Court remands ‘fake doctor’ over ‘murder’ of patient in Oyo

A magistrate court in Iyaganku, Oyo state, has ordered the remand of one Adegoke Olaoluwa, a 45-year-old “fake doctor”, for allegedly causing the death of a patient.

A.T. Oyediji, the presiding magistrate, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that the accused be remanded in Agodi correctional facility in Ibadan, pending legal advice from the office of Oyo state directorate of public prosecution (DPP).

Olaoluwa, a resident of the Idi-Aro area of Ibadan, the state capital is facing a murder charge. 

Opeyemi Olagunju, the police prosecutor, told the court that the defendant administered saline drugs to one Adekunle Badmus, a 45-year-old man, which allegedly caused his death.

Olagunju said the crime was committed at Mercy Clinic and Maternity, Idi-Aro, Ibadan, on February 20, at about 10 a.m.

The prosecutor said the offence is contrary to section 316 and punishable under sections 319 and 484 of the criminal code, laws of Oyo state, 2000.

Section 484 of the law stipulates three years imprisonment for an offender while section 319 prescribes a death sentence.