Actress Lilian Afegbai returns to Instagram weeks after deactivating account over mum's alleged involvement in death of student

Nollywood actress Lilian Afegbai has returned to Instagram weeks after deactivating her account over reports that her mum was involved in the death of a university student.

The movie star's mum, Carol Afegbia a retired police officer was called out during the #EndSars protest for allegedly being the brain behind the murder of a student, Ibrahim Momoh of the University of Benin.

The actress who came under severe backlash deactivated her Instagram page and went 'Missing In Action.'

She had alleged that her life was under threat.

She has however returned to the social media platform with her nearly 400k followers still intact.

The award winning actress returned just in time to celebrate her 29th birthday.

It would be recalled that the actress had to come to her mum's defence after she was called out over the murder of Momoh.

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11:11 A very special day.. Happy birthday to me, I just want to say thank you God for keeping me. I survived my 29th birthday, that’s enough to be grateful. This year isn’t one of my best, considering I lost my dad, but I have an angel now watching over me. Kindly say a prayer for me, that’s all I ask.

A post shared by Lilian Afegbai (@lillyafe) on Nov 10, 2020 at 10:13pm PST

In her defence, she noted that the person who killed the student was already serving a life sentence in prison;

"As per my mother being dragged for murder, to the best of my knowledge my mother who is now retired did not kill anyone. The police officer (AMADIN IDAHOSA) that was attached to my mother’s station who killed the suspect was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice R. Irele-Ifijeh of the High Court of Justice, Edo State in Charge No: B/CD/24C/2014," she wrote.