Gloria Kuma sat behind the centre table like all the others in the room. Just 33 years of age, she worked as a National Security cleaner at the office of the Vice-President on the recommendation of the Vice-President.
A semi-illiterate, she was the younger sister of an old time friend of Vice-President Gertrude Mensah. When she became Vice-President, the friend, Lucy Kumah, who sold plantain at the main market and from whom she always buys whenever she goes to the market came to congratulate her and pleaded with her to employ her younger sister, Gloria, as a cleaner in her office.
Lucy had d