Principal, Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital,Sokoto Demoted Over Refusal To Admit Unqualified Student

For refusing to admit two students with Fake West African Examination Council (WAEC) result, the Principal of the School of Psychiatric Nursing at the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Kware, Sokoto State has been demoted to a Bed Side Nurse in the out Patients Department of the hospital.

According to a source who spoke to FrontiersNews, the Assistant has now been promoted as the Principal and the two nurses were offered admission.

Trouble started for the demoted principal, when upon discovering that the result presented by the two students has been tampered with refused to admit them.
 
FrontiersNews gathered that one of the students (Fatimah Yakofojo) is the wives of the Assistant Head of Department, Nursing at the hospital, Mr.Yakofojo while the second student (Victoria Samson) is her closest friend.

Both are working in the hospital.

Our correspondent also gathered that a lot of the nurses at the hospital have been working using other peoples nursing certificate.

“Which means they are not qualified and are putting the lives of patients at risk,” our source said.

Vicky’s result was discovered to have been tempered with as someone else sat for the exam on her behalf and when the results was issued, the passport photograph was changed and has not been replaced.

On the other hand, Fatimah’s result was discovered to belong to a 17-year old girl in Kebbi when the principal took the result to NECO Office in Minna for verification.

FrontiersNews learnt that Neco officials had wanted to go to Sokoto to arrest Fatimah but were prevailed upon to suspend their plan with the promise by the demoted Principal that she would report to the office. However, for fear of arrest, she has refused to report to the Minna office of Neco till date.

Despite this fact, the hospital management continued to retain her in its employment.

Fatimah as stated earlier is one of the wives of Mr. Yakofojo who is the very influential Assistant HOD Nursing of the hospital.

Another of his wives known as Sister Halima is also a matron in the same hospital.