Court Remands Medical Doctor For Murder In Kwara
Dr. Abas Adio Adeyemi, a former chief medical director of Kaiama General Hospital in Kwara State, has been remanded by an Ilorin Magistrate Court for the alleged murder of many people.
After taking into account the prosecutor’s argument, Magistrate Muhammad Ibrahim remanded the suspect to the Oke- Kura Custodial Center and continued the case to March 24, 2023.
A police investigation revealed that Dr. Abas is suspected of killing Nasifat Halidu, a staff member at the Kaiama General Hospital, concealing her body in a trash can maintained in his shop, and covering up the crime by pouring concrete cement on her.
At Alapa, Asa Local Government, a woman named Olanipekun Ifeoluwa Ibukun was allegedly killed by the suspect and her body was left in the bush.
The suspect reportedly confessed to having also sedated one Abubakar, a Fulani boy before handing him over to his syndicate and the victim has not yet been found to date.
The suspect further confessed that he was instrumental in the death of a young lady who he buried in a shallow grave in his office in the hospital, which he covered with tiles to avoid suspicion.
It was also revealed during discreet investigations by the police that Dr Abas and his accomplice, killed one Abdulazeez Saliu after luring and borrowing the sum of N15m from him.
Speaking while parading the 36- year-old suspect in Ilorin on Monday evening, February 20, 2023, the state Police commissioner, Paul Odama, said the doctor also harvested organs of some of his victims.
The CP added that the command is closing in on other members of syndicate involved in the crime.