By Ola Ajayi
Only God knows exactly how several unsuspecting patients that one Mr. Akilapa Johnson, a 26-year-old secondary school certificate holder, that never ever attended medical school for any sort of training, has actually sent to early graves through his crude means of aborting pregnancies.
Akilapa Johnson, the fake doctor
Being a paramedic nurse and initial aider, he believes he has actually got the needed qualifications to handle patients also as prescribe and administer drugs.
To him, there is not anything brand-new in the medical job that he is not capable of carrying out including obtaining rid of excess pregnancies also at an advanced stage.
For fear of attracting hefty punishment for his many acts, he kept saying that Barakat, that is now lying critically ill at the University College Hospital, Ibadan after attendant complications, was his initial patient.
Sobbing uncontrollably throughout his parade at the state police command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan by the Oyo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Leye Oyebade, the fake doctor kept asking themselves why he had to succumb to alleged pleas by the victim to terminate the five-month old pregnancy.
The CP that advised individuals in the state to be a lot more careful and prevent patronising fake doctors, said, “The long arm of the law caught up along with a 26-year old fake doctor, Akilapa Johnson that procured a life threatening abortion for one Barakat, a 23 year old lady that was lured, counselled to abort a 5 month old pregnancy.
The abortion was carried out in the suspect’s one bedroom apartment which offered as a ‘clinic’ located in shanties at Sasa. Shortly after the abortion, the victim created major complications which resulted in her being accepted at the UCH where she is lying critically ill.
“Investigations revealed that the fake doctor, an O’ degree certificate holder, was Just trained as a paramedic nurse and a initial aider. In spite of his restricted expertise of Medicine, the suspect had consistently treated unsuspecting patients that mistook him or her for a qualified doctor.”
Exhibits allegedly recovered from the suspect contain two stethoscopes, two pieces of plaster of Paris bandage, four pairs of hand gloves and syringes. As the suspect clapped his two wrists which he later position in his mouth, he shook his head in response to several questions that the South West Voice position to him. He admitted that he was never ever trained as a doctor prior to he decided to purchase a stethoscope which he hung on his neck to deceive his patients.
He said: “I didn’t understand it was wrong. As quickly as the patient asked me to abort the pregnancy for her, I told her I don’t do abortions for people, yet she kept on pestering and begging me. At a point, I told her there was no devices to do it. But, she did not provide up. It was after that I agreed to do it.”
When asked just what he used to perform the abortion, the suspect that unsuccessfully racked his mind to recall the name of drugs he administered, said he merely gave her some pills. “I’m sure she did not usage the pills according to prescription. Could be she took several pills at a time. I joined my home As quickly as the Police arrested me. I didn’t understand she created any sort of complications,” he said.
The father of the unborn child, Ikenna that admitted that he impregnated the lady was additionally arrested and paraded along with the fake doctor. The suspect that looked unruffled denied being carried along prior to the abortion was done.
“She called me on phone that I must notice her urgently. As quickly as I got there, I checked out her bleeding and writhing in pains. I asked her just what happened and she told me she had aborted my pregnancy. She begged me to aid her to grab home. I declined and thereafter I called her parents.
“On our means home, I dropped her at a hospital and called her parents again. I was aware that she is pregnant since she told me that she could not do her menstrual period. But, I didn’t notice any sort of symptoms of pregnancy. I didn’t tell her to abort since I didn’t disown the pregnancy,”he added.
Other suspects paraded by the police contain armed robbers, burglars, kidnap gangs and Indian hemp merchants. While parading the kidnap suspects, Oyebade said, “at concerning 1430 hrs of July 15, 2016, one Sakiru Adebayo, a resident of Agbedegbede location of Ile-Ife, Osun State, was kidnapped in his home by a gang of kidnappers that abducted him or her to an unknown location.
“His abductors layer demanded a ransom of N500,000 as a condition for his release. Through robust intelligence by the operatives of the Command’s anti-kinapping squad, the hideout of the gang was located.
“In a well planned and well coordinated operation that lasted some hours, two of the suspects, Oladimeji Olamide and Oke Olufemi were arrested at Ojoo location of Ibadan. One escaped while the victim that was fettered to steer clear of escape was rescued unhurt.”
