Abuja one chance menace: How criminals exploit a transportation gap to kill, steal, destroy

By Kingsley Omonobi
Of the myriad unpleasant things that occur daily in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, none unsettles residents as much as a negative phenomenon that has come to define the town’s ecosystem.
Like a bad omen, the tragedy foisted on the city is ingeniously captured as ‘One Chance’ by evil merchants who use privately owned vehicles to cause havoc.
Under this well-organised crime ring, the daredevils typically pose as genuine commercial vehicle operators, lining up the sprawling roads as innocent and hardworking commercial drivers seeking passengers to ferry safely to their destinations for an agreed fee. But that is only a facade that has often taken many c...