In our house ehn, we love kids and I'm always the one bringing in kids we carry. So there's this little girl called Sharon that I started carrying and she was just 3 months old. Her mum drops her with us in the morning, goes off to wherever and comes pick her up at night. This continued for a year and the girl didn't even know her mum because she was never around. The Dad was even worse than the mum. I never knew what they did for a living and all I was after was just taking care of little Sharon. Was I paid? No.
When Sharon was 1, they decided to move away to a new house luckily enough for us all, I was on holiday and I decided to go with them. I stayed with them for a week and I left. Then I attended a boarding school and Sharon's mum always found a way to send provisions to my mum to give me in school even after they moved.
During one of my holiday, I was at my neighbour's house when my mum called at around 8pm that I should come back home immediately. I quickly left and on getting home, I met 3 men who asked my name, and I told them. They asked if I knew where Sharon's mum and Dad were, I told them no, I didn't and I haven't seen them for a while as I just got back from school. This men said I was lying and told me to get out and go into their car. My mum was about to object and they threaten to shoot her. She began to cry as I was taken away. Took me to one hotel to meet their boss who was drinking there, he told them to take me away if I didn't give them what they wanted. Mum kept calling me and crying, she called all our neighbors and thank God most where with the police. One of them spoke to the SARS and told them to take me to the police station.
They took me to the police station and when they saw that the police men there where all our neighbors who were waiting and asking them to let me go, they got angry, told the police men that I had to take them to their Sharon's house first before they'll let me go.
We got into the car again and I took them to the house but alas, no one was home. They started threatening me, telling me that I took them to the wrong house and I must know someone in that vicinity who Sharon's mum talk to. I told them that she introduced a lady to me as her sister and I took them to the lady's house.
They took both of us away and suddenly changed their mind about taking me home. That night, at around 10-11pm, they took us both to their office.
On getting there, one of them said that we should be taken to the Abattoir while another objected. They told me that Sharon's mum was a thief and they were looking for her, I told them I only carry Sharon and that's how I got to know them, I did not know what they do for a living besides she only told my mum she works in town as a banker that's why she leaves early and comes back late.
I slept in one of the office there, wrote my statement and by day break, I saw that those people were not humans. They caught some boys, broke their knee with an iron rod. One of them kept shouting that he was innocent and his wife just gave birth. Met a church member there who asked me what I was doing there, I narrated everything to him and he decided to help out. Dunno what he said or how he did it but they said my mum had to bail me else, I won't be released. Called my mum and she sent a family friend to come bail me with 10000 and that's how they let me go. I don't know what happened to the other lady they took.
Got home and met my mum still crying. She felt helpless. Our neighbors who were police men were already planning on coming there that afternoon if they refused to let me go........
SARS can be ruthless.
You don't have to wear dread, flashy clothes, or hold iPhone, drive expensive car, carry laptop before they harass you.
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