The Boy Who Wanted to Go to Enugu
There was a boy who wanted to go to ‘Enugu’. But, Not having enough money for the trip, he decided to go to the motor park (the bus station) to beg for a free ride.
On talking to the bus driver, he was told that there were no free rides, but he could be given a job to earn money to pay for his trip. The job was for him to get passengers into the bus. The boy agreed and began calling passengers to fill the bus to ‘Enugu’. Once the bus was filled with passengers, he got paid.
In the meantime, he slept in the motor park. Soon enough, he was proficient at calling passengers and became the darling of the motor park. He earned quite a bit of money every day and was able to sustain himself. His popularity endeared him to many. He sometimes got to buy meals on credit, and on some occasions the meals were given to him for free.
Soon enough, he had enough money to travel to ‘Enugu’. However, with his income and the perks he was enjoying in the motor park, he was no longer interested in going to ‘Enugu’. He decided to settle down to the life in the motor park!
You see, in the first place, his reason for wanting to go to ‘Enugu’ was to find the ‘good life’; and now, the boy believed, he had achieved that, right there in the motor park. Unfortunately, he didn’t know a better life was awaiting him in ‘Enugu’. He ended up as…
