Introduction.
Naira Marley
Naira Marley 32, (Azeez Adeshina Fashola) is a Nigerian/British musician. He started music in 2014 but shot into fame after he released; "It's a Goal" alongside Olamide and Lil Kesh in December 2017. He has a Niche of music which is a blend of hip-hop and afribeat. He has a large followership of people that refers to themselves as Marlians.
Naira Marley is very liquid.
One factor many do not know is that; Naira Marley is a very wealthy young Man. To be honest, he is one of the wealthiest musicians of Nigerian origin after the likes of Davido, Burna Boy and Wizkid.
He has this wrong notion that; "once you have money, you automatically become a sacred cow."
This was where he drew inspiration to bully Mohbad to death. (Though not proven yet)
From 2020 till date, Marley have not entered a public air plane. He charters private jets on weekly basis. And on the average, you need between 5,000 - 10,000 HBD to charter a private jet for an hour journey in Nigeria. Thats an insight to how wealthy he is.
Moreso, he currently owns lots of landed properties in Lagos. If you know Lagos very well, you should understand what it means to own a house in Lekki. He owns more than 100 houses in Lekki, which he had rented out and now collects rents from. Then in Ajah axis, he is one of the biggest landlords there. He owns hectares of land, yet to be developed.
Granted, he does not fly around the world making music tours like others in his industry, this may be because this song's niche hints at lewdness, targeting a certain group of people in the society.
Moreso, going into the 2023 elections, he came out publicly to announce that he is donating 2 billion Naira to one of the presidential candidates.
That is how rich he is.
How did he become this rich?
According to Gistlover, Nigerian musician, Naira Marley is a druglord. He buys and sells drugs and also recruits young men who facilitate the business.Source
How Naira Marley is linked to the death of Mohbad.
Naira Marley owns two record labels, (Marlian records and Moves recordings). He had signed many artists into his labels. Some are; Cblack, Zinoleesky, Vusic, Tori Keeche, Fabian Blu and the late Mohbad.
Story has it that, a time came for Marley to enter into a covenant with some or all under his records, and Mohbad opted out of the label, but they didn't let him. They attacked him, beat him up, collected his phone, deleted all messages, chats and contacts. They continued to attack him till he couldn't go out for shows, for fear of been attacked.
They also presented him as a mentally unstable person in the eyes of the public and companies that wanted to offer him ambassadorial deals.
I saw two videos of where Mohbad implicated Naira Marley. In the first video, he was saying that if anything happens to him, they should hold Naira Marley responsible, in the other. He was saying that they were poisoning him with substances they put into bottle water and give him.
Again, his mother also said; "Mohbad was killed, lived in fear after meeting Naira Marley" Source
Other suspects
Apart from Naira Marley who seams to be the prime suspect, there may be other people who are connected to this case.
Like captured bellow in todays punch news paper, (21st September, 2023,) police have exhumed the corpse for autopsy and areested the nurese that injected him before his death.
There may still be other people who are connected to this crime. See the news below as captured by punch news paper.
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the exhumation of the corpse of the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba popularly known as Mohbad on Thursday.
The police also arrested the nurse who reportedly injected the deceased singer prior to his demise on Tuesday, September 12, PUNCH Metro can confirm.
Source
Conclusion
The death of this young promising musician have made many Nigerians sad hence, they are demanding for justice.
Judging from how they hurriedly burried him, it's possible Naira Marley is innocent of all these accusations. I think proper investigation will reveal the real identity of the killers.
We are all calling on the Nigerian police, not to leave any stone unturned in this investigation.
May those that has hands in his death be brought to book, so that Mohbad's spirit will find peace.