The Zamfara state police command says it has commenced investigation into the death of Enoch Okpara, a medical doctor, who was killed and burnt by unknown assailants.

Okpara was a consultant obstetrics/gynaecologist who worked at the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau.

The doctor was found dead at his residence in Mareri area of Gusau, the state capital, on Saturday.

Shehu Mohammed, the police public relations Officer (PPRO) of the state command, confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday.

He said Usman Nagogo, the Zamfara commissioner of police, has directed an investigation into the incident in order to arrest the perpetrators.

“We received the sad report of the gruesome murder of a medical doctor, Enoch Okpara on Saturday afternoon,” he said.

“Due to the terrible nature of the killing, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Usman Nagogo, ordered for immediate commencement of investigation into the matter.

“This is with a view to fish out the culprits and bringing them to book.”

Speaking on the incident, Mannir Bature, vice-chairman of the state’s chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), described the deceased as a “quiet gentleman”.

He said the doctor was discovered missing when he did not show up in church on Saturday morning which was unusual of him.

Bature said the church had to contact some of Okpara’s colleagues who tried his mobile phone number which rang repeatedly without response, thereby raising the alarm that something had gone wrong.

He said when his colleagues checked the house where the deceased lived alone, as his family was not in Zamfara, his car was seen parked inside the compound and so, drew the attention of the police to check in.

According to Bature, the burnt body of the deceased was discovered in the courtyard while bloodstains were seen on the walls of the room.https://www.thecable.ng/doctor-killed-and-burnt-in-zamfara/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Mynd44
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Animals

Buhari why??

Is northern Nigeria the real problem of this country

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This is pathetic.
Which way Nigeria?

Wasting of life is norm in Nigeria. I hope the killer are arrested.

Seen

God have mercy.
Why do we have to live with animals in this country?

Chineke. RIP. Zamfara is more dangerous than the entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad

Crime everywhere

This is so sad. Poor man went to save lives in a hostile environment.

RIP Dr Okpara.

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This is so sad. Poor man went to save lives in a hostile environment.

RIP Dr Okpara.

someone's husband killed him , male gyno in zamfara , him dey check the wife's yansh .. I don't know why we can't break this country ..

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someone's husband killed him , male gyno in zamfara , him dey check the wife's yansh .. I don't know why we can't break this country ..

Wow. That's damn scary.

Other Drs have warned me severally about this but this is the first actual case I have seen.

I mean of a Dr losing his life over checking a female patient in the North.