A court has granted the family of late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, also known as Mohbad, permission to carry out a second autopsy.
This came after the family expressed dissatisfaction with the initial autopsy results, which according to them were inconclusive.
Mohbad died at the age of 27 on September 12, 2023, under controversial circumstances.
After Nigerians demanded justice, his body was exhumed on September 21, 2023, for an autopsy by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to find out the cause of his death.
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The result of the autopsy, which started in September 2023, was released on June 7 but it did not reveal the cause of death.
The Aloba family rejected the result and called on the Lagos State Government on June 16 to confirm the authenticity of the autopsy over the public’s doubts and conflicting reports.
The family appealed to the coroner’s inquest’s presiding magistrate to ensure that an independent toxicology report is presented to the court before the final report is sent to the authorities.
The coroner’s inquest revealed that the first autopsy provided no conclusive cause of death.
During a recent hearing at a magistrate court in Ikorodu, Mohad’s family and their legal representatives were granted permission for another autopsy,
The family and their legal team confirmed they have received the court’s authorization to do the additional autopsy.
During a recent press conference, Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, expressed gratitude for the court’s decision to allow for a second autopsy.
He said: “I appreciate the responses all along to the death of Mohbad. We appreciate the judiciary for this decision. There is a reason for the government to instruct that we exhume Mohbad for them to know the cause of his death.”
During the court hearing, the singer’s father expressed shock when he saw his daughter-in-law Wunmi, and his estranged wife, Mohbad’s mum.
He said: “It was sad seeing the mother and the wife because we haven’t been communicating for some days; it was like a shock.”