THE VICTIMIZED

This is a story of how I was a victimized by one chance.

Welcome to Nigeria where the hustle is real, people don't mind harming others just to be able to put food on the their table. We can blame it on the economy but it's not an excuse enough, there are people out there doing genuine hustling, legal hustlers providing for themselves and families. While others are out there looking for people rob of their hard earnings.

Welcome to Abuja in Nigeria where one chance (thieves in the disguise of taxi drivers or public transporters picking people and not taking them to their destination but rather robbing them of their belongings) is a type of hustle.

On the 24th of November 2025, I woke up and was all dressed for work. I got to my junction and stopped a cab, I entered, told the driver where I was going, we bargained and all that. I met 3 other passengers in the car, two men and a woman. One man at the front with then driver, then the other man and the woman at the back.

They felt like normal people all going out to their various places of work not knowing they where already at work looking for clients (😂 it's sounds funny now but it wasn't on that day).

Mid way into the journey the driver and of the men started arguing about bag full of dollars in the trunk, and then it hit me. Instantly I realized I've enter the wrong cab, I began to pray in my heart. I've never experienced them but I've heard a lot about them and their formats, that's how I got to realize it was them. Driver and a perssnger gets to argue about a bag, when their victim get to interfere in the argument, the become hypnotized and they take all you belongings from you, including money in the bank.

Knowing I've entered a one chance can, I refused to get involved in their conversations and the driver called my attention to the matter on ground and I replied with, I just want to get to work. Instantly the driver's tone changed, started threatening me and saying I won't escape them today, that I should give them my phones and belongings or else they'd collect them from me forceful and grow me out of the moving car.

I was scared for my life, I kept mute and was praying to God to save me, just some few days before that day a story went viral of a lady killed by one chance people on her way to work, and I was like "God this can't be my turn, I'm not going to die this way".

This people usually target women, ladies and girls taking advantage of our vulnerability and helplessness.

I was forced to transfer all the money in my bank account to them my phone where collected and they where already talking and planing on throwing me out tof the car. Luckily for me, the driver stopped in the middle of the gave me back my phone and asked me to run out. I came down shakinly while the zoomed of I was confused, traumatized I didn't even know where I was dropped. I had to call my people to come get.

I'm grateful I'm still alive the harm they did me wasn't more than that, my money was stolen but my life is intact.

Considering almost all their victims are women, I consider it a gender based violence. This experience showed me the extent of the wickedness of man.

Let's stay safe out there as God continues to keep us safe.

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