Mama Oluwafemi is staring into the darkness like every other morning. But, unfortunately, things have gone from worse to anything worst, and sleep has become a luxury these days. She struggles to sleep by 11 pm with sleeping pills, but her troubles keep waking her up past 1. am and leave her thinking until daybreak. Yet, she has been hiding her pain from the family.
She is in trouble. After selling her land and borrowing to send Oluwafemi to study abroad, he has been handed a ten-year UK ban. Oluwafemi should have been her family’s ticket out of their financial woes, but her “village people” have worked overtime to frustrate them.
It was her dream to send Oluwafemi abroad for greener opportunities. She wanted her intelligent son to study any course in the United Kingdom. With the support of her younger brother in London, who promised to find a school for Oluwafemi and make his relocation easier, her dream of making her son’s dream come alive was on track.
Initially, she had agreed with her brother that they would find a UK-citizen lady in his church for an arranged marriage. However, that plan collapsed, and they resorted to sending him to school.
A few weeks later, Oluwafemi got admission into Spurgeon’s College, a theological institution for mission and ministry, where he would study for three years and become a Baptist pastor. Although it was a path that would bring him to the United Kingdom, Oluwafemi was not excited about the migration pathway.
His mother believed in the brother’s judgment and didn’t see any issue with him becoming a pastor to change their families' fortune. However, trouble started brewing when she realized that her brother could not fund his tuition fees.
She sold the family's only land and borrowed from her market’s cooperative meeting, where they contributed funds monthly. The money was easy to collect because they believed that Oluwafemi would give them double of what the mother requested for half of his tuition fees.
She assured them that Oluwafemi would send home the money one month after settling in the UK. With part of his tuition fees settled, she had to find a way to fund her son’s PoF. She has this childhood friend, who works in the bank, and she promised to help if she pays N510,000 for a N13 Million POF.
A few days before his interview, she received a bank account detailing financial transactions over 28 days on a new account with the son's name. She heaved and popped a cheap wine with her family, believing Oluwafemi was coming home with an approved visa stamp. This time, things were looking promising.
We should have told you that this interview was the third time Oluwafemi was trying for a UK student visa. Unfortunately, the embassy has rejected his application twice because of a lack of funds.
Since the reason for rejecting Oluwafemi was money, she has accepted her banker's friend's advice to make payment for PoF. However, when the market people started growing wary of her excuses to send her son to the UK, she believed that with this PoF, their problem was over.
Unfortunately, Oluwafemi returned with a ten-year ban because of a fake PoF. However, the story could have had a happy ending if Mama Oluwafemi had found Pay4Me. Pay4Me could have helped her son with an affordable school with funding in the UK and the right course for Oluwafemi.
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