In December 2024, a rural Alberta family lost their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Alita just hours after two visits to the same doctor. Three months later, her grieving father Peter tragically drowned while lighting memorial candles for her on the lake.

After hearing Esther’s heartbreaking testimony, I decided to go undercover in South Africa to investigate why the Nigerian “doctor” who sent Alita home to die had been suspended there.

I’ve visited the university he claims to have graduated from in Cape Town, then flown to the nation’s capital, Pretoria, where the South African medical board headquarters is located, all the while covertly recording my journey to obtain the truth at these institutions.

The evidence I brought back indicates fraud and misrepresentation, which raises questions as to how this “doctor” obtained a medical license in Alberta. Well, we found answers for that as well.

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