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Defection: Waiting For Minister Aisha Alhassan

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By Comfort Obi I will start with a story. A cousin of mine, too nervous to be on the wheels  of her car,  has a rather funny and weird driver. He is good-looking. Deceptively shy. Full of surprises.  Sometimes, erratic, at other times, as cool as cucumber, and when he feels like, he plays deaf.  But he is serviceable when he wishes to.  *Mrs Alhassan He feels free with his boss. So ever so often, he crosses the red line. Once, he  whatsapped  his photograph, dressed to the hilt to his boss. On a couple of times, he had looked his boss in the face and told her:  “I have a job interview .” And then, he would come back to say:  “I was not hired.”  One day, he told his boss he got a job where he would earn double what he is being paid. But he wouldn’t leave: Why:  It is a difficult job. I don’t want to drive (inter-state) in the night. Initially, I got irritated each time my cousin, a widow, relayed her experience to me. Why won’t ...