Last Thursday night I ran out of fuel on Third Mainland Bridge.
11pm.
Phone at 2%.
No powerbank.
I want to tell you what happened next.
I pushed the hazard lights on and sat in the car.
Trying to think.
Cars were flying past me.
Nobody slowed down.
Not one person.
Lagos at night on that bridge is a different kind of alone.After about 15 minutes I saw headlights slow down behind me.
A danfo bus.
Old. Battered. One headlight slightly dim.
The driver came down.
Big man. Rough looking. Dirty shirt. Chewing something.
My first thought was fear.
My second thought was I had no choice.He looked at my car.
Looked at me.
Said "fuel?"
I nodded.
He didn't say anything else.
Just went back to his bus.
I thought he was leaving.
He wasn't.He came back with a small gallon.
Maybe two liters.
Old plastic container with a rubber pipe attached.
Like he kept it specifically for situations like this.
He poured it into my tank without being asked.
Without negotiating.
Without even looking at me for approval.I started the car.
It came on.
I came down immediately and opened my wallet.
I had ₦15,000 on me.
I held it out to him.
He looked at the money.
Then looked at me.
And shook his head.I thought he wanted more.
I told him it was all I had.
He said "keep am."
Just like that.
Keep am.
I stood there confused.
This man just helped a stranger on a bridge at 11pm and didn't want anything.I asked him why.
He leaned against his bus.
Took a long breath.
And said something I have not stopped thinking about since.He said in 1998 he broke down on that same bridge.
Night time.
Pregnant wife in the passenger seat.
No phone. No money. No fuel.
He said he sat there for almost an hour crying and praying.Then a man in a big car stopped.
Suit and tie.
Looked like someone who had no business stopping for a danfo driver.
But he stopped.
Bought fuel from somewhere.
Came back.
Filled his tank.
Refused every kobo he offered.
Said only one thing before he drove off."Pass am forward."
That was it.
Pass am forward.
The man in the suit drove away and he never saw him again.
25 years he carried those three words.
Third Mainland Bridge.
Waiting for his own turn to use them.I stood on that bridge and didn't know what to say.
This man had been holding onto someone else's kindness for 25 years.
And he chose me to give it to.
A stranger in a car he had never seen before.He got back into his danfo.
Gave me one nod.
And drove off into the night.
I stood there watching his one dim headlight disappear.
Holding ₦15,000 I couldn't give away.I sat back in my car for a long time before I drove off.
Thinking about the man in the suit in 1998.
Who had no idea what he started.
A chain of kindness that crossed 25 years and found me on the same bridge.I don't know who that danfo driver is.
I don't know his name.
But somewhere in Lagos tonight he is driving that old bus.
With one dim headlight.
And a heart that has been quietly changing lives since 1998.
Pass am forward.
*What are you passing forward today*?
Karma!!!!!
You will definitely reap something some day.
Depends on what you have been sowing!!!!
Before you send money home, pay yourself first. A percentage works. Remove your own money first. Work on what is left. Especially if you receive salaries.
The emergencies that people will bring to your table should not come from what you saved for your future but what is left after you have paid yourself. Make it hard to reach what you paid yourself.
That is not wickedness. That is just how you are going to survive.
You are your own plan B.
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Any business you start with fraudulent or stolen money, will not last.
One way or the other, you'll see that business crash.
If you pay rent with it, at some point, you won't be able to pay, & you'd be kicked out.
If you build with it, after sometime, that house will become a haunted house.
You'll sell the house, but you'll not see what you did with the money.
Cars that you bought, will develop strange faults, and knock engine, or you'll sell it.
The devil will strip you off everything that you thought you owned.
It is a gradual punishment.
If you die leaving those wealth behind, your family or children will mismanage your assets.
It may take years, but it will happen.
You see those politicians that are stealing our common patrimony?
It'll be mostly those things that they acquired through legitimate means that will remain.
All other things that they stole, will eventually be misused, stolen back, seized or just vanish.
End.
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This man died, and I'm yet to see one negative comment about him... Nobody is gaslighting or forcing people to show empathy.
Live your life with kindness and a good story will be told about you.
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Nigeria 🇳🇬 is going through two end times
1.The end time as the world closes out
2.The end time of a pharaonic order and leadership.
The wicked leaders and strongmen in Nigeria 🇳🇬 often forget that there is an end and there is a GOD!
I pity them, I pity their families, I pity their generations! The evil they sow they will reap!
And Citizens that sow evil too will reap same.
We better Repent.
RRR - Repentance Revival Restoration