A medical doctor, Abass Adebowale Adeyemi was Wednesday paraded by the Edo State Police Command over alleged murder of one Emmanuel Yobo Agbovinuere, (39), a cab driver, in Edo state.
Dr. Adeyemi,36, who hails from Offa local government area of Kwara state was alleged to have killed the victim on September 3, in Benin and dumped his corpse at Otofure community, after Oluku on the Benin-Lagos road.
Parading the suspects, the command’s Police Public Relations SP Chidi Nwanbuzor, said the deceased, a cab driver met the suspect sometimes in July at a hotel in Benin when he lodged.
He stated:”In September 3, the suspect came to Benin again and invited the deceased to meet him at another hotel where he also engaged his (deceased) services”
Chidi said that the suspect asked the deceased to take him round the places he wanted to visit, adding that while on the job, the victim later complained of leg pain.
He added:” The suspect, who is a medical doctor promised to help him and administer a substance injection into his body and the deceased died instantly.To conceal the crime, the suspect kept the corpse in the deceased vehicle and later dumped the corpse in a bush in Oluku and absconded with the deceased’s vehicle”.
He said the suspect was traced to Osogbo with the aid of a tracking device in the deceased’s vehicle where he was arrested by the police.
Nwanbuzor disclosed that a snippet, diaxipan injection, scalp vein middle and five syringe were recovered from the suspect.
He added that aside the deceased’s vehicle, the police also recovered another car the suspect sold to a car dealer.
The suspect pleaded with the family of the victim to forgive him,as his act was not deliberate.
He added:” Let the police do their investigation, I am pleading with the family to forgive me, I have killed a friend, he was really my friend, I can show you our discussion on phone” .
