Fake doctor arrested after impregnating 4 ladies, performing abortion on 1
Police in Niger State have arrested a 24-year-old man, Clement Joseph, for allegedly parading himself as a medical doctor and impregnating four females in the state and performing abortion on one.
Daily Post reports that Joseph was arrested on Saturday, 6th of November, 2022 at Chanchaga, suburb of Minna, based on a tip-off to the police.
According to Niger State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Wasiu Abiodun, the suspect was arrested for three offences including false impersonation, fraud, and causing abortion.
He explained that aside from impersonation, Joseph deceitfully collected money from an unsuspecting member of the public to the tune of N280,000 under the false pretense of a fake online business called ZUGA COINS INT’L business.
He said, “The suspect was arrested for false personation having paraded himself as a medical doctor and deceitfully collected a sum of money from an unsuspecting member of the public to the tune of two hundred and eighty thousand naira under the false pretense of a fake online business called ZUGA COINS INT’L business”.
Abiodun explained that upon further questioning, the suspect confessed to having had unlawful carnal knowledge of four other female victims and impregnated them.
According to him, “the suspect conspired with one Aliyu presently at large and aborted a pregnancy of one other victim”.
The case is currently under investigation.