19/06/2025
MY EXPERIENCE with a live-in help
This world is highly spiritual if you care to know.
And witchcraft is real.
I got a girl to add to my small family in 2021 after I birthed my second child. Of course I needed extra hands in the house to keep the house lively and keep my first child lively and interactive.
I have never wanted to have a niece for neph in the house to avoid little talks and family fuse over entitlement.
I contacted a family I've known from Kaduna in same environment I lived in before I got married.
I got this girl with the intention of taking her in as a family after a while. Having full knowledge of my family by the parents, they obliged to entrust her into my care.
She was brought in (interstate) by a family member of hers.
She came in the middle of 3rd term which affected the process of enrolling her in school, hence we had to wait till the end and resumption to a new session(1st term)
We got along so fast, with joy in her heart and that of her family.
I didn't panic because I know my spiritual stand hence, the warm reception. We don't speak the same language so the margin was clear.
I understand her language by the influence of the environment because we lived amongst them growing up in the north.
I asked her people if there was any trait to manage in her. They all said NO. I tried feeling relaxed but got disturbed at the concrete NO they gave me (oh, it sounded suspicious).
I kept my gaze to observe knowing things unravel fast around me (spiritual inclusive).
She was good and lively for the first 2weeks. Then everything started playing out. This girl woke up one morning with tears and fear in her eyes. I was present there because I was sleeping in the children's room during that period to observe some more.
I was shocked and I quickly sat her down to know what had happened. To know about the dream or nightmare she had. Guess what!!
She wasn't willing to say a word like she's scared to open up. I drew her close and gave her my words in prayers to calm her down. Then, she said she 'NEEDS' to go back home to her people.
HAA , I become more interested in the conversation.
Let's call this girl 'Angel' Angel insisted and said "Aunty Zan koma' meaning 'aunty I shall go back'
And I said 'mai ya faru' what happened? She vehemently refused to open up. I said ok, naji meaning 'I've heard'.
I diffused the atmosphere and the conversation by letting her freshen up and let fresh air in while she assumed I wasn't going to ask or talk about it further.
NB, I WAS 2MONTHS POSTPARTUM.
