Secret Recording Hits the Bedroom

Well folks, this secret taping of conversation thing has taken wing and gone beyond the “you eat some, I eat some, the Minister eats some” recorded dialogue between former Montserrado County superintendent Grace Kpaan and Edward Forh of the Montserrado County Legislative Caucus. Even couples are now doing it. They are secretly recording private conversations.

With tears racing down her cheeks, a young woman met me recently and asked for my help; her fiancé was all set to humiliate her.

 “Why?” I inquired.

“Because he has a recording in which I confessed to having slept with my former boyfriend. And now that he knows about it, he wants to leave me,” she told me.

Ami didn’t expect much from me. All she needed at the moment was a listening ear---the best gift one can ever give another.

And this is exactly what this 19-year-old was lacking in her relationship. She had been religiously and traditionally engaged to Siaka for over a year. He had been living in Belgium. Religiously, his parents had presented the first ten kola-nuts, which Islamically notes the interest of a guy in a girl only for the purpose of marriage. That had been a year before, when he first arrived in Monrovia on vacation.

Now, Siaka was back for another two months of vacation. But two days following his arrival, he took Ami out for a ride in his jeep.

“In my absence how many men did you sleep with?,” he asked her after he parked the jeep at the top of Snapper Hill, near the J.J. Roberts monument, overlooking the Atlantic. “Tell me the truth because the relationship (marriage) we are about to build cannot be built on lies or secrets kept from each other.”

Confused, Ami responded: “To tell the truth, in your absence, I slept only with the boy I used to go out with before I met you. And it was only for a few times; that had been it---no one else.”

In her mind, she was being truthful to her man. She had no idea a row would erupt and place a time-bomb under their relationship.

For Siaka, he had heard something shocking; he never dreamed his bride could have done something like that, though he had heard a thing or two about what Ami had been up to while he was away. He no longer felt anything for her. So, he had secretly taped Ami’s confession. He would use it as a tool to walk away from a relationship he no longer wanted. Siaka knew what he would do; he would call a meeting with her family and play the recorded conversation for everyone to hear.

First, he distributed the recording among his close friends who in turn shared it with their close friends. Soon, Ami’s confession was all over the neighborhood in Iron Factory, Bushrod Island, Monrovia.  A private conversation was now in the public domain.

Siaka was known to have been abusive in the past. He was also known to have been manipulative. Now, armed with a confession from Ami, he was not going to let himself down.

So what piece of advice would you have given this young lady? You can email your response to nabiefofana@gmail.com or simply drop us a letter at the Daily Observer located at the corner of Benson & McDonald Streets.