The Kwara State Police Command has paraded a 36-year-old medical doctor and former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the general hospital, Kaiama LGA of Kwara State, Abass Adio Adeyemi, over an alleged k#lling of four persons in the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on Monday, February 20, 2023, at the headquarters of the command in Ilorin.
According to him, one of the victims, Olanipekun Ifeoluwa, who was reported missing at F Division was the same young lady who was allegedly k#lled and thrown into the bush at Alapa in Asa LGA of the state by the suspect.
The CP said investigation into the case has shown that the suspect was last seen with Ifeoluwa. He said that Ifeoluwa’s disappearance and her being found d£ad at Alapa heightened suspicion that the suspect knew something about the victim.
“While the command was searching for the doctor, news filtered in that the Police Command in Edo had arrested Dr. Abbas Adeyemi in connection with another case of k#lling. The command to get to the root of the serial m¥rder case in Kwara state succeeded in getting him released from Edo to the Kwara state command to help in the investigation.
He confessed to have k#lled Ifeoluwa by h#tting her with an object on the head and d¥mped the body in a bush. He also confessed to have earlier s£dated and causing the kidn@p and K#lling of one Abubakar Malam Abubakar, m, and K#lling of one Nafisat Halidu, f, a casual worker at General Hospital both in Kaiama and concealed her body in a trash can, filled the trash can with cement and kept inside a locked store in the hospital with the key in his procession.
He also confessed to the K#lling of one unknown lady buried inside the same general hospital store. Both bodies were exhumed, recovered, and deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital.
Mr. Odama said the suspect, Dr. Adeyemi, confessed further to having been lured into organ h@rvesting by a yet-to-be-identified syndicate.
