Mama Tee Series - The Thief

This incident happened when I was still working as a Receptionist in an hotel.

We used to have high profile guests. Asides nollywood artists, politicians and CEOs of companies were on our list of customers. This was because the hotel was a coded one with a high fence and no signpost outside. You would hardly know it was an hotel.

Back to the gist. Sometimes, guests would forget their stuff in the rooms, the house-keepers were supposed to report to the manager who would collect the item for safe-keeping and hand them over to the owner on their next visit.

However, a greedy house-keeper would keep the forgotten item and wait for the guest to visit again, on the next visit, if the owner did not say anything about it or he/she did not visit for more than a month, this house keeper would take it home secretly. If the item was big, like shoes or a bag that can't be hidden in the panties, all he/she had to do was to buy food or beer for the security on duty.

One cool Sunday afternoon, I was relaxing on my desk in the reception when two policemen walked in with a young woman.

What happened?

The gist is that one house keeper had taken a neckpiece forgotten by a guest and sold it. The buyer rocked it to an occasion and boom! the original owner who was also a guest at the party saw it and recognised it. She said it was a sample jewellery which she ordered specially for her birthday. So she arrested the wearer.



They had used the house keeper's phone number to trace her to her workplace. According to reports, it was not the first time she had sold stuff to the woman. Chai! Who would had believed that fine girl was a 'thieft' (in Whiteberry's voice)


Our MD saw the commotion on CCTV and came down. After every every, we handed the jewelery thief over to the police.

My people, you won't believe that both the 'thieft' and the buyer spent 6months in prison. It was after 6months that their accuser decided to move for them to be released. According her, she only wanted to teach them a small lesson.
Aunty jewellery 'thieft' came back to plead for her old job after her release and narrated her ordeal to the security man. As expected, she did not go past the security post.


We should be wary of how we buy used items in the neighbourhood or even in the market. There are many innocent people in prison.


Mama Tee