That's like the anthem I hear everywhere I go looking for a job. Why does life in this country have to be so hard? Nothing can ever come easily in this country. you have to hustle and struggle so much.
My story is no better. My name is Oluebube Ikeazor and I have a little sister Adaeze. Hardship upon hardship is what I had to go through. After writing JAMB for three years, I finally gained admission to study engineering. My mother sold all her wrappers to see me through school. Engineering, a course of five years, I spent eight years in the university because of the strike. I graduated with a first-class degree and after everything now, there is no job to show for it.
There is no kind of job I've not done. Even menial jobs, you mention. I've worked as a vulcanizer, restaurant attendant, and bricklayer, I even dig suck aways just to survive. The only family land we had, we had to sell because, after my father's death, a different club of his came and claimed that he owed them money and if the money was not paid, it might lead to the death of a family member.
There was nothing like three square meals in my house. Even a single meal was very hard to come by. Early in the morning, my mother and I would wake up and gather firewood and set a fireplace. We would gather leaves and put them in the pot and boil it so passers-by would think we were also cooking.
That was the pattern of my life until I was invited to a party by a well-known chief of my town. Chief Emenike. Who would not know chief Emenike, the richest man in the whole community? I happened to stumble upon him one day on my way to the market and I helped him fix his car because it was having problems. After doing so, the chief invited me to his party. At 7:00 pm, I got to the venue along with my little sister and upon entry, we saw some couples of people surrounding us including Chief Emenike himself.
"Brother what might have happened here? Why do we have people disappearing one after the other? Jesus Christ. this place must be dangerous let's get out of here. Even the chief has disappeared". This must be some sort of nightmare that we must wake up from.
While trying to find our way through the dark area to get away from this brewing trouble, we stumbled upon something hard and fell on the floor. Wondered what it is as our hearts were on top of our mouths thinking that we are going to disappear just like others. I put on my phone touch light to check what we might have fallen upon. On putting on the touch light, we found a huge amount of hard currency in a large black bag. Must this be a blessing or a trick?
