A Quack medical doctor who is a secondary school leaver and has been working as a medical doctor for several years has been exposed in Adamawa state and have been sentenced to 44 years and six month in jail
The fake medical doctoris identified as Ibrahim Mustapha, is however to spend a concurrent term of 10 years
The High Court in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, which handed various sentences of six months, three years and 10 years on 10 counts levelled against him, indicated that the sentences are to run concurrently.
The judge said,
He rose as an employee of the government to become a principal medical officer with Cottage Hospital, Fufore in Fufore LGA, but was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) in June this year.
The DSS director in the state, Bola Olori, had told the media at the time that Mustapha held National Board of Technical Education (NBTE) certificate, an equivalent of Senior Secondary School certificate.
Ibrahim had confessed to forging MBBS credentials at the time but denied insinuation that people died in his hands.
The investigation the DSS carried out on Mustapha at the time had shown that he
Mustapha’s illegal practice had blown open when he attended visa interview as a potential medical team member for the 2019 hajj operations.
He had in the course of the interview run into a man who knew him in Gombe as a ward attendant in an undisclosed clinic.
The man who had been shocked to see Mustapha sailing in the garb of a medical doctor, had spoken up against him.
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