Alleged IVF fraud, embryo sale: Court adjourns trial to June 18

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, presided implicit by Justice Akeem A. Fashola, has adjourned proceedings of the transgression lawsuit against an Abuja based aesculapian practitioner, Dr. John Abebe, and his hospital, Joje Abebe Hospital Limited, implicit alleged merchantability of a patient’s embryos and IVF fraud, to June 18, 2026.

Abebe, who is besides a pastor with Living Faith Church, AKA, Winners Chapel, Durumi Abuja, was arraigned connected a three-count complaint of fraud, unlawful disclosures of his patient’s aesculapian records and merchantability of their embryos, fraud and transgression conspiracy connected March 11, 2026, by the Federal Government done the Inspector General of Police.

According to the three-count charge, Abebe is accused of unlawfully releasing the confidential aesculapian records of Mrs Mary Manga and her hubby to the nationalist without her consent — an offence said to contravene Section 29 of the National Health Act 2014.

In summation to the alleged breach of aesculapian confidentiality, prosecutors assertion that betwixt January and May 2025, Abebe, described arsenic a main advisor obstetrician and gynecologist, allegedly deceived and defrauded the mates of N19 cardinal nether the pretext of being a specializer successful In Vitro Fertilisation, IVF.

The complaint alleged that helium collected the wealth for attraction and converted it to idiosyncratic usage — an offence...