Doctor Rejects Offer To Kill Patient, Flees

A medical doctor work-ing with a private hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has gone on self exile following threat to his life for rejecting an offer of N5 million to kill a patient.
The medical doctor (name withheld) was said to have been abducted on November 9 this year by some unknown gunmen in Police uniform and taken to an unknown destination where he was asked to agree to administer a poisonous substance on the said patient for N5 million.
The medical doctor who spoke to The Tide through a relation said his initial refusal to the offer made his abductors to subject him to serious physical torture which compelled him to agree to carry out the murderious act on the patient on Monday, November 26, this year.
“He was subsequently released by his abductors on November 10, 2018, and was given strict warning not to disclose any information to anyone, failure to which his life and that of members of his family would be at the risk of extermination”,our source said.
According to our source, the medical doctor had to go on exile to avoid the execution of the plan on Monday. “He could hardly sleep as the day draws close and yesterday, he decided to go on self exile”, our source said.
Rivers State Police Command could not be reached to confirm the incident as at the time of filing this report but our source said the matter has been reported to the Police at the Rumukpakani Police Division on Ada-George Road in Port Harcourt.