Danielle From Grass To Grace A Woman of 10 Expertise's My Nightmare Supernatural Start-up

By Aaron AD. MBA

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Her pleas fell on deaf ears, it made no difference he responded, “you are a woman!”

“What do you mean by your statement, ‘you are a woman?’” Danielle asked.

He unleashed his venom on her with delight, “your place should be in the kitchen, you don’t respect your husband, otherwise you will not be calling me to challenge me, asewo!”

“So, I am subject to you! But you are not my husband, you are not my head. This is business we are not married, you don’t mind stealing from a woman and using the money to marry a wife!”

Danielle continued, “you abandoned the project, after collecting over 1.5 million nara from me. Now you have taken my injector and nuzzle, yet you refuse to return it until I give you more money!”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aaron AD. MBA
• Release date: Oct 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781999899004

Aaron AD. MBA

Aaron graduated from University of Liverpool United Kingdom with a Master's In Business Administration. She loves bright colours, reading, hosting, music, and is creative. She has always loved writing stories and creating imaginative characters even in her formative years. She sees writing as a way of expressing herself and relating with life. She has lived in several cities in different parts of the world and has functioned in diverse roles in different sector. The diversity in her career and exposure to varied environment and culture has inspired her work.

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Danielle

From grass to Grace

A woman of 10 Expertise's

My Nightmare Supernatural Start-up

Published by Aaron AD. MBA

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Copyright 2017 Aaron AD. MBA

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Acknowledgement

To God Almighty for giving me a title for the book.

To J. H for all their support.

To my entire family for their devotion and support all the way.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: Who am I? My Identity

Chapter 2: The pull, the attraction

Chapter 3: The deception; the betrayal

Chapter 4: The battle

Chapter 5: The supernatural, horror; nightmares!

Chapter 6: Perfect Love Casts Out All Fears

About the author

Chapter 1:

Who am I? My Identity

She remembers her childhood goals and dreams before asking herself the typical rhetorical questions visionaries ask to aspire inwardly. Where do you see yourself... 20 years’ time? Better still what’s your career goal for the future?

She had a firm desire to set up Lady D Foundation. A foundation for orphans where they could learn life skills, be loved and receive the word of God. However, life never really goes the way we plan sometimes when life gives you lemons you just have to make lemonade out of it!

Danielle Babs born to Mr. Habakkuk never met her mum! Oh, the truth is that she has no cognitive memory or picture of her mum. Danielle was a tiny baby when she met her mum; frustratingly she had no memory or picture of her. She has two elder brothers and three sisters. She was born premature, and her mum died whilst Danielle was only three months old.

She never really knew what killed her mum because no one ever told her. Discussion about her late mum is seen as a ‘Taboo’ something no one ever talked about, she never saw her picture or heard anything about her.

How Danielle longed as a child to be like many other little princesses cuddled by their mums. This was not so for Danielle as a child she was told her mother travelled, went away, anytime she asked for her mum until she realised it meant she is dead. Danielle treasured little things her mates took for granted; being hugged or told I love you those words and acts of affection she never experienced.

Danielle was always sick as a child and always missed school because of her frequent illness; she was not taking to the hospital for proper diagnoses by her dad, so it was difficult knowing the cause or source of her frequent bouts of sickness. Poor Danielle was a frequent user of her school sick bay, waiting endlessly for someone to pick her up, constantly sleeping away the whole school day...

Her defining moment happened at age seven, then she was in year two; she came back from school sick as usual, she walked home by herself though sick and her big sister Jenny commanded her, go to the room and pray.

She obeyed without head knowledge on how to pray or what to say… she hid herself behind the bedroom door, behind an old family cot. With childlike hope, Danielle whispered….

Dear God, I am always sick; my sister said my Teacher does not like me because I frequently have accidents in school and I am always sick. I know my school attendance has been terrible. I have only been to school 7 times this term, and I had poor attendance in the previous terms because I am always sick. Please can you make me feel better?

She got bold, and she also asked: please can I have 7th position in class at the end of the session even though I have been off school sick throughout the session?

Miraculously on the last day of school, when the Teacher gave out the report cards, she had the 7th position. Danielle joyously leaped continuously, whilst running and screaming round the whole school with excitement. People stared at her strangely and wondered if she achieved the first position in class. They could not understand that this little girl self-worth and identity will forever change because her prayers were answered by God.

An adult Danielle stood at the window, with smiles on her face staring into space far away in thought; oh, how I remember that day like yesterday I found a friend in Jesus Christ that can help me. I could talk to God, and the Lord answers me with a physical result. My prayer worked, from then on my grades and health took a turn around never went below 3rd position in my school grades. I had a new zeal in life, and I always talk to God every time I am sad, or people say nasty things to me.

When I was older during my college years, I ran into Mr. White; we used to be neighbours before he moved away. He said, in astonishment is that you Danielle?

She replied yes, and he said in a different language Ekene dili chineke, idi ndu meaning praise be to God you are alive. She stared at him strangely; he continued not realising the impact of his words we never thought you would make it. Your mum before she died was concerned about you and asked me to keep an eye on you.

The very first-time someone spoke openly to her about her mum! Danielle agonised in thoughts over the revelation, the revelations only kindled more tension within her; I remember having headaches after my encounter with him; I had so many questions but no answer and nobody to ask. My dad remarried soon after my mums’ death and had four more children that chapter of his life was closed he never talked about it and I never really had a close relationship with my mums’ family.

In December 2002, Danielle got engaged to Prince and a few weeks later she graduated with a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication they got married in 2003. Her dream has always been to raise her kids. She did not want them to be raised by nannies or stepmom because of her childhood experience. Realising it seemed like an elusive dream due to her husbands’ work in a specialised medical field. It meant he moved around a lot and could only work in few clinics. Her wedding vows meant so much to her; she was a lady who believed so much in the integrity of honouring her words, especially covenant vows before God.

I remember my vows where ever you go I will go, Danielle thought to herself, it meant I had to be willing to make sacrifices and put my family first. We moved two months after we got married to another city, I had to start afresh career wise, in the new city. When I finally got a job in the new city, my darling hubby was ready for another career move to Lag Niga.

When I finally secured a job in the new city, my husband was ready for a new move this time around London, United Kingdom, to start off a new job with a new clinic.

Chapter 2:

The pull, the attraction

I always had a dream of doing my Masters, I put in all my effort and prayed persistently; finally, divine agenda and I found myself doing an MBA instead of Masters in Quality Management or Human Resource Management like I planned. When I finished my MBA at the University of Lindul, United Kingdom, I was ready to start a new job, but unfortunately my husband was ready for his next move. This time around Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The challenges of getting a job, offering her child a better family environment, as well as her husbands’ constant career move to actualise his dreams in the field of regenerative medicine and regenerative medical research, made her think inwardly. She was internally motivated and thought of how to solve her dilemma, aha, she smiled; Danielle finally found a way out, whilst brainstorming in her little head...

Owning a business abroad, being an online entrepreneur or working from home meant I could accommodate his career movement or advancement. She came to the realisation that Prince specialised field meant he could only work in few clinics; changing jobs for him requires moving to another city, country or even continent.

The tussle in my heart was raging, I did not want to abandon my career, and I wanted to be involved in my children’s life. I had to be flexible but getting all these features in a job was slim, the only way was designing and creating my own perfect job. Secondly, the economic meltdown made it difficult getting the part-time work I desired. Furthermore, I wanted to be there for my kids, I wanted to raise them up myself did not want them to be like me (absent mum). Then my husband was always moving with his career, so I thought I required flexibility and self-employment. I thought of starting something in HR with a friend, but she was not ready.

I thought of starting things with friends locally to share the risk, they were not really keen and again what kind of business, should I consider? I have always liked the Jacob principle as opposed to the Esau principle in life. Instead of going hunting for food why not have a farm in your back garden with two animals reproducing.

During summer of 2010, Danielle was browsing online as she always does for hours in anticipation of starting a business. Searching for the unique start- up idea in the comfort of her home office in Cambridge. She met her brother online.

I logged into one of my social media chat, and I ran into my big brother Abnna online. We started chatting, and we chatted about life generally, we chatted about business ideas in Niga, we started talking about different business opportunities in Niga.

He was excited with the direction of the chat, so he told her, his business was struggling, then he enumerated different business opportunities and her estimated monthly return as income from the investment.

Abnna said to her hope you are not wasting my time, with all these questions and you are not pulling my legs. You are serious about starting a business, and I will be the one to manage it for you. Anyway, he continued, the best business idea that will bring high regular monthly income is a truck business.

They talked about several businesses; the one she really fancied was going into transport business and carrying goods. "I thought about it for a long time; I could buy a truck in the U. K and ship it to Niga. It would be used for carrying goods and he would basically send me my own share of the profit. I was emotionally distressed with both families constantly asking for money; it seemed that whatever we gave would never be enough to meet their needs.

I assumed embracing business is the answer! It will solve my own career need, help create a source of income for Andrew (my second older brother who was recently made redundant because of the global economic meltdown), Abnna as well as both extended families. Prince and I talked about it; setting up a transport business is a great idea, it made sense to teach or equip a person to fish. Instead of constantly giving them fish and making them dependent on you. Abnna would pay us our monthly returns whilst making money for his own family."

They planned to use their monthly return on investment to buy a second truck for Andrew to manage; to buy two secondhand cars, one for Prince Mum and the second for Danielle’s father. Then pay for a holiday trip abroad for Prince Mum and Danielle father. Danielle motivation for going into business was always philanthropic and outward looking. She desired to use her free time to take care of the kids, serve in charities for free and most of all sponsor orphans.

Danielle asked Andrew her second brother are you interested in being involved in the business?

He answered her I don’t know anything about haulage business.

Andrew was not really keen on that particular business idea and neither did he tell his younger sister why. Neither was he keen with partnering with Abnna, but he never explained why to Danielle. This pushed Danielle into her go-getter, organiser, and problem solver auto-pilot.

I started networking with friends in U. K to find those interested in partnering with me. Spoke to Florence, Thomas, and my husband, I suggested we split the starting capital into four places £2,500 each. Thomas spoke to some of his own friends so they can split his own £2,500 capital into three parts, that way he shares his own risk. Thomas called my brother Abnna to discuss more about the business venture, how things would work. I volunteered to draft the contract and send it to a pastor and a lawyer friend in Niga who has a law chamber to examine it.

Florence, my friend changed her mind, she wants to use her own money for pleasure, Thomas changed his mind as well, and I tried to speak to him, but he avoided me. I prayed about it and said to my husband maybe I should go into it alone, but we did not have £10,000 to go into the business alone.

The business model was good; buy a truck, ship to Niga, Abnna leases the truck to companies like Swapstick and Corner-stone to carry their products. I get paid £1,500 every month; I really believed my brother. During my brainstorming section online with my brother, he suggested it’s better to buy the truck from the USA because they use the same hand drive as Niga.

Buying the truck from U. K will present the dilemma of changing it from right to left-hand wheel as both countries use opposite wheel drive. It will be against the law driving a U. K model hand wheel drive truck in Niga without performing wheel conversion. My friend Florence told me her own brother who bought from U. K had the same problem.

The mechanic who helped his brother to change the truck from right hand steering to left hand damaged the brain of the truck. I felt this was a genuine risk we had to avoid, so I agreed to my brother’s suggestion. My brother linked up with his business friends in U. S and he sent me pictures of a lovely second hand blue truck.

This truck cost 10,000 U. S dollars (at the time exchange rate was 2 to 1) whilst shipping and clearing cost $5,700, my brother said £10,000 was more than enough to secure this truck, land it and start a business in Niga. We did not have the cash, so I prayed about the whole situation with my husband and my darling husband wanting to support his wife in business just the way I have always supported his own career considered the idea.

I suggested we liquidate our stocks which were in my name, these funds were meant for buying our own family house in England. Anyway, the economic meltdown was affecting the stock market, and it was crashing and losing value. As an extra precaution, I signed a contract with my brother once Rev Granda came back to me that the agreement was fine. The next caution was that we agreed to only pay £1,000 part deposit for the truck and when my brothers business people land the truck in Niga; they get the balance of £9,000 which I will send through my brothers’ domiciliary account.

Abnna even told me "you only have to bring the £1,000; you are not the first person I am buying a vehicle for. I have a joint account with my business people; we usually collaborate by sourcing and shipping each other’s vehicle.

Once the truck arrives Niga, you make the final payment. In short, to reassure you, I am willing to come and meet you in London just for the deposit and discuss with you and your business partners. You people are too fearful, asking too many questions! You need trust in business, after all, you are a Christian, just pray everything will work well."

Abnna assumed Danielle was representing all the other parties involved in the business. It made no different if they were four or only one person going into business with Abnna, what mattered was the success of the business.

Abnna encouraged Danielle to keep the issue confidential between them, don’t tell dad and the others, referring to the other siblings. She did not question his reasons or find it strange because she already signed a contract with him. Besides telling other extended family members would put more pressure on her financially. They would start making more financial demands from me and my husband because they believe we have money not knowing the source of the finance for the investment.

I guess alarm bells should have gone off, but I assumed I was in safe hands and signing a contract with my elder brother was more than enough precaution. Strangely in 2005, five years ago before having any business discussion with Abnna, I had a dream, and I was surrounded by several baskets of delicious fruits. Abnna my brother kept helping himself to my basket of fruits. I told him not to finish it to leave some for other members of the family. I had this dream twice, I just prayed about it, and I presumed it meant I was being generous towards Abnna. I never knew it was a foretelling of what is to come.

Chapter 3:

The deception; the betrayal

On October the 15th 2010, she signed a formal contract with Mr. Abnna Habakkuk, her elder brother. On the 19th of October 2010, she wired the first £1,000 deposit for the truck through international money transfer.

Abnna contacted Danielle days later after receiving the funds, my business partners are no longer willing to land the truck in Tincan Port Lag Niga anymore without receiving the full amount.

Why? Danielle asked.

Her brother replied, they don’t ship trucks to Niga or do business with Nigas’ without full payment.

Okay, she said give me the details of the people in Texas United States so I can speak to them directly. It’s only logical, I am in England, and I can also wire the funds directly to them,

Abnna, refuses to give his sister the information requested. I cannot disclose my business trade secrets and contacts to you, though we are blood sisters.

After much discussion with her brother, she felt he was being too shrewd not wanting to disclose his business links to her. Anyway I have signed the agreement he can not cheat me, and I did not want to lose my £1,000 first deposit. Most importantly I believed God was with me, and I really wanted to go into business, so I went ahead and sent the final £9,000 on the 19th of November 2010 to him. I sent it through my U. K banks account to his own domiciliary pound sterling account with Rods International Bank in Niga.

The transaction took approximately three weeks because the bank branch staff were not knowledgeable in international bank transfer outside Europe, not even the branch Manager. A member of her bank's international transfer team later called her to rectify the mistakes made by the local branch. The good news for her is……... the money did not end up in the wrong account.

That would have been terrible because she barely managed to get all the funds out of the stock market before it lost its value due to the global melt down and acquisition of her fund management company by another firm. The bigger firm was forcing client who had less than £10,000 in their portfolio to sell their stocks thus pushing the prices of the shares even lower in addition to the effect of the global recession.

When Abnna received the funds, he sent her an acknowledgement as the C.E.O of his company Abnna. COM Resources on Wednesday the 1st of December, 2010. Normally, Abnna never calls his sister; he only flashes her then she calls him. When she called him, he informed her that the beautiful blue truck he showed her which had been reserved for her, had been sold to somebody else. They are now offering her another white truck.

He sent her a picture of the new truck and told her it’s a bluebird International truck. The second available truck is a Mercedes truck and costs $25,000, it’s either you bring more money for the Mercedes, or you take the Blue bird truck am offering you. If you reject it, you won’t get your deposit back.

Danielle settled for the less attractive white truck, though it was not the initial agreement, she did not want to make trouble with her big brother. Later Abnna informed her the white truck is leaking oil from the engine, you will no longer be getting the white truck but a yellow truck.

Politely she requested for a picture of the new truck, Abnna complained I cannot afford to be sending you a picture. Just take my word for it, or you pay me to send you the picture.

She begged him; he finally sent her a tiny unclear picture. I guess; I should have known something was terribly wrong; I was not able to enlarge the picture to see it properly. Bottom-line he stopped picking my calls because he said he had run out of funds and was trying to ship on credit meanwhile the cost of the truck, shipping and clearing were in the money already sent to him.

Abnna informed his sister, We did not make the last shipment in December your truck will be in the next shipment in January 2011. I don’t know how much the shipment will cost until the ship gets to UAE then the shipping company will tell me the amount after measuring truck head and flatbed. They no longer allow you to load the flatbed with a truck head as one, they now measure it separately, try to be looking for money; it should not be that much. Furthermore, you are calling me too much about this matter; I want to enjoy my Christmas, he yelled at her.

Abnna continued changing the terms of the agreement after collecting £10,000 from his sister; he kept changing the story and introducing more reasons to validate his bogus claims. Abnnas’ actions and words were having a profound effect on the life of Danielle and Prince.

She sighed, and mumbled to herself, something she seemed to do a lot in the past months, it was Christmas, and they had no money. She was exasperated from her constant thinking; it was Christmas! Danielle moaned sorrowfully battling with several emotions internally but unable to express it out except by muttering and thinking inwardly.

We had a very sorrowful Christmas in 2010; all our life savings had gone into this business. By January 2011 Abnna my brother demanded I give him another $12,000 for shipping and clearing. Courageously she refused, your request is not part of the agreement. I asked my husband to talk to him since he was no longer happy to talk to me. Their discussion ended in name calling, swearing, and threats.

You nonsense native boy because you are in London I will show you by the time I am done with you…... before Abnna finished with his threat.

Prince interjected, It’s you that I will deal with,……

Fuck you, Abnna replied.

You fucking bastard, you think you have money, you that come to the house for zobo and food……...

The insults and name calling continued Danielle was even more miserable she decided to call Abnna’s wife, who knew all along about the business dealing and had vouched for his husband that he would never harm his little sister.

I called my brothers’ wife Julie who was the one advocating for my brother that I should do business with him, that he has been buying cars for people in their church including their pastors. She told Danielle blood is thicker than water, my husband your brother can not cheat you he has changed. He might have been bad in the past not anymore he is a changed man.

Weirdly some weeks before this happened, I had a dream, and I saw myself having a heated argument with my brother. I just prayed about it I never thought something like this would happen. I decided to call my dad at this stage to tell him what is happening; my dad was also remarried again the third time. My step-mum died some years after I got married and my dads’ brother introduced him to another lady, they say ‘she is the daughter of the village witch-doctor.’ I really don’t know how true the information is, but I became cautious as a result.

Danielle's father replied, well you did not tell me before signing any deal with Abnna.

Danielle responded, Abnna suggested we keep it confidential.

She told her dad, please talk some senses into Abnna; he is trying to defraud me!

After this event, she had another dream this time around she was instructed not to give more than 2000 to her brother. I did not understand what this meant did it mean 2000 dollars or pound, but at least it gave me an idea of what figures to negotiate with my brother.

When she called her dad back for feedback, he informed her Abnna denied all your claims. He told me you never gave him 10,000 pounds neither did he sign any contract with you.

She responded I will e-mail a copy of the signed agreement and bank transaction to either my sister or half-brother. You can have a look at it since you are unable to access the internet personally.

She sent the evidence as promised, but her siblings did not print it. Unfortunately, it made no difference if she printed it or not because Abnna kept telling Habakkuk different stories and he believed him irrespective of Danielle's evidence.

Abnna said you only gave him 10,000 U.S. D, her dad challenged her when she called to confirm if he had received the documents she sent. His changed the story again she thought to herself.

He continued, bring the money Abnna is requesting for; it is an environmental factor that is wrong with you and your husband, her dad instructed her.

Prince also tried speaking to his father-in-law to intervene in the issue. Danielle also reached out to her immediate older sibling Bianca in Niga and her eldest sister abroad.

Bianca wasted no time in telling her my husband said I should not get involved in the issue. Good luck, before hanging up.

Jenny, her big sister, the second child of Mr. Habakkuk reminded her, I need about five hundred thousand nara to set up my own laboratory in Niga, remember you promised you will help me set it up.

Her eldest sister abroad was not helpful either she told Danielle, go and resolve the matter between you and Abnna yourself.

Prince decided to call Danielle’s sister; he hoped to ask her to speak to Abnna her junior brother.

She replied him, I have spoken to Abnna my brother, he said the truck he bought for your wife was bad, so he bought another truck with his own money and so your wife owes him. Danielle seized the phone from Prince and replied her sister, that’s a lie!

Grace responded, my grandfather said not to have a misunderstanding with somebody over money so, give your elder brother the money he’s asking for, getting a lawyer is just waste of money!

Grace husband joined the conversation on the phone, hello Danielle, he said, try to look for $12,000 and give to Abnna. If I had the money, I would bring it to resolve the issue but since I don’t have, go look for the money and give to your blood brother.

She spoke to Andrew, but he could do nothing to help. Rather he revealed to her that a disclaimer has been posted on the internet by Abnna's previous boss. Though he knew this information, he never told Danielle in the beginning when she spoke to him about managing the truck with Abnna. If Andrew had shared this information, he would have saved his sister years of heartache, but she never grudged him.

Danielle felt deserted by her family she believed her dad chose his son over her because a male son carries on the family name. Thus he placed more value in having a male fraudster son than having a female child. Weirdly in Niga especially in the East, a female child cannot burry her father this event made her remember her grandmothers’ experience (grandmother from her mother side); her value as a female child to the family.

Danielle’s grandma never had a male child consequently when she died; tradition did not permit her to be buried by her late husband or in his village. Instead, she had to be buried in her biological father’s house. Even though she had three daughters for her husband and lost two daughters including Danielle’s mum. She also lost her husband years later. When her grandma finally died at a very old age, the tradition and culture were still upheld, it had not changed in over a century.

She was not buried beside her husband or in her husbands’ village; she was not recognised because she did not give birth to a male child for her late husband. Nobody was allowed to carry her coffin from her husbands’ village; villagers from her birthplace and the few surviving grandchildren of her only living child carried her corpse and buried her.

Nonetheless, Danielle tried to put all that behind and tried to focus her thought on getting help, she thought to herself, I can’t contact the U. K police; oh! How she wished she was not involved in an International business maybe they would have been able to help her. What about contacting Niga fraud commission? Or her friend the journalist in Niga to run a story for her; She kept pondering on the best way to get justice, in frustration she burst out, oh if I could get some form of justice, but there is no justice for law abiding citizens who play by the rules.

In defeat, she told her husband Prince, maybe we should consider not giving Abnna the money he requested. Let’s just forget the £10,000 investment then try to move on because the pain is unbearable; I have been betrayed.

Prince bellowed no we have to fight! You don’t understand what it feels like. We pay all our taxes and bills the only savings we have been keeping towards our house is stolen from us we need to try to get the truck or get Abnna to honour the agreement signed.

Chapter 4:

The battle

They eventually contacted their pastor friend barrister Granda, in Niga who has a law firm. A very dear friend and father figure to Prince and Danielle, he was among the officiating ministers during their wedding ceremony he also owns a very successful law firm. The fee for taking on their case was 300,000 thousand nara that’s about £1,240 excluding the sending charges.

Unfortunately, these fees did not include expenses, and they had no money left. Therefore they denied themselves necessities like going to the saloon for a new hair style, food, Christmas present, birthday present and date nights.

Danielle and her hubby barely managed to pay their bills and sent all the pennies they had across to the lawyers in Niga. Additionally, they kept on saving every spare cash to enable them to at least get the truck back.

Strangely she became pregnant during this period, with all the sorrow and stress. She remembers having a dream, and in her dream, she was told: your window of getting pregnant is now opened take it now before it is closed forever. She could not remember the face of the being, but those words were etched on her heart and drumming in her ears.

She was sick throughout the pregnancy due to the battles raging against her. She told her dad, my final offer to Abnna is 2000 dollars because he has bridged the agreement. Her final offer was rejected because Abnna wanted to sulk the life of her financially.

Her lawyers contacted Abnna, he went to their office and said all kinds of lies, but they presented all the evidence she had supplied to the law firm to him. His response I have more evidence to support my statements, I will present it at our next meeting date.

Barrister Granda law firm assigned a lawyer called barrister Jo to Danielle who will personally manage her brief. Abnna went with his father Habakkuk to the next meeting in the law firm; they had a personal one-on-one meeting with the new barrister Jo, without barrister Granda. When Danielle called the new lawyer for feedback, he suggested to her, to pay her brother the $12,000 and some days later the lawyer was sacked by the firm.

She assumed the lawyer had been compromised, maybe Abnna had promised him a share of the $ 12, 000 dollars irrespective of what had transpired among the trio, the firm did not tell Danielle. She was no closer to getting her truck back though it was March 2011, six months after the transaction was initiated.

Unfortunately, other than the evidence of all the payment she made to her brother it was difficult ascertaining if he actually bought the truck. The Police in Niga had to investigate this, and the victim (Danielle) also had to pay for the associated cost for a police investigation. She was asked to bring another 200,000 nara, by the law firm. Prince and Danielle refused and called the head of the chamber Rev Granda, and he instructed the accounting department not to charge them another 200,000 nara, the equivalent of £800.

That timely intervention by barrister Granda only stalled additional financial devourers; however, Danielle was entering another supernatural realm of battle….

Then I had another strange dream this time around I saw my brother consulting a witch-doctor. When I woke up from sleep, I felt like calling my dad and telling him to tell his son not to bother consulting a witch-doctor because all powers belong to God.

But she never did, the question is would my dad believe me when he has shown his wholehearted support for his first son ‘his Opara,’ (Meaning first son in native language). Unfortunately, after the lawyer assigned to my case was sacked, I had to wait almost a month before a new lawyer was assigned to me personally. This further affected the progress of my brief. The brief was even made more complicated because Abnna made himself the consignee of the truck meaning the truck belonged to him. He will not release the truck except he is given another $12,000.

The only evidence she had to counter his claims and proof that the truck belonged to her were all the international money transfer