Thursday 28 January 2016

BEHIND THE SCENES PT 2




 Nancy
Can you tell us your name please? One of the panelist asked Nancy. I’m IJAKWU Nancy. From your CV you’ve worked at two radio stations. Why did you leave them? Immediately Nancy started talking, it was evident she has gotten the job. The presentation was excellent and convincing. The MD was watching this from his office based on the CCTV camera. He picked up the intercom and told the secretary of the panel….. I think we need someone like this. When the interview ended the personal assistant to the MD was outside the building waiting for Nancy to be escorted to the office of Chief Buntu. She was scared a little at first. She felt it was another interview. Within she started praying for favour but what she got was more than favour. 

The office was large with three screens spread across the length. They showed different things. It was after a while that she discovered it was the company’s content that was repeated on those screens. She settled into the couch in the office and waited for a while before chief walked over to her and started acting like he was twenty five also. He was coming close and asking irrelevant questions. Nancy was trying to imagine what chief was trying to achieve but kept her mute. It was at the moment chief put his hands on her laps that she realised what she was about going into. As the hands slipped up a little closer to her pants she opened her legs wider in excitement. Not for the touch of the old hands of chief but for the fact that she has gotten the job. Secondly if I am screwing the owner of the company; I’m automatically the second in command she thought. 

The touch got so intimate that chief didn’t mind having a quickie in his office but it was close to the time his wife will be visiting his office. He stopped for a while and told her to dress up. He called his secretary and told her to type an employment letter in favour of IJAKWU Nancy. From that moment somethings changed in the company.

Tracy
It was her third year in school….. She hasn’t left compulsory attendance of all parties organised. She had an exam on Monday but made it to PREST motel Sunday night. The party was strictly for big boys with big money. She was attracted to everybody that came for the party. Tracy’s maxim was….. When he is rich I don’t segregate. Fortunately she got someone who was interested in her for the night. When they got to the hotel room, she rushed into the bathroom to shower for activities to commence but to her surprise she met a snoring body on the bed. Her alarm was set for 6 am thus she jumped up to rush back to school. Ten thousand exchanged hands and off she was to school the next morning to write an exam she didn’t even know the lecturer.

When she got to her hostel it was thirty minutes to exam time thus all she could do was write some small notes on paper and taped it to her laps as ladies are not searched like men.
She got her position at the back as she always did but luck was against her that day as the assistant head of department was in the exam hall. He reshuffled everybody and brought Tracy to the front. She tried all her effort to open the skirt for quick review but it was impossible. The only times she wrote was the time she went to the toilet. She wanted to go a third time but it was denied. It was the moment she got a quick break that she opened her thigh to sight the answer to number two that she was caught. Next two days the disciplinary committee suspended her for two years. How can a pastor’s daughter go back home to tell her father and mother that she has been suspended for exam malpractices thus she kept on like a student with her off campus accommodation. 
When her mates were graduating, she followed suit and till this day she still uses the forged result anywhere she goes.
Tracy was practically the last person to be interviewed. The panel was tired thus they passed her on merit. It was now the MD’S decision to pick three out of the twelve people the panel suggested for the company. Unknown to them one slot has been taken already. Two weeks after the first interview they came back for final screening. Tracy’s exposing dress was the call for conversation in the whole office that day. Chief was on the phone when he was walking through the conference room. His sight caught the glimpse of the massive breast partially exposed. The freshness caused him to end his call and stopped to look at Tracy. Where do you think you are? He asked. Is this a club interview or a corporate organization? Don’t you have home trainings at all? Tracy bent her head in shame but still exposed the cleavage. Meet me in my office right now. She was escorted into chief’s office. She knew she had lost the job but thirty minutes after ………she was the second person that was employed. 

Expectantly Daisy walked into the office knowing she got the highest rating from all the candidates. She was in the MD’s office for less than ten minutes and he r letter was delivered to her. They were expected to resume in one week but Tracy resumed the next day. Before Nancy came to work for resumption Tracy has taken over all of MD’S mind and organ. It was a daily dose. One in the morning, one in the afternoon and ….. Maybe three at night. Tracy was a good start and the whole office knew about it but she didn’t care. The whole affair with chief ended the moment she saw Segun Charles “the account officer”.

Wednesday 27 January 2016

BEHIND THE SCENES PT 1




Mrs Buntu walked into the office of the secretary with a frown. It was evident all was not well. She demanded an explanation from her about these three girls that worked in the same office with her husband. Tracy, Nancy and Daisy are three major phenomenon the whole media clout is about at the moment. They have grown in two years to become the hottest presenters with the largest audience in the media world. They MC the biggest event, one on one they’ve been with the toughest men in the country, have chatted the president, and senators were a regular. They were role models for upcoming media presenters until recently. They were best friends but now they are about testifying against one another in a law suit that has left Mr Buntu dead. Who killed the business mogul……. TRACY, NANCY OR DAISY?

Newspaper headlines picked up the story in different dimensions ……. The Sunshine Newspaper captioned: BUNTU demise; a conspiracy of three witches. The Reader’s Elite put it as: BUNTU CHOKED TO DEATH…. Tracy, Nancy or Daisy?

The Panti police station housed the three suspects. They are kept away from the public apart from a family member and their lawyer. They are also not allowed to see one another. They will be going to court in a couple of days and the tension has risen beyond them just being a plot to the death of their employer but also that one of them, if not all conniving, did it for the sake of money. 

The divisional police officer arrived the station at 8 am to be met with a large crowd of journalist waiting to fill up newspaper pages with the news of their colleagues. Some presenters were sympathetic but others wanted them nailed so that the air will be cleared for others to breath. He walked inside with no response but came out after a while and told them; they will be arraigned before the Lagos state high court tomorrow. No more comments 

He walked back inside as the police tried to push the out of the station? From the background one could here so many shouts of questions ……. Will Nancy be asked how she bought a house in lekki? Will Daisy deny having sex on a regular basis with Chief Buntu? Will Segun Charles the account officer to Chief Buntu be a witness in this case also because it is believed he is having an affair with Tracy? 

The last question caught the DPO’s attention as he paused but showed no sign of bother. He picked his phone and called a superintendent. Get an invitation for Segun Charles the account officer for Chief Buntu. I need to see him now. 

The drive to his office was in less than an hour and the two men walked straight to his manager’s office with the letter of invitation from the police station. The manager was with another staff as they were going through a letter together. The two police officers sat down as they explained that they were here to invite a staff of this bank in cross questioning pertaining the death of Chief Buntu. The manager settled back a while and showed them the letter he was writing to the police. In the letter it was stated that Segun Charles has not reported to work since the day Chief was reported dead. They think the same people that killed chief might have done something to him. He is a diligent staff the manager explained. 

The DPO called Tracy into his office immediately he got the information and another session of questioning began.
Do you know Segun Charles? She answered yes
What’s your relationship with him?
We are sex partners and a little bit of friends that are fond of themselves
How often do you people see?
I think I need to talk with my lawyer. Is this another set of questioning? I don’t feel comfortable talking with you. Charge me to court and stop acting god she shouted as she was taken back into the cell. The DPO called for a search on Segun and all information on him should be culled. The other girls might just be a distraction I think this Tracy is the culprit. She has used Segun to get things done, thus he eliminated him from the scene of the crime. How many more do we know she has done that to? I will escort her to the gallows.

DAISY
Daisy got her job with Buntu communications two days after her 25th birthday. It was a boring birthday with boredom and idleness overcoming her person. She had regretted not studying a course like accounting as all the job offers seem to be for accounting. The call for presenters was announced on her birthday. She didn’t hear about it but her ex-boyfriend told her about the job.
She dressed presentable in her light blue chiffon top with a black pant. Her high heels showed she was ready. When she got to the interview center she nearly lost her mind. The interview was supposed to start by ten o clock and by eight over three hundred people were there in waiting. She smuggled a chair out to stay off the whooping body odour as she put her earphone on to avoid the unending murmuring of the crowd. Some even came with textbook like it was a test.  She had recorded so many presenters opening and learnt the pitch on camera.  Speed of tones were the only problem she had but she rehearsed it all through the night. It was ten o clock and the grading started. People that graduated with a first class and second class upper were called in first thus all those collection of numbers were just in vain. She fell into this category as she was the best graduating student in her set. In a while it was her turn. She was stunning in her interview as she noticed the lady interviewing her loved her person. While she was done the lady called her outside and told her congratulations…. You just earned yourself a job. Don’t tell anyone nor act it; just go home we’ll get back to you.
 On her way out, she noticed a girl shouting at the entrance. Her dress showed that she was just here to fill up the space. She didn’t only look horrible she also acted horrible. Daisy looked and nodded her head like… what’s she coming here to do; they need presenters not cheap prostitutes she thought in her mind. That girl was Tracy.

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