After 11 Years Of Illegal Practice, Lagos Quack Doctor Arrested

Celestine Yolonfun  was arrested in the Apapa area of the state, on Monday by the operatives of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Yaba.

Correspondent of Punch Metro gathered that the 32-year-old Yolonfun has been practising as a doctor since 2005 after he dropped out of a nursing school in the Benin Republic.

It was gathered that a pregnant woman, who was due for delivery, allegedly died in Yolonfun’s hospital, and her husband reported the doctor to the police at the SCIID. The police then went to Yolonfun’s hospital – Be Well Hospital – on Liverpool Road, Apapa, and arrested him. Yolonfun, who comes from Badagry, said while confessing that  he paid a colleague N70,000 to obtain fake certificates of the Nigerian Medical Association and the University of Ibadan, Oyo State.

“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.” He Confessed.

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The state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the police had contacted all the medical associations and bodies the suspect claimed to be registered with and they had confirmed him to be a fake doctor, adding that they 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.

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