False & # 39; nurse & # 39; imprisoned 22 months | criminality

The Madina District Court sentenced Francis Awine Anaafo, a 33-year-old licensed nursing trainee, to 22 months in jail for using false documents to pretend to be the national service. Goaso Municipal Hospital.

Anaafo was previously fired from Sekondi's College of Nursing and Midwifery Education in the Western Region.

He was accused of defrauding under false pretenses and identity theft with the help of the falsified document to present himself as a qualified nurse at the same time. hospital and was found guilty after the trial.

Mr. Anaafo pleaded not guilty.

According to the indictment of 21 February 2019, the medical superintendent of the Goaso Municipal Hospital had written to inform the Council of Nurses and Midwives (NMC) that Mr Anaafo, who was then using the name Simon Yaw Woli, was underperforming. .

The Prosecution stated that Mr. Felix Nyante, Clerk of the NMC after receiving the letter, summoned Mr. Anaafo to the seat of the Council, where he had been forced to present his certificate of registration, his results and its national service diary.

The Prosecution stated during the examination of the documents that the Board had discovered that Mr. Anaafo had fraudulently used the name of Mr. Simon Yaw Woli, a registered nurse, to obtain a case extract from the police station of departments, according to which his certificate, the list of results and the logbook were missing.

The Prosecution stated that Mr. Anaafo then fraudulently obtained a duplicate copy of Mr. Woli's certificate of registered general nurse with the extract and presented it to the secretariat of the service. national so that it registers for the 2018 national service; hospital to begin service in September of the same year.

In a statement, the CNG explained that, as part of its investigations, officials of the intelligence department and disciplinary measures of the NMC had contacted the real Simon Yaw Woli, who had his original certificate RGN and its results.

He added that subsequent research had revealed that MM. Woli and Anaafo had opened the NMC Training College in Sekondi in August 2013, but that in 2015, the accused had been demoted and then fired from the school for non-performance.

He stated that this led to the arrest of Mr. Anaafo. After investigation, he was charged and brought to justice.