Skip to main content

CORPORATE BEGGAR

 I had always heard of corporate begging but never had such experience however I was the main act in a begging movie today.  Yesterday, I boarded a bus from CMS Outer Marina to Law School, Victoria Island in Lagos; while we waited for the bus to fill a young man came to the window and started his begging introduction. 
“ Good morning Sir good morning Ma please help me with 100naira In the name of God, I am going to Ajah and all I need is just 100 to complete my transport fare. I am a student and have to meet up an appointment I beg you in the name of God”. 
I ordinarily would just wear my earphones and blast out the plea for help, but again I considered him dressed in well pressed shirt and I had never seen him beg there before (typically beggars have selected bus stop they are attached to like glue).

It was a good day for me so I felt sorry for him and handed him 500naira, he scurried away without a word of thank you. I wasn’t looking for gratitude so I wasn’t upset at that slight. Now that I think of it I remember a random man calling the begging guy a crook after I gave him the money “that’s how they beg money up and down” he shouted. It drew laughs from other passengers in the bus.

So this morning it felt like déjà vu when I was sitting in a bus at the same motor park when I heard from the back .....“ Good morning Sir, Good morning Ma please help me with 100naira I beg you in the name of God, I need to go to Ajah” as he kept repeating the line it was like a bell going off in my head. I turned to the voice and behold it was the same tall dark guy with neat shirt, he wears low cut hair but very dark as though he painted his head with shoe polish. I took in a few deep breathes so I could minister kind words to him from the angry pits of my loving heart, then I called him to the my window and you need to have measured the speed at which he got to my side, it was like flash, he even had watery eyeballs like Puss in Boots.

“Can I give you an advice?” I said. He raised his eyes to me expectantly like I would give him the keys to a loaded bullion van ( I had 100naira aside to give him though) “Yes ma” he sadly answered. 
“Please whenever you go about begging do not mention God’s name I gave you 500naira yesterday after you said the same thing” He was taken aback that he was made but he just laughed and took off before I could give him more ministration. But, trust passengers the few who heard our small talk rained heaps of curses at his running frame.



I was honestly sad for the cunning man who should be adding value to our great nation.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ADULTRESS DOOM

To know wisdom, instruction and to understand words of insight let the wise hear and increase in learning and the one who understands obtain guidance. Were you not instructed not to forsake the instructions of our father and the teachings of our mother be used as a garland for your head and as pendant for your neck? When sinners come with enticement and plot to lie in wait for blood, are you not strong enough to refuse consent and flee from such worthless and wicked persons you call acquaintances, or did you not take counsel from our father when He said the man filled with crooked speech, the one who winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger and whose heart devise evils, will have calamity come on him in a moment that he is beyond healing?   Now I laugh at your calamity, terror strikes and I mock you now. Distress and anguish has come upon your flesh and body because you heard and refused to heed, your complacency is now your woe. Do you now won...
Post a Comment
Read more

I AM WAITING

  ‘’Am Waiting, Am Waiting, Am Waiting’’ is a makeup chorus in one of the SpongeBob SquarePant’s episode, for those of us who love cartoons. SpongeBob one day found written on the box of Garry’s (his pet snail) food ‘’free gift inside’’ so with great exhilaration he ran back to the grocery store, bought a whole lot of snail food boxes, went home and started eating the snack so he could get the free price in the box. He eventually found one gift coupon which he posted so he could get his free gift by mail post. With this same excitement SpongeBob remained by the post box waiting for hours for the post man to arrive with His gift, at first the wait was stimulating because he knew he was expecting something then after a while he began to worry if His gift would actually come, after some minutes His apprehension began to grow that while he was yet by the post box he got depressed and wept ‘’oh I wasted my whole life waiting by this post for my present’’. Patrick his dumb star fish b...
Post a Comment
Read more

THE GOSPEL IN REVERSE

Its early this morning and am in this vehicle heading to Victoria Island, a man who had joined the bus as we pulled out from the bus stop started with hymns and praises to God, he sang well and had a good number of songs so I flow along and mentally shake my head to the melody of the tune, anticipating to hear a good message to end the singing session. oh boy was i wrong. Although wasn’t so bad though but I think on a fine day if he were selling a product I needed badly, I wouldn’t feel the need to buy from him. I believe in God and I like being attentive to everyone that preaches. Because God is so big I could learn something new and see something of Him from an entirely perspective, so I listen (which is good, most of you don’t). I also have unreserved respect for those who commit time to preach while commuting, it shows just how passionate they are about evangelism and it is one of the many opportunities to reach out to new people every day.   "God loves you and...
2 comments
Read more