Led by its Executive Secretary, Dr. Jimmy Asuni, the government officials, acting on a tip off stormed Bucknor Street at Jakande Estate, Isheri-Olofin area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria on Monday and arrested the suspect, Mr. Billy Nkechinyere, who hails from Imo State, southeast Nigeria.
It was alleged that Mr. Nkechinyere was operating a health facility without any identification, where he allegedly employed the services of auxiliary nurses to treat people.
The auxiliary nurses fled when they saw the HEFAMAA officials and taskforce officials approaching, while Nkechinyere was arrested alongside a guard in the house that was converted to a hospital.
The suspects were detained at the taskforce office at Alausa, while the hospital was shut by the government officials.
Nkechinyere was said to have denied the allegations, claiming that he was not a doctor and he was not the one operating the facility.
Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, Chief Superintendent of Police, told P.M.NEWS that the guard that was arrested with the suspect had given useful information that would be used as evidence against the suspect in court.
He said before the taskforce could get to the location of the hospital, the suspect had informed his staff to flee, saying that the man's house was also visited where the police got useful documents to prove that the suspect was operating an illegal hospital.
"His guard has been arrested and he has given us evidence that the man operates an illegal hospital. We went to his house on Tuesday and we got useful documents," he stated.
Sulaiman warned members of the public parading themselves as doctors, when they were not, to desist from such act as the long arm of the law would surely catch up with them.
"They should stop treating people like animals. If they are not qualified doctors, they cannot practice the profession," he said.
Sulaiman said that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as the magistrates resume from their training, adding that he would be arraigned at the Special Offences Court at Alausa, Lagos.
Source: PM News
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