I brought this lady from her hometown to help take care of the kids when I went to work. She lived with me, and I provided everything for her, even sanitary pads. At the end of the month, I paid her GHC 1,000. Four months later, she came asking for a salary increase. I asked what made her think she deserved a raise, and she said she had now realized that GHC 1,000 was small.

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To be honest, she had been very helpful since I brought her from her hometown. She told me she sent some of the money home to her parents and also paid the school fees of her junior brother. I added GHC 200 to her pay to help her take care of her responsibilities back home and also because she had been a good person.

Two months later, she came to tell me her manager said her payment was small. I was like, “Manager? Who is your manager?”

I pressed and pressed, but this girl wouldn’t mention who the manager was. So I called her parents and reported her to them. Her mom took the phone and insulted her for several minutes. She was twenty-three years old but didn’t have a good education.

One afternoon, I returned home to see what she did when I was away, and lo and behold, her manager was in the house, eating and sitting on the couch watching TV. The girl was also in the bathroom bathing. She wasn’t using her own bathroom. She was using mine.

I sacked the guy and threatened to arrest him if he came close to her again. I sat the lady down like a sister and advised her to stop chasing men and focus on what brought her to my house. A week later, she told me she was resigning. She was a good girl—very hardworking. I called her parents, and they said, “She’s not a child. Leave her to do whatever she wants.”

She left my house with everything I had bought for her and went to live with the manager. All the while she told me she was sending money home, she was lying. She was giving her money to the manager to save for her. I was hurt. She was the third girl to leave my house, but she was the best I had ever had.

I would see her around, and she would frown as if she was fighting me. Just two months later, she came back crying and asking me to forgive her. The guy had squandered her money and disappeared. She even got pregnant for him and used crude methods to get rid of it before running away.

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I want to give her a second chance, but the last time I gave someone a second chance, he married me and later went back to doing the same thing again, breaking me to pieces. Since I left him, life has been better. That was a relationship, a marriage. I don’t know if it’s the same when it comes to house help. Would you give her a second chance if you were in my shoes?

—Enima

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