{"id":116576,"date":"2025-02-26T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116576"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:47:00","slug":"court-acquits-naira-marley-three-others-over-mohbads-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-acquits-naira-marley-three-others-over-mohbads-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Acquits Naira Marley, Three Others, Over Mohbad\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Magistrate Court sitting in Sabo, Yaba, Lagos State, on Tuesday, acquitted popular musician, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, in relation to the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known as Mohbad.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Ejiro Kubenje, who read and implemented the legal advice issued by the Directorate of Public Prosecution, Lagos, said that Naira Marley had no case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Naira Marley, the court reportedly freed music promoter, Samson Balogun, known as Sam Larry; Owodunni Ibrahim, also called Primeboy; and Mohbad\u2019s former manager, Opere Babatunde.<\/p>\n<p>The DPP, however, said it shall be prosecuting the auxiliary nurse who treated Mohbad, Feyisayo Ogedengbe, and one of Mohbad\u2019s friends, Ayobami Sadiq for the offence of reckless and negligent acts contrary to Section 251 (e) of the Criminal Law, Ch C.17, Vol.3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The duo will be prosecuted at the magistrate court.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magistrate Court sitting in Sabo, Yaba, Lagos State, on Tuesday, acquitted popular musician, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, in relation to the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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