“After some time the talk started again, and people were saying that... ” Dozie made no move to stop the flow of tears. “That my mother was dead. The adults would give me pitiful looks as they passed by. I refused to believe it. I mean, how could my mother possibly be dead? As a kid, it's almost impossible to understand the concept of death, you know, how someone can be alive one minute and gone the next. But she never came back. Later on, during a government initiative to take children off the streets, I was able to attend primary school, then secondary school. And the best part, I got a scholarship to go for tertiary education in the United States.
“So one day in my dormitory, I was on the internet, and I stumbled on the photo of this country's Inspector General of police. The picture l
