The Edo State Police Command has paraded a Kwara State based Medical Doctor,Abass Adeyemi Adebowale,36 years from Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State for killing a cab driver, Emmanuel Agbovinuere,39 years with Snipper and Diazepam injections and dumped his body in a bush,while he moved with his car,a Toyota Voltron to Oshogbo,Osun State where he was arrested on Monday.
Addressing a Press Conference at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters in Benin City,the PPRO of the Command,Chidi Nwabuzor said, Abass, a graduate of University of Ilorin,Kwara State works works with Kaiama General Hospital as a Medical Officer.
“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 systems 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
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.”
The suspect, Dr Abas Adebowale said he is very sorry over the death of the victim, and pleaded with the family members of the deceased to find a place in their hearts to forgive him.
“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.”
The widow of the deceased,Mrs Mary Agbovinuere,27,a mother of two, including a four months old baby girl, said her husband left at about 7.00pm to the hotel when the man who has become a friend to her husband called him to take him to some places he was going for his business and where he was given poisonous injections that killed him. She said the Police should help to get justice for her late husband,who was the breadwinner to the family.
