Reward for Uncommon Trust #1
Exploring my talent, putting it into use in the literary world for the benefit of humanity and promotion of communication
He is a micro-scale business person, who uses to travel to an island bordered by the sea to
Buy his goods because things are cheaper at that island, for she has ports where goods
Transported by the ships are being dropped, and cleared by their owners, and sometimes
When those people who have imported the goods could not raise the money to clear the
Goods they can call on some people who are interested in the goods to pay for the goods and
Clear them while they will remove their gains from the goods. At some other instances when
Some goods could not be cleared by the importer the customs and have become demurrage
The customs officers after several messages to the owner (importer) of those goods would
Sell those goods off at a cheaper rate to people who could afford it. Thus, by this means,
There are some opportunities for small scale business persons in this island to buy things at
A cheaper rate. After the purchase of those goods, they can sell them to others from other
Islands. He knows traveling to buy things from that island brings a lot of gain for him other
Than buying from some of the wholesalers in his island because those people would have
Added other money to those goods which will make the prices of the goods high, and
Consumers and customers in his island, when a price of a good changes by “a cent” they will
Walk miles to buy the goods from the place that the price is reduced by a cent. No one can
Really blame them, for it is the level of poverty that is high in the island that makes this a
Recurrent incident in the island. To satisfy his customers yearnings and demands, he used to
Gather money together to travel to the island, and since he belongs to cooperative and thrift
Society in the island which is the commonest lending groups scattered all over the island for
Micro-scale and small scale business people, he also uses to take loans from the thrift society
To support whatever he has saved for his business expansion. He has taken a loan from the
Thrift society and has left his house very early in the morning for the trip to the island
Bordered by the sea to buy some goods. Their vehicle was getting close to the border of the
Island he was going to when they were attacked by the thieves. The economic recession
That the republic has been plunged to, coupled with the terrorists ceaseless attacks have
Worsened the income per head in the island such that many of the youths have been turned to armed
Bandits. Many of those who had traveled in the latest periods have decried the position of
The island’s roads that have been taken over by armed bandits to the rulers of the islands but
They have not been able to arrest the situation. Those armed bandits have placed branches of
Cut trees and big stones on the road, at a corner, their driver did not see this until they
Have been closed to it, as he puts his leg on the brake with the tyres screeching on the road,
Before he could do any other maneuvering those armed bandits have ran out of their closets
To the road to their vehicle with face masks on, they have fired gun shots into the air and
Ordered them out of the car. As they walked out of the car, they have divided themselves into
Groups, those who are watching the roads for security personnel, those monitoring the
Passengers as they lay on the floor with their faces to the ground, and those searching the
Vehicle for money. Few of those passengers perhaps did not know that those bandits have
Positioned themselves at strategic positions on the road, and thence made an attempt at
Escaping from where they were, and as they were running off, they were being fired at by
Others monitoring them, and they had died on the spot, albeit stray bullets hit this young
Entrepreneur and they had left him for dead too as they left the scene after carting away their Money and killing the rest people.
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