Fake Doctor Nabbed After Working For Over A Year In Govt Hospital In Calabar.

Fake doctor nabbed after working for over
one year in govt hospital
February 3, 2012 by Mudiaga Affe, Calabar ⁠
The Cross River State Police Command has
arrested a fake medical doctor, who worked
with the name, Dr. Collins Okafor, at the
General Hospital in Calabar, the state capital.
The suspect, whose real name is Mr. Simeon
Kejohu (34), was said to have used the
certificate of a medical practitioner to secure
employment with the Cross River State
Ministry of Health and worked in the
hospital for one and half years before his
true identity was discovered.
A source at the hospital, who is a senior
health personnel, said the suspect’s identity
became suspicious when all the medical
doctors in the hospital were compulsorily
made to register online as directed by the
Medical Advisory Council.
She said, “Medical doctors were recently
requested to register online and as one of
the doctors in the hospital, Dr. Collins Okafor,
had no choice but to register. When he did,
they found out that the certificate he
presented was conflicting with that of
another medical doctor from Abia State.
“On further interrogation, it was discovered
that he (the suspect) is a health technologist,
who impersonated a medical doctor. That
was how the police were invited to take
over the case.”
Corroborating the position of the source,
the Officer-in-Charge of the Cross River State
Intelligence Bureau, Mr. Habu Sani, said, “We
got the information that there was a fake
medical doctor in the hospital and
commenced investigation immediately.
When we went to his office, there were no
incriminating documents but by the time we
searched his house, we discovered some
documents which clearly explained how he
was able to carry out the assignment
through forgery.
“We found in his house the document of
one Dr. Collins Okafor, we now made
contacts with the Medical Advisory Council in
Abuja and they told us that two people had
registered bearing the same name and
therefore advised us to hold the person we
had picked.”
Sani, a Chief Superintendent of Police, said
prior to working at the General Hospital in
Calabar, Kejohu confessed that he had
worked in a private hospital in Abuja where
he established a contact with a doctor who
assisted him in securing employment with
the Cross River State Ministry of Health as an
indigene of the state.
He added that a team from the Medical
Advisory Council in Abuja had come to
Calabar to give useful statement, adding that
enough proof had been established against
the suspect.