‘Dem Go Flog Tire’: From Poverty To Scholarship – Sapele Schoolgirl’s Parents Speak

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Dem Go Flog Tire Saga: How Innocuous Facebook Video Led To Schoolgirl Being A Celebrity….

Fun
Video of Success Adegor, a pupil of Okotie-Eboh Primary School I,
Sapele, who was chased from school over exams levy has later turned the
7-year-old Sapele Schoolgirl into a celebrity.

DAILY INDEPENDENT visited Success Adegor and reports about the current situation.

Like
every success story, the crowd of goodwill visitors, government
personnel, NGOs and a host of other public-spirited persons continue to
swell by the day.

Calls from far and near poured in from those
who just want to identify with the little girl who had before now lived a
low profile life with her parents at an obscure ghetto area of Sapele
called Urban Area.

Meanwhile, Miss Stephanie Rukevwe Idolor, an
HND holder from Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, who took the video shot of
the little girl and upload it on Facebook, said she did it out of fun.

She
remarked that “the pitiable sight of Miss Adegor, who was terribly
bitter and soliloquising, while walking back home, attracted me to her,
and when she narrated her story, I took it from there.

“I thank
God for what happened and I appreciate all the personalities that
responded including the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education.

“Imagine
a young girl talking to herself in that bitter state of mind? Anything
could have happened; God only used me,” Idolor said.

However,
since the incident happened, Miss Success, who admitted being a slow
writer, said she has only one regret, and that is she can’t observe her
break time anymore.

When asked to narrate what happened, she
said: “The day I was chased from school, my mother had promised to give
me the money to pay for the exams levy the following Monday. So I never
expected that the headmistress would ask me to go home despite a plea
from my mother. It pained me so much that I became sad and sober as I
walked home to tell my mother.
“So on my way, I met our neighbour who
asked me why I was not in school and when I told her what happened, she
brought out her phone, recorded my conversation and uploaded it on
Facebook. That was the beginning of my story from obscurity and poverty
to stardom. I can’t even remember anymore the number of personalities
that have visited me in this poor environment.

In an
emotion-laden voice, Success’ mum, Mrs Adegor, in an interview with
DAILY INDEPENDENT, said, “first and foremost, my husband, children and I
wish to use this medium to express our profound gratitude to His
Excellency, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State; the Hon.
Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Chiedu Ebie; Chairman
of Sapele Local Government Area, Hon. Eugene Unuaghan, other
public-spirited persons; NGO’s and others too numerous to mention for
their intervention and support. We thank you all, we appreciate you and
we love you for looking after us; the glory of God will not depart from
you.”

The petty trader-mother of three of which Miss Success is
the last child and who had been married to her husband for 15 years,
said further: “The whole episode was divine intervention. God only used
what happened to uplift my husband and I. Or how else do you want me to
tell my story?

“Just a few days ago, I was struggling to pay my
children’s school fees from the little savings of my petty trade and my
husband is an Okada rider. Just then, God intervened. One moment of ‘go
home until you pay your exams fee’ by the headmistress of my daughter’s
school and the viral video that followed suit changed our story from
zero to hero.

“Today, Success is on scholarship and that has
reduced our burden to concentrate on the other two children in secondary
school. People who ordinarily would never have come to our house
because of poverty are now our friends coming to us in drove. I cannot
appreciate God enough.”

Miss Success’ dad, Mr Adegor, in an interview, described the success story of Success as a finger of God.

He
noted that life has not been easy for him and his young family,
remarking that there was a threat of quit notice from his landlord for
their inability to pay the rent of the mud house they stay.

“I
appreciate all Nigerians. Now, I understand the true meaning of the
miracle. My dream is to see my children to the highest level of
education,” the father of three said.

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