Fake doctor defrauds traders

A fake medical doctor who defrauded four traders of GH¢19,700 on pretext of assisting them medically to have babies has been hauled before an Accra Circuit Court.

Kofi Agyemang Duah (aka Dr Prince Boakye), who claims to be a doctor at Lister Clinic located at Airport, has also been accused of prescribing drugs to some of his victims who were mainly from Okaishie and Kantamanto.

A search conducted in Duah’s room revealed some medical instruments and drugs, laboratory and X-ray reports of complainants and other victims, a stethoscope and pictures of him dressed as a doctor.

Duah, unemployed, who is being held for practising medicine without authority and on four counts of defrauding by false pretences, has pleaded not guilty.

The court, presided over by Ms Audrey Kocuvie-Tay, has remanded Duah in police custody to reappear on January 30.

Prosecuting, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr A. Atibilla told the court that the complainants were traders at Okaishie and Kantamanto.

Mr Atibilla said Duah is a self-styled medical doctor resident at Ayigbe Town in Accra.

The prosecution said the complainants (name withheld) had individual problems in relation to fertility and in the year 2013 they came across Duah, who told them that he was a gynaecologist at Lister Hospital at Airport Residential Area.

Mr Atibilla said Duah made the complainants to believe that he could support them medically to overcome their infertility problems.

Duah therefore collected various sums of money totalling GH¢19,700.00 from the complainants and administered drugs and injections on them.

The complainants, the prosecution said, applied the drugs prescribed by Duah for months only for them to realise that he was not a doctor.

The prosecution said a complaint was made to the police. On January 8, this year, Duah was arrested and a search conducted in his room revealed some medical instruments, some drugs, laboratory and X-ray reports of complainants and other victims, a stethoscope and pictures of him dressed as a doctor.

Some books which had the name Dr Prince Boakye Da Costa were also retrieved.

Duah has, however, denied being a medical doctor but admitted that he had been administering drugs to the complainants, because he had worked as a pharmacy attendant at various shops and had referred complainants with complicated cases to hospitals.

The prosecution said more people were reporting cases against Duah.