Trials Of Ola Johnson (a story)

Who is Ola Johnson? He is a noble, successful business man who was not born into wealth and a living testimony of how a man can achieve success through trade. Ola Johnson was born in the eastern part of a small city in Nigeria in the 1970s. His parents gave him a middle name, “Hope” in order to give him a sense of ambition and expectation. The young Ola Johnson grew up in an economically deprived neighborhood in Benin city Nigeria and grew up seeing his family struggle.

Ola became successful with a fleet of taxies that he had worked very hard to acquire.

He was first introduced to cocaine while intending to sell golden accessories to his friend, Calvin. After that, he became obsessed with it. He started buying cocaine in large quantities, thus becoming a dealer. He soon discovered that he has found a gold mine and realized that he can make a lot of money by dealing drugs. Soon Ola had already made over 3 million dollars through drug dealing.

On a fateful day, He traded with a dealer from Philippine and was to pick the parcel from the airport, unfortunately he was caught in the act. The news that followed the arrest of this noble business man were not good as there were series of media stories that followed him.

The media people made it seem as if he was involved in a larger scale of cocaine dealing business and it was a known fact that at times, it was hard to tell whether he was a victim or guilty of the allegations leveled against him because no one would predict he is capable of doing such.

He had with him, uncut cocaine when the police officers bursted his operation but it was not until he was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years

imprisonment. His wife was left with nothing, her taxis were impounded and she was left with a 2 year old daughter. She left for another man after a year and half.

Ola never gave up hope though and found a new way to make something from nothing when he was released from prison. He started a small scale business again but reinvested in something more legitimate - a car wash center. It wasn't a big one but enough to put good on his table and meet other daily needs.

Things became clearer for him, he was living a lavish lifestyle and was popular among many because of his lavish lifestyle.

A few years later, Ola Johnson was arrested again. He was charged for money laundry and this time, he was sentenced life imprisonment.

He served for 11 years and died of malaria.

He was buried and his tomb chined