There was this man, a general contractor.
One day, an army battalion commander hired his service to carry three hundred crates of eggs from a poultry to the barracks for him.
The contractor charged the commander the sum of thirty thousand naira for the service. The commander asked him severally if he can do the job safely because the eggs cost him a whooping sum of seven hundred thousand naira and he can't afford to get any complaint or negative story about them. The contractor assured him that nothing negative would happen to the eggs because he has been doing the job for years without any fault.
The contractor then hired a roadside aboki wheelbarrow pusher to carry the eggs from the poultry to the barracks. After much persuasion, the aboki agreed to carry them for ten thousand naira. The contractor was very happy to have gained a profit of twenty thousand naira.
Like a proverb which says that "cheap article dey run belle". This means that the quickest road often leads to accident. And so our contractor opted for an aboki roadside cheap labour.
Now, the aboki loaded all the eggs on the wheelbarrow at once. On the way, due to the heaviness of the load, he couldn't controlled the wheelbarrow and it fell and all the eggs got broken!
He then ran to the contractor and the following ensued between them.
ABOKI: Oga, l beg, na where dem dey buy am and sell am for human being?
CONTRACTOR: Have you become a ritualist or you want to involve in human trafficking? For me, l don't know anywhere and l will never know. Infact, l am not interested.
ABOKI: You go soon become interested by force. Make you nor worry first.
CONTRACTOR: You are indeed very funny. Now, how many people do want to buy or sell?
ABOKI: Two men urgent - urgent. I want to sell.
CONTRACTOR: Lets forget about selling of human beings. You and l know that you are joking. Even if l know anywhere, l will never go there or take you there because it is a sin and crime to sell or buy human being.
Now, have you carried the eggs to the barracks?
ABOKI: Oga, this is not the time to talk about eggs but the time to find a buyer to buy you and l.
Eggs don broke patapata.
CONTRACTOR: What? In that case, buying and selling of human being is nether a sin nor a crime. I think l know one market like that. Let me take you there.
As they were still talking, the commander came to find out from the contractor why the eggs haven't been carried down.
They told him what had happened and what they were planning to do to get the money to pay him. And he said, "No wasting of time became l need my money urgently. The total money you will pay now is one point four million naira. Lets go there together quick".
When they got there, the commander sold the contractor and collected the money. But they refused to buy the aboki. The contractor became angry and he shouted, 'Oya, officer, sell the aboki before you go".
And the buyers shouted in unison, " Oga, nobody buys aboki! Even ritualist don't buy aboki because they have no market value". And the contractor collapsed and fainted.
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