Grandex

The door to his Venza opened as Chief Obi stepped out of his car majestically, adjusting the red cap on his and his walking stick in his hand as his secretary and some of his staff welcomed him.He stood looking at surroundings of Grandex company, enjoying the view, when he was satisfied,he walked inside the company as each staff stood to greet him and with a slight nod he answered them.He took the lift to his office as it was located on the last floor of twenty storey building.He got to his office sat in his seat behind the large mahogany table.His secretary walked in behind him as her heels clicked on the tiled floor.She relayed the company's activities to him of the last time he came to the company as Chief Obi was always going to his various organizations each day.Satisfied with all the reports as he went over it carefully,he closed the file and turned to his secretary" Amanda prepare the record of the staff I want to give a promotion"he said and Amanda's eyes bulged out of her sockets in fear.He picked his phone and dailed an unknown number which he was about to receive when Amanda excused him and went to prepare the records.Grandex company being one of the leading company in Nigeria has it's policy,it staff are envied by all because of their rich corporate style, getting a job at the company comes with high standard and qualifications,their pay is mouth watering with a very condusive working environment,but despite all these the staff aren't always at rest especially when it comes to promotion, because there had been several cases of staff getting promoted and after two months something terrible happens which leads to the staff resigning of getting fired.Sometimes the staff gets missing or his life miserable or in most cases death,it happened to one of the staff Alyssa,who was promoted to Chief Obi personal assistant and being the personal assistant,it was like being the second-in-command to the CEO,the promotion came with a duplex at Ikoyi,a brand new SUV,an increase in salary,and she also travelled with Chief Obi for business meetings to different countries, sometimes he sponsored her vacation to any country of her choice,she was living her life to the fullest, everyone at the company were jealous of her especially the women,some were even gossipping that Chief was having an affair with her that made him give her such promotion.There was a guy in the office Ugo who had a crush on Alyssa and has been making advances to her but when she got the promotion their little chat during office hours stopped same as their walk home,she saw Ugo as one who wasn't on her level anymore and it hurt him so much,so he left her and focused on things that matters to him.Three months after her promotion there was a case of theft, someone falsified Chief Obi's signature and carted away with millions of naira;hell was let loose,Cheif Obi was mad,the runnings of the company stood still,Alyssa being the personal assistant was called upon but she was dumbfounded,she prayed it was a dream that when she wakes up everything will turn to normal but it was far from that,she burst into tears,she didn't know how it happened because she managed Chief Obi's account,she broke down and fainted.She was later revivied at the hospital and when she woke up she saw she was handcuffed by the side of her bed,the next day she was escorted out of the hospital by DSS,she was the suspect everyone pointed at despite not knowing anything about it.Alyssa was fired and she became a shadow of herself,she remained in the custody of DSS,but news came that someone else was responsible for the crime and he was apprehended but she couldn't go back to working at Grandex,she was already fired and news about her stealing from Cheif Obi became viral on social media that she couldn't go out freely in public,it was the worse time of her life and Ugo tried to reach out to her but her lines had changed likewise her house address and he couldn't find her.Grandex company went back to normal as if nothing had happened,they all forgot Alyssa and the event that followed.On his way to work Ugo saw a madwoman digging into the refuse bin by the side of the road and recognized that the madwoman was indeed Alyssa,the fair and beautiful lady who was everyone's crush now looking dark and haggard,Ugo tried to reach out to her to see if she would know who he was but she didn't as she chased him away with a whip in her hand and ran for his safety,he was pained at what Alyssa had became and he narrated it to his colleagues whose only words were "Eiyyaa,what a pity" and they got back to work immediately without much thought about what he said.The next day Ugo followed the same route to work and saw people gathered before a person lying dead on the ground and pushed everyone aside to get a better view and what he saw made him break down in tears,Alyssa was lying dead in the ground and people around were either taking pictures or putting their hands over their head or shaking their heads and walking away.Ugo wept and when he got to work he wrote a letter of resignation to Chief who demanded his reason but he gave no reason that suited Chief so he didn't grant his request of which baffled Ugo,so he stopped coming to work and travelled to his hometown to stay for a while.Nobody asked after him and his name was erased from the list of staff working at the company.So Amanda was scared as she prepared the record of the staff and brought it to Cheif Obi who went through it and said"Call a board meeting for all the staff,I want to reward someone"