The father of late Nigerian singer Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has stated that Naira Marley cannot be blamed for his son’s death.
In a recent interview with an24 TV, Mr. Joseph Aloba clarified that Naira Marley was not present during his son’s final moments and therefore cannot be held responsible.
The grieving father described his son as his friend, helper, and the light of their family.
Speaking on what might have killed his son, Mr Aloba said,
“The only revelation that I have on that very day is that a day to his death, I had a dream. I saw someone in the front of my house holding a gun. In the dream, I dodged the bullet. On that very Tuesday, I decided to stay at home, praying concerning the dream I had. By 4 O’clock, they called me that I should come to VI to meet him at the hospital. On my way there, at the bus stop, they called me again that I should go back home and that everything has been settled. As an elderly person, I knew that there was something behind that. That is not something they can tell me at the busstop. So I refused. I now went back to his house. I reached his house. He was already dead.”
When asked for the identity of the people that took Mohbad to the hospital before he died, he responded;
“I don’t know exactly who they are. I can only blame them that they allowed an auxiliary nurse to be working on him in that level because Mohbad is not the kind of person they can put in a room and call a nurse. Which kind of nurse? Is she qualified? Mere looking at what happened, that is not a qualified nurse, giving him injection inside a room. Maybe it is the effect of the injection that resulted to this because according to them, after giving him the injection, he was vomiting. One of his boys now decided that they should put him on an ‘Okada’ so they can take him to the hospital. That is what I heard from them.”
Responding to rumours that he was rushed to the hospital with head and neck injuries, Mr Joseph said, “It is not neck. The injury is on the hand.”
He explained that one of Mohbad’s close friends met him at a show and they exchanged pleasantries. However, the singer’s associates were displeased with the way they greeted each other and they confronted his friend.
They requested that the friend disengage from Mohbad, but Mohbad insisted that his friend stay with him. He even permitted his friend to join him in the car they were driving in.
Subsequently, he was informed that when they reached their destination, Mohbad became upset and sustained an injury to his hand.
“That very day, he did not complain to anybody, It was the following day that the hand became swollen and that was when they called a nurse. I don’t know the type of nurse they called,” he said.
According to the father, he did not receive any information from the doctors as his son’s corpse was already home when he got to his residence.
“I am the one that decided that they should pick him up to Ikorodu for his burial. My belief is that God that gives and God that takes”
In response to how he handled his son’s complaints that Naira Marley and others were assaulting him, the distraught father said,
“I tried my best to reach Naira Marley but everything was in vain. When this issue happened, I wanted to trek to his house but I was scared because I didn’t know what I will meet there. There was a time that Naira Marley called me, for me to call him back was not possible. Someone that you do not have contact with, it will be difficult for you to reach him.
I heard a lot of things happened to him but you cannot say it’s Naira Marley because he was attacked when he was doing his new album with ZLatan. We cannot say it is Naira Marley because the people that came is not Naira Marley, so we can’t say it’s Naira Marley that did it’‘
He also debunked claims that his late son was into drugs.
Watch the interview below,
