(By Nkechi Bianze) – THE WORLD IS NOT A LEVEL
PLAYING FIELD
She lost her parents before the
age of 12, so she went to live with an aunty who although turned her into an
unpaid house-girl, but was at least nice enough to send her to a nearby public
secondary school. She finished secondary school with a good WAEC result.
At 18, she ran away from home,
after her auntie’s husband tried to rape her.
Cici slept in church buildings
for some days till a member of the church took pity on her, and decided to
employ her as an office cleaner and office messenger. She also gave her free
accommodation.
At 19, and just about a year
into her new job, the sister of the entrepreneur who she worked for as a
cleaner/messenger wanted a nanny from Nigeria. She couldn’t afford to pay the
professional nannies in the UK, so she opted for an “imported” one from
Nigeria.
The lady was going back to
school for an intensive two-year program, so she needed someone to look after
her three children while she combined full-time education and full-time work.
