Franklin Poroye and Adedayo Ayodele, two men who allegedly applied for a job as doctors in a hospital using a forged medical licence, were brought before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday.
Poroye, 26, and Ayodele, 36, whose home addresses were not given, are in court for a four-count conspiracy and forgery charge that the police have filed against them.
The defendants conspired and committed the crimes on January 1, 2022, at Jumoke Hospital in Orisunbare Shasha, Lagos, according to the prosecutor, ASP Benedict Aigbokhan.
According to him, the duo presented falsified medical licences and used it to apply for work as medical doctors with the knowledge that the licences they presented were forged.
He said that the defendants knew that their actions were harmful to the patients at the hospital.
Aigbokhan said that the offences contravened Sections 166, 365, 380 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Miss K. A. Ariyo, granted the duo bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Ariyo ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed and one of the sureties must be a blood relative to the defendant.
The magistrate also ordered that the sureties must show evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State Government.
She adjourned the case until Jan. 17, 2023 for mention.