Hi, I am Iyimoga, my intention of being here is to learn and get to meet friends.
Danielle, a 25 years old girl who stays with her mum. After graduating from a tertiary institution with good grades. Danielle has got 2 younger siblings who look up to her for a better and a promising lifestyle. She will always tell them how life will soon be good. Danielle thought life will be more fair when she rounds up her schooling. The dream of getting a good job immediately after schooling gradually turned into a nightmare as days passed with no response from the numerous companies she had submitted her application letter to. Everyday looks promising until it passes by with the same story.
Danielle’s Mum has been the major pillar in supporting the house from her little roadside business she sells food to passer by and bike men who render services around that area. It's just a small business that barely put foods on their table. Danielle will always go to her mum's place of business to help her mum deliver food to customers.
Danielle has always promised the mum how life will be when she finally gets a job. The dream of getting a better house for the mum is her first priority, she wants a comfortable life for her mum and her siblings.
Danielle will always sit at her mum's road side business thinking of how best she could get this stage of life off her back.
Danielle had a million thoughts running through her mind when someone tapped her on her back. Danielle raised her head but couldn't believe her eyes. It was Fumi, a long time friend.
“Hey, Fumi what are you doing in this part of the country?” “I was going to ask the same question” Fumi replied. “Yeah, this is where I stay," Danielle replied. With much excitement she offered Fumi a seat and served her food. That day was one of the terrible days, the market was bad that day. There was no much sales.
I am glad to see you, Fumi exclaimed as she ate what was set before her.
You are not looking bad Fumi. Danielle complemented her, looking from head to toe. Her appearance showed Fumi is living a sweet life.
What do you do now? Fumi asked.
Hmmmm!!! Danielle took a deep breath, ever since I left school, life has not been fair. It's from one embarrassing situation to another. “How do I get to pay for all the sacrifices this woman has been through.” Danielle looks at her mother as she serves customer food.
I have been a laughing stock around the environs, countless number of applications but as usual they will all get back to me, which none has done me the favour of calling to even tell me they are still considering my application.
Enough of me. What about you? Danielle adjusted her seat to get a full glimpse of what Fumi really looked like.
Well, I am with an NGO scheme, we specialize in giving grants to medium and small scale businesses. So our company recommended this environment as a target to ensure we lift the lives of people who are into business but don't have enough Capital to make it big.
It's even nice I met you. Fumi said to Danielle, you are going to make our work a whole lot easier since you base here. At least with a familiar face on our team we won't have to go through hell trying to tell people what we came to do. “So I will recommend you to my boss, so you could be part of the team.”
Does this mean I will be employed? Danielle asked. Yes, of course. Fumi replied.
With much excitement Danielle jumped up from her seat. At least things will get better than it used to be and her dream should finally come to reality, considering the kind of clothes, shoes and jewelry Fumi is putting on.
Fumi introduced her friend to her boss and without hesitation she got an offer to work with them.
We are just like micro financial aid. All this people need to do is keep some little amount of money with us, we trade it with the foreign exchange and then give them double of what they give after a week as an interest.
After every necessary documentation. Danielle kicks up with work. They move from street to street convincing people on how the organization works and people were able to give a small amount of money for a start $20, $50, $10 and so-on and so-forth. A week later, everyone who gave his or her money received 2 times what they gave. It was amazing how you don't work for a week and you received such an amount.
Some who received that money deposited everything again and with time, those who started with $20 had about $120. Now in no time people began to come with bigger money as they saw how genuine it was. People began to give in $500, $1000 and even $5000. It rolled with time and people were getting double of what they gave. The trust increased and people began to bring amounts worth hundreds of thousands dollars and with time people began to bring their life savings.
Danielle saw the light of the day in her work as the kind of money that recircles is a kind of money she never expected. She was surprised how people she lived with were able to pull such an amount of money.
Now this said organization is running into millions of dollars. The trust was built and people relaxed as they waited for the maturity of their money.
Danielle woke up this fateful day dressed and moved straight to the little office given to this NGO but to her greatest surprise it was still locked, on like the previous days.
She dialed Fumi’s number but it was not reachable. It looked normal until it's past 10 am and there was no sign of any of these people. Hello, Danielle, how are you? The first old woman who is supposed to collect her money arrived and soon there were 7 of them and then 15, soon countless. The tension increased as neither of the members' contact was reachable.
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Danielle is left in the midst of all these people. How does she sort these people out as these NGO made the people believe she was part of them.
She consoled them assuring them that their money will be returned but what looked like joke soon turned into reality. People have lost several thousands of dollars to these people. Danielle was dragged to the chief's palace. Danielle is just a victim of circumstance so she should not be held responsible as everyone who gave his or her money did that from a place of willingness and no coercion to that.
The chief ruled out the case and asked everyone to do better next time and no one should tie his or her loss to anyone.
He assured them that the law enforcement agency will be put to work to see that they apprehend these people and bring them to justice. Mind you all, nothing is gotten easily. Don't allow greed to take the most of you. Try not to fall victim next time. Danielle learnt not to easily trust people regardless of who they are. Amnesty spoke for her.
