Naira Marley (Abdulazeez Fashola) has appealed for Omowunmi, wife of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad, to be investigated over the death of the deceased singer.
ENigeria News reports that Naira Marley made the appeal during a virtual testimony he gave on Friday before Ms. T.A. Shotobi of the Coroner Court in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
Marley urged the court to probe Omowunmi, wife of the late Mohbad, and 14 others who were present at the singer’s house within 48-72 hours before his death.
In a statement released by Naira Marley’s lawyer, Olusola Okuwobi, and seen by ENigeria News, the singer claimed that he was out of the country at the time of Mohbad’s death.
In the statement, Okuwobi also quoted the singer as saying that he bore no animosity towards the late Mohbad.
The statement read, “Azeez Adeshina Fashola, aka Naira Marley, testified before the court virtually giving his precise and succinct testimony. Naira Marley testified that at the time of Mohbad’s unfortunate death, he was out of the country.
“He further stated that he had no animosity towards Mohbad before his death; he related the status of the contract that subsisted between his good self and the deceased. Naira Marley urged the coroner to look away from the suspects presented by the police and social media and look into interrogating Omowunmi and the 14 others who were present at the house 48-72 hours before the unfortunate passing of the singer.”
Okuwobi added that Naira Marley accused those present during the deceased’s final moments of attempting to evade responsibility by circulating an old video.
He noted that they were aware the deceased had previously apologized for the video and had been forgiven before leaving the record label.
ENigeria News understands that Naira Marley’s testimony came barely a week after the auxiliary nurse who treated the late singer testified before the coroner’s court.
Meanwhile, there is a growing call for the Nigerian Police to reopen the investigation into the death of Mohbad. A group, The Concerned Nigeria Citizens in Diaspora, in a statement released by its spokesperson, Victoria Janolewsky-Peters said, “We urge the men and officers of the Nigeria Police homicide section to look into the direction Naira Marley has pointed at during his testimony under oath; we believe that it is important the police invite and grill Mohbad’s brother, Adura Aloba, including the wife of the deceased, Omowunmi, who is responsible for his wellbeing and has given multiple contradictory accounts of what happened as well as the other persons present at his home.
“Based on this testimony of the ex-label boss of the deceased, the Nigerian citizens in the diaspora beseech the men of the Nigeria Police Force to thoroughly re-investigate the case of the suspected homicide of Mohbad.”
MohBad died on Tuesday, September 12, at the age of 27.
