NMA Disowns Bandit Doctor, He Is A Lab Technician

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has denied media reports connecting medical doctors with banditry in Zamfara State, saying that a recently apprehended bandit who claimed to be a doctor was an impostor.

The association made the denial in the wake of assertions by the Zamfara State Government that one of the persons recently nabbed providing weapons and other supplies to the bandits had presented as a medical doctor.

The state commissioner for information, Ibrahim Dosara, had disclosed the arrest of the ‘medical doctor’ at a press briefing held in Gusau on Thursday, saying that the medical doctor was arrested in Kamarawa village of Isa local government area of Sokoto state.

However, the claim was robustly rebuffed by the NMA in a statement signed in Gusau on Friday by the association’s state Chairman and Secretary, Dr Mannir Bature and Dr Remigius Nwachukwu.

They claimed that the bandit who claimed to be a medical doctor was actually a medical laboratory technician who had all along passed himself to unsuspecting persons as a medical doctor.

“The attention of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Zamfara State Chapter, has been drawn to a publication from various media organisations with a caption, ‘Police in Zamfara arrest medical doctor, 7 others in connection with banditry.

“However, we will like to make it clear to the general public that the above caption, which emanated from a joint press statement between the state Ministries of Information and that of Security and Home Affairs is incorrect.

“Our investigation revealed that the said person is not a medical doctor, but a Medical Laboratory Technician, who is parading himself as a medical doctor to defraud unsuspecting individuals.

“The person is neither a resident nor does he work in Zamfara state.

“This clarification becomes necessary owing to the fact that only holder of MBBS, MBChB and BDS are entitled to be called medical doctor,” they said. (NAN).

Efforts to get a reaction from the Association of Medical Laboratory Technicians of Nigeria on the bandit doctor have not proved successful.

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