The Lagos State Health Service Commission has allegedly arrested Olufunke Adegbenro for working with a fake license where she was employed as a nurse at Isolo General Hospital in July 2021.
According to PUNCH Metro, Adegbenro was caught during a verification exercise by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) after allegedly collecting three months’ salaries from the state government.
It was gathered that Adegbenro allegedly forged a Bachelor of Nursing degree from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, a National Youth Service Corps discharge certificate, a registered nurse certificate from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, and a practising licence to get the job.
Olurotimi Awojide, Chairman of the NANNM in Lagos State, said he was alerted to the incident after verification officers discovered the fraud.
He said, “About two weeks ago, we started our verification of practising licence in all our hospitals and the major reason was that we wanted to know those who had yet to renew their licence and that was when someone saw the licence and saw that it was different and not like others.
“Our attention was brought to it, and as the chairman of the association, the licence was forwarded to me for scrutiny, and I also confirmed that it was fake.
“I went to meet her to answer questions and get her documents. We invited police officers, who arrested her and took her to a police station. She did not deny any of the allegations; she confirmed that all the certificates with her were fake and the person that helped her to produce them was based in Ibadan.”
The matter was reported at the Lions Building Police Station.
