A wheelchair-bound millionaire once offered a ragged street girl 1 million naira if she could make him walk again.
Everyone laughed.
Alhaji Abubakar Sani slapped the arm of his wheelchair and pointed at the child standing barefoot before him.
“One million naira,” he said with a cruel smile. “All yours if you can heal me. Well? Can you make me walk, little beggar?”
The businessmen around him burst into vicious laughter. One nearly spilled his drink. Another wiped tears from his eyes.
The girl’s mother, Ngozi, stood nearby clutching a mop, trembling so hard the wooden handle knocked against the floor. She worked as a cleaner at Hope Springs Rehabilitation Centre and had made the mistake of bringing her daughter to work because she could not afford anyone to watch her.
“Alhaji, please,” Ngozi whispered. “We were just leaving.”
“Silence,” Abubakar snapped. “For three years you cleaned my floors and I never asked to hear your voice.”
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