According to the late Nigerian musician Oladimeji Aloba's father, also known as Mohbad, Naira Marley is not to blame for his son's passing.
Mr. Joseph Aloba made it clear in a recent interview with an24 TV that Naira Marley was not present for his son's last moments and cannot be held accountable as a result.
The bereaved father referred to his son as their family's buddy, helper, and light.
Speaking about the possible cause of his son's de#th, Mr. Aloba stated,
"The only insight I have regarding that particular day is that I dreamed the day before he passed away. I spotted a person with a pistol in front of my house. I avoided the gunshot in the dream. I made the decision to stay at home on that particular Tuesday and pray over my dream. They contacted me at four o'clock to tell me to come to VI and meet him at the hospital. They contacted me again at the bus stop on my way there, telling me that everything had been resolved and that I should return home. I realized, as an old person, that there was a deeper meaning to that. That is not something they can tell me at the busstop. So I refused. I now went back to his house. I reached his house. He was already de#d.”
In response to a question about who brought Mohbad to the hospital prior to his de#th, he said;
"I'm not really sure who they are. Mohbad is not the type of person you put in a room and call a nurse, therefore I can only hold them accountable for letting an auxiliary nurse work on him at that level. Which kind of nurse? Is she qualified? Mere looking at what happened, that is not a qualified nurse, giving him injection inside a room. Maybe it is the effect of the injection that resulted to this because according to them, after giving him the injection, he was vomiting. One of his boys now decided that they should put him on an ‘Okada’ so they can take him to the hospital. That is what I heard from them.”
Responding to rumours that he was rushed to the hospital with head and neck injuries, Mr Joseph said, “It is not neck. The injury is on the hand.”
He explained that one of Mohbad’s close friends met him at a show and they exchanged pleasantries. However, the singer’s associates were displeased with the way they greeted each other and they confronted his friend.
They requested that the friend disengage from Mohbad, but Mohbad insisted that his friend stay with him. He even permitted his friend to join him in the car they were driving in.
Subsequently, he was informed that when they reached their destination, Mohbad became upset and sustained an injury to his hand.
“That very day, he did not complain to anybody, It was the following day that the hand became swollen and that was when they called a nurse. I don’t know the type of nurse they called,” he said.
According to the father, he did not receive any information from the doctors as his son’s corpse was already home when he got to his residence.
“I am the one that decided that they should pick him up to Ikorodu for his burial. My belief is that God that gives and God that takes”
In response to how he handled his son’s complaints that Naira Marley and others were assaulting him, the distraught father said,
“I tried my best to reach Naira Marley but everything was in vain. When this issue happened, I wanted to trek to his house but I was scared because I didn’t know what I will meet there. There was a time that Naira Marley called me, for me to call him back was not possible. Someone that you do not have contact with, it will be difficult for you to reach him.
I heard a lot of things happened to him but you cannot say it’s Naira Marley because he was attacked when he was doing his new album with ZLatan. We cannot say it is Naira Marley because the people that came is not Naira Marley, so we can’t say it’s Naira Marley that did it’‘
He also debunked claims that his late son was into drugs.
Watch the interview below,