Naira Marley Claims Are False, He Bullied My Son – Mohbad’s Dad Alleges

Joseph Aloba, father of the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has once again spoken about the struggles his son faced in his music career and the events leading up to his untimely death.

In an interview with Sunday Scoop, Aloba maintained that Mohbad endured bullying while alive despite Naira Marley’s recent claims denying any role in his struggles.

Earlier in the week, Marley released a video where he insisted he had no hand in Mohbad’s woes or death. The Marlian Music boss claimed he only tried to guide the singer after discovering that he was allegedly abusing illicit substances.

However, Mohbad’s father disagreed, saying,“I went to see Naira Marley over some of the things Mohbad had said, and that was all. But later, a lot of other things happened that I personally witnessed. There were about three other people present at the time; two of them are still alive today. They were people working with Naira Marley, even though they were younger and still under him. One of them once came to me to report that Naira Marley was beating Mohbad.

When we went to see him to apologise, he wasn’t even speaking respectfully. People think I went there to collect money, but life is much more than just what I want to eat.”

On reports of suspicious financial dealings, Aloba confirmed that Marley once confronted Mohbad about using a strange bank account for transactions.

He explained, “Naira Marley complained to me that he (Mohbad) was collecting money with an account that is not his and that he (Naira Marley) had to force him to use his personal account. I also saw that he was sending me money from a strange account and I warned him that anything he wants to give me should come from his own account. That’s what I know about the account issue.”

Meanwhile, fresh revelations have emerged that Mohbad allegedly routed his payments through his mother-in-law’s bank account. His sister-in-law, Karimo, weighed in on the matter, saying:

“Naira Marley revealed that it was Wunmi’s mother’s account number Mohbad presented to him for the payment of his money and nobody is saying anything… By now I expect The SAN working for Baba Mohbad to have written a petition that Wunmi’s mother’s account should be investigated.”