Abuja one chance menace: How criminals exploit a transportation gap to kill, steal, destroy
Incidents mount One of the two most recent and worrisome incidents that shook the FCT to its foundations, occurred on January 3, 2026, when Chinemerem Chukwumeziem, a nurse with the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, was lured and killed by ‘one chance’ vehicle operators after she closed from work and innocently boarded the doomed vehicle at night.
He declared a zero-tolerance stance on crime in Abuja, vowing to dismantle the notorious ‘one-chance’ criminal syndicates operating across the Federal Capital Territory.
One young woman, who gave her name as Iniobong Festus, from Uruan Local Government of Akwa Ibom State, and lives with an aunty in the Gwarinpa area of the FCT, narrated a story of how she accidentally boarded a ‘one-chance’ taxi from the Dawaki Underbridge on her way to church in Asokoro via the AYA-Kubwa Highway, and ended up being beaten and thrown out of the vehicle by the robbers when they did not find anything to steal from her.
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