Mrs. Comfort Momoh, a Nigerian, who is a campaigner against female genital mutilation in the UK is under investigation after apparently exaggerating her qualifications.
Mrs. Momoh, who is a midwife, is popular in Britain. Her FGM clinic was the first to be set up in the country. She regularly offered advice to the Crown Prosecution Service and given talks to hundreds of British schoolgirls.
Her efforts earned her the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire from the Queen.
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But a report by BBC has exposed her ugly sides.
The 55-year-old, who has repeatedly described herself as ‘Dr Momoh’ despite not being a qualified medical doctor, according to the BBC’s report, overstated her professional qualifications.
It said Mrs. Momoh has an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University but this does not give her the right to use the title ‘doctor’.
The top FMG campaigner, who grew up in Nigeria, is even called a doctor on the website of Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Trust in London where she ran the FGM clinic until recently.
Daily Mail of UK reports that Nursing and Midwifery Council confirmed that she is under investigation.
The report said a judge once described Mrs. Momoh as ‘not a reliable witness’ during a court case in Leeds in which a girl was alleged to have had undergone FGM.
Then the judge said that she merited ‘harsh criticism’ and had ‘difficulty in providing answers about even the simplest factual question’.
