Al Jazeera investigation of fake doctors leads to 3 arrests in Delta state

African journalists, Nigeria's Rosemary
Nwaebuni and Ghana's Anas Arameyaw
go undercover to expose fake doctors in
Delta State, leading to 3 arrests. Read
the full story and watch the 25-minute
documentary below...
In this week’s episode of Africa
Investigates, Anas Arameyaw Anas
and Rosemary Nwaebuni go
undercover with secret cameras to
expose fake doctors in Delta
State, leading to three on-camera
arrests.
Nigerian law forbids abortions,
except in cases where the
patient’s life is in danger. Despite
this, Nigeria’s Fake Doctors shows
Rosemary, who is not even
pregnant, twice being offered
abortion services from unlicensed
practitioners.
Precious Johnson Chuckwudi, who
operates a pharmacy in Delta
State, offered to provide an
abortion - and agreed the price -
despite Rosemary’s negative
pregnancy test, while Mr and Mrs
Ogboru offered Rosemary an
abortion in the dirty backroom of a
bar, without conducting a
pregnancy test.
The Nigerian Medical and Dental
Association (NMDA) and Ministry
of Health (MoH) have confirmed
that neither Chuckwudi nor the
Ogboru’s are licensed and
registered as medical doctors and
that their shops are not registered
clinics. Nigerian police arrested Mr
and Mrs Ogboru on camera on the
basis of evidence that Rosemary
and Anas filmed.
Nigerian police also arrested
Charles Igudala, who operates a
clinic at Dictat Royal Home in
Warri, Delta State, after he was
covertly filmed offering medical
services and injections to Anas in
extremely unsanitary conditions.
The NMDA and MoH confirmed
that Igudala is not a licensed and
registered doctor, while Dr Alfred
Ebiakofa of the Nigerian Ministry
of Health said that Igudala had
been a target of the Nigerian
health authorities for some time,
but that they “had not been able
to catch him before.”
Rosemary and Anas also film other
fake doctors wrongly diagnosing
healthy patients with malaria and
typhoid, as well using as a
Quantum Resonance Analyser, a
highly controversial machine of
unproven effectiveness that is
used to illegally diagnose - merely
on the basis of tones and lights  - a
variety of serious illnesses to
perfectly healthy patients.
Spell of The Albino, the last
investigation Anas filmed for Africa
Investigates, won a One World
Media Award and was nominated
for a Royal Television Society
Award.
Nigeria’s Fake Doctors, the third
episode of Africa Investigates,
premiered on Wednesday, 26
November 2014 at 22:30 GMT /
Thursday, 20 November at 00:30
CAT, with repeats on 27
November at 11:30, 28 November
at 05:30, 29 November at 18:30,
and 30 November at 07:30 CAT.
Watch the full documentary below...