by Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
Apparently owning to severity of the economic hardship and hunger in the state, an under 25 years’ old adult person has offered his cell phone for five cups of Moi-Moi meal to a woman seller, promising to payback later and collect the phone.
Funny, however, the seller openly rejected the plea and refused to give the moi-moi to the hungry-ridden looking young man, who later left saying, “Let me go and sleep in hunger.”
The ugly trend and sympathetic scenario happened in a place called “Jaba Road” in U/Boro area of Sabon Tasha in Kaduna State, on Monday in an evening side joint, according to many eyewitnesses.
Asked why she refused to grant the boy’s pleas, the woman seller, bearing Mama Imayo, said she was afraid of misplacing the phone or losing it before the owner comes back for it.
She said, “Nooo! I refused to give him’oo, because what, if the phone missed or stolen from me before he comes back, especially that I did not know him. So, he said “Let me go and sleep in hunger,” and sluggishly left.
According to her, the boy seems to have also taken alcoholic drinks from somewhere, and came to her to ask for moi-moi with his phone. “Why?, she queried.