Crime

Medical Doctor paraded for organ harvesting: Police

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1 year ago

February 21, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

Medical Doctor paraded for organ harvesting: Police

A former CMD of Kaiama general hospital, Kwara State, Dr Abass Adio Adeyemi, was arrested

by the state Police command for the alleged murder of his four potential clients.

Kwara state police command has paraded the apprehended Chief Medical Director (CMD) of

government-owned Dr Adeyemi over the alleged killing of four persons for organ harvesting.

Marching the 36- year-old suspect in Ilorin, the state Police commissioner, Paul Odama, said that

the command was closing in on other cartel members involved in the crime.

Police arrest medical doctor over alleged organ harvesting in Kwara

He said the suspected murderer allegedly sedated some of his victims; primarily women before he killed

them, adding that he killed and buried while he killed to harvest the organs of some other victims.

Odama also said that the suspect had allegedly killed one of his victims in Edo state before he killing

those in Kwara state.

According to him, while the command was searching for the Doctor, news filtered in that Edo State Police

The order had arrested Dr Abbas Adio Adeyemi concerning another killing case.

Odama said the command to get to the root of the serial murder case in Kwara state succeeded

in getting him released to the power to help in the investigation.

Kwara police arrest medical doctor over the alleged organ

He noted that the suspect confessed to having killed Ifeoluwa by hitting her with an object on the head and

dumped the body at a bush in Alapa; he also admitted to having earlier sedated and caused the kidnap and

the killing of one Abubakar Malam Abubakar ‘Male’ and killing of one Nafisat Halidu’ female’, 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 locked storage in the General Hospital Kaiama with the key in his procession.

He maintained that the suspect further confessed to having been lured into organ harvesting by a yet-to-be-

identified syndicate.

Odama said the suspect, Dr Adeyemi, will soon be charged in court.