November 3rd 2016

I am writing all of this based on his pronunciations.

Read as written.

'My oga, good morin ma" Seun said.

I answered him with the usual, Good morning. Passed the car keys to him and went back in to dress up. I was done and ready 21minutes after and i strolled down to hop in with my laptop and handbag.

Oga Seun jumped out dramatically and grabs the bags from me, puts them in the back seat and heads towards the gate to open it (because my landlord has decided to chase the gateman away even after collecting 1 year salary from us to pay him, we have suddenly become our own landlords personal gate women....). While enroute, his phone rang and he cut it, we passed through our usual route and stopped for a few minutes to buy gas, Oga Seun jumps out to make a quick call, hops back in and vroom vroom vroom we went.....

Fast forward, third mainland bridge, bonny camp road, Lekki.... viola, I ran into the office and sat down for a few seconds, then i called a colleague and explained my journey to her.

While on 3rd mainland bridge, oga seun reduced the volume of 1 of my favorite radio stations 98.5 and this ensued between us.

" Eh, yes ma, i don't know if i fit tell you some tin ma" i look at him from the rearview mirror and nodded. "Yes ma, my wife na him flash me that time, e say them don pursue my boys come house because them never pay school fees". I didn't know what to say. i just looked outside the window and started to pray for peace and wisdom.

"oga seun, what should i do? Why haven't you paid their fees? Why are you telling me?"

Yes ma, i don't know if you can help me ma, i don't know where I go see money to ....."

"Wait, Oga seun, have they paid you? or are you asking me to borrow you another money? You haven't returned the 10k i gave you last month, where do you want me to get the money from" i managed to blurt out. 

He goes quiet for a min and said " eh yes ma, i don't know if you can help me beg them to pay me quick. i don't know where i go see money from now" then he did a quick sign of the cross.

 I told him i didn't have money and focused on my phone and the gbeses to my name.

Got to the office, and as i was runwalking away from the car, he quickly said "yes ma" and pointed at his stomach with a "i never chop food sign language" i nodded, and walked away.

So let me tell you about Oga Seun.

He started working with me 6 weeks ago.

He is married with 3 or 4 kids

He is always asking me for money for food and transport, which i usually give him. So far, I have spent between 8-12k on him (minus the 10k I borrowed him).

Oga Seuns road knowledge is poor. He once drove into gbagada express because he thought that would take us to Lekki.

He drove to the ikoyi link bridge once and passed the roundabout and headed for ebeano to attempt to do a u-turn to come back to Lekki phase 1 gate.

He once tried to reverse on third Mainland Bridge because he missed the sabo/yaba entrance.

He sleeps in the car with his shirt hanging on the passenger’s side door, and his legs in the dashboard.

Tomorrow is another day!!!