Chapter 14 : THE STORY CONTINUES..

It was getting closer to December 2014 making it complete four months that I have worked in the poultry, we were paid our salaries on every 22nd of the month according to when we commenced on the duty, we arrived on the 21th of August 2014 and we commenced the next day being 22nd, so we were paid on every 22nd.

To be very sincere my boss was indeed a principled man, he doesn't tolerate nonsense, he is very calm and full of wisdom, our salaries were paid accordingly on the due date but on December something happened.

We've already spent about two weeks in the month of December, I began telling loud stories on how I'm going to celebrate my Christmas in my village, I kept on repeating the stories just to get their response on time without asking them directly

I continued with my Christmas season plans and plays stories until my boss wife responded and asked me if people who work in the poultry travels for Xmas? it hit me in my mind like a heavy blow, I told her of course that I will travel she looked at me and laughed, I joined her and laughed too.

So I have already seen their plans for us, I started making my own preparations on time, after all the sufferings and the malnutrition you wouldn't allow me to go and see my family and eat my mothers food, it is impossible.

Other people working in other poultries has many benefits they get from the farm like the empty bags of feeds, they can sell it and spend the money for themselves, the birds droppings that is manure, they can pack it up and sell also to their pockets and the cracked eggs was theirs but we had none, in our poultry we didn't have any benefit, we pick up the cracked eggs one side for my boss, the wife was using it for baking, the manure which was the only thing that annoyed me most in the whole work.

We would suffer and gather all the birds droppings in all the farms and pack them in bags and supply it to the buyer but we will never see a dine from it, I was highly provoked by that singular act, in other farms workers there makes a lot of side pay from that ends but we were not seeing any money talkmore of earning any side payment.

I live with a wealthy man but I couldn't eat to my satisfaction, that my friend that connected me to the people that connected me to the work will often come to the nearest junction to see me then he will give me 200 naira which was almost a miracle to me then.

There were no other means of getting any money apart from my salary, except when I created a little hole for myself where I was getting about 100 naira every Saturday In two weeks, my boss will always give me his clothes to wash and give me 200 naira for detergent then I became so economical with the detergent that I could use it twice to wash his clothes, moreover they weren't always dirty just heats and dust's.

So I was able to be earning extra 100 naira in two weeks which was almost an answered prayer then, we were really starving in the house and I couldn't call that woman, it got to a point where I will trek from my work place to my uncle's house to eat food and then trek back and the distance is unimaginable.

It is there that I experienced the worst part of my life.

No one should go through that kind of hell.

I had already concluded that I wasn't going to work there by next year 2015 but I never let them know, I had already siphoed their plans for us on Christmas vacation.

So I began making my plans, I will always be complaining to that my Friend whenever he comes to give me money about what I'm passing through in that house, it happens that everything I heard even before going there were all true, he will ask me to call that woman but I will say no, until I told him my escape plans just Incase it goes south.

It was 21st of December already and we had anticipated our salaries as usual but it didn't come that day, we waited the next day being 22nd it still didn't come, then I realized they were planning on keeping me with that salary so that I wouldn't travel for Christmas, I introduced my own plans and put it to work.

We had waited the next day being 23rd till in the night they still didn't call us for the salary, then I constructed a very big heavy lie on my own without even telling my colleague, I only told him that I must receive my salary the next day being 24th and he laughed at me, on that 23rd night I had waited for their call and they didn't call us then I went inside their parlour to look for them, they is a saying that says if the mountains refuses to come to Mohamed then Mohamed will go to the mountains, so I went to them to tell them a sure lie that I know they must adhere to.

"It's not about constructing lies it's about telling the lies" I had courage because I had already known their plans, I greeted them both, they were watching movies in the parlour, I told them I have something to tell them but I don't know how to say it so that they will not get angry, they asked me to continue, I told them that before I registered my...