Joseph Aloba, father of the late Nigerian singer MohBad, revealed that upon his arrival at his son’s residence on the day of death, he found MohBad’s embalmed body positioned by the staircase.
While making the disclosure, Aloba implored the police to enhance their investigative endeavors, aiming to unravel the enigma surrounding his son’s death.
In a statement penned on Thursday, the mourning father unveiled the details of his son’s body being locally embalmed on the spot where he discovered it.
He said, ‘When I got to my son’s house, I met a very large number of people as if a special event was going on, I didn’t even pay any attention to the crowd I saw in the house. I went straight into his apartment after seeing lots of people in the house, I knew something had happened to me, even as no one told me anything.’
‘I went straight upstairs to his room where we used to talk as father and son, I saw no one in that room but a duvet-cloth that was stained with much blood, if not God that has never put me to shame, he made Mohbad’s aunt to also see the cloth and she was able to come public and affirm to that horrible scene.’
‘All these never signify to my mind that my son was no more and while I left the room, my attention was called to where my son, Mohbad, was laid by the staircase lifeless after he had been cleaned up, dressed and embalmed locally blocking his nostrils and ears with heavy cotton wool.’
‘It was after seeing the lifeless body of my son Mohbad, that I started looking around to see different faces including Mohbad’s lawyer. There I was then asked what I wanted to do with the body while standing like a fresh madman.’
While advocating for a thorough investigation, he emphasized the importance of scrutinizing those in his company between the last 72 and 48 hours before his death, stating that looking elsewhere would be superficial.
Expressing his disappointment, he lamented the failure of government authorities to take timely action in the early stages of the incident.
He suggested that the residence of the deceased should have been promptly cordoned off as the crime scene following his death.
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He added, ‘The death of Mohbad happened in his house, he died at home and looking elsewhere if the first point of concentration is not the house could be that we are just addressing such an important issue on the peripheral.’
‘I expected everyone in that house to be thoroughly questioned to get to the root of the matter, even if Mohbad’s mother has been manipulated to believing a wrong narrative, everyone that was with Mohbad 48 to 72 hours before his death must be investigated, to the extent that the house should have been cordoned as the crime scene and thorough investigation should have taken place immediately Mohbad’s death was made public.’
‘But to my utmost disappointment, the state government did nothing when the matter was fresh, and the Nigeria Police also did nothing, until the public rose to ask that they needed to know the cause of Mohbad’s death.’
‘I hereby use this opportunity to call on the government, the Nigeria Police, all human rights activists and the general public to please get more serious in unravelling the cause of Mohbad’s death and the perpetrator(s) be brought to book so that Nigerians, within, in diaspora and the entire world can have renewed trust and confidence in the Nigerian system.’
MohBad passed away on September 12 at the age of 27, and the circumstances surrounding his death ignited controversies on social media.
MohBad, a former signee of Marlian Music owned by Naira Marley, parted ways with the label in February 2022.
The Lagos State Police Command, on September 18, 2023, established a 13-man special investigation team to conduct a thorough inquiry into the death.
Naira Marley and the controversial Lagos socialite Balogun Eletu, alias Sam Larry, were arrested in connection with his death.
The body of Mohbad was on September 21, 2023, exhumed for autopsy to unravel the cause of his death.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, had tweeted in September 2023 that an “autopsy has been concluded” and the police were “awaiting result.”
Back in November 2023, Aloba emphatically declared that no one should take charge of his son’s body for burial without obtaining his explicit authorization.
When questioned by our correspondent regarding the release of MohBad’s autopsy report in the same month, Hundeyin disclosed that the command had not yet officially received the report.
Hundeyin had earlier affirmed that the command had not received the autopsy report on MohBad from the pathologists, reiterating his earlier stance. He said, ‘We’re not the pathologists who carried out the autopsy.’