Photo: Dr Abbas Adebowale, the suspect.
The police command in Edo has arrested a 36-year-old medical doctor, Abass Adebowale, for allegedly killing a commercial taxi driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere, 39 in Benin, and carting away his cab.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said the doctor, a native of Offa in Kwara, injected the deceased with two lethal poisons, sniper and diazepam, which killed him instantly.
He further said that the suspect thereafter dumped the deceased’s body in the bush and made away with the car, a Toyota Voltron, to Osogbo, the Osun capital..
Nwabuzor also disclosed that the suspect graduated from the University of Ilorin and worked in one of the General Hospitals in Kwara.
He said, “The Edo State Police Command in an attempt to rid Edo State of 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 was where their relationship started.
“On Sunday, Sept. 4, the suspect came from Kwara and they met 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, but injected some poisonous drugs in his system. That was what killed him instantly.
“For him to conceal his crime, he took the body to Oluku, along Ondo road in Edo and dumped it there.
“When the anti-kidnapping unit got notice of what happened they mobilized and he was arrested in Osogbo with the man’s car.”
The suspect, however, said he was very sorry over the incident, pleading with the family of the deceased to find a place in their hearts to forgive him.
The suspect said, “The death of the victim as painful as it is, was 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.”
Meanwhile, the widow of the deceased, Mrs Mary Agbovinuere, 27, has called for justice in the case,, saying her late husband was the breadwinner of the family
