There And Back On Time Season 1

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There And Back On Time Season 1

The Beginning


Germany Dilemma

The world has become evil. Every Nation
fights against one another. Super Nations
manufacture weapons to destroy others;
they no longer help the poor nations.
Money meant to feed the people is being
used to manufacture dangerous weapons
capable of wiping away human race. Under
development, hunger, hopelessness and
disease has hit mother Africa and as a
result, her children scattered all over the
World. It is for that reason that Zuby set
out for Europe to look for greener pastures
but what he saw will keep you glued to this
adventure to the end.
My name is Samson, Popularly known as
Zuby.

I was born in 1980 in the Eastern Nigerian
City of Enugu to a Christian Parents and
Teachers.

We lived in the neigbouring town called Ihe
and despite Enugu metropolis being 5
minutes away, it took me 12 years before I
visit the Metro area for the first time. The
visit marked my first travel without a
guardian. My mother had sent me to buy
her some exercise books. I marveled at the
level of life people lived in the metro areas.
That was the first time i noticed that Water
was for sale. My entire life, we fetched
water from the local stream. That was also
the first time i saw electricity without
generator. That was back in 1992. I was in
Junior Secondary JS 2 Class.
After that wonderful visit to Enugu metro, i
realised that the world was such a big
place. I remembered looking at the
Nigerian map hanging on a wall in our
house as soon as i returned from Enugu,
other cities like Lagos, Sokoto and Kano
began to make more sense to me. I also
had a look at the world map and
discovered that the world must be a vast
place. There and then, i decided that
traveling would be my hobby.
From then, i started fantasizing what it
would be like to visit Lagos, Kano and
other cities i had seen and heard of.
What about Going to Germany, France,
England, Spain, Japan, Italy, United States
and China? That would be heavenly i
concluded.

I took my West African Examination Council
and Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board exams in 1996. The last WAEC paper
was on June 18 1996. I zoomed of to
Onitsha that same day. My Elder brother
Albert was a fairly used Peugeot spare
parts dealer at the old spare parts market
Onitsha. When the JAMB result came out,
it was time to go to the University but it
didn’t happen. My reasons then was to join
my brother and make money faster. With
money, my dream of globe trotting would
be realised. I believed i could go to the
University when i had enough money of my
own. I started trading and making small
money. By the year 1999, i met one Mr.
Sunday, a friend of my brother who goes to
Ibadan to buy imported used vehicle spare
parts, then sell them at Onitsha. I asked
him how much it would cost me to join him
and he said that i could start with
N100,000 (about 500 USD). I sold up all
my goods in the store and came up with
N220, 000. The following week, i followed
Sunday to Ibadan. That marked my first
real travel outside the Igbo dominated
Eastern Nigeria.
A true life story by Samson Akpaka