Adebimpe: The Facebook Girl – Episode 39
WOMAN: let’s calculate it then.
ME: **looked at the phone and saw that it was my
uncle**** don’t worry ma, thank you ***opened my
wallet and gave her 1,200naira***
Hello uncle
UNCLE: this boy, what is your problem?, or is it a
crime that I wanted to help you?.
ME: I’m sorry sir, I was just alighting from the bus
sir. I was about to call you when you called in sir.
UnCLE: ok, from where you are, take a bike to fajuyi
road, call me when you get to the street.
ME: ok sir.
I rushed out of the computer centre and stopped a
bike and it took me to the address after negotiating
on the price.
I got to the street and called him. He came to meet
me few minutes after the call and took me inside to
meet the chairman.
UNCLE: hi sir, this is my son I was talking about sir
CHAIRMAN: really?, how are you?
ME: I’m fine sir
CHAIRMAN: please have your seat
ME: thank you sir.
CHAIRMAN: **faced my uncle** Mr badmus, you can
take your leave
UnCLE: ok sir
My heart was beating faster as I sat down on the
seat infront of him. His face looks scary and I was
having this feelings that he would find out that the
credentials with me wasn’t original. Chaiii!!, I don
enter am today.
CHAIRMAN: **turned to me*** hello young man, can
I meet you?
ME: **chaii, interview don start be that?** erm!!, I am
onihaxy, a chemistry graduate of AAUA,
CHAIRMAN: well, I’m chief durojaye, the CEO of
DUROJAYE group of company. So what more can I
know about you?.
ME: ***fear began to catch me***, I am a diligent
young man, productive and industrous ……..bla bla
bla
CHAIRMAN: ok, your dad had been my staff for over
10years and he had been honest, so when I needed a
manager for my supermarket, he recommended you
for the job. So I told him to invite you based on the
trust I have in him.
ME: **bend forward in appreciation*** thank you sir.
CHAIRMAN: hmmmm but unfortunately, my son who
lives abroad called me this morning that he would be
relocating to nigeria this month. So he will be the
one to take the position,
ME: ****felt disappointed and my eyes were red and
soaked****
CHAIRMAN: but because I have already sent for you,
I will fix you as a P.A to the manager and also a
secretary of my pure water company here in Ado
Ekiti. Hope you won’t mind it?
ME: ****smile suddenly re-appeared on my face as I
grinned out loud.**** thank you sir.
CHAIRMAN: you are welcome. You should be
thanking your dad. He is an honest and hardworking
man.
ME: thank you sir.
CHAiRMAN: so, what grade did you passed out with
at school?
ME: 2.1 sir
CHAIRMAN: that’s nice, good boy.
ME: thank you sir.
CHAIRMAN: ***picked his phone and scrolling
through it**** are you here with your CV?
ME: yes sir
CHAIRMAN: **placed the phone on his ear and
rotating his chair to and fro in 180 degrees***
“excuse me”. Hello manager, I will send someone to
you now, he will be the new secretary and also your
P.A. You will give him the bank form and all the
neccesary forms to fill.
Me: ***i was so joyous on the seat I sat on***
CHAiRMAN: so ehhmmmmm
ME: onihaxy
CHAIRMAN: ok onihaxy, I’m travelling to Lagos right
away, infact, I ought to have left since, I only delayed
it because I gave you an appointment.
ME: thank you sir.
CHAIRMAN: so, drop the photocopies of your C.V
and credentials with your dad. I will collect it when I
return.
ME: ok sir.
CHAiRMAN: so concerning the salary, how much do
you want me to be paying you?
ME: ***smiled with shyness and silent****
CHAIRMAN: ok, you want to do voluntary and charity
work I guess, then let me be on my way
ME: **smiled** no sir, ok, 50,000
ChAIRMAN: **laughs*** these youths of nowadays,
you loved money so much. Those days when I started
working, I started with 85kobo in the 60s
ME: sir, money had value then
CHAIRMAN; ***laughed** ok, I will start with
30,000naira monthly for now. As time goes on when I
evaluate your performance, I might increase it.
ME: **i compared 18k to 30k and I felt its still
cool***, ok sir, its ok.
CHAIRMAN: alright. You can go, remember to submit
the copies of your credentials. ****handed over a
complementary card to me**** here is the address of
the water factory. Go there when you leave here so
that you can start the necessary documentation
ME: thank you sir. ****what is now the essence of all
the wahala sef?, he no even ask of the originals***
I left his office and went to my uncle’s department to
give him feedback, my uncle told me to wait for him
and he went to meet the chairman, “to appreciate
him I guess”. They both came out of the office and
my uncle followed him to his car and he drove off.
My uncle returned back to meet me.
ME: thank you so much sir
UnCLE: don’t mention my son. Hope the pure water
job is ok by you?
ME: yes sir, its ok compared to my job and salary in
akure.
UNCLE: no problem. You can move in with me for
now. And when you save enough money, you can get
your own accommodation.
ME: thank you sir.
UnCLE: I know you are a grown up man, you should
be planning to get married soon and no lady will ever
agree to marry a guy squatting with his uncle. So I
understand that you will need privacy and freedom
any moment from now.
ME: **smiled**
UncLE: its true my son. I was once a youth like you.
ME: **smiled***. How about your children sir?
UNCLE: they are all fine. So where are the
photocopies?
ME: I opened my bag and I remembered that I forgot
to make photocopies after the printouts *chaiii,
onihaxy!!!!, this village people never comot from your
back****
