Abdulazeez Fashola, also known as Naira Marley, has filed a fundamental rights suit against the Lagos Police Command and Adeola Olatunbosun, a Lagos magistrate, over his continued detention in connection with the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, the singer known as Mohbad.

Samson Eletu, a Lagos socialite known as Sam Larry, joined Naira Marley in the suit that FIJ saw on Tuesday. The men are demanding N20 million in damages each.

Olatunbosun had ordered Naira Marley and Sam Larry to be remanded in police custody for 21 days. Those 21 days have since elapsed but both men remain in detention.

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Naira Marley and Sam Larry declared in the suit from Olalekan Ojo (SAN), their lawyer, that the continued detention “at the Homicide Section of the Lagos State Police Command, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, since October 4, 2023” was a violation of their rights.

“Their (Naira Marley and Sam Larry) 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,” the suit presented at the Federal High Court in Lagos read in part.

“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.”

Ojo has asked the Federal High Court to order his clients’ release.