The Lagos Coroner Court sitting in Ikorodu has been informed that the most crucial aspect of autopsy to determine the cause of death of the late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba also known as Mohbad is being conducted in the United States (US).
State Counsel, Oluwaseun Akinde, told the coroner, Magistrate Adetayo Shotobi, that the autopsy into the external body of the deceased has been completed.
He said, ‘The toxicology test, which has to do with internal body, is being done in the US.’
Akinde made this known following insistence of other counsel to the father of the deceased, David Fadimu; that of the TNKay Music Worldwide, David Nawoola, representative of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikorodu, O.S.A. Aranmolaran and Jennifer Nina.
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The coroner asked to know why the toxicology was taken abroad when there are toxicology laboratories in Nigeria.
Akinde told the coroner that Lagos State decided to do it in the US because of the nature of various substances alleged to have either been injected or taken by the deceased and the need to prevent controversy over the autopsy report when finally presented.
He said it was also because the death of the deceased had become a worldwide issue.
He said there was no point in inviting Prof. Soyemi, the pathologist in Lagos to present an uncompleted report.
Recall that the Police Command in Lagos State had earlier declared that the autopsy report of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba aka Mohbad, conducted two months ago was yet to be handed over to them for investigations.
Africa Today News, New York reports that today which is Tuesday the 21st of November, 2023, makes it two months since the corpse of the late Mohbad was exhumed and an autopsy commenced to unravel the cause of the death of the singer.
Recall that Mohbad’s death on September 12 sparked controversies in Nigeria and beyond which prompted the police to set up an investigative team to determine what led to the singer’s demise.