No Armed Robbers Struck Calabar Guest House – Police

The Cross River Police Command has denied reports making the rounds that equipped robbers struck a impermanent location successful Calabar South and assaulted women.

Police lawman Public Relations Officer, Igiri Ewa, made the refutation during a telephone speech yesterday successful Calabar.
Ewa stated that accounts from the proprietor of the edifice person it that 2 equipped men scaled the obstruction of his impermanent location astatine astir 10:19pm connected October 3, 2025, forced their mode into the country occupied by a antheral and his woman and dispossessed them of 2 mobile phones and a powerfulness bank.

Ewa stated that the constabulary responded conscionable arsenic accusation emerged astir suspected criminals being recovered astatine the premises of the impermanent house.

He stressed that the constabulary stormed the edifice premises lone to find a 25-year-old Emmanuel Ekpo, a nonmigratory of Okurabor Street, 8 Miles Calabar, who could not springiness a disposable relationship of what helium was doing wrong the premises and took to his heels.

“And helium was chased by the constabulary and arrested, upon hunt of his person, 2 raps of substance suspected to beryllium Indian hemp were recovered from him, helium is presently helping the constabulary investigation,” Ewa maintained.

It would beryllium recalled that quality study astir an onslaught connected the impermanent location had trended connected the societal media, that a radical of implicit 10 equipped men stormed a impermanent location astatine Adak Uko Street successful Calabar South section authorities country of Cross River State, leaving respective women injured and traumatised.

It was alleged that the incidental occurred successful a impermanent house, located successful the Ambo/Mbukpa axis of Calabar South, which was overcrowded with women who had gathered to be the day solemnisation of the Universal Women’s Fellowship of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star.

The societal media study alleged that the attackers were equipped with guns and machetes, broke into the rooms, assaulting and robbing the occupants.