REVALIDATION EXERCISE EXPOSES FAKE MEDICAL DOCTOR WITH FORGED CERTIFICATE FROM AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY

The police in Ogun state have arrested Sunday Adeyeye for parading himself as a medical doctor and graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

The Director, Hospital Services, Ogun State Ministry of Health,  Sola Adebiyi told newsmen on Friday in Abeokuta that one Mr. Sunday Adeyeye who has been practising with a forged certificate obtained from the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria was the sixth quack doctor to be nabbed in the state.

The culprit was arrested during the ongoing re-validation exercise of health facilities across the state, Adebiyi stated.

The Director said that the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Babatunde Ipaye, had made it mandatory for all private health facilities across the state to be re-validated and re-registered following incessant loss of lives by quacks.

The owner of the facility who unknowingly engaged the doctor, brought him for the re-validation of his hospital, where his fake certificate was discovered, the Director said.

“Going through the Ahmadu Bello University certificate he presented and comparing it with the ministry’s records, there we discovered he has been practicing with a forged certificate and we immediately called in the police to effect his arrest,’’ he said.

Responding to questions from newsmen, Sunday Adeyeye said he was not a doctor, that the ABU certificate was forged in his name in Zaria.

Also speaking the proprietor of the affected clinic, Mr Ganiyu Okewole, said he was unaware of the doctor’s case.

He said if he had not brought him for re-validation, he would not have known.

The task force has shut down 168 private health facilities since the commencement of the exercise in the state.

(NAN)