Aflao, Oct. 10, GNA - Richard Brown Afful, who is standing trial at a circuit court at Aflao for posing as a doctor is to be transferred to Yeji in the Brong-Ahafo Region to be processed for court for a similar offence.

Afful was alleged to have used fake documentations to secure a job as a medical doctor at a Yeji Hospital but sneaked out of town only five days after the hospital authorities doubting his credentials reported him to the police.

The Aflao police told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that news about Afful's arrest and appearance in court at Aflao alerted the police at Yeji who sent down a request for his transfer.

Afful, who is scheduled to reappear before the Aflao Circuit Court on October 11, this year is being held by the Aflao police for transfer to Yeji.

He is charged with impersonation, false assumption of professional title and forgery.

At Aflao, Afful was alleged to have sought and got employment as a medical practitioner with a private hospital at Aflao but was busted. He was said to be operating with the registration number of a Dr Richard Kwame Mannah who passed out on September 15, 2006 from the University of Ghana Medical School and was currently doing his Housemanship at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The Police said Afful confessed during interrogation that the certificates were forged for him by a friend now in the United Kingdom but whose name he could not say. 10 Oct. 07