The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital Chapter has called for an immediate action over the kidnap of Professor of Neurology, Prof Ekanem Phillip-Ephraim, who was kidnapped from her home in Calabar, Cross River State, and taken into captivity.
In a release signed by chapter’s chairman, Dr. Femi Akodu, the association said:
Today makes it 50 days since our very senior colleague and Professor of Neurology,
Prof Ekanem Phillip-Ephraim, was kidnapped from her home in Calabar, Cross-River State, and taken into
captivity. With no communication from her captors, the state of her current physical and mental health remains
a matter of conjecture.
Her situation appears to mirror the security situation in Calabar, given the rising incidences of what looks like
unchecked kidnap of citizens. As it stands today, there is pervading air of fear around both the work and home
environments within our cities and the State as a whole.
How else does one explain the kidnap of as many as 14 doctors in one city in just 5 years? That we have lost
confidence in the ability of the Cross River State Police Command to contain the trend of kidnapping in the
State will only be putting it mildly.
We wish to ask the Inspector General of Police and other security agencies to activate a special investigative
team to unravel this latest crime in a list of several others.
We also want to call on the public to join us in calling on the government at all levels in all the states especially
Ogun State to prioritize the security of the lives of Nigerians as we refuse to accept this as another unresolved
kidnap incident.
On September 1st 2023, Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Teaching Hospital Sagamu will be holding a white ribbon event to call attention to this unresolved crime.
Thank you and God bless.
MDCAN calls for immediate action over kidnapped Prof.
