Drama! Drama! Drama!.

left Nigeria about three weeks to be precise and things are falling apart. Two of my employees were arrested for selling my product and the next day our office was locked by the city council. The question is , why is everything falling apart once I left, it's almost like they waited for my departure to zoom in. They were accused of people coming to the market to sell goods produced by other manufacturers.They showed their ID cards to confirm they are the rightfull employees authorise to sell the goods, they insisted on following them to the office, which they did and confirmed that they were real workers of BIM. Now here is the story, when I was informed of this issue one of the men that came to our office (one Kunle Adelaja) asked to speak with me , I guess he didn't know I was far away in the U.S, he thinks am speaking from Abuja.If he knew where I was, he would have asked for more money than the N1,500 he was given. Our company had to pay for their gas. Are we responsible for that? Are we guilty of the said crime (duplication of other people's work?), the answer is no, but they still went ahead demanding bribe. The next day office lock-up seems like a set up. The Landlord adviced us to put a no parking sign in front of our office which we did a year later, (due to lack of funds) we had to prioratize. When we did , he got mad and wanted to know why we had made a lengthy Parking sign and I said "I followed your advice' but I can see he was upset. now we have to pay N8000 to the council just for having the parking sign in front of our office. People leave their cars in front of the office for days, sometimes almost a month, believe me the landlord is a mechanic and the last time before we decided to do the No Parking sign he left a car there for almost two weeks, if not more. We have till monday the 8th of August to go and pay or we will go to court. Since am not there to argue with them, guess what happens!, the full amount gets paid without negotiation. No deduction, not at all Na...................... wait ! Did I say how tough it is to do business in Nigeria?Family... is a no no. Don't think about it. just don 't do it.