Fake Nurse, 33, Sentence to 22- Month Imprisonment

A dismissed trainee nurse, Francis Awine Anaafo, 33, has been sentenced to 22 months imprisonment for using forged documents to undergo national service at the Goaso Municipal Hospital in the Ahafo Region. The Madina District Magistrate Court ‘1’, presided over by Mrs Maame Efua Tordimah, sentenced Anaafo on June 28, 2019 for defrauding by false pretence and impersonation. Facts The facts of the case as presented by prosecutors were that on February 21, 2019, the Medical Superintendent at the hospital, wrote to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana that Francis Anaafo, who was using the name Simon Yaw Woli, was underperforming, and that he should be investigated. Upon receipt of the letter, Anaafo was invited to the Council’s head office in Accra where he was made to present his certificate of registration, results slip and the national service logbook. EMPRESS COURT After screening the documents, the council detected that Anaafo fraudulently used the name of Mr Simon Yaw Woli, who is a qualified nursing practitioner, to obtain an extract-of-occurrence from the police that his certificate, results slip and logbook were missing. Anaafo, fraudulently acquired a duplicate copy of Mr Woli’s Registered General Nursing (RGN) certificate with the extract and presented it to the National Service Secretariat (NSS) to register for the service.