Soon after they started living as an evacuee there, Edet found his first girl was down with blood disease and he didn’t need her to sticks pass on unattended as well. So he chose to utilize his 12-year old girl, Mary as security to acquire N600,000 from a man in calabar. The young lady later passed on, and 19months after, he is yet to pay the said cash, which has made Mary to be existing in desolation with her father’s bank. Proceed beneath to peruse whatever is left of the story as reported by Punch.
His little girl now an insurance
Okon, who joined our journalist on a voyage through the packed outcast camps, seemed less made a fuss over the life of dirtiness they now lead.
The angler lost his first girl, Blessing, to the chilly hands of death in September 2013, in the wake of engaging with blood malignancy for five months.
Anyhow Okon’s anguish did not end with Blessing’s passing. Without a doubt, he now exists in the pool of the anguish of a man who needs to basically offer his kid into subjugation. To raise reserves for the arrangement of medicinal tests, medications, nourishing and healing center bills caused by Blessing, he selected to secure credits from somebody to spare her diminishing girl.
With no property to ensure the advance, Okon surrendered his second girl, Mary, as insurance to secure the entirety of N600, 000 given to him in portions.
Our reporter accumulated that the lender is a common servant situated in Calabar.
“I was edgy to spare Blessing from passing on. Her circumstance had gotten to be basic around then. That was the main thing I could do to rescue the circumstances. I am devastated,” Okon said, as his voice blurred off, softening down up tears.
As tears moved down his cheeks, he reviewed the day he “sold” her girl into servitude.
“I don’t comprehend what came over me. It was sheer edginess I gave out my little girl so the man would acknowledge to provide for us the cash,” Okon included, battling back second thoughts of what a lot of people are prone to view as condemnable.
Ufot
Our journalist connected with the mediator, Daniel Ufot. He helped Okon to arrange the N600, 000 advance from the loan boss. On getting to the living arrangement of the 59-year-old Ufot, who exists approximately five kilometers far from the camp, our journalist discovered Mary in his habitation.
Ufot clarified that some plain-fabric security agents keeping watch on the camp had requested that him bring Mary from Calabar to meet with his father who he had not seen in 19 months.
“I don’t recognize Okon in the slightest. In any case subsequent to I’m a master in cash loaning, I offered to help him in the wake of having learnt of his problem on how he had been engaging to spare the life of his girl.
“Be that as it may sadly, he couldn’t give any manifestation of security to secure the advance. Anyhow the loan boss, in his charitableness, consented to have her little girl as insurance since she was the main important “thing” he could offer,” Ufot said.
In a talk with this journalist, Mary, who was a lesser optional school 2 understudy before they cleared out Bakassi in March, 2013, has since dropped out of school emulating their removal from the oil rich peninsular. She imparted ghastly stories of barbaric treatment in the hands of her father’s bank.
Each morning, Mary birds of prey jug water in the city of Calabar, where, by the way, Mary Slessor halted the executing of twins. Onlookers might likewise detect the incongruity for the sake of the unbelievable evangelist and the oppressed Mary Okon. She included that any day she neglected to fumes the offers of her products, her new watchmen slid vigorously on her, beating her brutally all the while.
“The man my father is owing has three female youngsters and some different relatives are additionally enduring us in the house. They typically provide for me an income focus of N1, 000 every day.
“Furthermore at times when the business sector is terrible and I don’t wrap up the water, they whip me. They treat me gravely. I consume just once in a day and that is in the morning.
“I wash all their garments, including the women’s jeans, and do other house tasks, as well. What’s more on the off chance that I dither on washing their jeans, they get chafed and toss objects at me without restraint. I won’t feel content in the event that I about-face there,” she described.
Yet, Ufot demanded that he just brought Mary to meet with his father as a relief since he had not set his eyes on her for around 19 months.
“There are no signs that they would be reimbursing the advance. I just complied with the direction of the security men. She will be headed once more to the bank’s spot in Calabar,” Ufot said.
At the point when reached, the Refugee Camp Leader, Etim Ene, affirmed to our journalist on the phone on Monday that Mary has undoubtedly come back to the lender in Calabar.
Ene said, “Mary has been taken to the loan boss’ home in Calabar South. He was taken away by the underwriter, on December 2.”
Endeavors by our journalist to follow the location of the bank, whose name is given as Asuquo Etim, said to be dwelling on Atimbo Road, Calabar South Local Government Area, was failed. The leaser is said to be a representative of the Cross River State Urban Development Agency.
Ufot had prior declined to permit Mary to venture out with our reporter to her ace’s home for trepidation of the obscure.
Mary’s mother was away in the ranch amid a visit by The Punch.
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