Police in Gakenke District are holding a 25-year-old man accused of posing as a medical doctor to solicit money from unsuspecting residents with promise of treatment from foreign medical doctors.

At the time of his arrest, this week, the suspect, who was found with a forged national identity card bearing the name of ‘Nkurunziza,’ had already conned two residents of Rwf60,000.

"On Monday, we received information from residents about a certain man calling himself Dr Frank Mugisha from Kanombe Military Hospital. He was introducing certain medical services that the hospital in partnership with doctors from abroad would be extending to the residents of Gakenke, at a fee,” Innocent Gasasira, the Northern Region Police spokesperson, said.

"He was telling residents that there is a team of expert doctors from the US who will be coming in the country to treat non-communicable diseases and asked them to pay Rwf30,000 per head for registration so that they could benefit from the service,” he added.

Gasasira said investigations are still ongoing to establish the real identity of the suspect and to find out if there are other people that had fallen victims.

"People should be wary of anyone coming to them offering such services. Normally such services are provided from known places and by known people, not on the streets,” said Gasasira.

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