Our MCM and his testimony

MEET Oluwasegun Bisiryu, aka, KingsKid, our Man crush Monday

I grew up in a family of three children and being the first child and only boy, it wasn't easy.‎ I grew up in a rough neighbourhood in Mushin, so you can agree with me that it wasn't easy but it was sure fun, dangerous fun.

Then, my father worked with Oodua groups, the Pepsi Cola Company. He wasn't the Daddy kind of father, he was just okay, he had a good job, he had a car, but cared less 

for the home.... but there is ONE thing i am eternally grateful for, that is sending me to one of the best private schools in Mushin (Twins Day Nursery and Primary School) now Susan Martins school.

i was introduced to a lot of dangerous things in the early days of my life, street uncles will come take me to their hideouts where they shared stolen money and other items, they smoked cannabis, cocaine and gbana( as they call it) but My Parents were strict disciplinarians so the thought of what they would do to me was a guideline already and the beginning of wisdom,lol.‎

i remember vividly, one certain day i was playing "mummy and daddy" with a particular girl called Bilikisu at the backyard and one of my aunts caught us, that blackmailing was never ending. (my childhood memories)‎

In 1991, we moved away from Mushin because as at then, pepsi cola liquidated and we moved to our own apartment in Ikotun, in ikotun i was already in primary four and we had to change school because of the distance and the deadly Lagos traffic.

I forgot to mention, all through my stay in Mushin i was top in my class and always got awards every end of the year party for overall best in English, Mathematics and moral

instructions.

In IKotun, i kept doing the same, displacing the current champion in my class and when i went for my common entrance examinations, i picked kings college for my first choice and FGC meiran and i was given slots for both school as i came out excellent, as fate would have it, i ended up in a private secondary school on my street, St. Francis Catholic Secondary School, did my JSS1 and 2 there before they did a 100% increament in school fees,my father said, in his words:  "no, i cant pay that" and i was moved to a public secondary school where i did not regret i attended, Ikotun High 

School.

Ikotun High school was a learning ground cos that was where i actually learnt how to speak yoruba, i can remember my first day there and i started speaking phonetics and everyone in the school was like urgh! they communicate in Yoruba language, even teachers use yoruba to explain lol, but Ikotun HIgh school was a great experience. i met a while lot of interesting people there and had my first heartbreak there also.lol.

When I was done with secondary school,I had to re write Mathematics. Things became tougher, dad told us there was on means to continue as he wasn't working again and had no money.  I got a small thing to do and earned #4500, that was nothing to go with as my sister was doing a job with lesser salary. My mother was just a tailor in the house. The tribulations started, we barely had two meals a day.

i was given so many opportunities including AFF(Advanced Fee Fraud) popularly called yahoo yahoo now, but my upbringing and my christian faith did not allow me do that. we waited on God, we prayed, we fasted, we worked for God, i was a Chorister, a youth coordinator, an interpreter in my church then.

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One very fateful day, after we had nothing for two straight days, a tenant in my father's house went to badagry and bought smoked fish, he removed the heads cos he never 

liked eating head of fish, so my sisters asked the man for the fish to feed our dog, the guy obliged them, they brought the fishe and stared eating and that brought hot tears to my eyes. that was a saturday morning and on sunday morning, i threw myself on the floor, crying and praying to God, my mother and sisters joined in and that was when the latter came in.‎

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I challenged God, I worked for Him, I prayed, three months after, i got a job with SLOT and since then, our lives have been transformed dramatically and we all have graduated from school, I, B.sc. Computer science, my younger sis, B. Tech, estate management.

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IG: @kingskid00