On Wednesday, gunmen followed an accountant with the Cross River Ministry of Education to the old Government Secretariat near Government House in Calabar and shot him.
The accountant, who was wounded in the thigh, was pursued from a bank where he had gone to make some withdrawals to the secretariat.
The two gunmen were claimed to have followed the victim to his office complex, where they seized the money-filled bag from him after shooting him at close range.
According to SP Irene Ugbo, spokesperson for the state Police Command, who corroborated the story, the sufferer was promptly brought to the Naval Referral Hospital for medical assistance.
Mr. Ugbo decried the incident, saying that police were already on the trail of the shooters, who were alleged to be following the victim on his motorcycle.
The city has recently seen an increase in motorbike robberies.
NAN