Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has written a letter to the chief coroner of Lagos State, Justice Mojisola Dada.
In the letter, Falana asked her to conduct an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad.
Savannah News reports, Mohbad, died on September 12, 2023, at 27 and was buried the next day.
According to the letter addressed to Chief coroner of Lagos, Falana stated that the circumstances leading to the musician’s death demanded that the inquest be conducted.
Falana quoted the Lagos State Coroner’s Law of 2007, specifically Section 15, which stipulates that an inquest should be conducted when a coroner becomes aware of a death within their district that results from violent, unnatural, or suspicious circumstances.
The letter partly read, “We at this moment request Your Lordship to conduct an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the tragic death in Lagos State, and we are confident that Your Lordship will accede to our request with utmost urgency.
“And make appropriate recommendations under section 15 of Lagos State Coroner’s Law 2007, which provides that inquest shall hold whenever a coroner is informed that the death of a deceased person within his Coroner’s District is as a result of a death in a violent, unnatural, or suspicious situation,” the letter read.
Before the letter, Lagos State Police Command had earlier inaugurated a 13-man investigative panel to review the circumstances surrounding the death of the young artiste.
