[ 2016-08-22 ]

Jacob Nii Laryea in police custody

Fake doctor busted in action at Korle-bu
A 34-year-old trader who posed as a medical doctor
and was attending to patients at the Surgical and
Emergency Unit of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
has been arrested by the police.

Jacob Nii Laryea was reportedly busted by doctors
while he was wearing a white doctor’s apron,
with a stethoscope around his neck and attending
to patients.

Doctors on duty at the hospital told the police
that that was the third time they had spotted the
suspect posing as a doctor and attending to
patients at the unit.

Luck eluded him when two of the doctors spotted
him and questioned him, leading to his arrest on
Wednesday, August 17, 2016.

He is currently in the custody of the Dansoman
Divisional Police Command assisting in
investigation.

Confirming the arrest to DAILY GUIDE, ACP Antwi
Tabi, Dansoman Divisional Commander, said on
August 17, 2016, Dr Mona Torto and Dr Theophilus
Addo – both staff of the Korle-Bu Teaching
Hospital – assisted by Evans Wampah and Ahmed
Acquah, also staff of the hospital’s security
department, arrested Jacob Nii Laryea and brought
him to the station. They asserted that on August
12, 2016 at about 9am,

The following day, the suspect was seen again
still in possession of the stethoscope talking
with a patient on admission.

Laryea, who claimed to be a medical officer,
could not answer simple questions put to him by
the two doctors and therefore they became
suspicious of him.

On August 17, 2016, he emerged at the same
premises and was asked to identify his department
or unit but he could not tell doctors on duty his
department.

When he was further asked to produce his identity
card, Nii Laryea could not do that and attempted
to run away.

He was given a hot chase by the security men on
duty and arrested him at a distance.

He was later handed over to the Korle-Bu police
for further interrogations.

He had provisionally been charged with defrauding
by false pretence and would be arraigned before
court.

Source - dailyguideafrica.com

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