Naira Marley, Sam Larry sues Police, Magistrate, demands N40 million over continued detention

Controversial Nigerian singer, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, alongside his colleague, Lagos socialite, Samson Eletu, aka Sam Larry, have sued the Magistrate and Police.

The duo filed a fundamental rights suit to challenge their continued detention over the death of former signee, Ilerioluwa Aloba, best known as Mohbad, 27.

The police and the Lagos magistrate, Adeola Olatunbosun, who ordered their confinement in police prison for 21 days, were joined as defendants in the complaint filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos.

Naira Marley and Sam Larry are each seeking N20 million in damages from those charged.

In the suit filed through their lawyer, Mr Olalekan Ojo (SAN), they are urging the court to declare that the continued detention “at the Homicide Section of the Lagos State Police Command, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State since October 4, 2023,” constituted a violation of their rights.

They are seeking “an order of the court releasing the applicants forthwith.”

In the affidavits attached to their suits,  deponents said, “Their travails started between October 3 and 4, 2023 when they were arrested by the police on the alleged connection of the applicants with the death of one Ilerioluwa Aloba, aka Mohbad.

“On the 4th day of October 2023,  the Commissioner of Police sought an order in the Magistrates’ Court, held at Yaba to remand them for 30 days.

“Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun granted the police application to remand them for only 21 days in the custody of the police.

“The 21-day remand order granted by Chief Magistrate Olatunbosun has since lapsed on October 26, 2023, and the order has not been renewed.”