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As soon as you got posted out of camp, you were expected to leave camp that day or the following morning. They normally gave out train tickets to wherever they posted you. The newly posted people were scrambling for tickets … Continued

ADAEZE OKORONKWO, native of Ngodo Isuochi in Abia state Nigeria arrived at the Camp. I was returning from a farm settlement where I had been taken by Irene, a fat German lady whose ancestors had migrated from Czechoslovakia (Now Czech … Continued

” Schon Gebostag” (happy birthday), the fat lady said. I kept quiet for a while before I recalled that it was my birthday. A fake birthday. I had met the lady at the entrance of the shopping mall in the … Continued

”what.t.t did you ju.j.just say” I stammered. ” I think I am pregnant. I have been vomiting and my mom said I could be pregnant” she said and started crying. ” Don’t cry Efuah, its a good news. The only … Continued

” MY name was Awiti Mulonga, I was born in Mogadishu Somalia on July 20′ 1985. I had been kidnapped by some group of men who kept me until some soldiers rescued me through a gun battle. The soldiers took … Continued

As soon as my rising joystick jumped out of the boxers, Karolina grabbed it and started turning it around in her palm. She was so casual about it that I wondered if anything beyond that was going to happen. The … Continued

I turned around and saw John bighead emerging from the bush. Awiti, who had not seen or known who John was, just stood there and stared at the guy coming out from the bush while I thought how best to … Continued

The major and the final interview was what every camper looked forward to. It was the interview that determined everything. Whether the authorities would believe your story or not came from what you said in the interview. People usually prepared … Continued