Kwara medical director allegedly raped nurse, says victim his girlfriend

Ayodele Joseph, a doctor, was brought before the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Odama, on Friday for allegedly sedated and raping a nurse.

According to reports, the culprit was operating on the nurse in his facility in Ilorin, Kwara State, at the time of the event.

One of the 13 suspects paraded in front of the media at the police headquarters was Joseph, the Chief Medical Director of Ayodele Hospital in Sawmill, Ilorin.

The CP said, “On May 5, 2023, a female victim (name withheld), a nurse by profession, reported to the police that she went to Ayodele Hospital at 290, Sawmill area, Lagos Road, Ilorin, for surgery. The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Ayodele Joseph, during the treatment, sedated the patient, which led her to become unconscious.

“Before the sedation, fearing any mishap, the patient activated her telephone and placed it in a vantage position to record the surgery unknown to the doctor before the expected surgery.

“She woke up from sleep after the surgery to find herself fully naked, and when viewing the recorded video, she discovered that the said Dr Ayodele Joseph had unlawful sexual intercourse with her while under sedation.

“Investigation led to the recovery of the video recording of the sexual action of the said doctor on the victim, which was also corroborated by the medical examination conducted on the victim.”

The suspect, according to the police chief, was previously charged with killing Nneka Akanike in his hospital.

He said the recent incident had been brought to the attention of the state section of the Nigeria Medical Association, and he added that his hospital’s property had been cordoned off.

At the conclusion of the ongoing inquiry, the doctor will be prosecuted with rape, according to Odama.

Joseph, who claimed the nurse was his girlfriend, refuted the accusation.

The director referred to the alleged rape as a set-up and said that the nurse was his staff and had been his girlfriend for eight years.

He said, “She is my girlfriend and we have dated for eight years. I trained her as a nurse; I sponsored her to a school of nursing in Lagos and I employed her. How can I rape a lady that I have had intercourse with several times? What else do I want to see in her body? She only wanted to set me up to rip me of some money. Already, she has collected a substantial amount of money, which is with her. She has already collected about N500,000 from me on this issue and she is still demanding more money.”