Kidnapped Cross River Senior Medical Doctor, Dr Usang Ekanem who was abducted on December 26, 2017 has been released.
The Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Cross River’s chapter, Dr Effiong Mkpanam told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar that Ekanem was released in the early hours of Sunday in Akamkpa.
NMA in a statement on Friday in Calabar had threatened an indefinite withdrawal of medical services from public, private, mission, and institutional hospitals in the state from Jan. 8 over the kidnapped doctor.
Mkpanam, however, expressed joy over the release of the medical practitioner, adding that the traumatised Ekanem was released safely to his family on Sunday morning.
He said, “As we speak right now, our colleague has been released; it is breaking news to us. I have seen him and the wife and we bless God that he has re-united with his family.
“At the moment, he is highly traumatised, but we are grateful to God for his safe release.”
