For stealing hospital beds, the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Eket local government area jurisdiction, has sentenced a medical doctor, one Nwaopara Adolphus
They were stolen from Immanuel General Hospital and Immanuel Psychiatric Hospital in Eket local government area of Akwa Ibom State and converted them to his private clinic.
Uche, according to the particulars of the case, is said to have used his position as the Medical Superintendent of Immanuel Psychiatric Hospital, to commit the crime. Therefore, the court headed by Justice Nsemeke Daniel convicted the 39-year-old native of Mbiere in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State, on a two-count charge of stealing and conspiracy.
Also convicted to one-year imprisonment is Kubiat Anthony Isidore, a 28 – year-old welder from Ikot Idim in Odoro Ikot, Essien Udim local government area, who conspired with the doctor, and one Felix Samuel Ekwere, a 35 – year-old security guard at Immanuel General Hospital, from Ekpene Obo in Esit Eket LGA, who was caught moving out some of the stolen hospital beds at night.
Samuel, according to the charge file, had confessed to the police that it was the convicted medical superintendent that sent him. And the judge had no other option than to convict the trio who were prosecuted by the state through the Ministry of Justice in a charge number HEK/13C/2023.
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