A suspected fake doctor named Victor Akpan was apprehended by policemen in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja. He has been running a private hospital for 10 years, allegedly operated with forged and stolen certificates.

According to reports, he was said to have performed caesarean sections, removed fibroids and delivered pregnant women of babies.

His case is similar to that of a senior medical officer with the Federal Ministry of Health, Martins Ugwu, arrested by the police for practising as a medical doctor with stolen certificates for over nine years.

It was gathered that on Tuesday, Akpan’s arrest was sequel to investigations by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

“The suspect was the owner of Luna Maternity and Surgery Hospital, an outfit he opened in 2006 using a forged licence – four years after the MDCN refused to grant him licence to practice as a homeopath.”

Dr Henry Okwuokenye, the Head of the Inspectorate Division of MDCN, who had been investigating Akpan, said the regulatory agency did not grant him a homeopathic practice licence “because the school he claimed to have graduated from in Enugu State was not approved to train students in alternative medicine.”