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Week III
To lose twice consecutively was disastrous, as the tough C.E.O made it clear to the Matrix Corporation. The Nigerian belle, Blessing, once again blamed poor leadership on their loss. For that, she was asked by Shobanjo to provide the much needed winsome leadership that would propel her camp to success.
House secretary, the smashing Lillian, had a call for Deox. It was from the boss and summoned the contestants to Chicken Republic –Nigeria's chicken hub that brings in a daily amount of 12 million Naira selling chicken parts. The task was simple: "create a combo meal of your own" and "manage one Chicken Republic outlet yourself".
It was upon the Zulu Corp. to pick a project manager for this task and the easy-smiling Anthony was trusted with the role.
At Chicken Republic, the teams were given fast tips on cookery and restaurant management from Chicken Republic representatives.
Blessing got the girls started by advising them to concentrate on selling as much instead of wasting precious time on frying the chicken well. We shall not be there tomorrow to see if customers come for more, she argued. Under her management, the girls also designed an advert, printed it out and whosoever saw it had to salivate. Our girl Nancy and Eunice must be commended as the brains behind the tantalising promotion.
Meanwhile, the Zulu camp flooded with confusion. The boys didn't have promotional materials for their outlet and opted to improvise but still nothing was convincing. The ever prescient Deox noticed Anthony was not in control as he ought to and that's when I wished he should have been the leader, for then, the lads would not have had to worry.
Soon the task was over and both teams filed into the boardroom to hear the verdict. You should have been there to see the Zulus cringe when Chicken Republic officials declared Matrix Corporation winners.
You had to concede that the holy magic in the name Blessing had something to do with the girls' victory. Even the hard-to-please Shabanjo was impressed judging from the smile on his face and rewarded the girls with a sumptuous dinner at Reeds Restaurant.
In boardroom, Tunde and Eddie turned their fangs on Anthony saying he had failed to harmonise things. His boat was visibly sinking and Anthony let it be –much to my shock and that of the C.E.O –by keeping quite. It was a contemporary example of turning the other cheek.
Suddenly, Shobanjo, pointed his finger roughly at the boys and without blinking bayed, "Anthony, you’re fired."
I was a little sad that our neighbour, the modest Kenyan boy had to go but at the same time was glad that our boy Deox is still big in the game.
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u may not believe it but i think deox panicked that anthony was not taking charge of things as a leader because he was afraid that the zulus would lose and that anthony would exercise his prerogative as a leader to name him as the weakest link in the task which would mean that deox would end up facing shobanjo in the boardroom thus increasing his chances of getting fired. you may ask why anthony would do that and i say because u have said it before that in this game it is every man for himself and definately anthony would love to be the last east african standing. but of course we all know anthony didn't betray deox, thanks, arguably, to east african solidarity, so my hunch is wrong. but am following. u seeom to have high regard for deox but i think the guy to watch out for in this game is tunde!
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