A Coroner’s Court within the Ikorodu space of Lagos State has ordered substituted service on key witnesses within the ongoing inquest into the dying of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad
These embody Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley; Samson Eletu aka Sam Larry; Mohbad’s sister-in-law, Karimot Ogunbayo; Boluwatife Adeyemo aka Darosha and Mohbad’s lawyer, Oluwasanmi Falade.
The nurse who was mentioned to have handled the deceased through the interval, Feyisayo Ogedengbe, and the driving force who drove him to the hospital, Fidelis Esanbor, have been additionally on the listing.
Magistrate T. A. Sotobi granted the appliance by Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, to serve a witness summons on extra witnesses by means of a good nationwide newspaper and social media.
The Aloba household’s authorized group in an announcement signed by Monisola Odumosu and despatched to PUNCH Metro on Thursday mentioned the order was granted through the court docket’s sitting on August 16.
The authorized group mentioned it additionally sought an order of the coroner’s court docket to challenge Witness Summons on individuals as witnesses to provide proof on the connection and circumstances resulting in the dying of Mohbad.
“Magistrate Sotobi, sitting on the Ikorodu Magistrate court docket Friday 16 August 2024 agreed with the authorized group of Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, that the brand new witnesses needs to be served through substituted means in a good nationwide newspaper and social media to make sure immediate attendance of the brand new witnesses.
“The application, which was argued by the legal team led by Mr Wahab Shittu SAN (leading Emmanuel Oroko Esq., Miss. Monisola Odumosu, Emmanuel Sadoh, Dr. A.R. Ahmed, Oluyemi Osalusi Esq., Wole Ariyibi and Sadiq Kamo) representing Mr Joseph Aloba, sought an order of the coroner’s court to issue Witness Summons on interested persons as witnesses to give evidence on the connection and circumstances leading to the death of late Ilerioluwa Promise Aloba (Mohbad), who died in suspicious circumstances on September 12, 2023. Mr. Joseph Aloba also asked for an order to issue Witness Summons against Nurse Feyisayo Ogedengbe, Boluwatife Adeyemo (A.K.A Darosha), Karimot Titilayo Ogunbayo, Barr. Oluwasanmi Falade (Mohbad’s lawyer), and Fidelis Esanbor (driver), Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley), Balogun Samson Eletu respectively, to give evidence of what they know in connection and circumstances leading to the death of Mr Ilerioluwa Promise Aloba (Mohbad), in suspicious circumstances on the 12th day of September 2023 on a date convenient and to be determined by the coroner,” the assertion learn.
They additional requested the court docket that upon the grant of the orders, to grant depart to serve the witness summons to be issued on the brand new witnesses by substituted service by inflicting the mentioned witness summons to be revealed in any respected nationwide newspaper inside the nation as the one viable technique of service of the witness summons.
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The authorized group said that efforts to get these witnesses served witness summons by means of the court docket have been unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, the coroner’s court docket additionally granted the appliance to recall Mohbad’s spouse, Wunmi, and the IPO in control of the case, ASP Muhammad Yusuf.
A lawyer, Akinpelu Ogunbona, who argued the appliance on behalf of Ibrahim Owodunni aka Primeboy, said that there have been new points each Wunmi and the police wanted to shed gentle upon to provide a transparent image of what killed the singer.
According to the assertion, their request to be referred to as by Akinpelu A. Ogunbona Esq. is to clarify some ambiguous statements concerning the battle the singer’s spouse alleged occurred in the home.
The coroner accordingly adjourned for the order to be complied with and the witnesses to be delivered to court docket on the following adjourned date.
Mohbad died on the age of 27, on September 12, 2023, with circumstances surrounding his dying sparking controversies on social media.
Being a former document label signee of Marlian Music owned by Naira Marley, Mohbad left the label in February 2022. The Lagos State Police Command had on September 18, 2023, inaugurated a 13-man particular investigation group to probe the singer’s dying.
His dying additionally led to the arrest of Naira Marley and controversial Lagos socialite, Balogun Eletu, also referred to as Sam Larry, amongst others.
The singer’s physique was on September 21, 2023, exhumed for post-mortem to unravel the reason for his dying.