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Young Ladies in Abuja lament over "One Chance" incidence in Abuja

The activities of suspected fraudsters,‘One Chance’ in Abuja have been on a tremendous rise leading to a massive outcry by young Nigerians especially ladies in the capital city of Nigeria.
‘One chance’ is a slang used to describe the activities of criminal-minded persons who pretend to be cab drivers and pick up passengers with the intention of taking them to their destination but Enroute, these criminal-minded drivers with other accomplices (who pretend to be passengers) attack unsuspecting passengers and strip them of all their personal effects and belongings.
Some of these attacks lead to the death of the unsuspecting passengers, especially where the passenger is thrown out of a moving car or tries to engage these criminal elements in a scuffle.
While many Nigerians are of the opinion that the increasing rate of ‘One Chance’ is as a result of the poor economy and increasing unemployment rate, others have blamed the mode of dressing of these young ladies who stand on major roads as an attraction to drivers and operators of ‘One Chance’
But in this report, newsmen encountered some ladies who shared their sad stories while calling on the FCT minister and the FCT police command to put an end to the scary encounter ladies have to go through daily while commuting to their respective places of work/business.
It has, however, remained a conjecture that the dressing of these young ladies has made them targets of ‘One Chance’ activities, as men have equally fallen victims on several occasions.
Speaking with DAILY POST, a victim of ‘One Chance’, Amarachi Nwachukwu narrated her experience after she boarded a cab from Area 1 to Jabi on a fateful Tuesday.
“I boarded a cab at Area 1 to Jabi with a passenger in it who was to alight on the way. On getting to Utako, the passenger asked the driver to stop for him to come down. When the driver brought the car to a halt, the passenger brought out a dollar note for payment, thereafter, an argument ensued between the passenger and the driver as the driver refused to collect the dollar note.
The passenger who was speaking in French pretended not to understand English, even as he requested to be taken to the French Embassy rather than his initial destination.
“I was sitting at the back and tried to intervene with my little knowledge of the French language as I was in a hurry to get to work. Suddenly I got so engrossed, immediately I started speaking with the French guy and that was how he showed me a trick of paper being turned into dollar, which made me uncomfortable to continue my trip with that cab, and when I wanted to alight from the cab, a gun was pointed at me.
“I was asked to surrender my ATM card and pin as the driver went to the nearest ATM point to withdraw money while a gun was pointed at me in the car in case my pin failed.
After they successfully took money from the ATM, they started the car and stopped along Area 3 express and they threw me out of the vehicle, which resulted in injuries.
“I survived the push by God’s grace and since then I’ve been so scared about boarding ‘along’ cabs in FCT.”
The FCT Police Command speaking on the menace of one chance in Abuja had assured Nigerians of its unwavering commitment to fighting ‘one chance’ robbery and reducing the crime to its barest minimum,
DSP Anjuguri Manzah, FCT Police Public Relations Officer encouraged the public to be security-conscious and report all suspicious persons or activities to the nearest police formation or contact the Command’s Control Room on the following Police emergency numbers: 08032003913, 08061581938, 07057337653.

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