No Toxicology Test Done on Mohbad, U.S. Lab Confirms
US lab disputes conducting autopsy on Mohbad
The Lagos state government has challenged the results of a toxicology test that was carried out to determine Mohbad's cause of death, but the National Medical Services Laboratories (NMS) in Pennsylvania have rejected the claim.
The singer, whose birth name was Lerioluwa Aloba, died on September 12, 2023, and was buried the next day. His body was exhumed by authorities on September 21 in preparation for an autopsy.
On September 12, 2023, Mohbad passed away. The next day, he was buried.
Gbenga Omotosho, the commissioner for information in Lagos, disclosed in February that the autopsy was carried out at the NMS labs in the United States.
He had said in an interview: “What do we do about Mohbad's case? We sent the sample to the United States of America. If it were to be our laboratory here we can easily stroll down there and say what are you guys doing? This thing is taking time now. And shout at them and say we have the authority of the governor to speed up this matter.
“But in America, it cannot work like that. All of the money they asked for in foreign currency, we have paid. We paid for everything. We spoke to them on the telephone and they said 'Look, you people have to wait. It is not the kind of thing you get in one week or two weeks. And definitely, by the time we finish this job, we will be pleased. So we kept quiet.
“The matter is being handled by Lagos State DNA and Forensics centre. But they are doing skeletal services, and they have affiliate centres which are three. There are three of them in the US. And the one that is handling this particular one is NMS - it is situated in Pennsylvania, United States of America. They said latest 10 weeks it will be ready.”
A few months later, testing on the singer's remains revealed that it had decayed, making the autopsy unable to pinpoint the cause of death. However, NMS labs, through Esther Dede, the client services associate, forensics division, said that no case relating to Mohbad was being conducted at their facility in an email sent to the laboratory requesting answers on the claim made by the state government, according to Punch Newspaper.
“Unfortunately, we do not have a case for that patient. To maintain our compliance with HIPAA privacy regulations, we would need authorisation from the submitting agency,” she said.
Omotoso responded by restating that Mohbad's autopsy was performed at the NMS lab, which had been recommended by the state DNA and Forensic center.
“This was what I was told by the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre officials who took the sample there. We are dealing with the officials of the centre, they have three other labs that they have affiliations with. If they have an emergency, they can go to any of the three labs. I asked which particular one did they go to and they answered it was that one. That means I will have to go and check again because that was what I was told," he said.
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