Tamale Police arrest fake medical doctor

A 34-year old Prince Adewole Gbewole has been arrested by the Tamale Police Command for allegedly faking as a medical doctor. The accused who was charged by Tamale Magistrate’s Court for pretending to be a public officer and stealing was remanded in prison custody to re-appear on October 15.  Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer of Ghana Police Service in Tamale, told the Ghana News Agency that the accused went to the Tamale Teaching Hospital on September 27 and told one Rafiatu Kaderi, a medical assistant that he was a medical student from a university in Canada, posted to the medical facility for his internship. He said the accused was later spotted in a medical gown at the Surgical Ward operating by the name Dr Habib Dramani and also expressed his intention to put up a clinic on a land he had acquired at Tamale SSNIT flats. ASP Tetteh said Gbewole requested an official vehicle from Mr Kaderi to rush to Tamale SDA Hospital to assist a colleague to handle a complicated case. He said after taking the vehicle, the accused did not show up and also refused to pick calls on his cell phone, compelling the medical assistant to report the case to the police. ASP Tetteh said the police received another complaint from one Samuel Abobbtey, a restaurant operator that the accused had come for his car using the same modus operandi but this time introducing himself as Dr Nana Oteng. Gbewole had also outwitted other victims under the guise of being a prominent chief going by the name Otumfuo Osei Tutu. The police tracked the accused to his hideout in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region where he was arrested.