The doctors, who marched peacefully in protest within the hospital premises, stated that all efforts made so far to secure her release had proved abortive.
The Chairman of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta chapter, Dr Jimoh Olanrewaju, has led his other colleagues, on a peaceful protest to demand the immediate intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, in the release of abducted Prof. Ekanem Philips-Ephraim. The neurologist with Calabar Teaching Hospital, Cross Rivers State, was said to have been abducted 50 days ago within the premises of the teaching hospital by some assailants, who disguised themselves as people in need of medical care.