THE mother of late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, Mrs Promise Aloba, has disclosed that she kept her relationship to the deceased a secret because he was afraid that she might be kidnapped.
According to media reports, she disclosed that the fear of her being kidnapped led to her refusal to reside in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, where Mohbad rented an apartment and was planning to set up a business for her.
Narrating her last moments with the late Mohbad, Mrs Aloba disclosed how the deceased and his wife deceived her into staying with them due to the trauma he was passing through.
While addressing some journalists in the singer’s house, Mrs Aloba said: “I don’t tell people that I’m Mohbad’s mother because he was afraid I will be kidnapped.
“He took me away from Iyana to Ikorodu and promised to set up a business for me. However, I can’t stay in Ikorodu again; I asked that they should rent out the shop because I’m afraid.
“Whenever I visited him here, he would sit right there and I’d sit with him, then take him upstairs to sleep, but he’d be shaking his head. I even thought all those problems and attacks had stopped, but when they beat him again recently after he dropped his EP, I said these people haven’t left you, and he would always go to the police station to report because I witnessed it twice.
“I spent 10 days with him. I did not know he was going to die. I left on Saturday, and he died on Monday. And the reason I left on Saturday was because he had a show.
“He begged, begged, and begged me not to leave. So I told him that wouldn’t he allow me to go to church on Sunday, that I’d missed church for two weeks, and I needed to go and pray because I was losing myself. It was the church that I mentioned that made him let me go.
“Because he and his wife were pranking me, I told him that I was going, but because he didn’t want me to go, he delayed giving me my feeding money because he knew I’d leave if he gave me the money. Normally, he gave me a feeding allowance every month.”
Recall that Mohbad died two weeks ago, and the cause of his death is yet to be ascertained.
