A Fake Doctor Became NMA Chairman; Investigated, Confessed And Arrested

Martins Ugwu Okpeh, from Benue State, in 2006 was the best man to his childhood friend, Dr. George Davidson, a medical doctor practising in Jos, when he allegedly stole the academic credentials and used the credentials to secure employment at the federal ministry.

Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Abayomi Shogunle, said an anonymous petition from the ministry prompted the Police to begin discreet investigation. It was then revealed that Ugwu adopted the identity of Dr. Davidson, a true medical doctor on residency training in Jos. He added, “Martins Ugwu has been parading himself as a medical doctor in the Federal Ministry of Health in Abuja for almost one decade and was among medicalVOLUNTEERS trained by the ministry in conjunction with African-Union Support to Ebola Outbreak in West-Africa (ASEOWA) mission in Liberia.”

Confessing his crimes, Ugwu, 44 years old and a father of five, said that he actually took the certificates from his friend and joined the health ministry. He confessed, “I never opted for clinical services to avoid damage that may occur. I went into administration and research. It is in the health services, research and statistics that all the fraud in the health sector is found. I have great remorse but its my desire to save my country that pushed me into this, I have great passion for Nigeria, I participated in the Ebola mission and much more and have not even been paid. Severally, there were biometrics verification, but I survived them, I was the NMA chairman in 2008. Federal Ministry of Health, I don’t think has the mechanisms for that. The ministry is porous.”

According to the DFPRO, Ugwu has never passed any examination set by the ministry that would have warranted his promotion. Mr Ugwu is to be arraigned in court for the offenses of theft, impersonating a medical doctor, wearing and carrying token used by medical doctors, dishonestlyRECEIVING what he is not due for, framing of incorrectDOCUMENT with intent to cause injury, breach of official trust among other offenses.

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