{"id":6399,"date":"2023-12-11T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gunmen-abduct-cross-river-traditional-ruler\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:08:49","slug":"gunmen-abduct-cross-river-traditional-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gunmen-abduct-cross-river-traditional-ruler\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen abduct Cross River traditional ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The traditional ruler of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River, Etiyin Maurice Edet, was on Sunday night abducted by gunmen at his residence in the council area.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an aide to the traditional ruler was shot dead in the process of the kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of the state Police Command, SP Irene Ugbo, confirmed the incident but said details were unknown to her as at press time.<\/p>\n<p>A source, however, said the traditional ruler\u2019s aide was killed as he tried to prevent his principal from being abducted.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabuyo, notorious for criminal activities, is less than 15 kilometres from Calabar, the capital city of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Prof Patrick Egaga of the University of Calabar, Unical, has been released by his abductors after 26 days in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Egaga, who is Unical\u2019s Director of SERVICOM, was abducted in the institution\u2019s staff quarters after which his abductors demanded a ransom of N50 million.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that Calabar and its environs have witnessed increase in cases of abduction in the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>The targets for abduction are usually lecturers, lawyers, medical doctors, clergymen and high profile individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen abduct Cross River traditional ruler<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional ruler of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River, Etiyin Maurice Edet, was on Sunday night abducted by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2812,1688,15,4499],"tags":[2821,1689,180,2820,4500,3054],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-river","category-gunmen","category-news","category-traditional-ruler","tag-cross","tag-gunmen","tag-news","tag-river","tag-ruler","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}