A mob had assembled to lynch two after one man said that his penis and testicles had vanished. The police were called to the site.
In Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, the event just happened at the roundabout between Akai Effa (MCC Road) and the GoodLuck Ebele Jonathan bypass road.
Witnesses at the scene say when the man felt his penis had disappeared, he immediately raised an alarm and removed his trousers and what he saw left him dismayed.
“What he saw was smaller than a grain of rice and there were no testicles too,” Jeremiah Archibong, the Board Secretary of the Association of Cross Online Journalists told CrossRiverWatch newsroom over the phone after he called the Police to intervene on the matter.
“The Police have since arrived and calmed the situation,” Mr. Archibong added.
In recent weeks, reports of male genitals magically disappearing after handshakes have been on the increase in Calabar.
A similar incident at Nyanghasang community of Calabar Municipal led to a Police raid which caused a reprisal by the community. A Police van was damaged and an entertainer, Kandy Umoh was among those arrested.
While Mr. Umoh was later released alongside a few others, nearly two dozen residents of the community were arraigned before a Magistrate Court and remanded at the Medium Security Custodial Center in Afokang.
About a fortnight ago, a similar incident occurred at night in Ekpo Abasi junction close to the gate of the Main Campus of the University of Cross River State.
