Fake doctor in police grips

Aflao, Sept. 28, GNA- The Police at Aflao has apprehended Richard Brown Afful, 27, who posed as a medical practitioner, trained at the University of Ghana Medical School. Afful, a citizen of Apam, in the Central Region, operated under the name Dr. Richard D. Manneh, with two certificates. The first one was issued on July 27, 2001, qualifying him as medical office and the second one, issued on July 20, 2004 qualifying him as a surgeon.

Mr. Ahmed Yakubu, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of the police at Aflao, told GNA that the suspect used those documents to secure a job with a Hospital at Aflao about three weeks ago as a medical practitioner.

He said authorities of the Hospital a few days after employing the suspect, doubted his professional competence and verified the authenticity of the certificates from the University of Ghana Medical School.

Mr. Yakubu said this led to the revelation that the suspect's registration number as a doctor belonged to Dr. Richard Kwame Mannah, a graduate of the medical school, who passed out on September 15, 2006 and was currently doing his Housemanship at the Korlebu Teaching Hospital.

He the suspect after his arrest gave his real name as Richard Brown Afful and admitted that a man whose name he could not remember but knew he was now in the United Kingdom, forged the certificates for him. ASP Yakubu said the suspect told the Police that he was looking for employment to raise funds to enable him begin an educational programme in fulfilment of his dream of becoming a medical doctor. He said the suspect would be charged for impersonation, false assumption of professional title and forgery.