Fake Female Doctor Arrested In Abuja

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), has arrested one Nwosu Angela Njide, an alleged fake female doctor with Rauz Hospital, Apo, Abuja.

The suspect, Nwosu Angela Njide

A young fake female doctor at the Rauz Hospital, Apo, Abuja. who goes by the name Nwosu Angela Njide, has been nabbed by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN).

The culprit worked as a doctor for years using counterfeit documents. She confessed to have practised in notable places in the class of the British American Tobacco (BAT) clinic, Ibadan, the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). She claimed to have graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Medical College in 2005, adding that she had her housemanship programme at the teaching hospital in Nsukka.

Luck however ran out on the suspect when she was interrogated by the Head of Department of the Inspectorate Unit of the MDCN, Dr Henry Okwuokenye. She was asked simple basic medical questions which she failed blatantly.

Okwuokenye said, “The fake doctor’s ordeal began more than a year ago when she went to Oyo State to register for her license to practice at the Ministry of Health under the Oyo State Director, Medical Services.

“Following the refusal of the Oyo State Ministry of Health to register her, she was said to have relocated to Abuja, and audaciously went on her own to the MDCN to register for her license,”

“She came to the council to apply for a new folio number, unique to every practicing doctor in Nigeria, in attempt to get full registration.

“We checked and she was not on the list. She claimed to have graduated from UNN, but we went to verify and we discovered she lied. As at this time, she was on the run.”

Okwuokenye further noted that the impostor had been dodging arrest for more than one year now and the council had been on her tail.

Angela was reportedly arrested on the first day of her new job, which reports say was worth N280, 000 monthly, at a newly opened private hospital in Bwari Area Council in Abuja after her new employees demanded MDCN to verify its new staff doctors. The Ministry officials, however, became suspicious of her qualifications and undoubtedly verified the authenticity of her claims.

Only a few months ago a major revelation was made when a fake doctor, Martins Ugwu Okpe who has been practising for 10 years in the Federal Ministry of Health was apprehended.

Nwosu Angela Njide has been handed over to the police for prosecution.