By Ola Ajayi
Ibadan— A secondary school certificate holder, Mr. Akilapa Johnson, that disguised as a clinical doctor, has actually been arrested by Oyo Point out Police Command for allegedly aborting a five-month pregnancy for a lady.
The unlucky woman, whose initial name was provided as Barakat, is now lying critically ill at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, after making complications.
While parading the suspect alongside dozens of others at the Point out Police Headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the Oyo Point out Commissioner of Police, Mr. Leye Oyebade, said the suspect was caught in his one bedroom flat at Sasa location of Ibadan, where the abortion was carried out.
Oyebade further disclosed that investigation done by the police revealed that the O’ Degree certificate holder was just trained as a paramedic nurse and a initial aider.
He said: “In spite of his restricted know-how of medicine, the suspect possessed consistently treated unsuspecting patients, that took him or her for a qualified doctor.”
Speaking along with newsmen, the suspect admitted that he in fact posed as a clinical physician as quickly as he knew he was not qualified to do so.
He said: “My name is Johnson Akilapa; I am listed here since I carried out abortion for a lady. I am a paramedic nurse. She begged me to do it for her.”
When asked exactly how numerous individuals he possessed carried out abortions for, he said the lady was his first.
Her enthusiast speaks
The man, one Ikenna, that confessed he impregnated the lady, said she never ever told him or her that she preferred to abort the pregnancy.
The 29-year-old man, that claims he is a student of among the polytechnics in the South-West, said: “She is my girlfriend and I did not strategy to abort the pregnancy. She simply called me all a sudden, asking me to come to her shop.
“about obtaining there, I viewed her bleeding and she asked me to help her home. I declined and thereafter called her parents. about our method 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 did not observe her menstrual period. However I did not tell her to abort since I did not disown the pregnancy.”
The police additionally paraded numerous others suspects whose crimes ranged from robbery to kidnapping.
Oyebade said every one of the suspects would certainly quickly be arraigned in court after police need to have actually done thorough investigations in to the crimes.
