#StoryTuesday: The Judgement (Episode Five)

 

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It all started like a joke but six months after that very day, the future was bright, they could feel it, an idea that came as a joke had started making them famous and was about to earn them their first millions. As it was hard to believe, the feeling that their lives was changing for the better was also overwhelming, there was no doubt about their ability but the possibilities of them having this much success within a year was a surprise to them yet they stuck their guns out and risked it.

After one week of being certain that they were all in the clear, they started to execute the plans they had made concerning how to spend and invest the money. Yes given the current economy situation what kind of business they would invest 400k into that would give returns quickly, they agreed on using 100k on all kind of shopping, so yes they were hell bent on making early returns on the 400k investment. All kind of ideas were bouncing around their heads; from Agriculture to ICT down to Bet Agent which was the best idea they agreed with and would have pursued if only they had not met Sunday.

Sunday is a friend, always having this ideology that he is the smartest guy in the room, if I was to talk in cliché well I'd say he his smart but ariwo ko ni music. But then again if you look at the kind of risk he is willing to take then you would understand his pride to always want to feel that way. Sunday told them about MMM a Ponzi scheme that he was already into and was earning him mad cash just like he said. Guys I dey tell una, nothing sure pass MMM just put 20k and after one month you get your 20k back plus 30% profit, I mean isn’t that awesome?. They both gave same answer which was the fact that they would think about it and get back to him.

While they were trying to sort out the cloth they had bought this conversation occurred between them

Nova: So Guy, how you see this MMM thing wey Sunday dey talk about

Okafor: Well I won’t lie I have heard about it, there is this girl way I dey toast na she dey tell me about am but my own honest opinion is that I don’t believe in such thing, what if it crashes or they lock up shop and say they aren’t doing again what happens to all the money there.

Nova: Hmm that's true but then again the fact that Sunday sounded confident about it, don’t you think we should try it out?.

Okafor: Guy, when it comes to taking risk and gambling you know Sunday is always confident about his odd

Nova: So what do you suggest?

Okafor: Well I would say this, if you feel it's something that would work we can take 20k and give it a try and if it works out well then we can now add more money

That was it for them, they started with 20k and after the first month the collected 60k and without thinking twice the next pledge they made was 100k and just like that they were all in. They were enjoying the returns MMM was bringing in but Okafor being the sceptical one made sure they didn’t put their head into one basket as they invest the money in other business, the first millions they collected from MMM went into pure water business and just like that their lives changed for the better.

Looking back at how their lives had turn around Nova would always thank God that he took the road where the accident occurred and talking about the accident, Nova still thinks about what would have befalling the man that he took the money from, there are times he would buy a newspaper or even watch the news just to see if the story of the man would appear or come up but nothing. There was even a time he decided to go back to the station and pretend to be a reporter that came to cover the story to see what the police would say about but after 6 months no news about the man, he felt all was good so he left the quest of finding the man though he still carry that guilt that his action might have ruined another person’s life.

  Episode six comes up next week Tuesday.....