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Mrs. Chioma Chikadibia, a Nigerian woman, died after suffering from depression and poor health for months as a result of her husband and three daughters’ ongoing arrest by the Abia State Police Command.

Her surviving daughter, Chikiezie Ifeoma Lilian, confirmed her death on Wednesday morning. She disclosed that her mother passed away 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.

A violent midnight raid on the inmates’ home in Alaukwu Village, Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area, on April 12, 2025, resulted in the arrest of Mr. Chikadibia Sunday, a 63-year-old shoemaker, and his daughters Glory, Ngozi, and Ogechi.

Witnesses disclosed that without a warrant, armed men from the Abia State Police Command’s Anti-Kidnapping Unit raided the house, knocked down doors, took cash and belongings, and took the family away. Some of the guys were dressed simply.

Despite growing evidence and eyewitness reports, authorities denied detaining the family for weeks. They were then found to have been arraigned and held at the Aba Correctional Centre in secrecy, without informing their family members or providing them with access to legal counsel.

Mrs. Chioma gave SaharaReporters an exclusive interview in May during which she detailed the devastation of her family’s lives, businesses, and education as well as her husband’s deteriorating health while in detention.

She disclosed that Ogechi, her youngest daughter and a final-year student at the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, had been detained for an additional year, which had caused her to miss her exams.

“My husband is slimming down daily. Life has not been easy on me coupled with my ill health,”she had said then.

“I used to have high blood pressure but after that incident, it increased without measure. My children’s dreams have been scattered. Their customers and businesses have been liquidated. This detention has created much vacuum in the family.”

Her grief, combined with the absence of any intervention from the police or government despite public outcry, eventually pushed her into deep depression, according to relatives.

The arrests were also denounced as “a gross abuse of police power and due process” by the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC).

Okechukwu Nwanguma, its executive director, urged the Abia State Commissioner of Police and the Inspector-General of Police to look into the matter and free the detainees right away.

“This case reflects the very worst of police impunity — armed men storming a home without a warrant, abducting an entire family, denying them access to lawyers or relatives, and hiding them from public view,”Nwanguma had said.

According to reports, Chikadibia Sunday and his three daughters, Glory, Ogechi, and Ngozi, were covertly arraigned by the police in May after being detained incommunicado for several weeks at the infamous Anti-Kidnapping Unit in Umuahia.

They were arraigned without access to their families or their preferred legal counsel.

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