An accountant with the Cross River Ministry of Education was on Wednesday shot when gunmen trailed him to the old Government Secretariat near Government House in Calabar.

The accountant, shot in the thigh, was trailed to the secretariat from a bank where he had gone to withdraw money.

The gunmen, two, were said to have trailed the victim to his office complex, where they forcefully took the bag containing money from him after shooting him at close range.

The spokesperson for the police command, Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the story, said the government official had been taken to the Naval Referral Hospital.

Mr Ugbo condemned the act, adding that the police were already on the trail of the gunmen.

The city has recently witnessed a surge in robbery attacks. 

(NAN)