GHANAIAN WOMAN EARNS ₵5,640,474 WORKING FROM HOME AND KEEPS IT A SECRET FROM HER HUSBAND FOR 3 YEARS
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Imagine that for years, your other half had been hiding more than ₵5,640,474 from you.
Could you do the same thing? Adankwo, a mother of two from Accra put her marriage and her family in jeopardy by keeping a shocking secret from her husband for years.
Adankwo and Okorie Garba got married in 2004 after a few years of dating. Okorie Garba is an engineer, and Adankwo works at the reception of a local clinic.
After the birth of their first child in 2008, they decided that Adankwo would give up her job to stay home and look after him. Productive sectors of the economy were hit hard by the global financial crisis in 2008.
Fortunately, Okorie Garba didn't lose his job, but he had to work overtime and decrease his salary significantly in order to help his company survive. "My husband could take care of our family's basic needs, but I could see how exhausted his work was making him.
We tried to save as much as possible, but we still didn't have enough money" told Adankwo. "We couldn't imagine what our future would be like.
The market recovered somewhat, but then began falling again. I was pregnant with our second child at the time – we were just praying that everything would be okay.
We weren't confident that our financial position was stable. "
One evening, some time after the birth of their second child, Adankwo saw an ad on Facebook about working from home, which promised earnings of more than ₵6178 a day. She was intrigued. She followed the link to find out more about the system.
"There were a lot of positive user reviews about this ad, so I felt safe signing up. It wasn't a get-rich-quick scheme by some fraudsters forcing trades in order to make a living.
If they'd suggested selling products, I wouldn't have signed up", she said. Asset trading has become a major global trend, and the wave of popularity has reached Ghana.
Tesler is a trading platform that allows people to earn money by, for example, forecasting the growth or fall of currency exchange rates. All you need to do to gain access is fill out a short online form.
I was very nervous when I used the platform for the first time. I'm no computer expert, but there is a lot of free training for you when you create an account.
I watched all the training videos and documentation to learn how to use the platform. But I didn't want my husband to feel like he couldn't provide for his family."
After a while of watching the videos and reading the tutorials in the platform, Adankwo made more than ₵6924 in total to her account. Adankwo decided that she needed to keep the money a secret until she was ready to tell her husband about making money with Tesler.
So she opened a bank account in secret. Her husband had no idea. She arranged it so that money from her card was redirected to this account every week.
This went on for years. Okorie Garba still had work, while Adankwo was earning money on the Tesler platform from home.
She didn't go near the money that was building up in the secret account. "It was hard for me to keep such a big thing secret from my husband.
I felt guilty, but more than that, I was scared to tell him. Looking back on it, I think it was very silly to keep this secret."
At the beginning of last year, Okorie Garba lost his job. When Adankwo saw what a blow this was to her husband, she decided that the time had come to tell him what she'd been doing every day.
She went to the bank and withdrew the money from her secret account that had been building up. By that time, there was already more than ₵ 5,965,731.
"Adankwo sat beside me and told me that she'd been hiding something from me, that she was ashamed," told Okorie Garba.
"Then she took out her bank statement from her pocket and gave it to me. The statement showed her name, the sum of ₵5,640,474 and the official seal of the bank. At first I didn't believe it, but then she told me about Tesler."
"He didn't say anything at first. I thought he'd get angry and ask for a divorce. But then he started crying and hugging me.
I told him that I felt ashamed and guilty, but he said that he felt relieved that our money problems had been solved," tells Adankwo.
"Okorie Garba and Adankwo's story was widely shared in local media, including on blogs and in the news. When we found out about it, we wasted no time asking them if we could publish this information here in our report about local employment.
We asked Adankwo to give some exclusive advice to our readers: "I don't recommend keeping secrets from your other half, and if you find a good source of income, get started with it right away."
