Yohane Banda - the Malawian man whose son was adopted by Madonna last week - has said that he never intended for his son to be adopted by the pop icon.
Mr Banda has told the Reuters news agency that he believed Madonna would be raising his son on his behalf, not adopting the child to become her own. He claimed he did not understand the papers he signed, and that he was under the impression that the arrangement would be similar to that of an orphanage, whereby the child is cared for with the view for a future reunion with his family."Had they told us that Madonna wanted to adopt my son and make him her own son, we would not have agreed to that," Mr Banda said in a television interview.
"It would have been better for him to continue staying at the orphanage because I see no reason why my child should be given away forever when I can feed him," he continued. "I cannot read and write so I relied on what the (government) officials told me that the papers said Madonna would look after the child the way the orphanage planned to educate him and then he comes back to me."
One-year-old David Banda flew out of Malawi to London on Tuesday last week. Camp Madonna are yet to respond to Mr Banda's claims.
