The Lagos State Police Command has stated that it will not rely on speculation in the investigation into the death of musician Ilerioluwa Aloba, also known as Mohbad.
In an interview with our correspondent on Thursday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, reiterated that the command had not received the pathologists’ findings on Mohbad’s autopsy.
Hundeyin was reacting to the requests of the Take It Back Movement, a civil society movement that demanded the end of the inquiry into Mohbad’s case during a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday.
Omolola Pedro, the Head of the Gender Department of the group, in a press text called on the police to “stop the needless delays, make public its findings from the investigation, and protect the rights of the deceased’s wife and child.”
The organisation also feared that prolonged delay in the probe was capable of exposing Mohbad’s wife, Wumi, and child, Liam “to several attacks like cyberbullying, cyberstalking, organised malicious campaigns against their persons, and even physical harassment” alleging that this was “the same fate Mohbad suffered while he was alive.”
Pedro added that the police “must immediately conclude the investigation and make its findings public.”
Reacting on Thursday, police spokesman Hundeyin said, “We’re not the pathologists who carried out the autopsy.
“When they (the pathologists) give us their report, we’ll conclude our investigation. For now, that’s what we’re waiting for. Except they want us to do guesswork, we can’t guess; we need to get the report and see the content of the result and we don’t have it yet.”
Mohbad’s death on September 12 sparked controversies in Nigeria and beyond which prompted the police to set up an investigative team to determine what led to the singer’s demise.
Hundeyin had tweeted in September that an “autopsy has been concluded” on Mohbad’s corpse and the police were “awaiting result.”
In November, the Lagos police said the autopsy report for Mohbad, conducted months ago had not been given to them.
