Human beings have devised several means with which to defraud their fellow citizens, rubbing them off their hard earned money and possessions. Some of them cunningly, some others forcefully using different weapons as a tool to scare or coerce their victims into giving them what they want. Either way they do it, it is completely wrong. It is also often believed that in a season like this where Christmas is in the air and holiday celebrations are in high spirit, the rate of fraudulent activities of these hooligans go through the roof.
And some of these tactics of theirs are not just old, but quite familiar to a good number of Nigerians.
On this fine Thursday morning in December, Mimi, beautifully dressed, set out to work. While she stood by the roadside in Lugbe, alongside other residents going to work as well and waiting for a taxi going to Galadimawa, one pulled over. A young lady and she walked over to the taxi. The young lady looked inside the taxi and changed her mind, but because Mimi just wanted to get to work as quickly as possible, she hopped in.
After the usual price deliberations, the driver agreed without an argument.
Aside the driver, there was a female passenger in the front seat, two passengers at the back seat; one male and a female. Mimi made the third passenger at the back seat, and usually, the driver would add another passenger to make them four persons at the back. To Mimi’s surprise, the driver did not wait or even pull over again to pick other passengers, even after seeing by their signs that they were headed to Galadimawa.
Mimi did not give it much of a thought.
Right after the taxi moved, the male passenger asked the driver, “Which money you dey hide inside your boot?”
“Na dollars,” the driver responded.
“How you take get dollars?” the other passengers quizzed him.
He went on to explain, “Na one politician wey I dey work for. He give me dollars make I help am keep, naim I carry from inside.”
“If you no share am with us, we go report you,” the other passengers supposedly threatened.
The driver agreed to share the dollars with them. At least, one of the passengers said, if they got a bundle each, then it would be fair. Destination that was supposed to be Galadimawa turned to somewhere else, because they were going to a more private place to share the money.
That was when Mimi realized that she had entered “One Chance”!
Immediately, she told them to drop her. At first they thought she was joking…like why would anyone want to pass up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get ‘cool cash’, and for free at that?! They tried to use persuasive words to cajole her into going with them to share the dollars, but Mimi did study criminal law, and so people like that would need a better and out-of-the-box tactic to fool her.
According to Mimi, only a greedy person or one who has never seen or touched dollars before would fall for their cheap attempt at fraud. Although, she did admit that the thought had actually crossed her mind for a fleeting moment when their conversation was going on, but she had hoped that they would share it whilst in the car, instead of having to change direction entirely. One bundle of free dollars will not be a bad idea at all, she had thought to herself.
Mimi asked to be dropped from the taxi, this time, sounding like she meant it. She threatened that if the driver refuses to stop the car so that she can alight, then she would be forced to shout.
Thankfully, they were just close to VIO officers on the road.
Reluctantly, they stopped and allowed her get out of the car in peace. First, she hurriedly checked her handbag which she had held onto tightly when she started to sense their shenanigan to see if her iPhone was still inside it. Fortunately for her, the phone was still resting peacefully in her handbag. Then she began to thank her stars that she did not fall victim of their scheme, otherwise she did not know where or how she would have ended up…and God forbid, become another young lady who loses her life to “One Chance” in the city of Abuja.
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Even Mimi sef likes money😅
Mimi is human after all…
This people are everywhere, i entered one like that at gwags. Immediately they started talking about foreign currency, I just pinched myself and said na Dem be this. May God remove ojukokoro from our eyes🤑🤑🤑
Only people with greedy eyes will fall prey to their cheap tactics.
Mimi was lucky and smart enough
Yes, she was, which actually saved her.
I have had a similar experience, too. Thank God for her.
Must really be a thing in this part of this world…sigh.
My
My sister also had similar experience in her POS shop but we thank God…. Thank God for the life of Mimi
Thank God indeed!
Mmmm mimi
I also experience this early this year but thank God for the spirit of contention. At first i thought i was inside a Nollywood movie when they started their story 😀😀.. May God continue to keep us safe
This is hilarious!
Mimi wey go still enter “Along” go work the next day?🌚
Lmao…it’s the life of a hustler.
Broo..the exact same thing happened to me in December along Lugbe road as well…Omo…at least she stayed calm and demanded to be released, I thought they’d stab me if they noticed that I had caught on to their tricks, so I just stayed quiet till I saw a few people close to the car, then I started screaming my lungs out, so they stopped and pushed me out of the car.
Funny thing is, my friends that I narrated my ordeal to said they were familiar with the scheme and that those drivers normally use juju to keep their victims interested in the money enough to go along with the driver to the “private” place they’d share the money
It’s a crazy world, y’all stay safe Frs
Thank you for sharing this.
That’s why no matter how hot a conversation is in a taxi I’d never say a word. Most times they use charms as well, once you speak it’s sorry for you
True…I don’t participate in conversations as well.