I graduated
in 2000 and went on to do my training as a medical laboratory scientist at
Nnamdi Azikiwe University. I finished in 2003. Immediately after this one of my
lecturers got me employed. I was to be paid 30% and that month I received N17,
300. I had already covenanted with God to give my first salary to Him wholly so
I sowed all of it to God and continued working, but after the next month’s
salary my employer’s husband decided he no longer wanted the laboratory and
terminated the arrangement. He told his wife if she wanted a laboratory it
would have to be separate from the hospital. I was hurt, especially as I
recounted the whole salary offering I made. I was unemployed within 2 months of
that. The LORD is good
to those who wait for him, to the person who searches for him Lam 3:25(ISV)
After a brief
spell at home I was informed the Medical Centre UNN would soon advertise for
workers and that I could go and work with them. I then moved to Nsukka and
stayed with my younger brother who was a student. Actually no vacancy existed
then but they were willing to have me as a casual worker with a stipend of N5,
000 monthly whilst waiting in the hope of an advert. I accepted and started
work. Needless to say things were not easy. Not long after I started I began
noticing some samples bore only names and no hospital numbers. On further
inquiry I learned my immediate boss who gave us the samples to run was running
her own private practice on the laboratory. Those samples were her costumers
who were not hospital clients and paid her directly whilst she used hospital
equipments and personnel. It was clearly wrong. Initially I put up with it but
finally I was grieved in my heart and purposed to have no part with it. I refused
to run such samples anymore: and have nothing
to do with the unfruitful actions that darkness produces. Instead, expose them
for what they are Eph 5:11(ISV).My immediate
boss was livid when she learned of it. “Are you the only Christian that has
worked here? You will not survive in this place!” she went on and on at me as I
bent over the microscope to prevent her from seeing the tears that came to my
eyes. I had been working there only 3 months.
A month
before this I had a dream. A new building was being commissioned and a man said
to me “This building was not originally meant for you but it is now yours” as
he handed the keys to me. I did not understand the meaning of the dream. When
my boss had finished her rant I tried to pull myself together as I heard
someone standing at the door. I looked up to see who it was. The medical
director had a practice of going around the facility about midday and had come
upon us during his rounds. I did not know how long he had been there listening.
I did not know him previously; he was the man in my dream! He inquired what had
transpired between us but I bent my head to hide my tears and said it was
nothing. Not satisfied he called me to his office and inquired further but I
couldn’t say anything to him. Quite displeased he sent for my immediate boss.
She apparently thought I had told him what transpired for she now reported
herself saying it was only a little sample she asked me to run. The director
then sent for me and thus learned the extent of what had been going on. He sent
a strongly worded letter on my behalf to the then vice chancellor (Prof Nebo).
Within 2 weeks I was called to personnel to collect my appointment letter. I
got the job without any interview.
Blessing is a lab scientist at UNN medical
centre
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