Kidnappers have abducted four persons in the last six days in Calabar , Cross River State .
One of them is a lecturer at the Cross River University of Technology , Dr Anthony Egbe .
Egbe was abducted on August 29 , 2020 at Asabanka in Akpabuyo .
Another victim was Mr Effiom Asuquo , who was kidnapped on September 1.
A yet - to-be -identified pastor on Atu Street was also whisked away to an unknown location , while another woman , identified as Promise Edet , was kidnapped by the gunmen .
Edet was abducted from her house on Thursday , September 3 , 2020 on Ibesikpo Street , Calabar South, around 6 am .
The incident was reported at the Mbukpa Police Station , as the DSS and other security agencies were reportedly informed .
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, said the lecturer had been released .
She said , “Dr Egbe , a lecturer attached to CRUTECH who was kidnapped on Saturday , August 29 , 2020 , at Asabanka Akpabuyo , was released after we raided the area . One suspect who masterminded the kidnap was arrested . ”
It was gathered that a safety department worker with UNICEM , Mr Joe Offiong , who was abducted last month, had also been released after alleged payment of ransom to the abductors .
But a paediatrician at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital , Dr Vivien Otu , who was kidnapped last Friday , has yet to regain her freedom .
Meanwhile , the police command has arrested 10 suspected kidnappers and other criminals in the last five days .
According to the state Commissioner of Police , Abdulkadir Jimoh , among those arrested on the waterways by policemen attached to the Marine division, Mfum, Etung LGA , were Cameroonians .
“They kidnapped 11 Cameroonians /Nigerians to their forest in Cameroon before they were apprehended ,” he added .
The suspects were identified as Egbe Horatus , Enow Takang , Nkwa Boris , Agbor Ntui and Enoh Livingstone .
The police said three locally- made guns and five live cartridges were recovered from the suspects . ,,
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