A teacher was shocked when her student brought her regular okada rider to school, dressed in a suit and pretending to be his father, all to escape punishment for skipping classes.
"Teaching in a Nigerian secondary school is an extreme sport. I caught one JSS 2 boy skipping classes and told him he must bring his father to school the next day before he can enter my class. This small boy looked me dead in the eye and said, ‘No problem, Ma.’
“The next morning, he marched into the staff room with a very serious man wearing an oversized suit. The man started acting like a strict father, apologising deeply for his ‘son's’ behaviour and promising to discipline him at home. I was nodding along until I looked at the man's face properly.
“My people, the ‘father’ was the exact same okada man that drops me at the school gate every morning!
This boy had paid my bike man ₦1,000 to wear a suit and pretend to be his dad. When the bike man finally recognised me, he just shouted ‘Aunty Teacher!’ and ran away! ....."
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