Baba is 70+. Retired. Educator. Builder of houses. Broke in cash, rich in sense. Last week he told me something that broke me. Since 2009, some powerful people in his community have been holding his ATM card. His pension card. His gratuity. Everything. Why? Because Baba refused to follow them to their shrine. In his community, there’s a way they survive: force someone to the shrine, lie against them, and control them. Baba said no. He’s the only child. His father’s land. He has the original documents. They beat him. Arrested him. Put conditions on him. “We are too many,” they said. Baba couldn’t fight back with fists. They were too many. So he fought back another way. He kept his original land documents. He built houses on that same land they tried to intimidate him over. He outlived them. 17 years now. No pension. No gratuity. He worked under Basic Universal Education, Rivers State Ministry of Education. All his documents are still available. But the ATM c...