Mr. and Mrs. Eddy are career couple. They barely stay at home or take care of their kids. This has not been a palatable experience, but they could not help it.

One day it struck the mind of Mrs. Eddy that her elder sister's daughter was of age and it will please her sister if she chose to pick her daughter as a house help and train her at the same time.

"Honey! I think I have an idea", she said to the husband. "What is it?" the husband asked. She expressed the idea, and her husband welcomed it. The following week, she set out to accomplish it, and that she accomplished.

Anu-nti, meaning stubborn, the new house help and a niece to Mrs. Eddy arrived. Her world has changed, everyone who knows her will say. She now has chance to feed well, wear good clothes and attend school.

Knowing that Anu-nti was her niece, Mrs. Eddy was soft with her, enrolled her in her children's school but begged her to take care of home and her children.

The matter was settled, every sane man will believe. But the situation was far from this. The career parents were always on the go, from one function to another, from one state to another. The Anu-nti was a new authority, madam of the house, and new decision maker.

Showing the stuff she was made of, a totalitarian, authoritarian, fascist, nazist, and an autocrat, she turned the kids to maids, sent them on harmful errand like leaving the compound to buy stuff outside, compelled them to perform her own chores. She rationed food for them claiming that they ate too much, reason they were not responsible. Worst still, she administered capital punishment on them, inflicting injuries on them.

With all these, the children had no one to report to as their parents were no where to be found. The days their parent would ever come home, they returned at bed hours and left before children woke up.
This was the situation, but you know, it will not last forever. Everyday is for the thief, they say, and one day is for owner.

The day came, arrest was made, and the matter was described as a case of POWER ABUSE.

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