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The Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, has acquitted popular singer, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, over the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, who was better known as Mohbad.
Magistrate Ejiro Kubenje in his ruling, said Naira Marley had no case to answer.
Alongside the musician, the court also freed music promoter, Samson Balogun, known as Sam Larry; Owodunni Ibrahim, also called Primeboy; and Mohbad’s former manager, Opere Babatunde.
However, the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, will prosecute Feyisayo Ogedengbe, the auxiliary nurse who treated Mohbad shortly before he passed.
One of Mohbad’s friends, Ayobami Sadiq, will also be prosecuted for the offence of reckless and negligent acts contrary to Section 251 (e) of the Criminal Law, Ch C.17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The duo are due to be prosecuted at the magistrate court.
The advice noted that though documented accounts of unlawful assault on Mohbad were actually carried out by Naira Marley and Sam Larry, these accusations do not make the duo criminally responsible for the death of Mohbad.
Detailing how Mohbad sustained the injury which eventually led to his death, the DPP’s advice says in Sept. 2023, Moohbad in the company of Adeyemo Boluwatife (A.K.A. Darosha), his wife, Wunmi Adebanjo Cynthia, Owodunni Ibrahim (A.K.A. Primeboy), Fidelis Esanbor (driver of the vehicle) and other unknown persons attended a concert organised by Soso Sobrekon in Ikorodu.
It said while trying to leave the concert, Primeboy dissuaded Mohbad because of the presence of some touts who were demanding money. This refusal angered Mohbad causing him to rain blows on Primeboy who did not retaliate. It was in the process of punching Primeboy that the deceased hit the glass of a vehicle, cut himself in the arm and sustained an injury in the right arm which bled, became swollen and was eventually improperly managed by an auxiliary nurse who lacked medical training and which eventually resulted in Mohbad’s death.
