Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola, the state capital has today convicted a middle age man, Ibrahim Mustapha for 44 years imprisonment over forgery and impersonation.
According to the Honourable Court presided by Justice Nathan Musa, the 44 years jail term will run concurrently.
The convict was pararded by the Department of State Security Services (DSS) in the state for operating as medical doctor illegally under the Adamawa State government since 2015.
Ibrahim was said to have secured his employment into the State Hospital Services Management Board in October 2015, as a doctor and rose to the post of Principal Medical Officer who served at the cottage hospitals in Mayo Belwa and Fufore Local Government Areas respectively.
NEWS PLATFORM learnt that the convict had only attended a secondary school and possessed a National Board for Technical Education (NABTEB) certificate,
But delivering his judgement today, Honourable Justice Nathan Musa, sentenced Ibrahim Mustapha 44 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to all the 9 count charges slammed against him.
Justice Nathan declared that Ibrahim pleaded guilty to count 1,2, and 3 and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment each with an option of fine of #20,000 each.
He equally sentenced him to 10 years in prison on count 4,5,6,7 and 10 each without an option of fine, while 3 years imprisonment on count 8 with option of fine of #50,000.
The Judge declared that all the jail terms of the imprisonment are to run concurrently.
Justice Nathan said that the fact of the case is that he used the medical certificate of the one Muktar Buba Aliyu who is now also standing trial as an accomplice to secure employment into the State Hospital Service Management Board where he was posted to various hospitals as a medical doctor and later as Principal Medical Doctor (PMO) in Fufore LGA.
He stated that the convict was doing a job that he was not trained to do, and only God knows the extend of havoc he must have committed at the time he was impersonating himself as a medical doctor.
According to him, his action is condemnable before the court to say the least of which it needed appropriate sanction as provided by the law so as to serve as deterrent to other potential impersonators, saying this will go along way in protecting innocent patients that seek for medical attention at various hospitals.
In his reaction to the verdict, a Counsel to convict Barr. Moses Patrick Dangi, told newsmen that the case is against the state and his client, and that the court has taken the plea for leniency in favour of the convict and passed the sentence as provided by the law.
Barr. Patrick Dangi disclosed that it is the right of the convict to either appeal the judgement or take heart and accept what happened to him.
According to him, for now, they cannot tell whether they will appeal the decision or not, saying the constitution has made provision for him to appeal.
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