The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ari Muhammed Ali, has vowed to fish out those behind the assassination of Dr. Uyi Iluobe, who was murdered in his hospital, Olivet Clinic, Oghareki, Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area, Delta State on the 29th of December 2022.
It was gathered that on the 3rd of January of 2023, Ali received members of the Nigerian Medical Association Delta State Chapter in his office over the murder of Iluobe.
Preliminary investigation revealed that on the said date, a female patient whose name and address are not known came to the hospital at about 7:40 PM, pretending to have abdominal pain.
While the doctor was attending to her, she made a phone call to the suspects whom she deceptively invited to come and pay her bill, stressing that she was being treated by the doctor.
Moments later, the hoodlums stormed the hospital in a Toyota vehicle, entered the doctor’s office, and shot him twice in the chest, leading to his death.
The purported female patient fled alongside the suspects.
The Commissioner of Police, while extending his heartfelt condolences to the family members of the deceased medical doctor and also members of the Nigerian Medical Association, reassured them that the case will be thoroughly investigated to ensure that the deserved justice is served.
The Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bright Edafe, dismissed the claim that the doctor was killed by family members of a patient.
The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr Uche Ojinmah, had on the 2nd of January released a statement in which he said that Iluobe was murdered on December 31, 2022, by relatives of a patient in a hospital in Oghara, on December 31, 2022.
However, in a tweet, posted on January 3, Edafe stated that the deceased was killed by cultists who came into the hospital and not family members of a patient.
