Obaa Yaa
My boss wants me to cook for him
Dear Obaa Yaa,
I am 23 years old and work as a secretary with a private company in Kumasi. My boss is a friend of my uncle, so it was relatively easy for me to get the job. But now I think my boss is taking advantage of that relationship. He gives me odd jobs to do. He even brings some clothing from home for me to wash.
Recently, he gave me money to cook and bring it to him in the office. I think this is not part of my official duties as a secretary.
Obaa Yaa, I love my job but I do not like this kind of unofficial wife relation my boss is trying to have with me. Show me how to go about this tactfully.
Sherita, Kumasi.
Dear Sherita,
I guess the safest thing is to find another job. The man is taking advantage of his friendship with your uncle to make you a maid instead of a secretary.
You can do things for him once in a while and make excuses for others but make sure you look for another job.
Obaa Yaa
Dad says he won’t pay my fees
Dear Obaa Yaa,
I am facing a big problem which is threatening my education and life as well.
I am in my last year in secondary school but my father is threatening to stop paying my school fees for reasons I cannot disclose.
I am appealing through you to any person or organisation to come to my rescue to help me continue with my education.
I am ready for any job, be it a driver or houseboy. I am a worried person. Please help.
Benson, Accra.
Dear Benson,
You are ready to become a houseboy or a driver in someone else’s house and must be ready to do anything for your father to change his mind.
I suggest you go down on your knees and own up for what you have done and ask for his forgiveness.
Bear in mind that times are hard, not only in this country. Most people do not even get regular meals, so if apart from food and clothes, you are lucky to be receiving secondary education, then you have to be grateful to your parents and concentrate on your studies.
If you are still keen on continuing with your education, then go and tell the whole story to an elderly person and ask him to accompany you to your father and apologise.
Obaa Yaa
Pastors take too much money from members
Dear Obaa Yaa,
A FRIEND invited me to his church a few weeks ago and I was embarrassed at the way the priest demanded money from the congregation.
Will God bless such offerings extracted from church goers?
Etornam,
Volta Region.
Dear Etornam,
It is true that some churches demand money from their congregation. But it is also a fact that some of these churches uses these funds to build proper places of worship.
Utilities like water and electricity bills plus certain allowances or salaries of full –time workers in the church are also settled with this money.
Indeed if these money is put to proper use, it will enhance God’s work, and contributors would be blessed.
But if the money is misused, the people may think they are deceiving the congregation, but they cannot deceive God.
