Pearls On Swine episode 4 – 5

PEARLS ON SWINE.
Episode 4.
By AMAH’S HEART.

“Kiki, I…I.. my MD called from the office. He was checking for some doc-ments and called to know where it was. After explaining to him, he asked me to hold on that he was going to confirm ones he sees it. I don’t want to come in,side and start sneaking out again when his call enters my phone…

Mayowa lied again. The lies were coming out more smoothly now
he was getting used to it gradually.
He felt worst with himself as he was getting used to lying and mastering each step.

“By this time of the night that your boss decided to check for doc-ments?

My wife asked suspiciously.
I was thinking of another lie to give her when she finally said

“…Oohkay. I was wondering with the speed you left the church auditorium, I wondered what was the emergency… Alright, I’m going back in,side, the service is about to end.

She left him and went back in,side.

He felt relieved as his wife went back in,side.
Mayowa stayed outside for sometime, it was while the prayer was being said by the pastor he sneak back in,side.

The service was later over, they greeted few others, exchange pleasantries before going home.

Kiki knew something wasn’t alright with her husband. For more than a week he has been behaving quietly and hærdly speaks his worries out to her anymore.

He was mostly into deep thought and hærdly prays like he used to do.

She asked him again that night what was going on but he said he was alright and nothing much was going on.

Kiki decided to intercede for her husband in prayer.
She stayed awake, reading verses of bible and praying to God.

Mayowa heard his wife reading a certain verse in the Bible, he didn’t pay attention to her at first as he pretend to be asleep.

When he heard her mention that a thief, a liar, murderer, he that covets, an idol worsh¡per who refused to repent will suffer everlasting condemnation.

Mayowa wish he can ask her to stop disturbing him.
Each verses she read echoes in his heart.
He became scared, he knew that he falls into one or two of those things his wife mentioned.
For three days now, he has not been able to pray. The major thing occupying his thoughts was how to get rich quick.

Mayowa, shut his eyes and tries to pray but no reasonable word was coming out of his mouth.
He decided he was going to speak to his wife who has been his confidant.
He can’t hold it all in anymore.

He waited until everywhere was calm that night, the atmosphere was right for his confession.
He called his wife and confessed every of his battle.

He told her how he almost succeeded in following Kunle’s step to steal, diverting the company’s fund to his own personal use, how he thought of schemes to cover up his tracks after the deeds because he wanted to have every good thing of life. Give his family only the best, travel out of the country and see how the outside world look Iike.

He was only been pushed to do so because of the way his company fails to acknowledge him, despite all his efforts and hærd work.
Despite how much sincerity he puts into his work. None of
It was acknowledged.
All of this was his anger and push.

When he saw how Kunle was spending extravagantly he knew something was fishy.
Kunle can’t possibly be spending his salary like that, how much was even The money that he will be throwing carelessly.

After he asked and Kunle told him what he does, different ideas began to run into his mind.
He began to think of how to also get his own secret deal done and covered but his mind has not been at rest.
He has been having a serious mind battle which has restricted him from carrying out everything he intended to do….

After confessing it all to his dear wife he felt relieved and she was happy that God did not allow her husband to succeed with such evil in his heart.

They knelt and prayed together for the first time in many weeks.

The next day he was happy getting ready for work because his mind was free and his heart pure.

He got to the office late and saw kunle in his branch.
He was coming out of his office.
He asked her what he came for he replied that he came to drop some field receipt as the MD asked him to submit them that morning for cross checking.

Mayowa walked back to his office and realized that his table was scattered.

Pieces of invoices was in the ground.
His heart skipped as he began flipping through his work sheet to make sure nothing was tampered with.

He will be in a serious problem if anything goes wrong with his invoice numbers.

PEARLS ON SWINE
Episode 5.
By AMAH’S HEART.

He found out that some of his invoices were missing.
He saw worn out ones in place of where he used to keep his.
He was still checking through and wondering what was going on when the intercom rang.
His boss asked him to also come over to his office with both the new and old used invoice notes.
His boss informed him that the auditor was in his office and they were checking out things together if not the auditor would have come down to his office.

Mayowa gathered what he could lay his hands on and quickly take them to his boss as he was instructed.

After sometimes, his boss called him and he went over again.
They told him that Kunle’s invoice was complete, the other two managers from different branches were also completed except for his own.

They asked to know why his own has missing receipt in almost all of them. And his invoices booklet was yet to be completed.

Mayowa told them he does not know how it got missing.
He suspected kunle because he was the person he saw leaving his office that morning.
the auditor followed him to his office to check for other missing invoices.

On getting there, he asked mayowa to bring out all the invoices he had in his custody and he did.

The auditor saw the worn out invoices that was supposed to be among the ones he brought to the MD’s office but instead he exclude them.
He asked mayowa why the invoice looks so old and why he didn’t include it.

Mayowa told him that they are not his own and even though some of his invoices that were in his care suddenly went missing he does not have a hand in it. It can’t tell how it happened.

The editor flipped through the worn out booklets and found out that most of the figures were tampered with.
He questioned mayowa about it and he repeated that he knew nothing.

With the way things seem, mayowa can sense that the auditor do not believe him.

And that realization troubles him greatly.

He tried to explain to the account auditor kindly and clearly that he knows nothing of the wh0le thing.
Everything was well arranged in his office before he went home yesterday and coming to work this morning, he was about 30minutes late due to traffic and distance which was unlike him.
Arriving office this morning he saw a colleague, kunle coming out of his office.

He asked him what was going on but kunle said he only came to check up on him if he was already at work and to also drop invoices that the MD asked him to bring over.

Mayowa told the auditor that when he entered his office, he saw that things were not as he left them yesterday.
His office looks scattered.

He was still trying to put it all in place when the MD called and asked him to submit his invoices.

He said is probably kunle that messed things around his office.

“All of this explanation is not necessary, you will explain to the MD and not to me. I’m here to work with figures presented to me and with what I’m seeing here, is a cause to worry. The MD suspected that something was fishy, when I saw the updated figures in the current statistics it was shorten of several millions and the clear point is that the goods that make up this amount where all sold but where exactly did the money went to…?

Mayowa breathed shakily as he listened to the auditor.
The auditor continued.

“…we asked all the accounts manager, both those dealing with cash and those who don’t. we needed to cross check properly to know where the mistake or theft if there’s any is coming from. I was here three days ago for the same sorting. We didn’t inform anyone earlier, because if we do they may decide to cover up their tracks. It was just I with my team and the MD that decided on these. It was early this morning we asked the account managers to submit their invoices and used booklets with immediate effect and I haven’t really seen any issue with others and even the kunle you mentioned… only with yours although we’re still cross examining everyone. There’s a lot of rewriting, cancellation with tipast in your invoices and account book. Tampering with figures, tearing off receipt numbers which I believe have huge amount in them and making the booklet numbers incomplete. Mr mayowa, you need to follow me back to the MD’s office for further clarification. You have alot to answer to and is not just to me but also the MD. You need to explain all of this…”

Mayowa was speechless because he knew that he was innocent and never tampered with any invoices or steal any money.
He wanted to, after kunle introduced him to how he makes extra cash aside from his salary. mayowa was tempted to and it was just yesterday that he stepped out of such strong evil thought and promise never to do such after confessing to his wife who made him realize that the fear of God will take him higher than he ever imagined.

He believes so too but resuming office with so much enthusiasm this morning only to be greeted with trouble he knows nothing about. The wh0le thing scares him.

Getting to the MD’s office, they all started interrogating him over the missing receipt and all the faults found in his invoices.
Mayowa stood strong by telling them that he knows nothing about it.

They looked at him and talked to him like a criminal.
They asked him to return to the office that they are still digging up things which may take days or weeks and ones they concludes on the exact thing going on and the wh0le marks lead down to him he won’t be spared.
He may even be charged with theft and criminal act which will earn him years of jail terms.
And they won’t fail to applaud and reward any one who had been keeping clean record and dedicated to the given job.

As mayowa went home that day, he was sad and also afraid as he narrated his office ordeals to his wife.
His wife try to encourage him that he shouldn’t be scared because he was innocent and God will vindicate him.

Mayowa couldn’t eat, he was destabilize.
He called kunle that night to ask him what exactly he did in his office that morning but kunle denied doing anything.
Kunle told him that he only went in there to check if he was around and when he didn’t see anybody he walked out.

Mayowa had his doubt. He doesn’t trust or believe kunle.
But kunle strongly denied touching anything in his office.

Mayowa can hopes that just like his wife said he will be out of trouble.

Although looking back at what happened with the auditor and his boss today, he knew trouble was cooking and someone will have to be the scape goat.

Tbc