According to Ananova, Bandu believed that Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were planning on raising the year-old boy, and then returning him to his home in Malawi.
Banda, a 32 year-old farmer, had placed his son in an orphanage when he was five weeks old. The boy’s mother died just weeks after delivering the child. The father believed that any adoption would only be temporary. He explained, "Had they told us that Madonna wanted to adopt my son and make him her own son, we would not have agreed to that. 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."
A representative for Madonna, 48, said that the singer would not be making a statement, but that she had planned on taking David back to Malawi when he was older.