Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a medical doctor, Abbas Adeyemi Adebowale, for killing a cab driver, Emnanuel Agbovinuere,39, and stealing his car.
The Edo State Police Command which paraded the 36 year old Kwara State based Medical Doctor from Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State said the doctor administered sniper in the cab driver to kill him.
The police said after killing the cab man, Dr Adebowale took his car, a Toyota Voltron to Oshogbo, Osun State policemen arrested him on Monday.
The Spokesman of the Command
Mr Chidi Nwabuzor, a Superintendent of Police, said Adebowale a graduate of University of Ilorin,Kwara State works works with Kaiama General Hospital as a Medical Officer.
He said, “The Edo State Police Command in an attempt to rid Edo State off crime and criminality has arrested a medical doctor, Abass Adeyemi Adebowale(36) for killing Emmanuel Yobo Agbovinuere, 39years, a cab driver.
“The victim and the suspect met in July this year at an undisclosed hotel in Benin and that is where their relationship started.
“On Sunday, 4th of September, the suspect came from Kwara State and they meet at the same undisclosed hotel, where as a customer, he took him around to where he was to do his business.
“The Cab man complained of leg pain and the doctor promised to help and injected some poisonous drugs in his system and that was what killed him instantly.
“For him to conceal his crime,he left the body in the man’s car( Toyota Voltron) ,but later took the body to Ondo Road, Oluku,Edo State and dumped his body there.
“When the Anti-Kidnapping Unit got notice of what happened they mobilized and he was arrested in Oshogbo,Osun State with the man’s car.”
Dr Adewole told journalists that the death of the victim was not deliberate.
He said he was sorry about the death of cab driver and asked the family members of the deceased for forgiveness.
“The death of the victim as painful as it is, is not deliberate,I pray that the family will find a place in their hearts to forgive me.
“I know that there is nothing I can say now that will make meaning . If there is anything I can do now that will bring him back, even if it is at the expense of my own life I will do it now,but there is nothing I can do.” He said
Meanwhile the widow of the deceased
Mrs Mary Agbovinuere,27, has called on the police to assist the family to get justice on the matter.
The widow, a mother of two one of who is four years narrated how the doctor called her husband to take to him places around 7pm only to get him murdered