The woman
who pleaded anonymity told Vanguard that she had gone to the bank located at Murtala Muhammed Highway Calabar Road
The
bewildered lady while narrating the incident to policemen on duty and concerned
commuters amidst tears, said after making the withdrawal she boarded the taxi
to Watt Market to buy some items.
According
to her, after the withdrawal she stopped a commercial taxi with four passengers
behind and one in
front and
she was asked by the driver to squeeze herself in the front seat.
As she was
about to enter the front seat, a male in front came down for her to go in. Not
suspecting anything, she entered and sat close to the driver, while the male
passenger entered and sat by the door.
She said:
“When I got in, the other man followed and was telling me to adjust. The
driver, in pretext of helping me to sit well kept pulling my left hand that
held the black polythene bag containing the money.
“In a short
while, the driver said there was no space for me, that I should alight. Moments
after I alighted, after the car had zoomed off, I experienced coldness when i
realised that the polythene bag was now lighter”
The woman
further said to clear her doubt, she reached for the bag only to discover that
her father’s pension money had turned to pieces of paper.
She said
she immediately stopped another taxi to go after the earlier one and when she
could not catch up with it, she stopped and reported the matter to policemen.
She told
Vanguard that she was afraid of telling her ailing father what happened, saying the father might
drop dead.
To salvage
the situation, she said she decided to borrow the money from her friend with
the hope of paying back later.
Culled from
The Vanguard
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