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The Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State Command, has arrested one Mr. Sunday Bassey, the owner of Corner Stone Bush Bar Hotel located at Orida Road, Biase Local Government Area of the state for speaking to the media over the raid on his hotel by armed policemen on January 15, 2024, during which N310,000 was allegedly extorted. Bassey was said to have been arrested on Tuesday morning alongside other guests in the hotels for daring to speak to newsmen and exposing them.
A citizen journalist with the ChroniclesReporters Newspaper, Paul Ben Manasseh has narrated his near-death experience in the hands of a team of policemen attached to the Special Force of the Assistant Inspector-General in Cross River State who allegedly arrested some hotel guests after planting some items believed to be “exhibits” to implicate them. SaharaReporters was told that the incident occurred at the CornerStone Bush Bar Hotel by Calabar Ikon highway in the Biase Local Government of the State on January 15, 2024.