Another fake doctor, a female, Nwosu Angela Njide, has been arrested by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) and handed over to the police. The Head of Department of the Inspectorate Unit of the MDCN, Dr Henry Okwuokenye, who carried out the arrest, told LEADERSHIP that the council has been on the trail of the impostor for more than a year now as she has been evading arrest. He said the fake doctor who is in her 30s had confessed to have worked in different places, including the British American Tobacco (BAT) clinic, Ibadan, the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and eventually in Rauz hospital, Apo in Abuja before nemesis caught up with her.

Okwuokenye narrated that 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. However, luck seemed to have ran out on her as the officials of the ministry became suspicious of   her qualifications and went to the MDCN to verify the authenticity of her claims. Nwosu claimed to have graduated from medical school 2005 at University of Nigeria, Nsukka.and did housemanship at UNN’s teaching hospital, but she failed simple questions any medical student is expected to know. Following the refusal of the Oyo State Ministry of Health to register her, she was said to have relocated to Abuja, and brazenly went on her own to the MDCN to register for her license.