Police finger ‘quack nurse’, as prime suspect in Nigerian artiste, Mohbad’s death

A nursing assistant said to have injected Nigerian Afrobeats star, Mohbad whose real name is Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, with drugs is the prime suspect in his death, the police have said.

BBC news reported that MohBad died at a hospital last month in circumstances that were unclear.

The 27-year-old’s death led to an outpouring of grief among his fans, who demanded a thorough investigation.

On Friday, police said a nurse who treated Mohbad had allegedly injected him in a negligent way.

The nurse is under arrest and had not yet commented.

For the first time, the police laid out the chain of events that led to Mohbad’s death in the city of Lagos.

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On September 10, Mohbad injured himself in a “violent fight” with childhood friend Oluwatosin Owoduni, also known as Primeboy, said Lagos State Police Command commissioner Idowu Owohunwa.

Mohbad, a married father to a five-month old, had tried to strike Owoduni.

However, he missed and cut his hand when he smashed a car window.

Over the following days, the wound became swollen and Mohbad complained of “unbearable pains”, the commissioner said.

Another friend, Ayobami Sadiq, called nursing assistant Feyisayo Ogedengbe to Mohbad’s home to treat the star.

Neither Sadiq nor Owoduni have commented on the commissioner’s statement.

Both have been arrested.

The commissioner said that on September 12, Ogedengbe injected Mohbad with three different drugs.

Shortly after, he began vomiting and convulsing.

Mohbad was then rushed to hospital, where he died.
His body was buried the following day.

The ongoing police investigation found that, as a nursing assistant, Ogedengbe was not qualified to give the injections, Commissioner Owohunwa said.

The police have not said what charges Ms Ogedengbe and Mr Owoduni face.

However, they said Sadiq was being held for conspiracy to commit a felony because he allegedly invited an unqualified nurse to treat Mohbad in a “non-clinical setting.”

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