A 27-YEAR-OLD unemployed?man is in police?grips for posing as a heart surgeon and deceiving the?law enforcement agents?that his Toyota Highlander?vehicle had been robbed by?some unknown persons.
Dr. Kwame Frimpong?Boateng, who claimed to be?working at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital?(KATH) in Kumasi, went?missing after reporting his??stolen? vehicle to the?police on April 1, 2014.
Police checks at KATH?revealed that there was no?heart surgeon at the medical?facility by name Dr.?Kwame Frimpong Boateng.
This made them suspicious?of something fishy and so?they started to hunt for the?imposter.
On November 26, this?year, the police had information?that the self-styled heart surgeon was at?Adum, a suburb of?Kumasi, so the law?enforcement agents rushed?there and arrested him.
Chief Supt. George?Tweneboah, the Kumasi?Central Divisional Commander, said upon interrogation?the suspect admitted?that he was not a medical doctor, adding that his?real name is Kwame Frimpong?Boateng.
He also confessed that?it was not true that he was?robbed of his Toyota Highlander?by some unknown?robbers at gunpoint as he?earlier reported to the?police on April 1, 2014.
Chief Supt George?Tweneboah said the police?had charged the suspect for?impersonation and deceit?of public officer and would?be arraigned before court?very soon.
Delving deep into the?case, he said on April 1 this?year, Kwame Frimpong Boateng, who claimed to be?a medical doctor at KATH,?reported to the police that?some unknown hoodlums?had robbed him of his Toyota?Highlander.
The self-styled heart?surgeon claimed in his?report that his attackers?were wielding locally manufactured?guns and?machetes when they took?away his car at the GRIDCo?area in Kumasi.
Chief Supt Tweneboa?said the police accompanied?Frimpong Boateng to?the supposed crime scene?and alerted all police stations?and check points in?the region about a stolen?Toyota Highlander.
After reporting the case?to the police, Frimpong?Boateng surprisingly vanished?into thin air, so the?police rushed to KATH?with intent to locate him to?assist them in their investigations,?only to be told that?he did not work at the hospital.
The suspect, who stays?at Bontefuo Tetrem near?Nkawie in the Ashanti Region, was eventually?nabbed.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah?Jnr., Kumasi
