“… Chukwuma moved from a hero to a villain in a twinkle of an eye.
In the last week, everyone in the compound and even the streets were hailing and praising him for bringing financial freedom into their lives. Some even sold items to him for free.
Everyone was saying “thank God for Chima, thank God for Chima”. It was thrilling.
As the Ultimate Cycler server went down, the hailing stopped. There was promises that it was just temporary. True true, it was temporary.
However, by the time the server came back, no one was willing to part with their money. Those who were matched refused to pay. Those who paid were not confirmed.
This made it impossible for anybody to reinvest or for anybody to register newly for the scheme.
So, gradually, people’s hopes were dashed.
Like everything in life, some people could take a loss easily, many others couldn’t. Those who couldn’t started badmouthing Chukwuma. Some dragged him and insisted that he pays them back their money.
Some went to the extent of calling police for him. Some of the policemen also lost money in ultimate cycler, so they transferred aggression to him.
On my part, I couldn’t turn against my friend, not now that the whole world was against him. Mụ bụ Ebule erie ne údé.
At the end of the whole drama after bailing himself, treating himself and everything, he still had over 100,000.
It coincided with the time that Twinkers was beginning to crash. We all reached the conclusion that MMM was the king of all of them. So we just had to do MMM and be cool.
The three of us registered for MMM and were waiting for our first payment.
All of a sudden, the founder of MMM proclaimed that they were going on Christmas break.
This happened on 14th of December that year.
Me, Chukwuma and his girlfriend wondered quietly at the veranda that hot harmattan afternoon, asking ourselves if we were the bearers of the bad luck or is it that village people were following us?
Unu asi anyị kwuo gịnị?
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