CORONER INQUEST: MY LIFE IS BEING THREATENED - MOHBAD'S WIFE REVEALS

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Cynthia Omowunmi Aloba, the wife of the late 27-year-old Afrobeat singer, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has said that her life is presently under a threat adding that the threats started coming in shortly after her husband’s death..

She made this revelation before Magistrate Shotobi Adedayo, on Tuesday, during the resumption of the coroner inquest at the Candide-Johnson Courthouse in Ikorodu.

Omowunmi Aloba, who was brought to the court house under police escort, further mentioned that she gets threats everyday including on the social media.

“A lot of people are defaming me on the ‘Tik Tok’.

“I left my husband’s house because I am not safe there”, she said.

While under cross examination by David Fadile, counsel to the father of the deceased, Omowunmi said she was in good relationship with her father in-law who she described as her best friend, she denied obtaining a Canadian visa.

She added that while having a chat with her husband on Monday, September 11, he had mentioned he would like them to relocate to Canada because he had too many opponents, and also to protect her and their baby.

“We were gisting, and I asked him why he doesn’t post me on social, he responded that it was to protect her and their baby.”

“if they don’t get me, they might get to her or their baby. That he has family overseas. That he doesn’t want anything to happen to her or his boy”.

The late singer’s wife also informed the court that she had been with her late husband for over a decade, since her secondary school days.

Led in evidence by her counsel Taiwo Olawanle from Falana and Falana Chamber, Omowumi further told the coroner of the events that led to the death of her husband.

Omowumi told the court that she had no fight with her husband before his death.

In her deposition, admitted by the coroner, she said her late husband was meant to go to hospital to treat the injury sustained during his brush with Prime Boy but that due to his previous experience with NDLEA operatives and fear of Azeez Adeshina Fashola a.k.a(Naira Marley), he did not go.

She said NDLEA operatives hit him on the head with the butt of their gun.

She said she did not know her husband was injured in the encounter with Primeboy until the second day, Monday, September 11 when she saw blood stain on the bed sheet.

Asked to describe the wound, she said it was a small cut but not deep.

She said because the nurse that was to treat Mohbad was not around, they resorted to first aid and Panadol.

Under cross examination by Olawanle , she said on Tuesday, September 12, her husband friend, Spending, reached out to another nurse, who gave the deceased some injections on the left arm.

She said she did not asked the type of injection because she was in the kitchen cooking when the nurse gave the deceased the injection.

She said when she came in, she saw the nurse trying to put another injection in the veins of his hand (drop) and that her husband told her to be careful because he was an ulcer patient.

She said at a point she heard her husband telling her to remove the injection in his hand.

In response to another question, she said they first took her husband to Kuda hospital which didn’t treat him and later to another hospital which pronounced him dead.

Under cross examination by Olumayowa Ogunsami, a counsel to the father of the deceased, she said her late husband distanced himself from his friend, Micheal a.k.a Mice when he found out he was an informant to Naira Marley.

She said her late husband found out he was recording his conversation when he took him to a lawyer to discuss his royalties owed him by Naira Marley.

After listening to the testimony, the coroner adjourned to November 15, for further hearing.