For ska singer Derrick Morgan, Father’s Day, June 16, 2024 will be bittersweet as the allegations levelled by his estranged daughter Ventrice ‘Queen Ifrica’ Morgan still hang like low thunderclouds above his head, forcing him to carry through with his pledge to take the matter to the courts. However, the 84-year-old singer, who has fathered 15 children, still plans to make the most of the occasion. “Mi never ah look for any Father’s Day greeting from she, mi have a lot of other children to give mi greetings.
She walk and tell a notorious lie on me. She is the one daughter who can’t call and tell mi Happy Father’s Day, she knows what she has done to mi,” he said. The In My Heart singer said the allegations against him are particularly galling.
“Why would I want to rape my own pickney? It hurt me!” Morgan said. “How could she make up things like that about her own father?” Morgan is now seeking redress through the courts following what he says are defamatory statements from Queen Ifrica. He instructed his attorney-at-law, Charles Ganga-Singh, to sue Queen Ifrica for several defamatory statements, videos and interviews made on August 1, 2023.
Documents obtained by The Sunday Gleaner show that the defamatory suit was filed on June 12, 2024 in the Supreme Court of Jamaica, alleging reputational damage, and financial loss for allegations of abuse that Ventrice Morgan, the defendant, made against her father, the claimant, in 2023. “The defendant made severa.
