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                            he was called 'the bull' but his real name was theophilus. he was married with two boys, though he had not planned to stop at two kids but the doctor adviced the wife to put a stop to child bearing for some medical reasons. he loved his family & provided  greatly for them, he never allowed any lack as long as he can afford  it. he did not allow the wife to work or trade, he said the burden of being a mother & a wife was already a huge task on it's own & he wouldn't want to add more on her tender shoulder & the wife accepted the arrangement & stayed at home, a full time house-wife.

                             theophilus, was a manager in one of the new generation banks, he was a good man, loved by his colleagues, family & friends, he assisted some of his friends to secure loans at the bank & with his influence assisted some of his family members & friends to secure employment in different sectors of the economy. he had put 15 years of his life to the banking sector & he knew his onions when it came to finance. 

                               unfortunately, things did not remain the same for him, for long.  without knowing how it happened,  a fraud was commited in his bank, involving a huge amount of money & since he was the manager in charge
fingers were pointed at him, after a thorough & solid investigations, he was arrested, charged to court,  convicted & sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour. 

                           after a year of visiting & taking food to him at the prison, his wife stopped visiting. he tried to send word to her, he got no reply, he stopped receiving visitors, nobody cared enough to visit him in the prison yard, his friends deserted him & he didn't know what happened to his wife. he stayed at the prison a lonely sad man. on the third year of serving his sentence, the government granted him & some other in-mates amnesty, even that, did not bring a smile to his once robust & handsome face.

                              on the day he was to be discharged, there was nobody to welcome him out of the prison yard, into his just regained freedom. he was the more disillusioned. but he mustered courage & decided to go to his house. he got to the place & it seemed deserted. he walked on & pushed the door, it was ajar, he entered into the house & it was empty, no furniture, no single soul in the building. every where was empty. he sat on the bare floor & wept like a child. he knew in his heart that he was innocent of that fraud & he also knew that it was a framed work done by his enemies to destroy him, he wept the more, when he was done, he stretched out on the floor & fell into a deep slumber.

                              consequently, theophilus recovered slowly, he learnt from his wife's family that his wife took the kids, packed all the property they had in the house & relocated to another city & her family refused to give him the address of the new place, at least to see his boys. theophilus is still finding it hard to believe that his lovely wife could have the heart to treat him that way.

                            when i heard this man's story, i shed buckets of tears, i couldn't imagine a wife well provided for, when the going was good, abandoning the husband when he needed her the most. well i can only say to theophilus, take heart & be a man, the lord shall surely vindicate you, the truth will surely come out someday. i can only say that your wife does not deserve a good man like you, you shall meet that woman who will trully love & appreciate you greatly.

                            AND to all the men that got abandoned by their wives just because things turned around for bad for you, be rest assured that the lord shall surely remember you for HIS great blessings from above, don't be distressed, remember that after the rain comes the sunshine. it shall get better.