Darosha Losobeh, the cousin and private assistant of the late artist Ilerioluwa Aloba, also called Mohbad, has spoken out, in response to the viral footage of the singer’s coffin purportedly revealing a damaged neck.
The previous Marlian document signee handed away on September 12 on the age of 27. His passing sparked controversy as many Nigerians demanded justice for his abrupt demise, which resulted within the arrest of his former employer, Azeez Fashola, also called Naira Marley, and Samson Balogun, also called Sam Larry.
The pair who had been detained on suspicion of harassing the deceased singer have been freed.
Primeboy, a buddy of Mohbad, and the nurse who is claimed to have given the late singer an injection are nonetheless being held by the police as main suspects within the case.
Reacting to the allegations of a damaged neck from netizens on his Instagram story on Saturday, Darosha declared that he was not the one who broke the late artiste’s neck whereas begging these peddling the gist to desist from it as a result of it was affecting his psychological well being.
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He wrote, “I’m so all the way down to the extent that I needed to write this as much as clear this entire rattling story about me going surfing that I bend my love’s neck; that is the craziest and saddest factor that ever occurred to me, my entire life. That I broke my brother’s neck, significantly, this damage me a lot.
“What occurred in regards to the neck was that once we received to Ikorodu, we have been advised there was no house to maintain his physique on the mortuary, and we didn’t need him buried that evening, so a employee there suggested the household to pay for an ambulance and a coffin the place we will preserve him until morning and the identical ambulance would drive him all the way down to the place of burial.
“The entire household agreed to the thought as a result of the ambulance that took us to Ikorodu was complaining that they needed to go away the identical evening again to the island. It was solely his mum that was not current there that midnight.”
Persevering with, the late singer’s cousin confused that the one concern that introduced him into the image was that he paid for the association of the coffin and ambulance, sustaining that he by no means knew that the coffin was too small to comprise his (Mohbad) entire physique.
“The entire household noticed his physique within the ambulance earlier than leaving for the burial floor within the morning, and nobody complained about his head or something. I didn’t go near the ambulance as a result of I used to be in shock, so I didn’t know of his neck till I noticed it on-line, and that saddened me.”
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