The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a fake surgeon, who also poses as a gynecologist, using a suspected identity card of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
The suspect, Stephen Akintolure, 40, was also accused of carrying his fake medical practice in a mobile clinic.
Akintolure, who said he graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University, had lied to the police that he was a medical doctor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
To convince the police, he tendered a LUTH identity card with the number 13541, which identified him as a surgeon and gynecologist.
The suspect was presented to journalists by the command’s image maker, Ngozi Braide.
According to Braide, Akintolure got his experience while working as the personal assistant to a doctor in Ondo State.
The suspect also stated that he had practiced for about four years, before he was eventually arrested by the police.
Trouble started for the suspect after he was accused of collecting N500,000 fraudulently from one Joy Umosekhaimhe. Based on Umosekhaimhe’s accusation, police invited the ‘medical doctor.’
But on getting to Area H Police Station, he introduced himself as a medical doctor.
Braide said: “Curiously, a letter was written to LUTH on 23/7/2013 to authenticate his claims and on 10/10/2013 LUTH replied that the suspect was not an employee of the hospital and that he was not issued the identity card.
“In view of the revelation, the suspect confessed that he was not a medical doctor but had been practicing as such for about four years, using his vehicle as a mobile clinic.”
She added that the suspect’s house and vehicle were searched and different types of drugs, injections and laboratory coats were recovered.
The suspect blamed his involvement in the crime on poverty and unemployment.
He confessed that he had in the past treated people for typhoid and malaria but denied ever taking delivery of any pregnant woman.
His words: “I was formerly working with one health products manufacturer but when I was not making enough money and my wife was putting pressure on me, I had to do this.”
Akintolure, who claimed to be a graduate of marketing, said that he used his experience, while working as the PA to a doctor, to treat people and charge between N3,000 and N4,000.
He also admitted to have given some of his patients injection but quickly added that none of them died.
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