She Gave A Dirty Beggar Her Last Money, Not Knowing He Was The Richest Man Alive

She Gave A Dirty Beggar Her Last Money, Not Knowing He Was The Richest Man Alive

 Jessica, Jessica, look. Am I seeing things? What is it? Cynthia, I beg. I am not buying from a beggar. That face, is that not Daniel? Daniel Amadi? No. No, that is not him. It is him. Daniel, the Big DREAMS BOY.  [laughter] [laughter]  GOOD AFTERNOON.  HE IS greeting us. THIS ONE GET LIVER.  [laughter]  WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME? DON’T LOOK at me.

 I only said good afternoon, Jessica.  Let me record this. The world has to see. Mr. Daniel Amadi. Too good for ordinary girls. Too good for ordinary girls. See him now. On the floor. Turn off the camera. They will think I Daniel, smile for your fans. No? Okay, now, here. Don’t say I am wicked. I gave him something.

 Thank you. God bless you.  Let’s go. People are watching. This is going straight online.  [laughter]  Three weeks, sir. Your back will not forgive you.  My back is fine, Emeka.  The board is asking where their chairman is.  I don’t know what to tell them. The gala is in 9 days. They expect the chairman, not this.

They will see me on the ninth day in front of everyone.  Then come home now. You have proved your point.  Have I? Tell me what I have proved.  That the city is cruel to a man who can do nothing for it.  Knowing is not seeing. My father built this empire from one kiosk. When he died every smile started counting my money.

I wanted to know who would treat me like a human being.  Three weeks. The cruel ones are all in here. And the kind ones, sir?  Empty. Three weeks, not one.  Then maybe there is no one. Nine more days. If I find no one, I stop looking. At least let me bring you food that is not from a gutter. A beggar who eats catering is found out.

Keep the engine warm.  Mama Kechi, good afternoon. Give me akara for 200 and pure water.  Afternoon, Felicia. Coming right up.  Felicia, my daughter. You are shining. Good news?  They called me for the job, ma. Dream chasing. I resume in Monday.  God is good. Good people, good things will always find them.

Oya, get up. Go and beg somewhere else.  [snorts]  Bros. Bros, you never chop today,  abi?  No.  Here. Take. Slowly. Nobody is rushing you.  Why are you helping me? You don’t know me.  Do I need to know you to see you are hungry? My father said, “When you see someone fallen, give your hand first.

Questions later.”  Your father sounds like a wise man.  He was. He’s late now. But I carry what he taught me. He said good people are rewarded. Maybe not today, but it comes back.  You believe that? Even in this Lagos?  Especially in this Lagos. If we all stop believing it, what are we? Take care of yourself. God keep you.

 Thank you, sister.   Especially in this Lagos. If we all stop believing it, what are we? Take care of yourself. God keep you.  Fine girl like you, feeding that dirty beggar. You don’t know what he is.

They use them for ritual. He will start following you home. You cannot trust mad people.  He is not mad. He is hungry. There is a difference.  Today’s children. He will repay your kindness by stealing your bag.  You really think so?  I know so.  Then I will lose a bag. I will not lose my conscience.  One.

After 3  weeks, there is one.  Good evening, Mama. Anita.  Evening. You are smiling.  Did money fall on you in the road?  Something better. I started Dream Chasing on Monday, Mama. A real job. Office, salary, everything. Dream Chasing. So, now you are a big girl.  A salary girl is not a big girl.

A big girl marries a big man. Speaking of which, sit properly. I have news that is actually important. Chief Bardella’s son, Kelvin, the one with the cars. He has been asking about you.  Mama.  Money, Felicia. Real money. That family eats with gold spoons.  Kelvin Bardella likes Felicia? Of course he does.

 Everybody likes Felicia. Mama, there is someone. A man I have been helping.  A man? Good. What does he do? What does he drive?  He has nothing right now, Mama. He has been through hard times. But his heart  Nothing? Nothing how? Nothing nothing?  He sits by the road. People pass him, but he is good, Mama. I have never met anyone so  A BEGGAR? YOU BRING A BEGGAR INTO MY PARLOR? WHEN KELVIN BARDELLA IS ASKING FOR YOU? HAVE I SUFFERED to raise you, so you can carry roadside poverty into this house? After all I’ve done for you?

Bringing that filth into my home? Shame on you.  Felicia and her beggar. Wait till people hear this one.  [laughter]  His name is Daniel. And one day all of you will be ashamed of how you are talking now.  The only shame here is you. Kelvin is coming to greet this family. You will smile.

 You will sit, and you will behave like a daughter with sense. Do you hear me?  Felicia, this is too much. I cannot let you  You cannot keep sleeping outside in rags. Just try them,  please. We will take this one and those trousers.  Sounds good.  Excellent  choice. I’ll get them ready. See? A fine man was hiding under all that dust.

 Why are you doing all this?    You do not have much. I can see it.  No. I don’t have much. 1 million naira. Everything  I have saved. Three years of saving.  Felicia, no. No, I cannot.  Start something. A small business. Stand on your feet. And when you are standing,  maybe you will still want me standing next to you.

 Felicia, easy. I’m going to marry you.  Is that a proposal or an announcement?   It is a promise. And I keep my promises, every single one.  Emeka, the woman I told you about, Felicia Eze, her late father lost land in his village  before he died. Find it. Buy it back quietly. Put it in her name.

 She must never know it was me. The 1 million she gave me, frame it. One day I  give it back multiplied by a thousand. But that envelope, I keep forever. The great Daniel Amadi, 3 weeks nobody can find you. Half of Lagos thinks you have run mad. Let them think. How was the deal? Signed. Your father would be proud. The merger makes Dream Chasing the biggest in the country.

But you do not look like a man who just became more powerful. You look like a man with something on his mind. Raymond, if a woman gave you everything she had believing you had nothing to give back, what is that worth? More than any merger. So, you found her, the kind one you went looking for. I found her. Then God has answered you.

The gala is in 5 days. You will stand on that stage as chairman in front of everyone who counted you out. Will the kind one be there? She does not even know who I am yet.  Then my friend, you are planning something dramatic.  I am planning to find out exactly what her family is made of and then give her the life she deserves.

 Sir, there is a video. It is everywhere. You should see it.  See him now on the floor.  [laughter]  Cynthia Bello, keep it. Everything returns to its owner in the end.  Mama, please. I do not want Calvin. Please, Mama, I beg you. I cannot marry him. I have told you my heart is somewhere else. My heart is somewhere else.

 Your heart is a child. It’s all sugar that will rot your teeth. I am your mother. I want what will not rot.  Daniel is a good man. He has a good heart. He always means well. You can trust him.  Daniel is a road. You want to marry a road? PEOPLE WILL DRIVE OVER you and not even slow down.  I married for love.

Your father, a good man, a poor man, buried him with debts. And I have suffered every day since. I will not watch you walk the same road. Kelvin comes Friday. It is decided.  Mama! Mama, come and see Felicia’s beggar. He’s famous! That is him. That is the Daniel she’s crying about. The whole internet is laughing.

This? This is the man? FELICIA! FELICIA, COME HERE.  Turn it off.  I will not. This is what you chose over KELVIN BADELA. A ROADSIDE JOKE?  You do not know him.  We know enough. The whole of Lagos knows enough. That is Kelvin. Fix your face. Smile. Now.  Mama Easy, the most beautiful family in this city.

Small something for the house.  Kelvin, you should not have. Sit. Sit. Felicia, get water for our guest.  Felicia, they said you were fine. They lied. You are finer. I do not like to wait for what I want.  A man who knows his mind. Felicia is a lucky girl. Very lucky.  Still  texting your beggar? Go away, Anita.

You know Mama will never let it happen.    Kelvin is rich. Kelvin is here, and you are still chasing a man who sleeps on cement. At least Daniel knows how to love somebody. What do you know about it?  You always get everything. The good marks. The good job. Now, two men. Give me that.  No. Get away from me.

Anita.  What have you done? I did you a favor. Now you cannot reach him and he cannot reach you. By the time Mama is finished, you will be Mrs. Bardella. Thank me later.  Where you dey go? Nobody pass this gate today.  I am here to see Felicia. Please tell her Daniel is at the gate.

 No Felicia here for you. Madam say if any beggar come asking make we show am road. Felicia dey marry better man. Rich man. Kelvin. Go back to your gutter before we break something you need.  I do not want trouble. Just tell her Daniel came.  Get out OF HERE, MADMAN.  [laughter]  NOT YET. EMEKA.

IT IS TIME. FRIDAY. EVERYTHING. The cause Raymond, all of it. The gala can wait. Friday is where she needs me. And find out what Kelvin Bardella is hiding. A man that flashy is always hiding something.    Is this spiritual? DON’T TOUCH HER. MOVE BACK. GIVE HER AIR. YOU CALL AN

AMBULANCE. Water and a clean cloth. Now, move.  I have got you, Mama. You are not alone. Breathe.  My son, thank you.  This one where we dey call beggar, he get better heart than all of us.  Daniel.  Today, two great families become one.

 The Madela name is gold in this state. Pure gold. You, girl, you have won the lottery of your life.  Stop looking. Your beggar is not coming.  I will bury you in gold so deep you will never see the gutter again.  I do not want gold.  Everybody wants gold.  Bring the items. LET THE BRIDE PRICE BE COUNTED.

      SECURITY!  SECURITY!  GET THIS MADMAN OUT. SECURITY! GET HIM OUT NOW. DANIEL!  The famous beggar. You have liver, gutter boy.  They broke your phone so    you would think I abandoned you.  I would never abandon you.  GET OUT OF MY COMPOUND. YOU HAVE NOTHING.

YOU ARE NOTHING. MY daughter is marrying a vagabond.  Nothing. You keep saying that word. Let us see who has nothing. This woman fed me when I had nothing. She gave me her last million naira. How many of you would do that?  A beautiful speech. But speeches do not pay bride price. Here. Buy yourself a bath and go.

 You want to see a bride price?     THAT IS THAT IS RAYMOND DASAH. YOU ARE calling this man a beggar. Let me introduce you to your beggar. This is Daniel Amadi, chairman of the Dream Chasing Group, the richest young man in this country, and the son of my late best friend.  

 That is the bride price for the only woman in this city who loved him when he had nothing. Felicia? Felicia Eze, from my department, what is this disgrace? You are an embarrassment to the company. Consider yourself Finish that sentence, Samson. Ch- Chairman? Sir? I I did not You were about to fire her. What? No, that’s not true.

 You are the embarrassment, Samson. You are fired. Clear your desk by morning. I am sorry I lied to you. I searched a whole month for one good heart. Then a woman in a wrapper knelt in the dust. You gave me akara and told me good people are rewarded.    Your father’s land is back. It is in your  name.

You gave me everything you had. Now everything I have is yours. Felicia is a marry me. Not the chairman, me, the man you fed.    I would have married you with nothing. You know that.  I know. That is why it had to be you.  Yes. Yes, Daniel.    You called me a road. Roads take people places, mama.

I am taking your daughter somewhere you never could. Kelvin Badela. What is this? A warrant. For what? You are under arrest for fraud, forgery, and obtaining money by false pretenses.  This is a mistake. Daddy, do something.  I I know nothing about my son’s business. Nothing.     A man that flashy is always hiding something.

Your gold was borrowed. Your empire is paper and paper burns.  You all looked at a man on the ground and saw nothing.  I looked and saw a person. That is the only difference between us. Money would have rotted my teeth, Mama. You were right. I just chose the one thing that does not rot. That was him.

On the road. That was him the whole time. And we don’t Don’t say it.  I tested a whole city looking for one good heart. You did not know I was rich. You only knew I was hungry. And you fed me.     I would do it again. Every single day.    You will. But never again on cement. I had houses, cars,  billions, and I was poorer

than this woman with her last 1 million naira. Kindness is the true riches. Everything else is costume. You are the richest person I have ever met. I will spend my  life trying to deserve the akara you gave a beggar.    Good people  are rewarded. You taught me that. Welcome to the life your kindness built.