The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Delta State branch, has called on security agencies to speedily spread their dragnet to apprehend the murderers of Dr Uyi Iluobe.
Uyi was murdered at his work in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta state, on 29th December 2022.
Addressing journalists in Asaba today, NMA chairman in Delta State, Dr Okolakpa Carter, charged the Delta State Police Command to as a matter of urgency, investigate thoroughly.
NMA said the issues of threat to the life of the deceased from a previously treated and discharged gunshot victim who refused to pay his bills sometime in October last year must be investigated.
Dr Okolakpa, who was represented at the press briefing by the Vice Chairman, Dr Okwuze Anthony, also called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to do everything necessary to assist the family of the deceased and the entire medical community in getting justice.
“On 29th December 2022, at about 7:30 pm, our deceased colleague was called to attend to an emergency in his clinic. On getting there, he met a lady who was purportedly presented with severe abdominal pains.
“Being an emergency, the doctor quickly started attending to her. While examining the patient on the couch, the patient called an unknown person, telling him, ‘ I dey there make una come
