MohBAD: Naira Marley, Sam Larry Sue Magistrate, Police, Demand N40m Over Continuous Detention
Nigerian singer, Azeez Fashola better known as Naira Marley, and Lagos socialite, Samson Eletu, known as Sam Larry have both filed a fundamental rights suit to question their “continued detention” over the death of singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, alias Mohbad.
A sum of N20m damages was each demanded by Naira Marley and Sam Larry from the police and the Lagos magistrate, Adeola Olatunbosun.
Naira Marley and Sam Larry joined the police and the Lagos magistrate as defendants in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Recall, the magistrate had ordered the remand of Naira Marley and Sam Larry in police custody for 21 days over the death of 27-year-old Mohbad who died earlier in September.
However, the counsel for Naira Marley Olalekan Ojo (SAN), and Sam Larry told Channels Television, that both defendants are urging the court to declare that the continued detention “at the Homicide Section of the Lagos State Police Command, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State since October 4, 2023” constituted a violation of their rights.
They explained that the magistrate ordered their remand for only 21 days and the period had elapsed. They are seeking “an order of the court releasing the applicants forthwith.”
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