Fake doctor to refund nine-year wage to FG

Contrary to the civil service regulations, controversial
Martins Ugwu, who has been working since 2006 in the
Ministry of Health using the name, Dr. George Davidson
Daniel, was offered a job a week after he submitted his
application for employment.
The Federal Government has however ordered the
Departments of Finance and Accounts and Human
Resources to do a thorough computation of what he
had earned for nine years with a view to ensuring that
he returns the money to the government’s coffers.
“The ministry is currently computing all salaries and
allowances which accrued to Ugwu during his
mischievous sojourn in the ministry, for full retrieval by
the relevant law enforcement agencies,” the Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute,
said.
Awute also said that since the fake doctor assumed
duty at the Health ministry, he had passed only one
promotion examination in 2013, which placed him on
Grade Level 13 from Grade Level 12.
Ugwu was due to be promoted as Assistant Director in
the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, a parastatal of
the Federal Ministry of Health, before he was exposed.
Awute stated this on Wednesday in Abuja where the
owner of the certificate, Dr. George Davidson Daniel,
called on security agencies to protect him because his
life was being threatened.
He also noted that Ugwu had collaborators in the
ministry, adding that based on this, “we have sent
another petition to the police to interview him to name
his sponsors.”
The PS said it was necessary to place it on record that
the ministry did not employ any of its members of staff
directly, but through the Federal Civil Service
Commission which has the statutory powers to do so.
Awute said, “Mr. Martins Ugwu Okpe, who hails from
Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, got
himself employed fraudulently using the stolen
documents of his childhood friend and best man, Dr.
George Davidson Daniel, who has offered to appear at
this press briefing to clear his name. Martins Ugwu was
offered an appointment by the FCSC on August 30,
2006 and was posted to the Federal Ministry of Health
in September same year.
“The surprising thing about Ugwu’s appointment is that
he applied for the job on October 10, 2006. He was
subsequently offered the job on October 17, 2006 and
he applied for an identity card on the 19 of the same
month.”