Unknown gunmen, suspected to be hired assassins, on Sunday, killed a medical doctor, Stanley Uche, the proprietor of Victory Christian Hospital, Aba, Abia State.
The medical doctor, who had earlier been abducted by his assailants, was allegedly killed after his abductors had collected N30 million ransom from his wife. The deceased, a gynaecologist, who hails from Mbano in Imo State, was said to be travelling home with his wife on Friday for the burial of his younger sister when they were ambushed by their abductors who had trailed them from Aba.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the slain medical doctor's wife was released later and ordered to source for N50 million to facilitate her husband's freedom. It was also gathered that the young lady only succeeded in delivering N30 million to the abductors on Monday morning at the agreed location.
Sources said that the lady, unaware that her husband had already been killed, had pleaded with the abductors to be allowed to see him, only to be taken to a spot where his corpse was dumped, which she was ordered to take away immediately.
There are speculations within the community that the medical doctor must have been a victim of hired assassins. The Abia State Police Public Relations Officer, Godfrey Ogbonna, told NAN that the command had received a report on the incident from the Osisioma Police Division. He said a team of crack police detectives had been deployed to the area to investigate the incident..
Crime in Mexico City
Mexico has experienced increasingly high crime rates, especially in major urban centers. The country's great economic polarization has stimulated criminal activity in the lower socioeconomic strata, which include the majority of the country's population. Crime continues at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in Mexico City, Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo, Michoacan, and the state ofSinaloa. Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime. Low apprehension and conviction rates contribute to the high crime rate.
The high incidence of crime in Mexico has also poured across the border and influenced crime in the United States, aggravating problems including drugs, illegal immigration, and gangs. There is some data that indicates crime rates along the U.S. border have decreased and that any perceived notion that crime rate in the United States is not related to the crime rate in Mexico. Over the past several years the United States has seen a significant decrease in its crime rate, especially the violent crime rate. However, that has not stopped the United States from beefing up it's border security to combat this increasing perception and cross-border cooperation has increased between law enforcement agencies in the United States and Mexico in recent years.
source: wikipedia.
Top Murder Countries in the World Nigeria is not on the list but dont be too smug about this maybe the police are not giving the right statistics !
Murders (per capita) (most recent) by country
| Rank | Countries  |
Amount  |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Colombia: | 0.617847 per 1,000 people | |
| # 2 | South Africa: | 0.496008 per 1,000 people | |
| # 3 | Jamaica: | 0.324196 per 1,000 people | |
| # 4 | Venezuela: | 0.316138 per 1,000 people | |
| # 5 | Russia: | 0.201534 per 1,000 people | |
| # 6 | Mexico: | 0.130213 per 1,000 people | |
| # 7 | Estonia: | 0.107277 per 1,000 people | |
| # 8 | Latvia: | 0.10393 per 1,000 people | |
| # 9 | Lithuania: | 0.102863 per 1,000 people | |
| # 10 | Belarus: | 0.0983495 per 1,000 people | |
| # 11 | Ukraine: | 0.094006 per 1,000 people | |
| # 12 | Papua New Guinea: | 0.0838593 per 1,000 people | |
| # 13 | Kyrgyzstan: | 0.0802565 per 1,000 people | |
| # 14 | Thailand: | 0.0800798 per 1,000 people | |
| # 15 | Moldova: | 0.0781145 per 1,000 people | |
| # 16 | Zimbabwe: | 0.0749938 per 1,000 people | |
| # 17 | Seychelles: | 0.0739025 per 1,000 people | |
| # 18 | Zambia: | 0.070769 per 1,000 people | |
| # 19 | Costa Rica: | 0.061006 per 1,000 people | |
| # 20 | Poland: | 0.0562789 per 1,000 people | |
| # 21 | Georgia: | 0.0511011 per 1,000 people | |
| # 22 | Uruguay: | 0.045082 per 1,000 people | |
| # 23 | Bulgaria: | 0.0445638 per 1,000 people | |
| # 24 | United States: | 0.042802 per 1,000 people | |
| # 25 | Armenia: | 0.0425746 per 1,000 people | |
| # 26 | India: | 0.0344083 per 1,000 people | |
| # 27 | Yemen: | 0.0336276 per 1,000 people | |
| # 28 | Dominica: | 0.0289733 per 1,000 people | |
| # 29 | Azerbaijan: | 0.0285642 per 1,000 people | |
| # 30 | Finland: | 0.0283362 per 1,000 people | |
| # 31 | Slovakia: | 0.0263303 per 1,000 people | |
| # 32 | Romania: | 0.0250784 per 1,000 people | |
| # 33 | Portugal: | 0.0233769 per 1,000 people | |
| # 34 | Malaysia: | 0.0230034 per 1,000 people | |
| # 35 | Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: | 0.0229829 per 1,000 people | |
| # 36 | Mauritius: | 0.021121 per 1,000 people | |
| # 37 | Hungary: | 0.0204857 per 1,000 people | |
| # 38 | Korea, South: | 0.0196336 per 1,000 people | |
| # 39 | Slovenia: | 0.0179015 per 1,000 people | |
| # 40 | France: | 0.0173272 per 1,000 people | |
| # 41 | Czech Republic: | 0.0169905 per 1,000 people | |
| # 42 | Iceland: | 0.0168499 per 1,000 people | |
| # 43 | Australia: | 0.0150324 per 1,000 people | |
| # 44 | Canada: | 0.0149063 per 1,000 people | |
| # 45 | Chile: | 0.014705 per 1,000 people | |
| # 46 | United Kingdom: | 0.0140633 per 1,000 people | |
| # 47 | Italy: | 0.0128393 per 1,000 people | |
| # 48 | Spain: | 0.0122456 per 1,000 people | |
| # 49 | Germany: | 0.0116461 per 1,000 people | |
| # 50 | Tunisia: | 0.0112159 per 1,000 people | |
| # 51 | Netherlands: | 0.0111538 per 1,000 people | |
| # 52 | New Zealand: | 0.0111524 per 1,000 people | |
| # 53 | Denmark: | 0.0106775 per 1,000 people | |
| # 54 | Norway: | 0.0106684 per 1,000 people | |
| # 55 | Ireland: | 0.00946215 per 1,000 people | |
| # 56 | Switzerland: | 0.00921351 per 1,000 people | |
| # 57 | Indonesia: | 0.00910842 per 1,000 people | |
| # 58 | Greece: | 0.0075928 per 1,000 people | |
| # 59 | Hong Kong: | 0.00550804 per 1,000 people | |
| # 60 | Japan: | 0.00499933 per 1,000 people | |
| # 61 | Saudi Arabia: | 0.00397456 per 1,000 people | |
| # 62 | Qatar: | 0.00115868 per 1,000 people |
