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Shola: Escaping slavery, ending up in jail

Escaping slavery, ending up in jail

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Shola been no happy with her life for Naija. She been wan study to get job but when she finish secondary school, her family don expet say di next tin na to marry, born pikin and become housewife. So she decide to go Europe for beta life options, One woman promise to take her dere and she folo go with a group of girls. Dem been don promise dem say di joni go dey short and easy but dem con begin dey experience am say di crossing of di hot desert to Libya be like nightmare.

"For desert we spend like eight days, no wota, notin notin. As we con reach Libya so, di woman con say okay as di road no good so, say we go work small before we go con cross. Okay which work... she say na connection work. Me with my friend we con dey cry say we no go do the connection work"

Later Shola manage to escape and later find work as house geh, but dem too wicked her for place until she later comot for dere. One day dem arrest Shola and some oda girls put for jail, say person must come pay to bail dem comot for dere. Afta sometime persin con finally bail dem and las las dem manage to enta boat to Europe.

Even though Shola reach Malta, she tok say if she been know how the joni take be, she go don stay for Naija.

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