Bro!

You have no job You have never desired to work When you were single, it was always about marrying someone rich who could pay your bills, for that reason you waited till you were 44 before you got married. The lady you met was 38.  She has a good job and because she was desperate to be married and become a mother, she got married to you. She gave you her car for UBER, but you wouldn’t be bothered to work with it. She got you a job with a mobile network as a customer service agent You didn’t last a month.

At forty-six you said you wanted to go back to school to get your first degree. Your wife was already pregnant by this time. She had to dig up the funds to sponsor you through school for four years. She felt if you had a degree, you would be more inclined to get a job. She paid the rent and fed you and took care of all her medical and other bills. You just supplied semen when you could. You made three children, including a set of twins in three years. You graduated and still didn’t get a job. You sit at home all day sleeping and watching TV.

Your wife by this time is getting weary. The school fees of the children kept increasing. The rent and other bills too All your wife wanted was for you to chip in something, to become supportive and not remain a leech. You play the victim, always you give an excuse “I couldn’t get a job” “I cannot drive in the sun” “If I use the AC the fuel finishes quickly”

When your wife gets too frustrated to go on, you reach out to friends asking for handouts. Imagine saying “My first son is starting exams, and we have paid 70% of his school fees upfront and now I need to come up with the balance before they will allow him sit for exams. The thirty percent remaining was 400,000 Naira. I mean, you placed your first son in a school where he pays 1.4M per term? Ha! Your twins are paying 800,000 Naira each as school fees. You said it is their mother’s idea, since she was the one paying, you had no say in the matter. Why were you the one begging for the school fees balance?

Your rent is also 4M per annum. You said you only live and sleep there and have no say as to the type of house your wife rents because it is her money.

Now you said your father had died and you wanted to do the burial. You created a WhatsApp group and added the living and the dead people you have met in the course of your life to the group, with the aim of soliciting for funds Is this a tangible life you are living? Is this a reasonable life you are living? You are now 56 years old sir.

 I have never known you to have ever earned a penny before since I met you in 2005. You have always lived at people’s mercy, squatting here, managing there. Being evicted here, being taken in out of compassion there. You join a new church every year in order to benefit of their welfare and as soon as your novelty wears out, you leave. You have become a professional parasite. You don’t understand the meaning of dignity of labour. You know the Bible though. You remind your wife all the time that if she throws you out, you will just find another woman to take you in and never look back.

This is not life you are living; this is not life sir. I know it is probably too late for you. I resolved over twelve years ago not to give you a kobo of my hard-earned money anymore. I broke that promise in May when you were about to get evicted from your house and since then you have been back twelve times asking for handouts. You said I am one of those you run to in time of emergency. I cannot remember ever running to you or anyone ever running to you in time of emergency. When we knock on your door, it says, “give me” and when you knock on our door it also says “give me!” And you know the Bible sir. You will quote it and quote it. You have sat under Pastor Olubi Johnson and Pastor Tunde Bakare’s teaching for many years. Sir, let this word of God be effective in your life. It is head knowledge that you have. The word is not spirit and life to you. You should not continue like this Bro!

-GSW-