Okon however didn’t even wait for NYSC. He got his statement of result and continued working.

Then my husband told him, “Apply as a staff. You can’t be at the gate again.”

He applied.

They gave him the job.

That same gate where he used to stand, he now walked past wearing a shirt and tie. His former colleagues would hail him:

“Okon! You don be our boss oh! Remember your boys!”

He would smile and still “remember” them from time to time.

Okon worked with integrity, humility, and excellence. Two years later, he got promoted.