The statement said the Kwara police commissioner, Paul Odama, had requested the Edo State Police Command to release the medical doctor to the Kwara Command for further investigations.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Police in Kwara have arrested a senior medical doctor over the alleged killing of three women including his lover.
According to a statement by the police’s spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, two of the deceased women, the doctor’s girlfriend and one Nofisat Halidu had been declared missing before their corpses were found through investigation of the doctor.
The doctor, whose name was given as Adio Adeyemi, was said to be the Medical Director of the General Hospital in Kaiama town in Kaiama local government area of the state before he left for Edo.
He was suspected to have perpetrated the killings before he left Kwara for Edo.
The doctor reportedly confessed that he killed his girlfriend and dumped her corpse in a bush in Alapa town.
The police said after the discovery of the doctor’s girlfriend’s corpse in Alapa, a suburb of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital further investigation at the former office of the doctor at the Kaiama General Hospital led to the discovery of the course of the other mising woman and corpse of yet another woman in the office.
The statement said the Kwara police commissioner, Paul Odama, had requested the Edo State Police Command to release the medical doctor to the Kwara Command for further investigations.
The statement reads: “The Kwara State Police Command wishes to inform the public of the result of an investigation ordered by CP Paul Odama psc (+) the newly posted Commissioner of Police Kwara State.
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“On assumption of office, as commissioner of police Kwara State, while going through some petitions written by some citizens, a particular case struck the CP regarding a reported case of one missing lady by name Nofisat Halidu ‘F’ in Kaiama, Kaiama Local government area of Kwara State, on 21/11/2021. The CP immediately ordered the setting up of a high powered investigation team led by the deputy Commissioner of Police in the State CID, to unravel the mistry surrounding the kidnap case and other unresolved cases before his assumption of Office.
“Based on the CP order, investigation into the cases began yesterday 30/9/2022. Working on a lead provided by the arrest and confession of one Dr Adio Adeyemi Adebowale ‘M’ in Edo State confirming he killed one Ifeoluwa ‘F’ his girlfriend who was declared missing in Tanke area of Ilorin sometimes in 2021 and her dead body later discovered in a bush in Alapa area of Ilorin where he dumped it.
“Incidentally, the said Doctor was the chief medical director of Kaiama general hospital, investigation led the team to Kaiama general hospital where the suspect’s office was forced opened, a cursory look at the office presented a suspicious sight of a freshly cemented floor tiles, curiously the tiles were broken and a gory sight welcomed the detectives, behold, lying inside the shallow grave was a decomposing carcass of an unidentified female.
“Further search of the office led to the opening of a trash can where another body of a lady later identified as the earlier reported missing Nofisat Halidu ‘f’ identified by the husband, one Mr Halidu and other members of the community who were present at the scene at the time of the search.
“Other items recovered in the detained doctors office includes, two telephone handsets found in the hand bag of one of the ladies found in the doctor’s drawer. Two female handbags, a female wig, a veil and a female pants.
“In furtherance of the investigation, the Kwara CP had contacted the Edo State Police Command requesting for the release of the suspect to the Kwara State Police Command to answer some questions regarding the discoveries in his office.
“The CP declared emphatically, that crimes and criminality would no longer be taken with levity, he advised criminal elements to pack their bags and baggages and relocate from Kwara State, telling criminals that, there is a new sheriff in town.”
He stated that Kwara state would not contain both criminals and law abiding citizens in his time as commissioner of police.