The 47-year-old unnamed doctor reportedly confessed to drugging some of his patients before having sex with them.
The
suspect, a consultant gynecologist at the Life Point Medical Centre,
Utako, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja has been arrested for
allegedly drugging and raping some of his female patients in Abuja.
Confirming
the incident to newsmen on Monday, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP,
Muhammad Mustafa said police operatives attached to the Command swung
into action and arrested the suspect on August 4.
The CP noted
that the officers acted on report of the unethical conduct of the
consultant gynecologist who was reported to have been in the habit of
taking undue advantage of his female patients who come to him for
treatment or consultation in his office and other locations.
Mustafa
said, “Investigations revealed that the suspect uses drugs to induce
his victims in order to have intercourse with them, therefore
corroborating the allegations brought up against him.
The
suspect, in his statement, confessed to have had sexual affair with some
of his female patients who come to him for treatment or consultation in
his office and other locations.
He is presently in prison. He has to be stripped of his license and as part of our investigation.
We
have written to Nigeria Medical and Dental Council, NMDC and he has
been arraigned in court,” the CP said, adding that some lawyers are
trying to shield the accused from conviction.
According to him,
“I learnt that four Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, are trying to take
him away from the prison but we are going to do our very best to gain
conviction because it is a very serious case of somebody abusing the
ethics of his profession.
Mustafa also seized the opportunity to
tell members of the public to always be vigilant and always report such
cases as this will act as a deterrent to other stop such practice.