Get-rich-quick banker in survival battle

Get-rich-quick banker in survival battle

It is said that anyone who is trapped inside the river should not complain of thirst. In a similar vein, anyone who is neck deep in cash should not only be saturated with the thought of money but also nauseated by the sight of it. But a Kaduna-based banker could not cope with a life with tons of cash would be under his watch while he lived the life of a struggler.

The quantum of money the banker sees everyday kept his imagination running riot even in his sleep. There are lots and lots of good things of life he dreamt of: acquiring landed assets, living in a mansion, owning a fleet of cars and, above all, junketing around the globe. However, he resisted the temptation to fiddle with customers’ deposits because of the dire consequences.

Ordinarily, one would have expected any banker of managerial status to be well-paid and, as such, should be very comfortable with his take-home pay and other benefits/allowances bankers should be pampered with. But a banker like the one is discourse would not have been able to live the kind of life he dreamt of without closing down the branch of the bank he manages.

At a point, he got so pissed off with the life he was living that he even contemplated suicide. Reprieve, however, came his way when he confided in a close buddy. Even though he is an elder in one of the high profile Pentecostal churches, he jumped at the idea of being introduced to a white garment church which prides itself as the “solution centre” where ALL problems are said to meet their waterloo.

At the church, the banker profiled his ambitious to which the pastor gave a nod of possibility. He, however, assured the banker that his ambitions were achievable but through a higher authority. He then took them to a “babalawo”. At first, the banker was shocked by the “babalawo” dimension that his quest for opulence had taken. The “babalawo” took time to give him a run-down of men like the banker who had come to bow before his god in order to achieve their desires to live big. The banker relaxed his shock when the “babalawo” fooled him that he can still make heaven by being generous to his fellow church members and the poor.

To shorten a long story, the banker agreed to go through the money rituals process laid down by the “babalawo”. So desperate was he that the mention of human blood did not cause him to cringe. He paid the evil man handsomely in lieu of getting the sacrificial ‘lamb” for the process. At the end of the day, the ritual object was buried in one of his rooms and a date was picked for an annual sacrifice to appease the spirit of the victim used for the ritual.

Expectedly, things began to happen around him and his level changed dramatically. All manner of favours began to bombard his door. The “juju” directed and guided high profile (thieving) civil servants to his branch with stolen funds lodged for safe keeping while he got huge commissions as rewards for his partnership, and they ran into millions of naira. Others were transferring accounts of ministries, departments and agencies to his branch and fixing them for interests. This heavy patronage did not only fetch him massive cuts but also earned him promotions and bonuses.

Right now he has a fleet of choice cars in one of his mansions he bought for several millions of naira. He also goes abroad with his family on vacation as frequently as someone afflicted by diarrhea goes to the loo.

However, the day of reckoning appears to be banging on his door. Even though he has not failed to carry out the annual appeasement sacrifices to the spirit that brings favours and wealth to him, he recently escaped two robbery attacks in quick succession. On the two occasions, he was robbed of two of his choice cars and millions of naira belonging to thieving civil servants who believed that the incidents are stage-managed and he is being harassed on his hospital bed where he is critically lying ill and receiving medical treatment for broken bones following merciless pummeling he received from the robbers.

Worried by his deteriorating health condition, his employers have offered to fly him abroad for proper medical attention but the banker is not cooperating for fear that he could be trapped over there, and thus miss the next appeasement sacrifice which is around the corner. Consequently, the default will spell doom for him because the money-spinning spirit is primed to strike him dead if the pacification time is missed even by one second.