FCMB AND THE MAGIC ATM MACHINE

Like millions, I also saw the image. A very powerful image of a tiny girl squatting by the ATM machine and using the light to do her homework. It was heart rendering and touching. Immediately my mind went to another such image although this one was on the other spectrum but nonetheless equally as powerful. The picture of a dying child from famine and a vulture writing to devour it. I am sure you people will now say, Edgar you have come again o. But let me try and link it. So the photographer stand there dey take picture instead to give the pikin food and now the pikin come die and he say him get depression, but he sent the picture out and the picture was one of the major forces that galvanised the world to stand up and fight the famine in Africa. So this one, as the girl was doing her homework people like that photographer were coming and going, collecting their two kobo from the ATM and walking away. I am sure some of them would be laughing at her and others just minded their business. Thankfully someone took her picture and sent it out and the thing hit the conscience of Nigerians. Upon seeing the picture and the logo of FCMB (I used to work there o. I was a big man in the place and be walking up and down and be doing big boy without meeting my target), I call my brother Diran Olojo. Diran na fine man o and na him be the custodian of their image. Diran say we are on top of it. Great guy and in a few minutes, he called and exclaimed like Galileo, we have found her. I hear

they are planning big things for this girl and not only her but also other people in that situation in that community. They are looking at something much more sustainable and enduring. Me I trust FCMB, they know how to handle these things. My joy is that with girls like these – the Delta girl who preferred to be flogged instead of being sent out of school for lack of school fees, the future is secure.