Popular singer Naira Marley has finally broken his silence on Mohbad’s passing, sharing his side of the story.
The Marlian Music boss explained that he was out of the country at the time of Mohbad’s death and was deeply shocked when the news broke.
He expressed sadness over the various narratives linking him to the tragedy, stressing that he had no involvement in the late singer’s demise.
Naira Marley said; “Someone among us said, Mohbad dead. I looked at him, I said, it’s a lie man, he wants to blow again. Exactly what I said, it’s a lie. I said it’s a lie, he wants to blow again. I didn’t even bother. Zeno looked at me straight away. I said, ah, … Like, people should know what they will be saying, you know. I’m like, ah, come on, man, people know we’re not in Nigeria, obviously. Oh, I just said people know we’re not in Nigeria. I went on Instagram. I can see InstaBlog saying Mohbad died of air infection. Okay, I’m like, air infection? All of us saying, was he dead? I’m like, they’re lying, man. Air infection, lying. How can you die of air infection? I’m still saying that. Twitter, boom, boom, boom. Nagamali, finally you’ve killed him. What? Is it a joke? Is it dead for you? But immediately I’m saying they started posting videos from the NDLEA incident. They started posting videos from the fight he had with, on the 4th of October 2022, he had with his manager. They started posting videos from there. Why? I don’t understand. Is that what killed him? You said he died on the… 12th of September, 2023.
You’re posting videos. So I know, I can see already that there’s someone paying the blogs to try changing the narrative from Haley. I’m like, what’s happening here? And the public, really, they’re falling for it. I wasn’t in the country. I can show you my passport stamp. And when I go back to Nigeria, everything, someone even saw us. After we, let me not jump the story. So, it’s still in the restaurant, they’re blaming me, everything. You know, jump in the car, let’s go away. We’re going to Amsterdam because I was planning to shoot the video. But now we can’t even shoot the video, but we still need to go. So we drove, went to Amsterdam.
Can’t even have fun anymore, can’t even shoot the video. Just chilling. Not even chilling, just… I was upset and sad. We didn’t even have time to mourn because of people blaming us for what we didn’t do. So I didn’t really get time to mourn him. Sometimes I tried to… Even when I mourned him, there was a message saying I killed him. I didn’t even get… I was sad. I was trying to mourn him. I didn’t get to mourn him properly. Um… Yeah, the person hold videos to try make you look like. But if we’re in a working country, they’re going to arrest everybody that was in the house with him. In the last 24 hours, 48 hours. They have no reason to arrest me, mate. Mate, I don’t understand. I was not in the country, I was out of the country.
You can see with the stamps, you can see with the videos, I have videos. I have lots of things, but that was it from then, it got serious. Samlari video came up, that video came up, that video Samlari and my body, my body. My first time seeing that video was when we all saw the video. I’m like, what the hell was this? But I wasn’t fast to judge like everybody.
I knew that video was not on that day because Samlagi was not in Nigeria too. Sam Larry traveled out of Nigeria. He was in Dubai, Kenya, Paris country. That’s what made me ask questions. Normally I was really angry like, ah, what? That’s what made me ask questions like, ah, Samlari, what’s up? He said nothing happened. He just saw him. He was explaining something. He said he saw him. Someone told him he was there. He went there. I don’t want to speak for him, but I’m just saying. He said he went there. And he saw him, he said he wants to collect his money. He said he tapped the chair. But I didn’t touch him. I looked at the video again. He didn’t touch him for real. But I can already see they’re posting my videos. So I’m thinking, why are they posting this video now? Did he die there? I mean, what? That’s not what killed him. So I have to ask questions. I’m like, okay, what happened?”
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Naira Marley further called on the police to re-arrest everyone linked to the death of the late artiste Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad.
The singer noted that he returned to Nigeria to cooperate with investigations and clear his name amid the widespread allegations.
He said; “Ok, so I came back to Nigeria to support the police with the investigation because I can see fingers pointing out ways I can see that they’ve paid the block. So I want to come back so they can actually know that I have nothing to do with it and chase or whatever so you can get justice. So I came back to Nigeria. I was in quarantine for two months. Two months. After I even got out of PANTI, I was fighting for my passport there. I held my passport for how long? I showed them everything. There was no, like this is a working country. Okay, it’s okay, you can question me, but there’s no reason to detain me for two months. Two months? For what? No reason. I was not in the country. I haven’t seen him for over a year. There’s not even nothing to ask me. There’s nothing. I showed you everything. I was in PANTI for two months, but it’s okay. it’s nothing bro i understand you get i get it there’s people behind the scene as you can see the group chat got leaked um the officer that was in charge of the case in quantity mr hillary they mentioned his name to call him to call him they’re talking about george so so they did this is africa they did their homework to keep me there for two months i was in quantity for two months even people pointing fingers at me does not That don’t mean I should be in Kwan Tee for two months. You can see the evidence that I have nothing to do with it. Even the officers, they were saying I have nothing to do with it from early. They’re telling me this is for my own protection. My own protection to stay in Kwan Tee for two months. You know what Kwan Tee is? Some Kwan Tee I was in the cell. But anyway, it’s okay. I didn’t do a lot. If I wasn’t there for two months, a lot. I would have probably, you know, a lot. But they need to keep me there for two months. But it’s okay, like I said. It’s all right. When I got out, I was going to do a video to explain everything. But, wow, they’re doing autopsy. I was very happy and waiting for autopsy. But anyways, what can I say? I can only say my side of the story. But if you ask me, I would tell the police to arrest everybody. Everybody, arrest everybody that was in there. I’ll ask everybody again, don’t worry, I’ll ask everybody again, everybody. For an officer we can trust and charge, I’ll ask everybody again. We’re not blind, you can see, but that’s it. Lastly, we’ve got in touch with Mubad lawyer and we are ready to give his share to whoever the court of family picked to be in charge of his estate. Since Mubad passed away, we have not touched Any money from my dad is there safe for wherever the family picks or wherever the court picks. You know what it is? It’s a boy named Amali. Still remain the loyal Malian president in our race.”
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