Fake doctor gets three years jail term

From Charles Coffie-Gyamfi, Abeokuta

A 27-YEAR OLD secondary school certificate drop-out, Mr. Olabisi Philips, who for three years impersonated as a medical doctor, was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Abeokuta Chief Magistrate's Court.



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Before nemesis caught up with him, Philips had practised as a medical doctor at Olanrewaju Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, Able God Hospital, Obantoko, Abeokuta and Michael and Alice Hospital, Kemta, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

He was said to have been involved in treatment of serious ailments such as cancer. The Ogun State Directorate of the State Security Service (SSS) arrested and charged him to court on four-count charge, including forgery of certificates and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate.

The SSS Prosecuting Officer, Mr. Peter Okurunmodun, told the court that besides the said offence, Olabisi Philips stole a car belonging to one Mrs. Sola Abudulahi who resides in Ilorin and forged vehicle documents to convert it into his.

The accused, according to the charges preferred against him, stole a West African School Certificate belonging to one Sherif Abiodun. Also, Philips, the SSS official said, forged the licence of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to practise.

The prosecuting officer added: "Another certificate he forged was the Certificate of Provisional Registration by the same Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria with Registration PMBS 48".

He also forged a Bachelor of Medicine Degree and Bachelor of Surgery (MMBS) degrees from the University of Ilorin (UNIILORIN) and University of Ibadan (UI), which he presented to his employers as genuine certificates.

Another certificate the accused admitted he forged was a Masters degree in Public Health from the UNILORIN.

The SSS said during a search of the accused residence, they discovered copies of all the said certificates in addition to four copies of forged Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria licence, "all in his (accused) name".

Narrating what led to the arrest of the accused, the SSS prosecutor disclosed that following a tip-off, the medical director of Michael and Alice Hospital carried investigations on the accused, which revealed that he often raped female patients after drugging them.

It was after the disturbing discovery that the medical director reported the case to the SSS.

"When we searched the accused house and confronted him with all the fake documents, he admitted that all the forged documents belonged to him", Okurunmodun added.

Nigeria is a silly country.
This is horrifying
Why only three years?

Can this topic be discussed w/out an injection of ethnic ''irredentism''?
How can some Nigerians be so heartless, selfish and irredeemably morally corrupt?
How many people have died under his fake medical existence?