Mummy, Festus is likely to be among them," Promise Okorodion casually told her mother upon learning about the migrant shipwreck in the coast of Italy.
Seeing that her statement prompted a worried change on her mother's countenance, Promise added: " Mummy, you are wasting your time over that senseless boy. It would even be good if he is one of them; that should at least be the reward for his stubbornness."
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