Abike claims Colonel Abbas threatened to kill her if she didn’t sign a paper forfeiting her salary. She described him as telling her “he can not give me my money, that he has already bought me from Najah as a slave.”
Cynthia said she’d pay Eyah at the end of her contract. She “gave her a handful of dollars at the airport”. Turns out that handful was $3452 short.
Glory’s employer, a judge, was refusing to release her at the end of her contract. One text message later and she was on her way home with her full salary.
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