Offices of the Zone 2 Lagos state police command on Wednesday, March 19, arrested Audra, the brother of late musician Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad, and his friend, Ibrahim Koleosho, aka King White, at the Magistrates’ Court area in Ogba, Lagos State. Punch reports that the two men were said to have been arrested after they had attended a legal hearing regarding a phone they sold to one Damola Ayinde.
Reports indicate that they were arrested following a petition by actor and activist, Yomi Fabiyi on Friday, December 13, 2024, alleging that the brother of the deceased initiated an Instagram conversation where he claimed to have video evidence of how Mohbad d!ed. Fabiyi in the petition he uploaded on his social media platforms, alleged that Adura demanded the sum of N3m to be paid via Bitcoin in exchange for the video evidence.
Adura, however, denied the allegations stating the chat was that of Ayinde to whom he had sold his phone. A forensic test has since been conducted while the court continues to investigate the case. To the arrest, the mother of Abosede Adura, crying and pleading in a viral video, sought help to locate her son. Weeping in a viral video inside a car, she claimed Yomi Fabiyi, an actor, and Sam Jojo orchestrated the “kidnapping.”
Speaking in Yoruba, she said
“Please help me, Nigerians. Yomi Fabiyi and Sam Jojo have taken my son. I don’t know where they are taking him to. He asked them to take my son away. My son did nothing to them. They must not lay a hand on him, he is sick. Demola, you’ve put me in trouble. Mohbad’s spirit will fight you.”
Adura had earlier in December demanded a public apology from Fabiyi, Ayinde, and others, alleging that they hacked into his TikTok account to damage his reputation. He had also sued them for N1bn for defamation, tampering with evidence, and fraudulent accusation of implicating him.
A relative who talked to the paper on Wednesday said the arrest was not unconnected to a shouting contest between Koleoso and Fabiyi.
“We don’t know the whereabouts of Adura but I can confirm that his friend, Koleosho, was arrested after the court proceedings today. Everything just happened suddenly. We learnt there has been some exchange of words between Koleosho and Fabiyi over the issue relating to the phone and this may have led to the arrest. We don’t know where the security men came from but we have been trying to locate their whereabouts.” the family source disclosed
A police confirmed that they were arrested by operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command “Yes, they were arrested by the police operatives from Zone 2, Onikan, not men of the Lagos State Command,” he said.
