Unemployed jailed for fraud

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced Kofi Agyeman-Duah, unemployed, to 12 years imprisonment for various offences.

The convict would serve three years each for four counts of defrauding by false pretence. The sentences will run consecutively.

The convict was discharged and acquitted on the charge of practicing medicine without lawful authority.

Prosecuting, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Moses Atibilla told the Court that the complainants in the case are traders.

He said the convict pretended to be a Medical Doctor, who could solve their individual problems of infertility.

He said the convict told them, he was a gynaecologist at the Lister Hospital.

“The convict convinced the complainants that he can help them medically to overcome their problems,” he added.

The prosecution said the convict collected various sums of monies from the complainants and administered medicines including injections to them.

He said the complainants used the medicines for months only to realize that he was not a Medical Doctor and a report was made to the police.

On January 1, 2014, the convict was arrested and a search conducted in his room revealed some injectable drugs, laboratory and X-ray reports of complainants and other victims, a stethoscope and pictures of himself dressed like a Doctor.

ACP Atibilla said the convict denied being a Medical Doctor but admitted having administered drugs to the complainants, because he had once worked as a pharmacy attendant.

He said, the convict further stated that, he referred complainants to hospitals with complicated cases.