18 Nigerian nurses within the US have been charged to court docket in america for acquiring academic credentials by way of fraudulent means.
The Texas Board of Nursing has filed formal costs in opposition to 23 nurses training within the US over certificates forgery.
In a press release on its web site, the Board revealed names of the accused nurses of which not lower than 18 are suspected to be of Nigerian descent.
In response to the Texas Board of Nurses, all of the suspects have been caught in a grand fraudulent diploma/transcript scheme as revealed by an ongoing investigations.
The multi-state coordinated regulation enforcement motion code-named ‘Operation Nightingale,’ involving the US Division of Well being and Human Companies Workplace of Inspector Common (HHS-OIG), was inaugurated on January 25, 2023, to arrest people concerned in a scheme to promote false and fraudulent nursing diploma diplomas and transcripts.
The Nigerians concerned are; Abiodun, Yetunde Felicia; Adelakun, Abiodun Aveez; Adelekan, Joseph Adewale; Adeoye, Vivien Temitope; Adewale, Modinat Abidemi; Afolabi, Olufemi Toun; Afolabi, Omowunmi F; Agbo, Odumegwu Steve; and Ajibade, Charlot Omotayo.
Others are; Akande, Olabisi Christiana; Akhigbe, Catherine; Akinrolabu, Folasade Margaret; Ako, Esiri Rachael; Akpan, Rosemary Moses; Alimi, Bukola A; Ani, Ndirika Justina; Aroh, Nchekwube C.; and Ayodeji, Sherifat Olubunmi.
The Texas Board of Nursing additional defined that the suspects engaged within the scheme procured fraudulent nursing credentials which they used to take a seat for the nationwide nursing board examination.
“Upon profitable completion of the board examination, the nursing candidates grew to become eligible to acquire licensure in varied states to work as an RN or a LPN/VN,” the Board said in a separate assertion.
It additionally clarified that the formal costs filed in opposition to the offenders will not be a closing disciplinary motion, due to this fact, they’re permitted to work pending the end result of the fees.
The assertion learn: “The Board has filed Formal Costs in opposition to the next nurses for fraudulently acquiring academic credentials.
“The Board is permitted to file Formal Costs in opposition to a nurse if possible trigger exists that the nurse has dedicated an act listed in Tex. Occ. Code §301.452(b) or that violates different regulation. See Tex. Occ. Code §301.458. Additional, Formal Costs are publicly out there. See Tex. Occ. Code §301.466(b).
“Please word that Formal Costs will not be a closing disciplinary motion, and a nurse is permitted to work, as a nurse, whereas Formal Costs are pending.”
Different non-Nigerian nurses named within the scandal are Abanda, Jacob Atambili; Addai, Agnes Fosuah; Anaaba, Awingrug Musah; Anthony-Annor, and Spendilove; Asanga, Albert Nshanui.
“This checklist will probably be up to date constantly because the Board receives further details about the fraudulent diploma/transcript scheme,” the assertion added
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