The Edo State Police Command has paraded a medical doctor for allegedly injecting a cab driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere, to death in the Benin City area of the state.
It was gathered that the suspect identified as Abass Adebowale, after perpetrating the crime, allegedly dumped the victim’s corpse in a bush, and stole his Toyota Voltron car.
He was said to have driven the car to the Osogbo area of Osun State where he was apprehended on Monday.
Addressing the press at the command’s headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, the Police spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the suspect, a graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, works with the Kaiama General Hospital as a medical officer.
He said, “The Edo State Police Command in an attempt to rid the state of crime and criminality arrested a medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, 36, for killing Emmanuel Agbovinuere, 39, 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, September 4, the suspect came from Kwara State and they met at the same 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. That was what killed him instantly. For him to conceal the crime, he left the corpse in the man’s Toyota Voltron car, but later took the corpse to Ondo Road, Oluku, Edo State, and dumped the corpse there.
“When the Anti-Kidnapping Unit got notice of what happened, they mobilised and he was arrested in Osogbo, Osun State, with the deceased car.”
Adebowale, who confessed to the crime, said the victim’s death was not deliberate and pleaded for forgiveness.
