Martins Ugwu, who used his friend’s medical credentials to work in the health ministry’s headquarters is to refund nine years salaries he drew while impersonating his friend.
The federal health ministry is “computing all salaries and allowances which accrued to Ugwu during his mischievous sojourn in the ministry for full retrieval by law enforcement agencies,” said health permanent secretary Linus Awute.
Ugwu stole the identity and credentials of his childhood friend Dr George Davidson Daniel-the name under which he worked since 2006 at FMOH, police confirmed on Tuesday.
Daniel himself, doing residency training in Jos, appeared in public for the first time since an interview he gave Daily Trust about being afraid for his life.
“My coming here is to show I exist in reality, and to prove that I have nothing to hide,” said Daniel, who spent several minutes with his head bowed low and his face showing puzzlement.
“All these events have been traumatizing. I never thought a day would come when my identity would be exposed like this. I am a very reserved person,” he said.
Ugwu is suspended pending outcome of police investigation. But sources told Daily Trust that the ministry is yet to lodge a police statement.
Instead the manner in which he got into the job and rose through the ranks has led the ministry to suspect he had accomplices inside and outside the ministry.
Ugwu scaled through a lone promotion exam in 2013, rising to a level-13 senior medical officer in the ministry’s department of health planning, research and statistics, Awute said in a briefing yesterday.
by Ruby Leo & Judd-Leonard Okafor
Daily Trust
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