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Unanswered questions one year after Mohbad’s death

The singer had died in controversial circumstances on September 12, 2023 and there has been no concrete account for what led to the death of the late singer, though there have been wide and wild speculations from diverse quarters.

In this piece, Saturday Beats takes a look at significant steps that have been taken towards the unraveling of the reason behind his death so far

Inconclusive autopsy results

Despite the fact that the body of the late singer was exhumed for the purpose of an autopsy to determine his death on September 21, 2023, just eight days after his burial, there have been no results to tell what killed Mohbad. An autopsy which was conducted at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital revealed that there was conclusive proof of the cause of his death in May 2024. A pathologist, Sunday Osiyemi, who appeared before the Coroner’s Court on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, had said the autopsy could not ascertain Mohbad’s cause of death because his corpse had decomposed before the test was carried out. The result was met with vehement rejection from concerned fans and even the family of the late singer who demanded an independent post-mortem and toxicology.

Prior to that time, the counsel for the state government, O. Akinde had told a Coroner’s Court in Ikorodu in November 2023 that a toxicology test which was an aspect of the autopsy test was conducted at the National Medical Services Laboratories in Pennsylvania, United States of America. However, following an investigation by PUNCH Metro, the Client Services Associate, Forensics Division, NMS Labs, Esther Dede, refuted the claim by the state government that Mohbad’s toxicology test was conducted at any of their laboratories.

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