My story Continues: Metamorphosing in Stage two I Got a Millionaire Friend in Italy The gentleman posing with me here is Hon. Abayomi Mumuni aka Gigi, a Nigerian MP and millionaire that I met at the University of Sant’Anna in Pisa Italy in 2003 during a training course on conflict management and civilian peacekeeping. The second picture shows Rosa, a Brazilian student at the University who became one of my best friends on campus. The class of 44 students had only four Africans. As a local staff working for the UNHCR, I was now fulfilling the law of stage two in the process of metamorphosis! I got the scholarship through a lengthy essay that I had written on the civil war in Sierra Leone while then working for the UNHCR in Freetown as a local staff. I was Hon. Mumuni’s chosen friend in Pisa. We prayed and ate together. I must say that I also lived like a millionaire eating in some of the most expensive restaurants in Pisa to the greatest surprise of European clients who would hardly see Africans in such places. Oga Mumuni is a very generous person and down-to-earth too. He would not let me pay for my restaurant bills. “If I pay, and you pay, then who be Oga”? Oga Mumuni would ask me jokingly. Hon. Mumuni is the fourth highest exporter of fuel and the third highest importer of rice in Nigeria! When I visited Oga Mumuni in Kano, Nigeria from neighboring Niger, he gave me a bundle of money and his wife, Haja have me plenty high class wax materials for the Bonthe Lady. I got several friends and the lady posing here with me, Rosa was from Brazil. When I applied in this University for a Masters degree, it was reclassified and I was told to apply for a PhD instead. The only remark that came to my mind was “Me Idrissa nor mo beh” going for a PhD in a high profile Western University. But the Bonthe Lady wants to keep searching for the almighty dollar! My star is being with people and I am easily liked by all those that I have come across outside the land of my birth. I am still in touch with Oga Mumuni by phone and email. He travels all the time around the world on business and government assignments.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:53:38 +0000
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