http://sunnewsonline.com/new/fake-doctor-led-nma-police/

From MOLLY KILETE, Abuja

A former chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has been exposed by the police as a fake doctor. He operated under the name, Dr. George Daniel. His real name is Martins Ugwu Okpe

Parading the suspect before newsmen yesterday at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, the police said the 45-year-old man who has worked as a medical doctor with the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja since 2006, rose to Grade Level 12 status, was after all, an impostor and fake.

Okpe was attached to the Research and Planning Department of the ministry.

Interestingly, the suspect, who is a secondary school certificate holder, became the NMA chairman, Federal Ministry of Health branch, where he was in charge of the welfare of qualified medical doctors.

He was among the medical volunteers trained by the ministry in conjunction with the African Union Support to Ebola out-break in West Africa(ASEOWA), Mission in Liberia, but declined to proceed for the trip after collecting all the allowances from both the ministry and the AU.

He also secured admission for professional training at the Centre for Disease Control, tagged: “Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training (NFELTP), which is a post-graduate programme affiliated to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. However, his academic performance casts doubts on his competence as a medical doctor.

Okpe refused to accept blame for his crime. He heaped the blame on the porous system for not detecting his true status over the years.

Ironically, the “doctor” defended his action, saying he was in the system to correct the inherent errors and expose the lapses.

Police had revealed that the suspect stole the certificate of his medical doctor friend, one George Davidson Daniel, with which he gained employment with the ministry as a doctor and bears the name on the certificate.

The police said he would be charged with impersonation.

Force Deputy spokesman, Abayomi Shogunle, said the fake doctor was exposed following a petition to the Inspector-General of Police on March 10 this year by Festus Keyamo chambers on behalf of Martins Ugwu Okpe, an impostor that assumed the identity of Dr. George Davidson Daniel.

He said the petition was transferred to the police analytical tracking and inception centre for investigation.

According to him, the Federal Civil Service Commission had also written a petition against the suspect, dated May, 2015, when he was found to be engaging in unprofessional conduct and unwholesome behaviour of fomenting trouble, blackmailing and misleading health workers among other crimes.

Police said his trouble started after investigation carried out on him by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) found him to be fake and traced the records of Dr. Daniel, who is in a residency programme in Jos, to the Ahmadu Bello University, Faculty of Medicine, that contained a passport size photograph bearing no resemblance with the suspect.

Further police investigation showed that the suspect is a childhood friend of the doctor. He stole the certificate when he was his friend’s best man.

But Okpe, who said he had wanted to become a soldier, but failed to gain admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy(NDA), said he actually stole the certificate when his friend visited him at his home in Karu, Abuja, noting that he regretted what he did.

Wondaful

You see why our health-care keeps getting bad,even his fellow doctors didnt research very well to discover this for over 10 years.Now we know part of our problem in Nigeria. NMA has failed in their duties and everyday we keep on hearing about one strike action after the other.

That means there are alot of fake doctors parading themselves around.

Nigeria is a land of possibilities. that introvert of a girl above me sha. always making FTC

Ironically, the “doctor” defended his action, saying he was in the system to correct the inherent errors and expose the lapses.

Imagine?

When trouble sleep and you go wake am. I remember this same person was the one that led a protest and wrongly accused the Ministry of Health of corruption as regards the Nigerian Ebola volunteers. If he hadn't accused the ministry wrongly, I bet you, no one would have detected that he is a fake doctor.

If quacks full FMOH na im be say that the one wey de labour market na boko aham.

a real life pretender,this guy has genius level intellect

Like seriously? The man is right after all, how could the system not have detected this falsehood ever since?