Hi Great People!
I finally picked up my visa yesterday. It was surely a memorable day as I caught so much fun.. I laughed a lot, ate and drank a lot of ''chairman''...lol
I made the journey with Kcsider on sunday, got to accra late in the night and checked into accra central view hotel (Thanks to Goldenapple for the background info which was helpful). We took the single bed at 35 cedis. While paying we saw another nigerian at the reception and we talked a bit about how to get Nigerian food at that time of the night. (Little did we know that the guy is a member of this great forum).
The next day I and Kcsider got to the embassy before 6.30am after a 2-3 mins drive from the hotel. We met just one person at the gate and in less than one hour the queue extended to over 30 persons. At 8am the embassy started attending to us, after security screening at the gate, they collected our passports/forms/passport photos and asked us to wait.
While waiting, I then met the guy I saw at the hotel the previous night and I said ''hey we met at the hotel last night...''we got talking and the forum came up in the conversation, noticed we are both members, introduced ourselves and the next second the guy screamed so you are vikolo? I have been following your timeline because ours is similar!!!! The person I am talking about is CD0107. (Omo come see scream and laugh na!).I met so other guy that were not members of the forum but I told them about the numerous benefits and we should have them on as new members very soon.
At about noon after a 3 hours wait (Hunger wan wound me within this period), the embassy officials informed everyone waiting to come back as from 2.30pm for visa collection. Actual visa collection started at about 3.30pm and by 4.30pm yours truly picked up his...I was like finally ''so i don grab this ugwu leaf''
From here we proceeded to the airport ( KCsider, CD0107, Goldenapple's friend Dapo and Myselfy) . KCsider and I managed to get seats on the AERO evening flight and while waiting for the flight to be announced we decided to spend the remaining Cedis on us on a few drinks. We got talking with another guy who was at the embassy as well and lo and behold it was KPOKI 77...''na there shak take start oh''' Gisting, yabbing, laughing....we talked as if we knew each other from ages....It was real fun...The people at the airport must have wondered who are these group of 5 guys that are having a swell time.
Having the visa is a sweet relief and my prayer to all those waiting is that the finish line will be reached earlier than expected. To the person that started this forum madam IG, your case will be concluded in a very very short time...I DON TELL BABA GOD SAY YOU MUST SMILE OHHHH
My response to Orire will follow in another post.