Orimisan, who was arrested after he
attempted to con a police officer’s wife, confessed to be a fake medical
doctor.
According to him, although he
dropped out of medical school in Nigeria, he went to Ghana to acquire enough
knowledge and could comfortably cure diabetes, stroke, infertility and other
ailments.
His words: “I was unfortunate not to
have graduated as a medical student in Delta State University, Abaraka. But I
later travelled to Ghana where I learnt about Alternative Medicine, which I can
today use in curing some ailments such as diabetes, stroke, and infertility and
so on.”
The Oyo State Commissioner of
Police, Mr Abiodun Odude, disclosed that Orimisan had been obtaining money from
his unsuspecting victims while parading himself as a medical doctor that could
cure some ailments.
Odude said: "The suspect is not
only deceiving people about his identity, but also goes to various pharmaceutical
shops to fraudulently collect drugs and money from store owners under the guise
of checking peddling of fake drugs. The impostor would tell the shop owners
that he is a qualified medical doctor from UTH and that he was sent by the
hospital to check for fake drugs. In the process, he would demand for money and
drugs from the victims.”
Orimisan said: “While in Nigeria, I
was called on the unfortunate day by a friend that I should come and treat
someone at Aba-Nla area of Idi-Ayunre area of Ibadan. After the treatment, on
that same day, I went to a shop as usual to check for fake drugs. This I do
under the pretence that I was sent from UTH. But unknown to me, the shop owner is
a police officer's wife. She had to call her husband and in the process, I was
arrested.”
Items recovered from the suspect are
a fake National Medical Association (NMA) identity card, fake results, a
stethoscope and a medical overall gown.
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