A fake doctor, Abawulor Omenka, has been arrested in the course of seeking for employment with Covenant University Medical Centre, Ota, in the Sango area of Ogun State.
Omenka had applied for the position of a Medical Officer with fake credentials; a Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria registration certificate issued in 2015, and a certificate from the Benue State University where he claimed to have obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, and graduated with a Second Class Upper Division.
Report said the MD of the centre, Dr. Ademola Adebanjo, saw through the lies of the 35-year-old who previously worked as auxiliary nurse in some hospitals, leading to his arrest.
The Chairman, Association of Private Medical Practitioners in Ogun State, Dr. Kayode Oyelade who was involved in the apprehension told Punchng, “What gave him up were the certificates he presented. Omenka presented a photocopied certificate he claimed to have obtained from the university with a Second Upper Division in Medicine and Surgery.
“If you are conversant with a medical certificate, you will know there is nothing like grade. When you are given a certificate as a doctor, it will just be specified that you have passed when you certify the examiner. There is nothing like first class or second class. Our certificate is not graded. Immediately, he presented that, and we knew it was fake.
“He also presented a certificate he claimed to have got from MDCN, we saw that one and we just laughed. The registration number is 11,641. I graduated 32 years ago from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and my number is 20, 815. And someone who claimed to have graduated in 2015 is 11,000, which means he graduated before me. I am sure that some of the people with that number are dead now.”
