A Magistrate Court sitting in the Sabo area of Yaba, Lagos State, on Tuesday, freed Nigerian singer Azeez Fashola, known as Naira Marley, and three others of any involvement in the controversial death of fellow singer Aloba Oladimeji Ileri-Oluwa, also known as Mohbad.
Magistrate Ejiro Kubenje gave the ruling based on the legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Magistrate Kubenje also absolved and acquitted music promoter Samson Balogun Eletu, known as Sam Larry, as well as Owodunni Ibrahim, known as Primeboy, and Mohbad’s former manager, Opere Babatunde
The court held in a ruling that based on the police investigation and other attached evidence, the four men had no hand in the death of Mohbad and so had no case to answer.
However, the DPP’s advice indicted the auxiliary nurse who treated Mohbad, Feyisayo Ogedengbe, along with one of Mohbad’s friends, Ayobami Sadiq.
The State’s Commissioner of Justice is set to prosecute the trio before the Magistrate Court for reckless and negligent conduct in violation of Section 251 (e) of the Criminal Law, Chapter C.17, Volume 3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The state government had charged all the defendants before the court on October 6 2024, over their alleged involvement in the death of Mohbad, who died on September 12, 2023, in Lagos under controversial circumstances.
