The Lagoa state police on Monday paraded one Celestine Yolonfun, an alleged quack doctor who was arrested at Apapa area of Lagos state.
Yolonfun was arrested by the State Criminal and Investigation Department, Yaba.
According to reports, 32-year-old Yolonfun had been practicing as a doctor since 2005 after he dropped out of school in Benin Republic.
His arrest was made at Be Well hospital on Liverpool road Apapa, after the husband of a pregnant woman who allegedly died in his hospital reported him to the police.
Yolofun, who hails from Badagry, Lagos state confirmed that he had been practising since 2005 and only two patients had died in his hospital.
Yolonfun confessed to paying a colleague N70,000 to obtain fake certificates from the Nigerian Medical Association and the University of Ibadan, Oyo State.
He said, “I have been practising since 2005. I did not attend any school in Nigeria. I went to the Benin Republic. I sat for the General Certificate Education two years ago. I wanted to attend a university in Nigeria to study Medicine. But my wife fell sick and I could not.
“I dropped out of a nursing school in the Benin Republic. I came back to Nigeria in 2004, and I started the hospital in 2005.
“Since I started the hospital, which takes care of general ailments, only two persons had died in the hospital. The first patient died in 2013.
“The second patient was that woman who died penultimate Saturday. The woman was pregnant. She also had high blood pressure. After giving her the initial treatment, I planned to refer her to a bigger hospital, but she died before I could move her. Her baby also died.”
The State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the police had contacted all the medical associations the suspect claimed to be registered with and they had confirmed him to be a fake doctor.
He said, “The suspect was arrested and was found to have been in this illegal practice since 2005. He operated a makeshift hospital in the Liverpool area of Apapa.
“We found a fake University of Ibadan MBBS certificate, a fake Dental and Medical Council of Nigeria certificate and a fake Corporate Affairs Commission certificate in his house.
“The professional bodies have been contacted by the police, and the suspect had been confirmed to be a fake medical practitioner.”