The mother of deceased Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as MohBad, has disclosed that he promised to give her ₦5m for her business on the very day he died.
In an interview with TVC News, which was monitored by Arica Today News, New York, she said, ‘I usually didn’t tell people I was Mohbad’s mother, because he was scared I might get kidnapped. I have spent just five months in the new house he rented for me, and he visited me three times before his demise. He took me out of where I was living before to Ikorodu (in Lagos). He said he wanted to be visiting me from time to time.’
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‘He recently rented a space consisting of three shops for me, but I am yet to move there. He gave me money that I used to buy two big freezers and a big generator. The day he died, he promised to send me N5m, so I could buy goods for the shop.’
She added that her late son lived in fear and he did not enjoy himself before he passed away. She said, ‘Now, I am scared and I cannot go back to Ikorodu. I called someone to rent out the new shop to someone else, and give me the money. My son did not enjoy himself. He lived in fear.
‘Whenever I visited him, he would be shaking his head. I even thought all those problems and attacks had stopped, but when they beat him again recently after he dropped his Extended Play album, I was shocked that those people hadn’t left him. He usually went to the police station to report, because I witnessed it twice.’
Meanwhile, Africa Today News, New York understands that the Extended Play (EP) by the late singer has set a new record as the first EP to reach number one on Spotify Nigeria weekly albums chart.
The ‘Imole’ crooner achieved the feat posthumously after the EP topped this week’s album chart.