- By Adebisi Onanuga and Arabia Enifunnilanfe
MY life is being threatened,” Cynthia Omowumi Aloba – widow of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba (a.ka. Mohbad) – told Lagos Coroner in Ikorodu yesterday.
She said the death threats started after her husband’s death.
Mrs. Aloba, who was brought to the Candide-Johnson Court House, Ita-Elewa, Ikorodu under police escort, told the coroner, Magistrate Adedayo Shotobi, that she gets death threat every day, including on the social media.
She said: “A lot of people are defaming me on the ‘Tik Tok’. I left my husband’s house because I am not safe there”, she said.
Under cross examination by David Fadile, counsel to the father of the deceased, Mrs. Aloba said she was in good relationship with her father in-law, who she described as her best friend.
Denying obtaining a Canadian visa, she said on September 11, that her late husband told her he wanted them to move to Canada because he had too many opponents.
She said they were talking and had asked him why he did not want to post her on social media.
According to her, the deceased told her it was to protect her and their baby.
She quoted her late husband as saying: “If they don’t get me, they might get to her or their baby. That he has family overseas. That he doesn’t want anything to happen to her or his boy.”
Mrs. Aloba said she had been with her late husband for over a decade, since her secondary school days.
Led in evidence by her counsel, Taiwo Olawanle, from the Falana & Falana Chamber, she further told the coroner of the events that led to the death of her husband.
She told the court that she had no fight with her husband before his death.
In her deposition admitted by the coroner, she said her late husband was meant to go to hospital to treat the injury sustained during his brush with Prime Boy but that due to his previous experience with NDLEA operatives and fear of Azeez Adeshina Fashola a.k.a (Naira Marley), he did not go.
She said NDLEA operatives hit him on the head with the butt of their gun.
Mrs. Aloba said she did not know her husband was injured in the encounter with Primeboy until the second day, (September 11) when she saw blood stain on the bed sheet.
Asked to describe the wound, she said it was a small cut but not deep.
She said because the nurse that was to treat Mohbad was not around, they resorted to first aid and Panadol.
Under cross examination by Olawanle, she said on September 12, her husband’s friend, spending, reached out to another nurse, who gave the deceased some injections on the left arm.
She said she did not ask the type of injection because she was in the kitchen cooking when the nurse gave the deceased the injection.
Mohbad’s widow said when she came in, she saw the nurse trying to put another injection in the veins of his hand (drop) and that her husband told her to be careful because he was an ulcer patient.
She said at a point she heard her husband telling her to remove the injection in his hand.
In response to another question, she said they first took her husband to Kuda Hospital which didn’t treat him and later to another hospital which pronounced him dead.
Under cross-examination by Olumayowa Ogunsami, a counsel to the father of the deceased, she said her late husband distanced himself from his friend, Micheal a.k.a Mice when he found out he was an informant to Naira Marley.
She said her late husband found out he was recording his conversation when he took him to a lawyer to discuss his royalties owed him by Naira Marley.
Further proceeding has been adjourned to November 15.
