Based on the novel The Lekki Headmaster, what unethical act did Mr. Nku engage in before relocating abroad?

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In The Lekki Headmaster, Mr. Nku is a staff member of Stardom Schools who exploited the school's cooperative society before emigrating. He took a loan of N2 million from the cooperative and then relocated abroad just two days later, effectively absconding with the funds. Because cooperative loans are repaid through monthly salary deductions, leaving the country and the job meant the money could not be recovered through the normal repayment mechanism.

This act is described as unethical because Mr. Nku appears to have borrowed the money with the premeditated intention of never repaying it. He used a legitimate financial channel (the cooperative) for a dishonest purpose: funding his emigration at the expense of his colleagues, whose contributions make up the cooperative's pool.

The other options do not match the narrative. Mr. Nku did not sell school property, steal directly from the school treasury, or falsify visa documents. His specific wrongdoing was the cooperative loan he took and then fled from, which ties into the novel's broader theme of how the desperation to relocate abroad (the "japa" phenomenon) drives people to unethical choices.