A Nigerian man identified as Kosi Ugo has shared the story of how he was accused of stealing by a family member.
The young man expressed that his uncle’s wife accused him of stealing her phone at two separate family event.
According to him, his aunt suspected him of stealing her phone after he found it for her when she started looking for it.
In 2013, another incident happened when she accused him of stealing another phone during a wake keep.
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He explained that she had told him to help her charge the phone and when it was missing she accused him of taking it and threatened to lock him up.
Ugo noted that after the phone was found she refused to apologise for accusing him of stealing it.
Read story below:
"In 2013, my Uncle’s wife came down to Nigeria for one or two businesses. She came with one her sons too.
Before she arrived Nigeria, I had previously discussed with her to get me a phone.
She came into Nigeria, and came down to Awka to see her mother-in-law.
One day, we were all in the sitting-room discussing when she started looking for her phone. I think it was one of the recent Samsung Galaxy Note. She searched and searched, but she couldn’t find it. And I think, the phone was on silent too which made it so difficult to trace when it was ringing.
During the course of finding the phone, I later saw it where she had kept it in one of her baby’s bag.
I now took the phone and went to give it to her. She started shouting and saying that she had previously checked that bag and that she didn’t see the phone their.
From her looks that day, it was obvious she suspected that I had sneaked the phone into the bag. So, because I had asked this woman to buy me a phone which she didn’t, she thought that I was capable of stealing her phone……
Well, that wasn’t an issue, because she didn’t say it to my face and hearing of my mother. That one passed, until she came back to Nigeria again for the burial of my grandma.
I’m this kind of person who loves being close to my family members irrespective of the fact that most of them don’t show concern about us.
My mum strictly warned me to stay clear of Aunty Ola’s way, citing the last incident as an example.
Well, I did try to stay clear of her way, but she kept on sending me series of messages. Buy this, buy that, get me this, get me that. So I found myself, attending to everyone, including her.
Then, on the night of my grandma’s wake keep. She called me and gave me her Samsung Galaxy S7 to charge for her. Due to the large number of visitors and errands I was attending too, I personally took the phone to my aunt’s (my real aunt I.E, my dad’s sister) room to charge, because I thought it was the safest place in the house to put it.
I had forgotten about the phone until it was time for Aunty Ola and her husband to go back to their hotel. The wake keep was over by then. She now called me to go and get her phone for her.
People of God, I went to the room, where I kept the phone, and I couldn’t find it in the charging socket. How did the phone leave the room was a mystery I couldn’t solve.
I started asking everyone, who had access to the room if they had seen the phone. Most of them said they had seen the phone there, but were also surprised it wasn’t there.
I was already getting scared and was already shivering with fear. “What would I tell this woman that happened to her phone?”
Well, she later got to find out that her phone was missing.. Come and see madness. She started screaming and wailing, rolling on the floor and told everyone there how I was a thief and that I should provide her phone for her. She also threatened to lock me up in the police station if I didn’t produce her phone for her.
Everyone was trying to calm her down, and see if someone held the phone by mistake. Or at least, she should come the next morning, because it was possible the phone was hiding somewhere between goods and packed stuff. This woman refused and was shouting on top of her voice, embarrassing herself not me. My mum heard about it and rushed downstairs immediately, and started shouting back at her. They had to restrain my mum, if not they would have been trouble that night.
I just sat down in the room where I left the phone shocked and dumbfounded
This kind of thing, I couldn’t cry. I was just speechless.
My dad’s sister and her husband were the ones taking that room, so they all came inside and started looking for the phone again. Plus other of her visitors who were with her joined in the searching.
Me, I had already lost hope. I thought that someone had stolen the phone and made away with it.
Then, I started hearing jubilations and shouts; they had found the phone stocked inside one of those bags. Someone had unplugged her phone from the socket to charge his own, and had kept it inside one of those numerous polythene bags lying around.
They went and gave her the phone. When my mum heard that they had found the phone, her anger increased the more. She was more than ready to beat up this woman. They had to whisk her away immediately.
But, people of God, do you believe that this Aunty Olaedo of a woman didn’t apologize to me? She didn’t even say a single I’m sorry .
I was pained and very bitter that this woman thought that I had stolen her phone, she accused me, threatened to lock me up and yet, when she found the phone and not even a single I’m sorry came out from her mouth. Well, I don’t blame her. I blame our poor background.
Wow betide you as a youth if you don’t make enough money before getting married and making children.
If my father were rich enough, she dare not accuse me of stealing her phone.
Don’t ever put your children into such shameful situation in life.
Take care of them, and let the world know that petty things like phones wouldn’t cross their minds to steal.
As for the abroad guys, they think they can do whatever they like and get away with it. I’d still have my revenge, no doubt……©Kosi Ugo."
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