In Bopa, a young seamstress apprentice stole 60,000 FCFA (roughly $100) from her employer in order to finance her own bride price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 18-year-old apprentice reportedly took the money in a bid to boost her chances with her fianc\u00e9, hoping to outshine his other wife. The incident occurred in the Tchanhou\u00e9 neighborhood of Bopa, in the Mono department in southern Benin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scheme quickly fell apart. She was exposed after confiding in a friend, who later informed the boss. When confronted, the apprentice admitted to taking the money and explained she had already used it to purchase items for the traditional ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both parties were summoned to the Bopa police station, where the man involved\u2014who may have been complicit or at least aware of the plan\u2014agreed to repay the full amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the incident, tensions have escalated between the apprentice and her biological family, who were shocked by her actions. She has since taken refuge with her in-laws in Gantitomey, according to local media outlet L\u2019Investigateur<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Bopa, a young seamstress apprentice stole 60,000 FCFA (roughly $100) from her employer in order to finance her own bride price. The 18-year-old apprentice reportedly took the money in a bid to boost her chances with her fianc\u00e9, hoping to outshine his other wife. The incident occurred in the Tchanhou\u00e9 neighborhood of Bopa, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":158020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-weird-news","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528513,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528463\/revisions\/528513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528463"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528463"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}