Police arrest two fake doctors in Lagos

Franklin Poroye and Adedayo Ayodele, two men who are accused of using a fake medical license to apply for a job as a doctor in a hospital, were taken before an Ejigbo Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Tuesday.

Poroye, 26, and Ayodele, 36, are facing trial on a four-count conspiracy and forgery charge that the police have filed against them. Their residential addresses were not made available.

The defendants conspired and conducted the crimes on January 1, 2022, at Jumoke Hospital in Orisunbare Shasha, Lagos, according to the prosecutor, ASP Benedict Aigbokhan.

He claims that knowing that the licenses they presented were fake, the pair applied for jobs as doctors using false medical licenses.

According to him, the defendants were aware that their acts were detrimental to the hospital's patients.

According to Aigbokhan, the offenses violated Sections 166, 365, 380, and 411 of the Lagos State Criminal Law from 2015.

The accused entered a not-guilty plea to the accusation.

The two were given bail in the amount of N500,000 each with two sureties in the same amount by the magistrate, Miss K. A. Ariyo.

According to Ariyo, one of the sureties must be a defendant's blood-related and both must be gainfully employed.

Additionally, the magistrate commanded the sureties to provide documentation of their tax payments to the Lagos State Government.

The matter was postponed to January 17, 2023, for mention.

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