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There's one guy in my area people think is a Yahoo boy.
He's always in nice clothes, has a sleek Lexus car, and always at home. No office to go, and no visible business.
To make things worse, the guy hardly talks to anybody. If you greet him, he'll just smile or nod his head and pass.
So people have a lot of opinions about him.
“Poud boy.”
“He's definitely into fraud.”
“He go dey just dey go. He no go greet anybody.”
“No legit work fit make person dey house like that.”
The backbiting on the street was just constant.
The funny thing is, the guy is not even a Yahoo boy, and he's also not an arrogant person at all. I know this because I'm a little close to him.
He's just naturally shy and awkward around people; so he always prefers to just go his own way gently.
He's also working remotely for foreign companies, so he earns in dollars.
One thing I've observed in life is that people backbite too much over things they don't understand.
My cousin has been in Canada for six years.
Every month, money lands in my aunt's account.
School fees, house rent, his younger ones' upkeep.
Everybody calls him the family's blessing.
He called last Christmas.
Laughing and asking about everyone.
He sounded fine.
I asked: "How are you doing over there?"
He said: "I'm managing. Canada is good o."
He visited two years ago. We killed a goat.
The whole family came out.
He was smiling in every photo.
Nobody noticed he had lost weight.
I noticed. But I didn't say anything.
I thought maybe it was the cold.
Last month, his friend called my aunt.
Said my cousin had not been eating well.
That some months he sends everything and keeps nothing.
That he cries sometimes. Alone at night.
That he had been doing this for years.
My aunt was quiet for a long time.
Then she said:
"But he never said anything."
...
Well, he never said anything.
Because nobody ever asked beyond "how is Canada?"