The fake doctor who practised with his friend's ID for 19 years was yesterday paraded in Abuja and the Federal Government has ordered that he returns all the money he earned for nine years to the pocket of the FG.
The FG has ordered the Departments of Finance and Accounts and Human Resources to do a thorough computation of what he had earned for nine years with a view to ensuring that he returns the money to the government’s coffers.
“The ministry is currently computing all salaries and allowances which was accrued to Ugwu during his mischievous sojourn in the ministry, for full retrieval by the relevant law enforcement agencies,” the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute, said.
Awute also said that since the fake doctor assumed duty at the Health ministry, he had passed only one promotion examination in 2013, which placed him on Grade Level 13 from Grade Level 12.
Ugwu was due to be promoted as Assistant Director in the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Health, before he was exposed.
Awute stated this on Wednesday in Abuja where the owner of the certificate, Dr. George Davidson Daniel, called on security agencies to protect him because his life was being threatened.
He also noted that Ugwu had collaborators in the ministry, adding that based on this, “we have sent another petition to the police to interview him to name his sponsors.”
The PS also emphasised that the ministry did not employ any of its members of staff directly, but through the Federal Civil Service Commission which has the statutory powers to do so.
Awute said, “Mr. Martins Ugwu Okpeh, who hails from Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, got himself employed fraudulently using the stolen documents of his childhood friend and best man, Dr. George Davidson Daniel, who has offered to appear at this press briefing to clear his name. Martins Ugwu was offered an appointment by the FCSC on August 30, 2006 and was posted to the Federal Ministry of Health in September same year.
“The surprising thing about Ugwu’s appointment is that he applied for the job on October 10, 2006. He was subsequently offered the job on October 17, 2006 and he applied for an identity card on the 19 of the same month.”
Contrary to the civil service regulations, controversial Martins Ugwu, who has been working since 2006 in the Ministry of Health using the name, Dr. George Davidson Daniel, was offered a job just a week after he submitted his application for employment.
*Original reportage by Punch rewritten here *
*Photo Credit : Munched from YouTube video of the report
What a pity..#Epic disgrace,I honestly feel so sorry for him.Where he wan see money refund government?They should also interrogate the friend he was impersonatingi dont believe he didnt know about it....it was a long nine years of someone else using his name and he didnt know?
I dont believe it.
Fake doctors sha, cnt really say i blame him oh, its better than creating fake products that lead to death, my aba brothers i hail oh, kedu? he ws part of the solution evn if he took a dangerous shortcut.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing better about it biko. What if he mis diagnosed someone and the person dies? Which I'm sure would have happened.
DeleteI feel sorry for him I tell u, is such a pity.am sure he stepped on on big oga toes they had to investigate him to see if they could get anything to incriminate him.and bang they got something bigger.
DeleteThe guy sharp sha. For him to do this successfully for 9 yrs he must be good. Maybe he dropped out of med sch
DeleteNigerianz ,always feeling sorry
DeleteFeel sorry for what?
So wrong of him....Don't you know for the past 9years he has denied a more qualified doctor a Job placement
@Galore
He practised for 9 years without being caught? Oh dear oh dear. Who knows how many lives he has wasted?
DeleteAnd I'm sure there are so many doctors out there killing innocent people. These doctors should be punished severely. See his faceeee
Applied on the 10th and employed on the 17th? 9 good years of killing people? Just negodu this heartless man
ReplyDeleteStella, how's his friend supposed to know. I'm not ruling out that he knows about it but there's also a 50% chance he doesn't. I personally don't think he had anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteI honestly do not believe his friend do not know about it. During final recruitment procesd, original credentials are submitted. He obviously knows about it. Govt should go extra miles by going through their phone conversations especially in the month of his recruitment. That will reveal a lot of things. Only God knows how many innocent souls he had killef. Chai
ReplyDeleteHis not a practicing doc na ministry he dey mumu
DeleteWith the way he was employed I believe he skipped this process. They should do. A thorough investigation in federal civil service.
DeleteNawa oooh......things are happening ooooh.
ReplyDelete90 days 4 the thief!
Ok now.
ReplyDeleteThis one na wash na... where he wan see money refund? I don't pity him though
ReplyDeleteThe friend may not have know at the onset. The impersonator had collaborators in that Civil Service commission. Look at way his employment went.
ReplyDeleteThis dude right here as a doctor is not allowed to touch me with a long stick....I berra go home sick!
DeleteSomething creepy about him... lol,maybe cause I already know he is a fake?
I think he had an insider too @Irene..
They didn't write to his alleged school or contact his references am sure.
But he actually worked for those wages in d 9yrs mentioned,even thou fradulently.abeg make govt temper justice wt mercy,abi at least he was going to work,tfare exps etc.
ReplyDeleteLastborn
Them dey crazy ? Asking him to refund them, Where will he get that money. That à trade mark in Nigeria. He's not first and wont be the last. Merci.
ReplyDeleteNothing person no go hear
ReplyDelete#richbee#
I don't believe it either. How would his friend not know that people called the fake doctor by his (friend's) name?
ReplyDeleteFor nine whole years?!!
So,what certificate was the friend using to practice, or isn't he practicing?
Hmmmm!
But this fake doctor sha.
But come to think of it, medicine is a training fah?
The man trained himself, maybe more than a med school would have * side eyes *, like the days of our founding father, Hippocrates.
But the oath nko?
Gosh,he must have been so good, to almost be promoted to AMD!
He should be jailed or fined less abeg.There's no how he can afford what they want.
This world sef.
God save his children o.
#WhiteDiamondOut
Go and read the origin of the story he visited his friend or so and stole the document after getting the job he made photocopies and returned it to the friend or so. His not a practicing doc he works in the ministry una too dull.
DeleteIn that 9 yyears didn't he practice well than every some that graduated? Abeg they shd free the dude already.
ReplyDeleteEven*
DeleteEwwwwww........c'est dommage!!!
ReplyDeleteFor this man to successfully do this for nine years, its either he is very brilliant and good at what he does or the ministry itself is incompetent.
ReplyDeleteTayo am telling u..
DeleteTrue!!! Or he's just that kind of doctor that keeps referring you to "other colleagues" because they do not know anything.
DeleteThey are more worried about the salary he was paid, what about lives that may have been lost through this dupe. The money to be returned would still be eaten by one idiot.
ReplyDeleteHmm only God knows all d atrocities dis fake doctor has committed...to return 9yrs salary? ow?
ReplyDeleteNawa ooo some people get mind oo! Impersonating someone for good 9years with something as sensitive as that.
ReplyDeleteCome to think of it,where will he even get money to refund and why must he refund?
How many of the corrupt officials have refunded money before?how many have they even prosecuted? Shebi they are walking about freely and looking for other opportunities to enrich their ever ready pockets.
It is only commoners that are being prosecuted in this country while the rogues are being celebrated. Am not supporting him but they should give him the punishment due to him and not asked him to refund money.what he did is wrong no doubt but whatever is good for the goose should also be good for the gander .
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ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
Just negodu naija my country how can some1 b practicing for so long with fake certificate nd it was not discovered 4 good 9yrs
ReplyDeleteHas he not been carrying out some work and prescriptions all d while he's been working? Didn't he ever make seminar presentation? surely there must have been some sort of defalut in his job, but all the while it was neglected no wonder our health sector is in shamble becos of too much quacks.
May God save us all amen.
9 good years
ReplyDeleteWow
They will wait for eternity for this refund. not easy to refund... ask onigbese people
ReplyDeleteJus negodu!
ReplyDeleteThis man is fucked up, big time
ReplyDeleteEndtime
ReplyDeleteWhere he wan start from?
ReplyDeletethis means to say the guy was or is a good doctor!...he cant possibly be practicing for 9 yrs even passed an exam and havent had any form of complaints from any patient so far..useless govt. rather dan absorb him legally since he's gud at what he does they here crying foul. una don catch oda govt thieves looting state n federal monies finish before killing a fly with a sledge?...mtchewwww
ReplyDeleteserves him right
ReplyDeleteHe wasn't remorseful when I watched it but claimed that there was a case pertaining to a patient where other doctors couldn't do anything but he had to act fast... bla bla bla.
ReplyDeleteThose that employed him knows something about it and he shouldn't be the only one to refund but some others in the Ministry. Even his friend knows nothing about it according to him.
The man be like a fighter shah.
9 yrs. It goes to Show that the Health system is very porous. Anybody can forge anything or claim anybody. SMH for dis country.
ReplyDeleteDis isn't new jor , guess he dropped out but already knew everythin about The medical field .
ReplyDeleteAnother GBESE!
ReplyDeleteStella u dey ask where him wan see money? Make him try apply for bank loan stating wetin him wan use the money do. Stupid man
ReplyDeleteam still in shocked!! dude was my former neighbor in abuja later moved to his own house, has 2kids with a lovely wife. hmmmmmm
ReplyDelete"Dr." Arome Salifu, this will be your fate o! #FakeDoctorAlert
ReplyDeleteRidiculous, he laboured for those years so the money is his to keep. Obviously they must have liked something about his work for him to be considered for the promotion.
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