Joseph Aloba, father of the late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has once again opened up about the struggles his son faced during his career and the circumstances surrounding his untimely death.
Speaking in an interview with Sunday Scoop, Aloba insisted that Mohbad endured mistreatment while alive, directly refuting recent statements made by his former record label boss, Naira Marley.
Earlier in the week, Marley released a video denying any role in Mohbad’s challenges or demise, claiming he only tried to guide the young artist after learning he had allegedly started using hard drugs.
However, Aloba maintained otherwise, recalling incidents he personally witnessed.
He said …
“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.”
Addressing allegations that Mohbad conducted financial transactions through an unfamiliar bank account, Aloba admitted that Marley had previously raised the concern.
“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,” he said.