouk SC Kuwaiti club base, Ideye, who also played for West Bromwich Albion, stated that he never in his life met, seen or had any contact with the said Ukrainian lady, including all the days he spent in Ukraine with his wife and children.
“As a professional player, my routine has always been strictly centered around club activities, gym, and family, with little or no time and space for external socializing, talkless of having an undercover extra marital affairs over a span of time that can produce three kids with all the media attention on me as one of the biggest players then in Ukraine and subsequently at other countries where I also played,” he stated.
Ideye declared the alleged paternity claims as spurious and blatant attempts to blackmail and wean money from him, just as he traced the conspiracy back to his big money signing for Dynamo Kiev, and then West Bromwich, in 2012.
He suspects a connivance between the lady, that is if she really exists, and a few Nigerian acquaintances he was helping financially, until he had to cut off from them, after some started abusing his kindness and prying into his private family affairs.
He recounted further that immediately afterwards, suddenly a strange story started flying around about a woman claiming to have had a child for him, then increasing to two children, and now three kids with petition and obviously forged documents and passports being spread over a script he has no idea about.
“These blackmailers always show up in the media and send same petition to my clubs whenever I sign a new contract, as a means of pressuring me to contact them for settlement and ransom.”
Ideye wonders how it is possible for any European country to issue an International Passport to a baby or minor in the name of an alleged dad that is even legally married to the mother, without the written consent and identity of the father in question?
He appealed to Nigerians and his fans around the world, to discard and disregard this orchestrated attempt to defame and extort him, adding that he is just a quiet and easy going professional footballer.
“The few people that are truly close to me can tell that I am a family man. I love my wife and children,” Ideye stated.
