ARRESTED BY THE NIGERIAN POLICE

Bayelsa Police Arrest Woman and Doctor for Defrauding Public with Fake Surgery Appeal The Bayelsa State Police have arrested a woman, Ogechi Okechukwu, a resident of Yenagoa, along with a doctor from the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), for allegedly defrauding the public through a fake surgery fundraising scheme. Ogechi reportedly conspired with the doctor to deceive unsuspecting individuals on Facebook by falsely claiming she needed financial assistance for surgery. The doctor is said to have aided her by providing fake medical reports, drug prescriptions, and staging medical procedures to make her appear genuinely ill. These included administering a fake intravenous drip, conducting a fake blood transfusion, and presenting fabricated scan results to convince donors of her condition. A Facebook influencer, Iwaoma Susan Joseph, unknowingly helped raise N800,000, believing the appeal to be genuine. Both suspects were apprehended after incriminating evidence of their conversations was foun...