Rapper Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley has penned an emotional treatise about his experience with the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, a.k.a Mohbad.
Naira Marley was accused of having a hand in Mohbad’s death in 2023 but was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing by a Yaba Magistrate Court, which instead fingered the nurse who treated Mohbad. Naira Marley was subjected to abuses and was almost ruined as artist.
Writing on his X social media account Wednesday, Naira Marley said he practically walked through the fire in the event that shook him.
“I never thought silence could be so loud. I never thought someone I called my brother, someone I protected, would leave this world with my name in his shadow. I have carried this weight, this pain, this shame that was never mine to bear,” Naira Marley wrote.
“We, as Marlians, were not perfect. We had to grow; we had to adapt.
“Mistakes were made, but they were business-never war. I made peace with Mohbad. We understood each other beyond the noise, beyond the misunderstandings. And you know this.
“Yet when he took his last breath in you all’s arms, you looked at the world and pointed at me. You let them tear me apart. You let them call me a killer while you sat there, knowing the truth. Now you tell the story.
“I welcomed you all into my home. I gave you, my trust. And yet, my brother is gone, still not buried, and that is your fault. Telling the truth from the beginning would have given him the rest he deserves. Regardless, I will always be there for him.
“You never thought I would survive. You never thought I would walk through the fire and face my people, maybe you hoped I would stay a fugitive. You thought I would run. Instead, I stood before the justice system, spent time in jail, and faced everything head-on while you changed the story, again and again.
“But God sees all. The truth does not shake. The lies will fade, and time will reveal everything.
“I have been broken, but I am not destroyed. And when the truth finally speaks, I pray your heart is strong enough to bear it.”
