A Nigerian woman, Mrs. Chioma Chikadibia, has died after months of battling depression and ill health over the continued detention of her husband and three daughters by the Abia State Police Command
A Nigerian woman, Mrs. Chioma Chikadibia, has passed away after months of battling depression and ill health stemming from the continued detention of her husband and three daughters by the Abia State Police Command.
Her de@th was confirmed to SaharaReporters on Wednesday morning by her surviving daughter, Chikiezie Ifeoma Lilian, who revealed that her mother died on Friday, August 8, 2025.
“I lost my mom on Friday 8 of August 2025. She died out of depression and other stuff over the continual detention of her husband (my father) and her three daughters by the police,”she said.
The detainees — 63-year-old shoemaker, Mr. Chikadibia Sunday, and his daughters, Glory, Ngozi, and Ogechi — were arrested on April 12, 2025, during a violent midnight raid on their home in Alaukwu Village, Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area.
Eyewitnesses told SaharaReporters that armed men from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Abia State Police Command, some in plain clothes, stormed the house, broke down doors, seized valuables and cash, and carted the family away without showing a warrant.
For weeks, police denied holding the family despite mounting evidence and eyewitness accounts. It was later discovered that they had been secretly arraigned and remanded at the Aba Correctional Centre — a process carried out without notifying relatives or granting access to legal representation.