Adrian's Parents Lost Jobs
Adebayo, Adrian’s father, was a high school certificate holder. He had been working as a clerical officer in a government owned Commercial Bank in Lagos, Nigeria, when he suddenly got a retrenchment letter. Without pensions, arrears or gratuities, Adebayo and other staffs, most especially the juniors, were set packing unexpectedly. After that ugly incident, he had walked from pillar to post to get another job in the large city in vain. Even all the longlegs he had thought he had before that time turned him down.
Ajoke, Adrian’s mother became the only hand feeding herself, husband and their two children, Adrian and Roseline. She was also the one paying their school fees of the children with the petty trading which she was doing by the road sides. At that time,
