How I Was Duped

It ts not a seemingly thing for a person of my calibre to be duped but I was confess that it happened under a sophisticated environment. 

I had to allow my anger to subside  before penning this down because it beats my imagination to know that some people do not have human sympathy. 

During the course of my stay, I learnt that not everybody should be trusted. A time came, I was wondering if this young man would have a re-think and then, give me my money but he never did. Instead, he conspired against me to have the issue swept under the carpet. 

I am into the business that involves getting contracts from people and then, carrying out same. One of the days, I was on my own. So, somebody offered me a contract. In fact, he was happy to see me but I didn't know that it was a trap. Which (by the way) I should have avoided. I don't listen to gossips about people until I experience them by myself. 

I am not bitter. I am only writing this for future generations to see and avoid being duped.

I was contracted to pack sand on that day, which I did. After everything, I went  and told him that I have completed the job. Only for him to say that he never gave me any such job. In fact, I was contemplating whether it was a joke initially but as seconds run into minutes, minutes run into hours and hours run into days and with the money not forthcoming, I knew immediately that it was a scam and that it was no longer a joke. 

This young man is evil. The pay was N3000 to pack a trip of sand at my own discretion but he claimed that I left his work to attend to another person's work on daily pay (which was never true), next was that he claimed I never touched the said sand talk more of packing it but heaven bears me witness that I did and that I even spoke with some of the workers that made use of the sand for tiling. I made them to know that I was the person that provided the heap of sand which they were using to mix cement  and then do tiles at the building so that they could let their boss know about it. 

Before I conclude, I would like to share the next excuse that he gave so as to deny me my pay which was a blatant lie. He said that the person that contracted him to award the contract to me was facing challenges. And the next thing he said was that the man (who was supposed to pay me) had travelled. 

As our people would say, it is better to let the sleeping dog lie but I wouldn't want another soul to pass through such a terrible disaster again.