Native Doctor Opens University, Dupes Students

A native doctor identified as Fidelis Chukwujindu has been apprehended by the police for luring over 5,000 students, extorting money from them and conducting fake entrance examination for the unsuspecting victims. Chukwujindu, was nabbed at the premises
of his non-existent College Hospital which
has the sign post “University College
Hospital Ogboko, Ideato, P.O.Box 1960,
Orlu, Imo State. Also written on the
signpost, which was conspicuously mounted by the roadside, is, “Present Courses: B.Sc,
Nursing, Health Sciences, Education
Humanities, Medical LAB Sciences.
Admissions Are Still Going On. Govt.
Approved. Call: 08064082750.” The operator of the illegal college attracted
students by printing flyers which he
distributes to churches across the country,
as most of the students claimed they came
to know about the school through their
pastors. Chukwujindu claimed to have the
permission of the State Government and
Federal Ministry of education to run his non-
existent college hospital. He also claimed to
be a product of the prestigious Harvard
University, America. “I won a Federal Government scholarship to study abroad,
but was incapacitated by an accident which
disfigured one of my legs and I was flown
back to Nigeria where I later decided to set
up the college,” he said. Assisting the suspect, who claimed to be the
vice -chancellor of the university college
hospital, was a middle aged woman later
identified as Ngozi Ayoha. The woman, who
initially said she was deaf and dumb, caused
a stir when it was found that she was the Dean of Faculty of Medicine of the illegal
college. Parading the suspect with his victims before
newsmen, the Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Muhammad Katsina, explained that one
striking thing about the strategy of the
gang was that they carefully selected the
site opposite the Imo State University, Ogboko, and adjacent to the Rochas
Foundation College, Ogboko, to convince
their victims of the genuineness of their
business.