The State of Osun Police Command has arrested a medical doctor, ABBAS ADIO for stealing a Toyota Camry in Benin City Edo State Capital.
Parading the suspect in the State Command in Osogbo the state capital of Osun, on Tuesday, The Public Relations Officer SP Yemisi Opalola revealed that upon a distress call received from Edo State Police Command that, a Toyota Camry car was snatched from Benin and tracked to Osun State.
She stated that Police Command swiftly put security mechanism in place and the said car was intercepted along Ejigbo/Ogbomoso road while the occupant was arrested.
According to her, ” During the preliminary investigation, the suspect claimed to be a medical doctor working in one of the hospitals in Kwara State.
“The suspect, who travelled from Kwara State to Benin in Edo State sometimes in the Month of July this year, met one Emmanuel Oyiobo, a taxi driver who was driving him for the days he spent in Benin. Thereafter, the suspect and the deceased became friends and exchanged phone numbers and have been communicating since then.
” The suspect communicated to his friend (victim) in Benin that he wanted to sell his Car and they agreed that the suspect should bring the Car to Benin where it was sold for one million four hundred thousand naira only. (#1.4m). The suspect in the course of his stay in Benin after selling his Car trickly injected his friend (deceased) with a substance suspected to have killed him on 03/09/2022.
” He subsequently dumped his corpse in a nearby bush and made away his white Toyota Camry muscle.”
She added that the suspect will be charged to court as soon as the investigation is concluded.
