[size=14pt]Fake Cameroonian doctors in Ebonyi[/size]
Editorial
Thursday, August 11, 2011


NANA Patrice, Penda George and Andee Capoel used to ply their trade in Ebonyi State and to be sure, their trade had earned them some sort of comfortable livelihood such that may not be possible for them in their country, Cameroon.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/editorial/26457-fake-cameroonian-doctors-in-ebonyi




These Cameroonians had, until recently operated illegal clinics at St Mary's Catholic Church, Ekengbo and Honourable Samuel Nwali Hotel, Agubia, in Ikwo Local Government of Ebonyi State.


IT was arguably easy for them. All they needed was a little bit of grey matter deployed negatively. There were unwary citizens oblivious of their rights. There is a lax security system that could be compromised if the right price was paid so officials would look the other way. So the triumvirate moved in to exploit the lax security to make money for themselves. Incidentally, along the line, Penda George even got a modicum of prestige as bonus. He is popularly called 'doctor', and was probably accorded the respect which the label attracts in contemporary society.


HOWEVER, their run of luck was terminated recently when officials from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) arrested them. Before then, it would have been interesting to know the data of the victims and the extent of the damage which their illegal operations had wreaked on the population. But for the vigilance of NAFDAC, the police and the Nigeria Immigration Service would have allowed the illegal clinics to continue to run.


ACCORDING to Dr Paul Orhii, the Director-General of NAFDAC, these 'doctors' were arrested with six bags of assorted fake drugs labelled in Chinese language. He said "the three suspects claimed to work for Christian Ginipi, a Cameroonian based in China who sends them the fake drugs to sell. Although Dr Orhii's advice to Nigerians was that they should be wary of any product that does not have literature written in English, we think that the Nigerian state owes its citizens a duty of protection such that any product that is fake or dangerous for public consumption should not have a place in the market, and its peddlers should be apprehended and duly prosecuted.


THE nefarious activities, such as these Cameroonians practised in Ebonyi State, can only flourish in a state that is doomed that Nigeria aptly represents. We are bothered that things have deteriorated so much that even foreigners who should ordinarily be living in utmost circumspection have the effrontory and confidence to dupe Nigerians and even kill them! It will be interesting to know the various ill-fated consequences that may have befallen the victims of these Cameroonians.


WE are also interested in knowing how these Cameroonians have escaped apprehension by both the police and the Nigerian Immigration Service, the agencies that are primarily responsible for nabbing such foreigners who double as criminals in their operations. It is probably because their practice touched on health that NAFDAC was able to arrest them. We shudder to imagine how many of these foreigners are involved in various forms of criminality which the lax security system of the state have permitted. It is an indictment on the Nigerian state and the agencies whose statutory duty it is to apprehend and prosecute such criminals in the first place.

Fake doctors or fake drug sellers aka chemist

Wonders shall never cease. Thank God the fake drugs would be destroyed finally. @ifyalways, how are ya?

why is our border so porous that anybody can just walk in without proper documentation. The agency in charge should take note.

Hungry Cameroonians!

ojdollars:

Wonders shall never cease. Thank God the fake drugs would be destroyed finally. @ifyalways, how are ya?

God is great and Im grateful for all his mercies.
Have we met before please

@ifyalways , Nah we haven't met before, but just kinda notice you around on the forum. I am O.J, always on Travel Section though. Like your letter to Santa as your profile picture. What section are you always in on here?

nah today? May be the foreigners never settle our officers lol,they will soon reopen their chemist.

Poor cameroonians impersonated Doctors mean while, they don't have money to bribe.

aloy-emeka:

[size=14pt]Fake Cameroonian doctors in Ebonyi[/size]
WE are also interested in knowing how these Cameroonians have[b] escaped apprehension by both the police and the Nigerian Immigration Service, the agencies that are primarily responsible for nabbing such foreigners who double as criminals in their operations.[/b]

It as simple as this:
They were settled

na wah o

@iftalways: your letter to Santa is a funny one, sorry that i have to through ur stuff


to the topic: no bi naija, anything goes

Impersonation in the health sector is more widespread than you think.
It happens right under our noses and the authorities keep looking the other way.
Illiteracy doesn't help our cause as some people assume every male who works in a hospital is a doctor and all females there are nurses.
Everyone claims to be what they're not. I've seen cases where the lab attendant claims ''doctor'', male nurses do the same. . . .
The MDCN needs to have a public database that can be querried via the internet to check for names and faces of registered medical practitioners in Nigeria, this may help a bit (something like what the GMC in the UK operate).Unfortunately it seems those MDCN folks are only interested in collecting license fees every year without doing anything.

Very unfortunate; MDCN does not regulate any thing; they only collect annual license fees from doctors; our immigration is dead, and our police is unconscious, so why would they not flourish? There are thousands more, yet to be caught. Haven't you heard about other men walking around the villages and in the markets, even in Lagos State, with stethoscopes, claiming that they are mobile doctors, from government, duping uneducated citizens. Our country is a true jungle.

Wow that's crazy, I hope they receive the strictest punishments under law.

Insult of the highest order.

It is unfortunate that those that are suppose to be responsible for the regulation of healthcare practises in Nigeria are not doing their jobs. The MDCN, NMA, ARD, the private medical practitioners and the ministry health should create a comprehensive data base of all medical practitioners including expatriates and foreign-trained Nigerian professionals, accessible to everyone all over the world. Enough of this nonsense, lets safeguard the health of our nation.

U can't find anything original in ibo's environment,theirs is all about fake.Fake product,fake money,fake doctor,even fake human beings.Na dem get am!Yeah na me talk am!

God have mercy on those that love money above human lives.

Let government comb the country through the ministry of heath and NAFDAC.

for their mind,them be JAMES BOND

we get what we want

Nemesis don catch them,dubious foreigners.

nothing wey person no go see 4 9ja

sad

I hope they get what they deserve

this is just sad

I know these Cameroonian guys are good in 419 scams, especially washing fake dollars in Asia, but I didnt know they are this bad.

na wa o

we have a long way to go in this country,borders are so porous anybody can enter this country

Amazing