Ghanaian woman dies after ‘one-chance’ attack in Abuja
• HURIWA mourns, tasks minister, FCT police on insecurity
The loss of life of Bound away out Freda Arnong, a Ghanaian nationwide who had lived and worked in Abuja for several years, has sparked renewed concerns over insecurity within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), following an alleged attack by ‘one-probability’ robbers.
‘One-probability’ refers to a execute of theft in which criminals masquerade as taxi drivers or fellow passengers to entice and gain unsuspecting commuters.
The Guardian learnt that Freda died at about 3:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 7, 2025, from accidents sustained within the heart of the brutal detect. Based entirely on her brother, Arnong Arnong, Freda had closed from a dwelling fellowship advance the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Institute in Maitama spherical 7:00 p.m. on July 1, and boarded a taxi heading to Pope John Paul Boulevard along the Transcorp Hilton twin carriageway, where she lived. Unknown to her, the vehicle used to be operated by robbers.
Narrating the incident, Arnong mentioned his sister told him she used to be blindfolded quickly after entering the vehicle and used to be viciously assaulted by the lads, who demanded she grant them rep admission to to her telephone and financial institution app. He mentioned Freda used to be no longer tech-savvy and had lost her Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card weeks earlier without changing it.
Annoyed by their inability to rep admission to her funds, the robbers intensified their assault. She even suggested calling her employer to send the N10 million they demanded, nonetheless they refused and threatened to mutilate her and sell her body aspects.
She used to be within the waste thrown out of the transferring vehicle spherical 11:00 p.m. advance the MoshoodAbiola Stadium. Left injured and helpless, she tried to rep aid from passing autos without success. A local vigilante within the waste came to her reduction and rushed her to the Nationwide Health facility, Abuja.
Medical scans printed excessive trauma, at the side of broken posterior ribs, lung lacerations, kidney damage, interior bleeding, and accidents to her eyes and coronary heart. She died days later in well being facility.
Within the period in-between, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has mourned the loss of life of Freda. The community lamented that the criminals personal operated for years, seemingly for the reason that security and political leaders of the FCT personal but to return to phrases with the hazards these terrorists pose to electorate.
The community known as for justice for Freda and all victims of the crime, stressing that such an incident may possibly well well possibly peaceable never happen again. HURIWA’s Nationwide Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, acknowledged: “This God-fearing, beneficiant soul used to be known to us at HURIWA for the reason that year of our inauguration about eighteen years within the past, and he or she had repeatedly supported our work, just as she used to be an extraordinarily righteous human rights person.
“The necessary capabilities of her detect are a reminder of the pressing need for the government to snatch steps to ticket out these terrorists disguised as robbers. The police, Department of Narrate Products and services (DSS), and the defense pressure may possibly well well possibly peaceable situation up strategic observatory capabilities inner the municipality of Abuja, just because the Closed Circuit Tv (CCTV) security challenge may possibly well well possibly peaceable be revived and carried out.
“Installing CCTV spherical the FCT and dealing purposeful monitoring systems and swiftly-response squads is mighty more pressing than building flyovers in each put Abuja, as is currently being done by the politicians.
“What crime did Freda Arnong commit? Her most keen ‘crime’ used to be residing in a lovely city plagued by a broken system.
“How long will we hold shedding innocent lives to the ‘one-probability’ criminal syndicates? When will public transportation be protected for everybody? When will our leaders prioritise know-how-pushed transport safety?
“We ought to query a driver and vehicle authentication system, where commuters can take a look at the identification and registration of financial autos and their drivers in real time before boarding.
“Freda can not die in vain. Her killers may possibly well well possibly peaceable be chanced on and prosecuted. There are infinite households silently grieving family members lost to the identical destiny, abandoned by a system that failed to guard them. We ought to upward push. We ought to query switch.”
