The biggest challenge in unravel the death of rapper and songwriter, Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka MohBad, one year after is from the Nigerian Police head of the Aloba family legal team, Taiwo Odumosu disclosed from the shoddy investigation conducted by the Nigeria Police Mr Taiwo Odumosu said it clear even to the novice, that the Nigeria police have refused to cooperate with his legal team on certain levels.
It is an open secret that the court granted the Aloba family an order to conduct another autopsy and toxicology test after the government-assisted toxicology test led to inconclusiveness.
The family legal team said a letter was sent to the police informing them of the order of the court and the need for them to release documents and exhibits to the forensic experts. The police didn’t acknowledge nor release the documents to the forensic pathologists. Another reminder was sent to the police and they still, they ignored it. This sort of attitude does not commend the police to the populace the family lawyer said.
Getting pathologists to attend to the matter was a bit tough. We got in touch with four pathologists: one from Kaduna, another from Maiduguri, and one other place, but they said powerful individuals were interested in the matter and declined to take it on the family lawyers said.
The legal team also consulted those in America. However, because of the controversy trailing the first autopsy, they decide to boycott America altogether. But they have the firm belief that MohBad will get justice
The choice of a forensic pathologist from the northern region is because they don’t want anybody to compromise the process because of the delay of transferring the previous specimen to America took a long time.
The legal team also suspected the government intervention and institutional laxity on the part of the police, decided to look elsewhere to do what we wanted. But I have eventually gotten someone.
Another issue has been the exact time MohBad died. The facts and information presented so far seem to cast doubts as to the exact time of MohBad’s passing. From a logical point of view, the time frame given by those who spoke after his death and what the deceased’s partner’s sister said seem to suggest that he could not have died on the day presented to the police or the Coroner Court. It is one of the issues we proposed to the pathologists to solve for us. The legal team also expects the police to shed more light on this if indeed the investigating police officer has done a thorough job. If he died the day he was buried, there wouldn’t be any need for traditional embalming. So we look forward to getting an answer to the time he died too
The Head legal team said they are not satisfied with the conduct of the police. The investigation they conducted so far has been shoddy, lacked thoroughness, was unprofessional, compromising, and skewed in favour of those who are supposed to be behind bars in the unfortunate circumstances of this case. All those present in the house when the incident happened should be under interrogation. But the police picked just a few people, interrogated them, kept them in the cell, and grudgingly released them on administrative bail when those who should still be behind bars were busy gallivanting on the streets. The police pretended to be doing a yeoman’s job, and there was nothing to show for it. Who is deceiving who? In their press conference, they gave a preliminary report. Where is the main report? The legal team wrote a petition against Boluwatife Adeyemo (Darosha) for carrying out an embalmment on the late Ilerioluwa Promise Aloba. All the parties involved were interrogated, and statements were taken. Up until today, the police have yet to charge anyone in court. The police are, therefore, not helpful in the circumstances of this case.
The legal team said the needful has been done so far and have also petitioned the necessary quarters regarding the way the police have handled the matter they expect the present crop of policemen handling the matter to be removed and new investigators drafted in from Abuja to reopen the investigation.