Daniel Efe/Port Harcourt
Anti-kidnapping unit, SARS of Rivers Police launch manhunt for abductors of Medical Doctor in Rivers. Anti-kidnapping unit and the Special Anti-robbery Squads of the Rivers State Police Command are on the manhunt for the yet-to-identified gunmen who kidnapped a Medical Doctor in his Consulting Room while attending to patients in Oboloma Health center in Asari-Toru local government area of the state.
Dr Kikere Ramson’s whereabouts is not known and neither him or his abductors has contacted his family.
The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Princewill Dike who confirmed the incident also condemned the act describing the act “unnecessarily sacrilegious to abduct a Doctor while attending to patients in his Consulting Room”
He is now calling on the kidnappers to release the Medical Doctor unconditionally.
Chairman of the Rivers state chapter of the
Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Datonye .D. Alasia stated that the frequent abduction of medical Doctors in this part of the world is is not only unethical but inhuman.
“Why should criminal abduct a medical doctor from his consulting room while attending to patients who direly need medicare in rural areas where there are large population of the poorest o the poor. We therefore call for his unconditional release.”
He called on security agencies and the state government to ensure his unconditional release.