Mohbad’s Father Challenges Court Ruling Clearing Naira Marley, Sam Larry

• Joseph Aloba, father of late singer Mohbad, has filed an enchantment.
• The enchantment challenges a Lagos Excessive Court ruling that cleared Naira Marley and Sam Larry of involvement in Mohbad’s loss of life.
• The enchantment became once submitted to the Lagos Division of the Court of Charm.

Joseph Aloba, father of the late singer Mohbad, has filed an enchantment hard the Lagos Excessive Court’s judgment that upheld the fair correct recommendation exonerating Naira Marley and Sam Larry from any involvement in his son’s controversial loss of life.

The enchantment, submitted to the Lagos Division of the Court of Charm, seeks to overturn the July 2, 2025, ruling issued by Justice D.T. Olatokun.

Thru his fair correct representatives, Senior Advocate of Nigeria Wahab Shittu and Don Akaegbu, Aloba contested the validity of the fair correct recommendation from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which fashioned the foundation for clearing key suspects in the case.

In step with documents reviewed by PUNCH Metro, Aloba argued that the trial judge became once corrupt in keeping that the Attorney-Fashioned’s authority under Allotment 211(1) of the 1999 Constitution became once absolute and past judicial oversight. He insisted that such prosecutorial powers need to align with justice, equity, and public passion, and will not be always going to be old to defend suspects from fair correct accountability.

Referencing Elias v. Arkas (2018) 10 NWLR (Pt 1626) Pg 37, he maintained that the Attorney-Fashioned’s discretion need to remain self-discipline to court overview, in particular where its application seems biased or unjust.

Aloba requested the appellate court to nullify the Excessive Court’s ruling and to self-discipline a certiorari repeat that can probably well probably invalidate the DPP’s advisory documented as LJP/HOM/2023/170 referring to to his son’s case.

The Attorney-Fashioned of Lagos Verbalize, Lawal Pedro (SAN), and the DPP were named as respondents in the enchantment.

Aloba also emphasised that on the time the DPP issued its recommendation, the coroner’s inquest into Mohbad’s loss of life initiated on September 29, 2023 had no longer but been finalized. He alleged that definite folks talked about at some stage in the inquest were launched in come and had no longer but equipped major testimony.

He additional accused the police and the DPP of sidelining the coroner, thereby disrupting the statutory technique of the inquest.