This followed the invitation extended to Mohbad’s family and
the group of persons mentioned in the ongoing probe of the illegal embalming of
the deceased’s body following his death.
Boluwatife Adeyemo aka Darosha who was the Personal
Assistant to Mohbad was interrogated at the Zone 2 Police Headquarters in the
presence of the deceased’s father Joseph and mother, Abosede.
The police, upon interrogating Darosha, thereby asked all
those mentioned in his statement to be brought in for further interrogation.
The head of the family’s legal team, Monisola Odumosu, in a
statement sent to our correspondent on Wednesday, however, stated that the
second interrogatory meeting was held at the Zone 2 Police Headquarters in
Lagos State on Tuesday.
Odumosu added that the police were working to reveal the
identity of the “illegal mortician.”
“The police will reveal to the public soon, who illegally
embalmed the body of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad.
“The police stated they would work on their report and
continue investigations which will be directed to the Legal Department of the
force for a recommendation.
“The meeting was held at Zone 2 and present at the meeting
were Mr. Joseph Aloba (Mohbad’s father), Boluwatife Adeyemi (aka Darosha),
Adura Aloba (Mohbad’s younger brother), Mrs. Abosede Olumuyi (Mohbad’s mother)
and Cynthia Omowunmi Aloba (Mohbad’s wife). Others include Iya Lolade and
Samuel (Mr. Joseph Aloba’s witnesses) and lawyers to the parties,” Odumosu
added.
The family’s legal team had earlier, on the instruction of
their client, petitioned the police that Boluwatife Adeyemo, the personal
assistant to the late Mohbad, had embalmed the body of the late singer which
violates Section 16 and 48 of the Coroner’s System Law, 2007, which addresses
the offences and penalties of tampering with a dead body.
The police upon interrogating Darosha have asked all those
mentioned in his statement to be brought in for further interrogation.
Shortly after Mohbad’s death, his cousin, Darosha, on his
social media handle, daroshagram, wrote “…About the salt, when my father died,
a salt was placed on his chest till we arrived and was told it was local
embalming to keep him fresh till the whole family arrived, and I did the same
thing (on Mohbad) because a lot of people were still coming to see him before
leaving to Ikorodu that night.”
The post sparked controversy in social media and legal
circles that led to the need to discover who embalmed the late singer without
regard to extant laws.
The legal team further stated that they were awaiting the
police report as soon as the police got the legal advice from their legal
department. It is then they will be properly informed the recommended persons
will face prosecution.
Mohbad’s father had alleged that his son’s body was already
embalmed and placed by the staircase when he arrived at the deceased’s home the
day he died.
He made this known while calling on the police to intensify
the investigation to unravel the cause of his son’s death.
Mohbad died on September 12 at the age of 27, with the
circumstances surrounding his death sparking controversy on social media.
Mohbad, a former record label signee of Marlian Music owned
by Naira Marley, left the label in February 2022.
The Lagos State Police Command on September 18, 2023,
inaugurated a 13-man special investigation team to probe the death.
His death also led to the arrest of Naira Marley and
controversial Lagos socialite Balogun Eletu, aka Sam Larry, amongst others.
The body of Mohbad was exhumed on September 21, 2023, for an
autopsy to unravel the cause of his death.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin
Hundeyin, tweeted in September 2023 that an autopsy had been concluded and the
police were “awaiting results.”
The toxicology test carried out to determine the cause of
death of the late music star had been concluded.
The result had been sent to the pathologist who carried out
the autopsy to analyse and interpret it.