IHEONU NWAOGU OBINECHE V. THE CHAIRMAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL PRACTITIONERS INVESTIGATING PANEL

YARGATA BYENCHIT NIMPAR, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is appeal is against the decision of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (hereinafter “The Tribunal”), sitting in Abuja delivered on the 15th day of January, 2015, wherein, the Tribunal suspended the Appellant (Dr. Ihuonu Nwaogu Obineche) from practicing medicine for a period of two (2) months. Dissatisfied with the said decision, the Appellant filed a Notice of Appeal on the 10th February, 2015 setting out 5 grounds of Appeal. The Records of Appeal was transmitted on the 23rd March, 2015.

​Facts leading to this appeal are amenable to brief summary. I shall do so shortly. The charge against the Appellant was that he carried out a myomectomy operation on the deceased under a very high blood pressure reading of 180/120. On the basis of a report vide an affidavit sworn to by Hajia Lamy Lawal, the Appellant was invited by the Medical and Dental Practitioner Investigative Panel to answer to the al…