The Edo State Police Command has arrested a doctor, Abass Adebowale, for the murder of a taxi driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere, in the state’s Benin City region.
Adebowale is said to have injected the victim to death, then discarded his body in a bush and stolen his Toyota Voltron automobile.
He allegedly drove the automobile to the Osogbo region of Osun State, where he was apprehended by police on Monday.
While parading the suspect at the police command’s headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, state Police Public Relations Officer Chidi Nwabuzor told reporters that Adebowala was a graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, and works as a medical officer at the Kaiama General Hospital.
“In an effort to cleanse the state of crime and criminality, the Edo State Police Command arrested a medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, 36, for murdering Emmanuel Agbovinuere, 39, a taxi driver,” he stated.
The victim and suspect met in July of this year at an unnamed hotel in Benin, where their connection began. On Sunday, September 4, the suspect arrived from Kwara State, and they met at the same hotel, where he escorted him around to where he was going to perform his business as a customer.”
Further, Nwabuzor stated that the victim began to complain of leg discomfort, and the doctor promised to heal him, but instead injected a toxic drug into his system, killing him instantaneously.
To conceal his crime, the medical practitioner placed the corpse in the man’s Toyota Voltron automobile, but later moved it to Ondo Road, Oluku, Edo State, and discarded it there.
During the procession, Adebowale, however, maintained that the victim’s death was not intentional and that he hopes the family can find it in their hearts to forgive him.
Agbovinuere was survived by his wife, Mary, and two children, according to reports.
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