POLICE INFORMANT SUBJECTED TO SEVERE ASSAULT

16/07/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service have arrested a 34 year old man for allegedly posing as a medical doctor from the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The suspect, Kwabena Kissih succeeded in duping unsuspecting members of the public especially patients monies running into several thousands of cedis.
When his room was searched at Dama Estate at Satellite in Kuntunse after his arrest an amount of ¢640.00 and GH¢50.00 was retrieved from the room.
Two passports, passport application forms, application for employment forms, Ministry of Health folder No. 254684 bearing the name Sally Boakye Yiadom from Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, prospectus form the Nurses Training College, Korle-Bu Accra different passport pictures and other documents were found.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the CID, Inspector J. B. Darkwa somewhere in October, 2006 the suspect approached the complainant, a manager of a reputable organisation in Accra for assistance.
He introduced himself to the manager as being a medical doctor attached to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital but later disappeared.
He re-surfaced in February this year at complainants office and gave an excuse that he had to travelled to Canada for a course in medicine hence his long absence.
Suspect (Dr.) Kwabena Kissih visited complainant a number of times in the during February and March this year and each time he enters the complainant’s office his mobile phone rings and he will be giving instructions to his nurses to monitor conditions of patients.
Inspector Darkwa said there was a time when the complainant’s child fell sick and was taken to a clinic at Tesano and the suspect accompanied him there to examine the child and if needs be he will refer the child to a specialist, one Professor Antwi, a colleague of his at Korle-Bu.
He frequents complainant office and always heard him talking to his (in-law) in Canada about his wife's immigrant visa and he offered to assist because he doubles as a consulting doctor at the Canadian High Commission and could assist him by talking to the High Commissioner personally.
He later collected $ 1,340 for the processing of documents for the issuance of the visa but he kept telling him stories.
He went to complainants office in June, 2008 while he was on his way to the University of Ghana, Legon to check on his boss son admission letter.
Suspect called the head of Science Department on his phone to the hearing of complainant and later collected GH¢500.00 to enable him facilitate work on the admission process.
He again took GH¢180.00 on the admission issue and later brought admission forms which had been signed by the Deputy Registrar, Prof. (Mrs) Christiana Owusu Badu but it looked suspicious.
When the letter was taken to the to the University for verification it turned out to be fake so a report was made to the police and he was subsequently arrested.
Upon interrogation, the suspect admitted he forged the signature of the deputy registrar.
Suspect admitted to investigators that he completed Adisadel College and has not been to any University and neither has he read medicine therefore he is not a doctor of medicine as claimed. Investigation is on going.