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Details have emerged on how a medical doctor, Uyi Iluobe, was shot dead by gunmen while attending to a disguised patient in Olivet Clinic on December 29, 2022, in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State.
Our correspondent gathered that a yet-to-be-identified female patient had approached the clinic and met the doctor with a complaint of serious abdominal pain.
As the doctor was attending to the patient, the latter made a call to some supposed relatives to come to pay her medical bills.
The “relatives” reportedly arrived in a Toyota Hilux, headed for the doctor’s office, and shot him dead before fleeing the scene with the disguised female patient.
The incident has, since generated uproar across the state, with members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) threatening to down tools.
The initial narrative doing the rounds about the killing was that the patient’s relatives came to carry out the dastardly act.
But the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Delta State Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe, in a terse statement, said “the rumor making rounds that he (medical doctor) was murdered by the family of the patient who died in the hospital is false.
