The Lagos Coroner Court sitting in Ikorodu heard on Wednesday that the most critical part of the late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba nicknamed Mohbad’s autopsy is being completed in the United States (US).
The autopsy of the deceased’s external body has been completed, according to State Counsel Oluwaseun Akinde, who informed the coroner, Magistrate Adetayo Shotobi.
He said, “The toxicology test, which has to do with internal body, is being done in the US.”
Akinde made this known following insistence of other counsel to the father of the deceased, David Fadimu; that of the TNKay Music Worldwide, David Nawoola, representative of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikorodu, O.S.A. Aranmolaran and Jennifer Nina.
The coroner asked to know why the toxicology was taken abroad when there are toxicology laboratories in Nigeria.
Akinde told the coroner that Lagos State decided to do it in the US because of the nature of various substances alleged to have either been injected or taken by the deceased and the need to prevent controversy over the autopsy report when finally presented.
He said it was also because the death of the deceased had become a worldwide issue.
He said there was no point in inviting Prof. Soyemi, the pathologist in Lagos to present an uncompleted report.