thesicilian:
For seven years that he served diligently, he wasn't a thief. Now that it is time for him to reap the benefits of his labour, he has suddenly become labelled as a thief. Some people are just plain wicked.

Nwaboi apprenticeship is evil, it's raising monsters ready to do anything for money. Throughout those years, the boy (if he's not sincere) and his "master" would always be working on outsmarting each other.

Even if you choose to remain "honest" as a boy, they'd push you to do things you'd normally never do. These useless "masters" might have children older than you but any slightest mistake you make, they crucify you in the public as if every human is stainless like Jesus Christ.

And if you're wondering how I know all these, I'm a victim of that barbaric apprenticeship that has produced many "millionaires". Foolish people give births to countless children and drive them to that shít to suffer, whatever happened to learning a skill or something?

I'm not against it but it's dying a natural death anyway, since they've refused to modernize it the "Igbo" way. I'm very sure if Europeans owned good tradition like this, they would work on it in such a way that others would copy from them.