The Kwara state Police Command says it has discovered a decomposing carcass of an unidentified female in the office of a former Chief Medical Director, of Kaiama General hospital in the state.
This is contained in a statement the Police Public Relations Officer PPRO, in the state,SP Okasanmi Ajayi, released to Journalists.
Ajayi said:”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 on 30/9/2022 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.
“Ifeoluwa 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.
“Investigations led the team to Kaiama general hospital, where the suspect’s office was forced opened.
”Acursory 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 include, 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 pant.”
The PPRO said that in furtherance of the investigation, the 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.
He quoted the CP as declaring emphatically, that crimes and criminality would no longer be taken with levity, thus advising criminal elements to relocate from the state, “telling criminals that, there is a new sheriff in town.
