tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45285131765034365872024-03-19T01:44:22.969-07:00Senorita the Lagos ChickA girl comes to the famous city of Lagos, without a certificate, a falsified name and an unbelievable character. Let's see how she'll turn out eventually.Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-1217631402887008382014-08-04T09:07:00.001-07:002014-08-04T09:13:12.224-07:00Relocation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm pleased to inform you that Senorita the Lagos Chick has been moved to Adaezewrites.com</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I have placed my stories together in one site, so for the next post on Senorita the Lagos Chick which will be on Wednesday, please go to the new site, adaezewrites.com</span><br />
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<br />Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-36967141431831861112014-07-30T09:13:00.000-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.348-07:00Revolution + Senorita's Fall!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am excited to say that in no time, my new site adaezewrites.com will be launched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">adaezewrites.com boasts of an unstoppable flow of stories that will keep you at the edge of your seats all day. For this new site, each day will have a new post on different stories. I am launching this site so that all my works can be merged together as one. With this site, everyone can enjoy their favourite stories at just the click of a button. On the picture below is a preview of my header. Hopefully, soon, you will be directed to adaezewrites.com for all your lovely stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There will be a Home page with all the posts of the day, the life of a very funky naija teenager which I have changed to Life of funky naija teens, Frank Tuesday which I introduced recently, Senorita the Lagos chick, Reviews, and finally, Wife Material, a new addition to my weekly stories. I have separated each to suit the five working days of the week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mondays: Expect the post for Life of Funky Naija Teens( </span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 16px;">which has all the stories of your favourite teens.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesdays: Get your dose of Senorita The Lagos Chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thursdays: Reviews (w</span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 16px;">hich is a new section of products, sponsored or reviewed by</span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 16px;"> me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fridays: Will have my newest and most exciting addition,Wife Material ( It's a surprise package...click and see) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the side bar will have a 'Book of The Week Section' where I'll place my favourite book of the week. Either chosen by me or by you the reader (I'm doing this to support Nigerian/African young authors who would like to use my blog as a platform to advertise their books.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I hope you enjoy my new site and everything that I added. Remember that I couldn't have done this without your suggestions, help, prayers, support and your views. I am so grateful to each one of you for reading and commenting and I hope that this new change makes you as happy as it has made me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank You for reading my stories and I pray that God will bless and water your paths with so much success. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“She has fainted, revive her
quick!” I heard one of the girls say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shouted another of the girls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Madame was trying hard to keep
her cool, I could tell that she was pacing around the sitting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Madame, what do we do? She’s
not getting up.” Said Chi, <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">who had taken care of me these past few days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We cannot lose another recruit…No
way! I have inflicted Fola with madness by breaking our cord but losing this
one in the process, no way!” Madame shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">They brought water and poured
it on me and I held my breath. Thanks to the swimming </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">exercises</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> I had taken in
my village, I didn’t move a muscle when they poured the chilled water on me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“She </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">isn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> responding …” Cried
Chi <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I felt sorry for her, she really sounded pained but I had
made up my mind not to wake up. I saw what happened to Fola and I would not let
myself enter a bigger fry pan than I’m used to. I know that the money swayed me
at first and if I had a chance, I’ll go to the strong room and cart away with
the bundles but I have to stay still, till I get the chance to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Madame, why don’t we take her
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“No way! I won’t do that…she
can't be tied back to me, the police are searching for me as it seems and
everything that I have built. Sending her to the hospital will only have her
confess to everyone who cares to hear about what </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">went</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> on here. I had the woman who brought her here, killed and after what happened to Fola, I don’t think I
want her out of our sight.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I remembered Awero and
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wait…I just heard her sigh…is
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I heard nothing ooo…” Said
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I heard her sigh…I can swear
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They were all silent for a
while and I could not decipher what they were doing since my eyes were closed. I
was tempted to open my eyes a little to see what they were doing but if I did,
they would catch me. Later, I heard whispers and movements then unexpectedly, I was lifted up
from the floor, I almost sucked in a breath but held myself . Suddenly, I heard Madame’s voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Take her to the nearest hospital and send me feedback.” Madame said
with a very queer concern in her voice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A door opened and I was carried
outside, I could feel the wind caress my cheek and the
warm sunlight that bathed my skin. I instantly knew that I needed to be outside
again, free and exploring the Lagos life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I almost applauded myself at
this juncture, I relaxed and almost smiled at my cleverness. The hands that
carried me suddenly placed me down on the ground. Then I heard their voices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Let us go into the house and
get the keys to the bus.” Said one of them, it was a man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Aha…why didn’t you bring out
the key? Which of the buses are we taking? We have to take her to the hospital
soon or something else might happen to her.” Said another male voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Let's go into the house together and get the key." Said the first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Is that a good idea?" Asked the second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"What can an almost dead girl do? Abegi...let's go." Said the first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I heard their footsteps as they
left me alone. My heart beat so fast that suddenly I opened one eye and then
the next. There was no one around so I quietly and carefully turned my neck,
there was no one in sight. Jumping up from the ground as though my life
depended on it, I contemplated on the next step to take. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They had fallen for my
faint stunt and I had to leave the house immediately. It was my first time
standing in Madame’s compound in the day time, the last time, I was with Awero and it was
during night time. I had no trouble finding the gate and I ran towards it and
even though there was no security at the gate, it was locked. I looked up at the
fence, it was very tall but I was an expert in scaling and in no time, I had
found myself at the top of the walls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That was when the alarm rung!
The loud shrill of the alarm could wake the dead and I was too shocked for
words. Suddenly, Madame, her bodyguards and the girls ran out of the house and
hurried towards me. Fear gripped me like a padlock, I turned to the other side
and saw just at the ground below the fence, three dogs barking at me with ferocity. I didn’t know
what to do. Madame and the girls had reached the fence and they were all
laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You thought you could fool us
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“There’s no turning back, you
either fall in or fall out and you know the consequences…” Said Chi in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You little liar! I have never
seen a girl with so much stupidity in my life but I guess I’m the more stupid one of
the both of us. I still want you in my team. This is a residential area and
even though a lot of people have gone to work, no one will notice you. Everyone
will think that you’re a thief. I can’t believe you almost tricked me if not
for Chi’s observation when she heard you sigh. You either get in here or out!And when you get out, those blood thirsty hounds will tear you to shreds.” Shouted
Madame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stared at them, and turned
back to look at the dogs that were barking loudly and baring ugly sharp teeth. Madame had indeed spoken the
truth, not one neighbour peeped out of their gate, the area was very peaceful and
quiet. </span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I was stuck, I </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">couldn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> fall either left or right! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Early the next day, I was taken to a very large sitting
room and for the first time in my life I was staring at more than fifty
beautiful ladies. My mouth hung agape as they tried hard not to look at me, I
didn't really know what was going on, all I knew was, I had to join these
ladies, even if it was the last thing I ever did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The door to the on of the rooms opened and two ladies walked
out followed by Fola who was striped naked and who had her hands bound in a
thick rope. She stared at the ground careful not to look at anyone and I sensed
her fear, today was her judgement day. Another door opened and Madame stepped
out in an all white outfit. She looked like a queen and I instantly became
afraid as well, I really didn't understand what I had gotten Fola into.
Immediately Madame stepped out, all the ladies fell to the ground in prostrate,
it was as though she really was queen of their world, I too fell in prostrate
as well, I did as they did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fola was pushed to the middle of the circle we had made and
she fell to the ground on her knees. Madame looked at her angrily and spoke;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"You have betrayed us...you have betrayed out
trust."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"I am sorry Madame. You have done so much for me and I
really enjoyed serving you but I didn't...I couldn't. I realized that the new
girl didn't understand what she was getting into that was why I had to try to
let her escape. If only I knew that she wasn't interested in leaving!"
Fola said quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"You know what comes with your actions...disgrace! All
your properties seized! You will be thrown out into the streets, naked as the
day you came." Madame shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Mercy Madame, please forgive me. My family have lived
the life of comfort for too long and I can't let anything destroy their
happiness. Whatever you ask, I will do. Kill me if you must but don't let your
anger burn my family especially my mother." Fola cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"I won't spill more blood on my hands, I am not
interested in killing you. You would have pulled off your plan unsuspectingly
if the girl Senorita didn't speak up or alert everyone to your deeds."
Madame said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as I heard my name, I felt obliged to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Madam...na God oo...I for run comot with am if not for
de money wey I see for inside room..." I started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Will you shut that dirty mouth of yours?" Madame
barked at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"My mouth? E nor dorty na...abi I brush am dis
morning." I continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other ladies look at me in shock, they wondered how i
could speak to Madame with no iota of fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Can someone slap this twart’s face?” Madame thundered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the ladies beside me hammered me with a resounding
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How you go slap me? Na wetin she talk you must to do? Who
you be sef?” I panted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Madame in question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We only brought you out here to testify, that’s all, and
not to talk when you’re not spoken to.”Madame said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You suppose happy say I dey talk…for my village pesin nor
dey hia my voice. Na so I go just quiet like sheep.” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Madame rolled her eyes in exasperation and continued
speaking to Fola, ignoring me completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“If you had a problem with a customer, all you had to do was
inform me and I’ll take care of it. You </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">shouldn't</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> have told Chi about it and
plotted to take my new recruit from me. For this, I am cutting your ties from
this sisterhood for good.” Said Madame who brought out a scissors from her
pocket and walked up to Fola. Taking Fola’s hands in her hand, she cut loose
the ropes that bound her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In that instant, Fola fell to the floor in a heap and after
a while, stood up, her eyes looked glazed and spittle rolled down the sides of
her mouth. Fola suddenly shrieked in laughter and ran round the room, she had run mad.
Some guards walked in at that point and took her away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There was complete silence as everyone shivered in fear, ‘how
did Madame do that?’ I thought to myself. Immediately I started shaking like a
leaf and felt sweat trickle down my spine. Madame turned to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“This is the beginning and the end of your journey.
Disappoint me and get the treatment of a dog, impress me and get everything you
want, cars, houses, luxury, gifts…everything. Anyone else that goes behind my
back after taking the oath will run mad in the streets of Lagos till she’s
dead. Do I make myself clear?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Yes Madame.” Everyone replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Turning to the two girls who had brought in Fola into the
room, she said;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Follow up on my lawyer, have him prepare to confiscate Fola’s
properties. Her family must be out on the streets by noon tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“As for the new girl, Senorita, get her prepared for the
oath. She joins us officially today.”
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words left her mouth, I fell to the ground in a dead faint. </span>Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-86978100963382152882014-07-22T08:02:00.001-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.387-07:00Frank Tuesday- Our Gifts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just yesterday, after church, I saw a proud mother introducing her little son to a friend as her 'future lawyer'. It was cute, and I was impressed that she could dream 'big' for her son yet, something else struck me. Why was she planning his future for him at such an early stage? The boy shouldn't be more than two or three yet his mother already knew what she wanted him to be in the future. My mind zeroed in on many parents I have met and I realized that some parents are the ones who make choices for their kids and vice versa. Let's look into Chinenye's rants with Timilehin at the assembly ground in the just concluded episode of 'Ruined' (Just In case you missed it: http://lifeofaveryfunkynaijateenager.blogspot.com/2014/07/ruined.html/ )<br />
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Chinenye has a talent or would I call it a gift, which is, to make clothes but her parents feel that being an Economist is better. Don't get me wrong, every parent wants the best for their child but when their 'so called' best is killing the child's dreams or gift, then they have to stop. I've seen instances of parents relieving their dreams in their children or threatening to stop paying their kids school fees all because they are not studying the courses of their choice.<br />
I could remember that while growing up, I was quite the rambunctious one. I drew all over the place, painted a lot and wrote cartoons in papers and tore pieces of papers. My room was filled on a daily basis with short stories and cartoon drawings, all done by me. Even after my parents begged me to stop littering the house with my write-ups and pieces of paper, I never stopped, I wanted to but I couldn't, it's how I was created. Even in school, while the teacher would be teaching, I'll turn to the back of my book and draw cartoons or write short stories. Along the line, my mom discovered that I was really good at writing and encouraged me, my parents spurred my gift and here I am today.<br />
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Surprisingly, when I grew older, I would write stories and place them in my locker in school and whenever someone read it and asked me if I was the one, I felt too ashamed to say that I wrote it. Even when my teacher in school gave me a zero score in an essay homework because she believed I wasn't brilliant enough to write an exceptional essay. I actually thought she was right till my mom paid a visit to the school and you know what that means...lol.<br />
In summary, life isn't the way it used to be back in the days. When kids sang career songs and aspired to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants e.t.c. Now, things have changed, everyone has a gift or even multiple gifts and no one should kill the talent of his or her child with their cravings or desires.<br />
I do hope Chinenye is given a chance to do what she loves, even though I'm not going to write further on her story. Fashion is big in Nigeria now and with the likes of Mai Atafo, Lanre Da Silva, Jewel by Lisa, Iconic Invanity, Okunoren Twins, the list goes on, there's real money to be made and most of all, satisfaction. After all, your'e doing what you are 'gifted' to do.<br />
I feel that the mother in my first story felt it's her duty to say what she wants her son to be 'anyway, he's after all, her son' but wouldn't it be nice to see parents watch their children closely and see what they are really good at?<br />
I'll leave it at that...<br />
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Thanks for reading and sit tight for Senorita's escapade tomorrow.<br />
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Note: There's good news, I'll be launching a site soon and this means that all my blogs will be merged together (Thanks to Fab Melody for the wonderful suggestion). This means that I'll be introducing new series with more exciting episodes. Thank you all for your comments and views, you guys are the reason, I'm still writing. God bless you.<br />
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I know no one is expecting a post from me today but...well..here's one. I've decided to start a '<span style="color: blue;">Frank Tuesday</span>' which is practically, writing about everything. From myself to what I do, products I use, products I think you should try out, events, books, movies and many more.<br />
Today, I'll talk about myself and how I coped with the nasty pimples that invaded my face-space a few months ago.<br />
I am light skinned and have an oily face which is really not a good thing. My skin is dry and my face is badly oily that even after using a face wash, I can still feel oils pushing through to my skin.<br />
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So, about two months ago, I had this epic spots breakthrough on my face...when I say spots, I mean black, red and what have you. Now, I really had to fight this spot because really, it was turning my face into a war zone. I called my friend who has incredible skin and asked her what to use and she went to town on loads of stuff.<br />
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"Use Dudu Osun soap on your face, don't pop your pimps, mix epiderm and cortisone every night, rub on your face and your spots will disappear."<br />
I was so excited and raided the stores, looking for all she told me to buy. I bought them quickly and followed her regimen. 'For where?' I seemed to grow more spots. Did I add that she told me not to pop the pimple?<br />
I continued this for a month and my face turned Badoooo on me, I mean, I had like huge spots, irritation and this big ...I don't know what to call it...on my face till date.<br />
I picked up the phone, called my friend and bawled, like really bawled my eyes out to her and she was like, "that's what I use and I'm sure you're not doing it the proper way or maybe your skin is super sensitive." We sha... moved on and chatted on other stuff like her new hair regimen (she's growing dreads) and her new job (she's a big-time make-up artist).<br />
So just last week, I got to work really early and you know how it is when you rush out of bed at 5am and have your bath then rush off to the car then zoom. So I got to work at about seven ish and decided to make up. I almost threw myself a pity party! My face was a mess.<br />
Throwing all caution to the wind, I started popping all those nasty pimples, I popped and popped and cringed when I saw the hideous stuff crawling out of my face. When I was done, I took a shawl, hid my face in it and minded my business (I didn't want to entertain 'Ah...Ada what's up with the face?) question.<br />
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<b>Now to the main story and how I got rid of the useless pimples and spots</b>.<br />
Over the weekend, I steamed my face with hot water: (After boiling water, pour into a bowl, place in a towel and gently dab your face. It's hot ooo...so be careful)<br />
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After that, I wore a pair of clean socks over my hands and popped the life out of the pimples on my face.<br />
When I was done, I washed my face and used my newest potion 'Dr Miracle Acne Wash'<br />
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and waited for about thirty minutes then I washed off. After this, I scrubbed my face and washed off again then went back to my mirror to see what's up.<br />
My face was remarkably clear. I hope I keep this up tho...<br />
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Frosh face...well, almost!</div>
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Note: This was the remedy that worked for my face. My friend's remedy didn't work on mine because I kinda realized that we have different skin types.<br />
Thanks for reading and please say if you like the 'Frank Tuesday' section. I would have created another blog for it but, my blogs are getting too much and soon, blogger would start complaining.<br />
I'm also planning on adding new sections during the week, something that would maybe keep the blog busy till I post new episodes of the 'Funky Naija Teenager and Senorita the Lagos Chick.' I'd also appreciate suggestions for new sections.<br />
*Do you have any pimple story? Please share with us. Thank you.*<br />
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<i>God bless...</i><br />
<i>xoxo Ada...</i>Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-44087944047744007712014-07-14T02:48:00.001-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.357-07:00In Or Not?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was sound asleep when I heard
the door open and someone sneak into the room. I felt a hand clamp my mouth
shut and I opened my eyes wide but couldn’t see anything because the room was
dark. However, I felt someone close to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shhh…it’s me. I couldn’t
sleep…I had to do right by my conscience.” A female voice which I recognized as
Fola’s whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmm…” I moaned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I will remove my hand from
your mouth but you have to promise me not to scream. I am in enough trouble as
it is, I do not want you to step into our shoes, it’s not the most comfortable
option.” Said Fola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I nodded, hardly understanding
the grammar she spoke but knowing that she wanted to help me escape as she had
said to Chi earlier in the day. She removed her hand from my mouth and I stood
up from the bed. My legs still ached from the pricks of the bottles which had
pierced my feet some weeks ago and I limped behind her as we left the room. I
realized that Madame’s house was so large by the time we had tiptoed through
different passage ways and had not still left the house. Fola placed her finger
on her lips and motioned that do not say a word and I nodded in compliance. We
had just crossed to another passage way when one of the doors to the numerous rooms
opened and Fola hurriedly opened a nearby room door and shoved me inside. I
landed in a large pile of bundles and I wondered what that was but since the
light was turned off, I didn’t know what it was. I heard voices coming from the
passage and I was able to hear what was said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fola…what are you doing up at
this time of the night? What are you doing in our section?” A female voice
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Tonia…I am so sorry my
footsteps woke you up. My phone has been misbehaving lately and the service has
been poor. I was looking for where to get better network.” Fola answered,
feigning a yawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay…these service providers
sha. But come ooo…so Madame let you hold on to a phone. She seized mine and
some of the girls when she found out that men were contacting us behind her
back.” The girl confided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Really? How come I did not
hear of that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Well…that’s why I don’t have a
phone now. But you know…Madame’s prices are too high. She charges these men a
whole lot for our services and they complain. She </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">doesn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> even let us spend
extra time with them, once our time is up, the guards take us away.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well, that hasn’t been my
case. Madame gave me permission to take anyone of her cars out of the compound
so, I have been doing her business on my watch.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Lucky you! Wow you’re a big
chic. I pray to be promoted to your level ooo. How’s your mom?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“She’s fine, I built her a
house in the village so, she’s there now.” Fola said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My eyes widened in shock. So Madame
has been enriching these girls lives and now, Fola didn’t want me to benefit
from it. Slowly I rose from the bundle and walked to the door, straining to
hear what was said. The room was too dark so using my hands I felt for the light socket, it was placed on the wall to my right. I located the switch and turned
on the light, the room was instantly flooded in brightness. I opened my mouth
in shock as I stared about the room. From the top of the walls to the bottom
were huge bundles of notes, ranging from foreign to Nigerian currency.
I clamped my mouth shut with my hands to stop myself from screaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So dis na wetin dis yeye gial
no want make I chop…chei people wicked sha ooo.” I whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I turn about again and stare at
the room in amazement, the money in the room was more than enough to reform my
village. I screamed aloud and pushing open the door, I run out of the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Words could not express the shocking expression on Fola and Tonia's face as they saw me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Chei…na so you wan chop leave
me abi? I go show you say, two fit play dis game.” I yell at Fola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"What are you talking about? Who are you?" Fola asked, acting as though she didn't know me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Who is she? What is she doing in our mini strong room? No one enters there." Tonia said, sounding more shocked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Ahhhh na dis Fola geh ooo...she waka come meet Chi for afternoon, she talk say she wan helep me escape. Na so she come carry me wen I dey sleep..." I say, pointing at Fola.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Fola...do you know this girl? What is she talking about?" Tonia asks in anger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">"No I don't...</span></span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I've</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">...never seen her in my life." Fola stammered.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"How does she know your name? You are in trouble...you are in deep shit!" Tonia declared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The doors to the rooms opened and different sizes of ladies flooded out to the corridor, some guards came as well and everyone looked more shocked than the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fola want carry me
comot from dis kain chopito. You don jam today…ya plan don enter voice mail…” I continue screaming at Fola and clapping my hands. “Help ooo….make
una come carry me ooo…I wan join una, if na dis kain money una dey make, I want
am ooo. Me wan build better house for my mama for village ooo.” I scream aloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fola knew her bubble had burst, immediately she tries to run but was caught by
the hefty thugs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I wan join una…abeg carry me
go take oath ooo…I wan swear! I must swear today!” I yell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I didn’t count the days, all I
knew was, at a certain point, I was dragged out of the tub of water, dried off, dressed in good clothes and had my short hair combed till I felt it would pull out of
its roots. A young girl Chijioke, was with me all the time as she fed me,
clothed me and made sure I was rested. Everything happened in a blur and
somehow, I didn’t understand myself anymore or my body changes, it felt like I
was being drugged or intoxicated. I smiled at every whim and stopped
protesting, instead I made myself feel at home. One day, as I was sound asleep
with only Chijioke as a companion, the door was pushed open quite roughly as
someone stumbled in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Chi…e don happen ooo.” The
voice cried, it belonged to a female.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shhhh…don’t speak pidgin…I
don’t want us getting into trouble. What happened?” Chi asked the girl in a
confused voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“That …that bastard…that good
for nothing Alhaji…he…he…” The girl started and choked in tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“What did he do to you? </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Didn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> you take a guard with you?” Chi asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I have been with that bastard
for over six months now so I felt I didn’t need the protection. I was wrong, he
is a pig…a goat…a buffalo…an idiot…God will punish him…” The girl continued
cursing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fola…calm down, and please
keep your voice down, the new recruit is asleep…don’t wake her up with your
noise.” Chi cautioned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Poor girl, she </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">doesn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> know
what she’s gotten herself into…how I wish I turned back the day my mother brought me here. We are suffering ooo…let’s stop deceiving ourselves. We are
high class prostitutes who are used by big men at will and …oh God!” The girl
started and broke down in tears.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chi ran to hold her in her
arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shhh…please don’t let Madame
get angry with me. Your noise is too much and even though I had the new recruit
drugged, she could wake up at anytime.” Chi said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In flinched at her words,
‘drugged?’ I said to myself, what did it mean? ‘Drugs na medicine na?’ I said
inwardly. Then, I instantly knew, all the medications I have been receiving,
the food, the drinks, everything had drugs laced in, all for me to stop causing a fuss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I want to take my life…I want
to die…I can’t continue this way…no way!” Fola stamped her foot on the ground
and made moan-like sounds in her throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Tell me, what did he do?
Please tell me…” Chi pleaded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“He…he.” Fola started but later
dragged Chi closer and whispered into her ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What?” Chi shouted,
disregarding the warning she had given Fola earlier about shouting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes…he did that and many more
to me…Chi, I cannot let another girl live this kind of life. I need to stop
this or else…” Fola continued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I can’t believe he did that! O
my God! Please go and tell Madame…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What? So that she’ll throw her
nose up in the air and tell me that she warned me never to go without an
escort? I admit that Madame helped relieve me from poverty but how much better
am I now that I’m here?” Fola said and referring to me, she said “Has she taken
the oath yet?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No… she hasn’t yet.” Chijoke answered quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Then she can actually leave
before things get worse for her. As soon as she takes the oath, it’s over, all
over!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“No way! Madame proposes to
send her to Italy. Look at her, she’s so pretty and she has the finest skin
even after living a ratchet life and all. Do you know she </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">murmurs</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> about the encounters she went through on the street in her sleep? I have never seen Madame so invested in
anyone like this girl. I practically eat, breathe and sleep with her, she is like
a mini Queen. Madame knows that this girl is on huge money bag. Big time!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">As I feigned sleep, my heart
pumped in fear. One thing is certain, whatever that Alhaji did to Fola was bad,
really bad and I </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">wasn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> ready to be a part of it or anything associated with
it. At that moment, I really wished my mother was a witch or possessed some
kind of supernatural powers to save me. Inwardly I screamed;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “Mama ehhhh…abeg join witchcraft make you come
carry me fly comot from hia ooo…dem wan use me do juju.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I paced about the room in quick
strides. “Today na today! How dem go lock a whole Senorita put for room?” I
said aloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The room was big and well
furnished, it was my first time of seeing such a big and beautiful bed in my
entire life and the adjacent room to it had a white large tub with taps attached to
it. The tub had a toilet seat close to it and I had no idea how it worked. I
paced for four hours and when the clock struck 2am, I was already
tired and hungry. I looked round the room in tears and sighed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At that moment, the key rattled
at the lock and the door opened. One of the men who had carried me in some hours earlier walked
into the room and not bothering to speak, he dragged me out of the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I protested weakly but the stab
of hunger in my stomach left me defenseless, I needed nourishment to carry on
with my plot to escape. I was pushed roughly and tossed into a small red room.
I call it red because apart from the fact that the light in the room was red,
there were red candles, red curtains, red floor tiles and even the walls were
painted red. Madame was seated cross-legged on the ground while two ladies
dressed in black stood beside her. The air was so warm and misty and I struggled
to adjust my eyes to see the people in the room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come closer.” Madame said to
me as her eyes remained closed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I turned and looked around in
panic, I couldn’t believe what was happening to me or why I was summoned.
Shakily, I sat squarely on the ground, I refused to move. The man that brought me in, left as quickly as he came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Bring her here.” Madame
ordered. The two girls walked up to me and pulled me closer to her, I raised my
voice to cry out but I heard an intangible sound leave my throat. ‘Was I jazzed?
Is Madame a ritualist? Am I about to be sacrificed?’ I kept asking myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“This is the initiation room…a
place where you swear to keep everything that is going to happen to you from
now on, a secret. Failure to do so will lead to your death.” Said Madame as her
eyes opened suddenly and she pierced me with an owl-like stare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin…” I whispered in a
confused tone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Madame gave me a sharp stare
and continued speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Your pubic hairs will be taken
and burnt at the altar of sacrifice.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Public?” I muttered, more
confused than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Now you will repeat these
words after me…I solemnly swear to hold my tongue whenever I am called upon to
talk about my organization. I will repeatedly say that it is an NGO
established to take care of less </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">privileged</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> women in the society.” Madam said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stared at her and didn’t respond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you deaf? Repeat after me…”
Madam raised her voice at me and repeated the words she had spoken earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I still didn’t reply, I wasn’t about
to be used as a pawn in anyone's game lest of all, Madame. Lagos is a free land for everyone, I had
no idea why I had been be taken captive against my will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Get the chains!” Madam
ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I stood up in fear and
hurriedly ran to the door of the room but it was locked. I screamed loudly as
the ladies advanced towards me like zombies, their hands held </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">portable</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> sized chains.
Surprise turned to disgust as slowly, they raised the chains high above their
heads and let it rain down on my body as they whipped me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The pain felt strange, I had
never been whipped with a chain before but for the first time in the past
five hours, I realized that this people meant business. The chains landed on my
body, intent on breaking my bones and I knew I had to convince them to stop or
they might kill me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“E don dooo…I go talk…I go
swear…abeg nor kee me…” I scream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Madame whistled slowly and the
girls stopped, each walking back to drop the chains. I wondered how the woman
was able to control everyone in the household like puppets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come here.” Madame ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I shakily walked towards her
and sat on the ground, right at my former position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Repeat after me…” Madame said
as she read out the long oath off the top of her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally when I thought the oath
would never end, Madame gave her last line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“And so, I am offering the
hairs from my body to the shrine, this binds me to the organization and its cause forever.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I gulped and tried to repeat
the words but couldn’t, I mean, I didn’t understand half of what she said but, I
knew deep down that the words held huge meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Repeat it!” Madame ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Errr…and so…I offering the
hair on ya body…” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hairs on what body? The hairs
on your body dammit!” Madame said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“De hairs on ya body.” I said
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you daft? Are you joking?
Do you think this is child’s play?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you dafting? Are you
joking? You think say na childs we dey do?” I replied. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Madame stood up in fury, she
paced around the room in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Keke…call the guards, tell
them to strip her naked and throw her into the empty room for three days. On
the third day, let’s see who she’s fooling around with.” Madame ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The lady rushed out of the room
and in two seconds, she came back into the room with two men, they hurriedly scooped
me up and took me out of the room. But not before I had given Madame a piece of
my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You think I dey fear you abi?
You wan join me for cult…my mama na witch…you never see de kain witchcraft wey
go put you for corner. Shege!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I screamed out loud as I was
carried into a dark room where I was stripped to my skin and tossed into a tub filled
with water. I screamed as the water touched my skin, it burnt the parts of my
body that had been whipped with the chains. Some drops of the water had touched
my mouth and I brought out my </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">tongue</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> to taste it, it was laden with salt. </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Hurriedly</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">, I scampered down the bath tub and jumped to the ground. I had no
idea of the sharp bottles scattered across the room so I cursed in my language
when my feet sank into sharp edges of glass. Quickly I placed them back in the
tub and cursed some more as the salt and water found its way into my cut flesh.
The room was pitch dark but I could feel the blood ooze out of the cuts in my
feet, I closed my eyes and wept </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">pitifully</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> while crouching in the small tub
filled with water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">"Chai...Senorita...wetin be dis? Abi na de Lagos Janet come so, na im you come? Lagos no easy ooo...Lagos na hardwork. I swear say, if I comot from dis place ehn, na village I dey go so...my mouth nor fit talk de kain thing wey I don see for Lagos. I nor fit shout... I nor fit die before my time reach!" I cried as I folded myself like a ball inside the tub.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I can’t describe every single detail and all that happened
to me after I saw Awero slump to the ground in the silence of death. All I
could think of was a quick way to leave the scene, I wanted to flee but had no clue what part of Lagos I was. I kept asking myself, 'who is this woman who stood powerfully before me? A woman who commanded respected with every </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">fiber</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> of her being. As soon as I looked up at the face
of the woman who stood before me, I felt fear and dread snake up my spine, this
woman, I thought, had no time for child’s play.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What is your name?” The woman asked me quietly. Her voice
sounded like a deathly whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I just kept starring at her as my stomach growled angrily in
protest as it heaved up another bout of coke from it’s depth and threatened to
spill it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Don’t you dare throw up again! What are you? A child?” The
woman warned me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stared at her in fear and the vomit which was formerly at
the tip of my throat found its way back into my stomach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What is your name?” The woman asked again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Se… my name na Senorita…” I heard a hoarse voice say, which
I recognized as mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Don’t you speak good English?” The woman asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I…dey try.” I replied meekly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman muttered irritably under her breath, pulling out
the bell from the pocket of jeans trouser she rung it. The girl who opened the door for me and
the 'now' late Awero stepped out from one of the rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Do you think she’s potential?” The woman asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Every girl is potential, Madame.” The girl answered meekly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“She can’t speak good English and I am tired of training
girls who after they are trained do not impress me. I spend lots of money
training them and after that, what do I get? Wasted time, money and efforts. This
girl can’t utter a sentence in good English.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I remember that my English was really bad when I came but
you helped brush me up.” The girl told the woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmm…” The woman murmured absent mindedly and kept staring
at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I looked at the two of them, the woman dressed like a modern day queen
and the younger girl dressed like someone I recognized from the short time I spent </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">in front</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> of the television set.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“You will take her to the room and help her get something
decent to wear. If she </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">wasn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> this pretty, I might have been tempted to send
her down the same path as her late friend.” The woman spoke quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My eyes widened in shock, I didn’t want to believe that she
just threatened to have had me killed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The girl nodded and beckoned to me to follow her but I was
having none of that, I shook my head vehemently and took a few steps backwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor dey follow you go anywhere lai lai….since Oga
landlord hause na so so waka waka I dey do. Abeg find transport give me make I dey
go my own.” I said to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman stared at me in shock, the girl looked at me in
warning but I decided to be stubborn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Please follow me…” The girl said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who dey follow you enter dia? You wan kee me abi? I nor fit
die like Awero ooo…I nor kukuma collect any money from una hand. Abeg free me
make I dey go joor.” I said sounding bolder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Call one of the men to take her in…and lest I forget, I am
not receiving any visitors today, please tell anyone that’s looking for me to
see me tomorrow.” The woman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin she dey yarn? Madam or wetin dem dey call you…abeg
find transport give me, I dey go.” I continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What did she just call me? How dare you?” The woman raised
her voice at me. She was obviously baffled at my outburst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don talk am say una nor serious for dis place…if una nor
get change for transport, talk am now. I sure say one pesin get one thousand
naira for hand, una fit give me, make I go find change.” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman stared at me sharply and in a high-pitched voice she
called out a name. The door opened in heavy thuds and two men hurried towards
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“See wahala oo…if pesin nor wan stay for place, na by force?”
I asked in wonder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The two men lifted me up like a sack of weightless grain, I struggled and fought hard but the men were really strong. They took me towards
the room that was at the far side of the sitting room, I screamed and lunged
for one of the men’s ears. Clamping my teeth hard on it, I sunk in on the flesh
with all my strength and pulled off skin. To my surprise, the man didn’t flinch.
My mouth was filled with his blood and I stared incredulously at the iron men
who held me captive in their arms. They had a far-away look in their eyes, a
look that was some-what </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">abnormal</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">. There and then, I knew that I was in deep
trouble. Throwing my head back, I screamed and said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Chai…Senorita your tori nor get part two!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The water splashed squarely on my face and I jumped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“See am…e still dey sleep…abeg gerrup joor, the fire don
off.” Screamed on of the women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stood on my feet and tried running out of the building but
the whole place was packed with people, both onlookers and the police. There wer still signs of smoke and people still held buckets in their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wia you dey go you dis anyhow gial? You think say dis na
playground?” Asked one of the policemen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I wan go my house…ooo” I cried loudly as I tried letting
myself out of the compound but was held back by some people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg make una carry am go hospital…e fit be say, de fire
don affect her brain.” Said one of the onlookers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Which kain hospital…it is now confirmed that this place is
a brothel aka ashewo joint so every lady who resides in this house must be arrested.
Atleast the fire has been doused so everyone can now return to their homes.”
Said one of the policemen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The man who held me in his grasp let me go and I fell to the
ground, all of a sudden, everywhere emptied as everyone left the scene including Awero
and the other ladies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ah! Where dem dey?” Asked one of the policemen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Dey run comot? Chai…dis for be how we for take catch dese
women ooo.” Another policeman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na only dis gial remain…wetin we go tell D.P.O?” Asked
another policeman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We fit tell am say, all de ashewo don comot for night paroles and na only dis
one remain for house.” Said the first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Good idea…oya, Akin, handcuff am, make we dey go station.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Immediately I sensed that I was about to be arrested, I began
to scream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Heeeeehhhh…I nor dey ooo…na today I waka come ooo.” I cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na you and who, waka come?” Asked a policeman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na only me.” I replied, tears staining my cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You nor suppose talk anything till you reach station so shut
up!” Said one of the policemen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Chai…if I know, I for just lie down for ground, faint dey
goo…” I cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The policemen dragged me outside and threw me into their
van. As we left the scene, I saw Awero peep from the side of one of the houses
and before I could scream and alert the police to her, she had disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">****<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was left at the cell for three days, no one asked of me
and no one cared for me, all I was given to eat was some food and water. On the
third day, one of the policemen walked up to my cell and whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Pesin don pay for ya release…just </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">cooperate</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">…nor do like say I
don tell you anything or oga fit suspect. By eight for night, I go open dis
gate, make you comot.” Said the policeman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh…oga…taink you…God bless you sir.” I said, as I knelt
down in thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The woman that I shared the prison cell with, didn’t even
flinch, she just sat down like a stone and kept staring at the wall. I heard
that her husband locked her up because he caught her with another man but lied
to the police that she stole his international passport. The lady </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">wasn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> much of a talker but whenever her family members came to pay her a visit, her lips
moved fast as she told her story, over and over again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The police officer left the cell and walked back to his duty
post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You get wia you go fit go?” Asked the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was shocked, I turned to look at her and was more surprised
because she was staring intently at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I hear ya case for police mouth I even hear when you dey shout say, you nor be ashewo.” The woman said
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“God go bless you ma...na one chance I enter for dem Ashewo hand ooo.” I said, sounding relieved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Go number 17 Ajia street…you go see my pikin Rita, tell am say na her mama friend you be. Young girl like you nor fit waka anyhow for nite... atleast, make you slip till morning reach.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I fall on my knee before her and thank her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Auntie e go better for ya generation...all ya pikin go prosper..." I continued showering blessings on her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman nodded quietly and kept staring at the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">****<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That night I was released and as soon as the night air
kissed my face, I felt hands grab me. I yelped and struggled but was hushed by
a familiar voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Shhh….na me Awero.” Said the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What? Awero…ahhh…Awero…wetin una do me nor good ooo…” I
begin to cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg shat ya mouth.” Awero snapped. “Follow me, I wan carry
you go my friend house.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Ahh…I get place wia I dey goo…I wan go number 17….” I
started but was cut short by a slap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You wan craze? Who pay for ya release? Na number 17?” Awero
demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I shook my head in fear. She tugged at my hand and I hurriedly
followed her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was very late when we reached Awero’s friend’s house, we
had to board a bus, take a bike and walk quite a mile because the bike rider
refused to go further into the rough street. By the time we reached the house, I
was fagged out. Awero knocked at the door and a very beautiful young lady
opened the door for us, her dress was clingy and her lashes where so long it took me a lot of effort to see her eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What’s the password.” The girl asked Awero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Thunder and Fire.” Awero whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We were ushered into a small sitting room and offered
drinks. Immediately I saw the bottles of drinks on the stool the hunger I felt
from the prison surfaced and I quickly grabbed one bottle of coke and corking
it with my teeth, I spat out the cork and tipped the contents down my throat.
By the time I finished the third bottle, I was belching louder than a pig.
Awero ignored me throughout and was instead looking at the door leading to the
inside of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suddenly the door opened and a very slim woman walked into
the sitting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmmm…you were the one sent by Jasmine right?” The lady
asked Awero in a light voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes ma…na me be Jasmine friend…she talk say…” Awero
continued but the woman held up her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Is this the girl? Is she the one?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes na she…look am well, na fine girl I carry come so…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who is she to you?” The woman asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na one girl wey come our place for ashewo joint, she be wan
join us but I tell am say, dat place nor fit am at all.” Awero said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stared at Awero incredulously as she spoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmmm…how much do you want?” The woman asked Awero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Madam…” Awero hailed, flashing her teeth, two of her teeth
had broken, I hadn't noticed. “Na small money…scratch my back, I scratch ya own…give me two
hundred…na virgin I bring come ya dormot ooo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’ll give you one hundred…” The woman said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Awero shook her head. “Madam lai lai…I nor fit remove one
kobo…na cost price we dey.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you new to this business?” The woman asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes…na my first time but I fit bring you correct girls….dis
one wey dey here don too suffer if not ehn, I fit no even sell am to you for
five hundred thousand.” Awero boasted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’ll give you one twenty…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Awero stood up to leave. “Madam…talk like pesin abeg…see ya fine house…abi you nor want make I build my own? Scratch my back make I scratch ya own…I nor fit comot kobo from cost
price.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman rang a bell and a lady came out of the room, she
whispered something to her and the lady went back into the room and came out
again carrying a bundle of notes. She handed it to Awero who greedily grabbed
the money and wetting the tip of her fingers with spittle, she proceeded to
count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Awero smiled as soon as she finished counting the money and
turned to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Tank you ma…I go dey bring you plenty correct gials…” Awero
said as she headed towards the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The woman rung the bell again and one hefty man walked out
of the room and turning to the woman, he nodded while the woman tilted her head </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">side ward</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Awero smiled and happily made her way to the door but gasped as the
man walked up to her, grabbed her by the neck till he strangled her. I stood and stared in shock
as a limp Awero fell to the ground and the two hundred thousand naira was
retrieved from her palms and taken away by the young lady. The man swung a
lifeless Awero over his shoulder and stormed out of the house. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I opened my mouth and threw up all the contents of the coke
which I had drunk earlier on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was the screams that woke me up, I quickly hustled out of
bed and ran to the door of the room which I was staying. The air was humid and
the night was dark, what had happened? I kept asking myself. As I struggled to
break open the door which was ofcourse, locked, I couldn’t help but wonder at
how I had found myself in yet another mess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…na so so troubu dey find you…” I whispered to
myself as I shoved the door with all my might yet it wouldn’t budge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Den don pour fire for our dormot ooo…” Screamed on of the
ladies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Agatha! Kemi! Oya quick…run go iyabo house, carry water
come.” Awero issued orders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I flattened my palms on the door of the room, getting out
was quite impossible and I could feel the smoke filter into the room from the
space underneath the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Helep me ooo….na Senorita dey for inside ooo…” I cried in
plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No one seemed to hear me, all I could hear was the noises
coming from the ladies as they hustled their belongings out of their rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Chei…my phone ooo…na blackberry bold 5 be dat ooo…”
Screamed one of the ladies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I dey go my house…abeg una helep me find my shirt? I nor
fit enter house with only singlet.” Said a male voice which I have not heard
before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Serious? So na dis kain talk you fit talk shebi? Na after
our house don burn finish…na den you go see ya shirt. Abeg comot for hia
jare…stupid man. Ashewo!” Said one of the ladies to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na my fault say una house dey burn? Nor be to do I come do?
Na to helep una pour water for house?” Screamed the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg who carry dis yeye man come? From today, if you wan
totori with woman, abeg carry yaself dey go ya house…abi you get wife.” Said
another lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At this point, I was already choking, my eyes could hardly
open because of the burning smoke which had found its way into my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Helep me!” I cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suddenly, I felt the wave of nostalgia as I saw in my mind’s
eye, my hometown, my mother and my brothers. It seemed as though time had
played a huge trick on me because I was suddenly a young child again, running
and playing carefree around my mother’s hut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I heard my name…my native name and I knew my mother was
calling out to me. I tried to run to her but was held back by firm hands, it
was the hands of my greedy neighbor Callistus who couldn’t get his hands off
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I wan go…” I tried to free myself from his grasp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Make I touch you once more and after dat one, you fit
comot.” He whispered raspy as he clung onto my young body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No…I nor want make my mama know say I dey do dis kain thing…she
don even dey ask me if I don know man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“And wetin you come tell am?” He asked me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I tell am say…I never know man at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You be good girl…I know say ehn…when you grow, you go fine
sortee I no go fit reach you na why I begin to dey touch you since you knack
seven years. I happy say I be ya first lover.” He whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abegi make I go answer my mama… I go see you for night.” I
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I felt as though I was floating and again, like magic I saw
myself beside the village stream, Callistus and Bone Joe, were wrestling at the
stream but I was unable to stop dem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na my gial she be…na me introduce am to totori man…”
Callistus said through gritted teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Old man like you…dem suppose lock you for prision.” Bone
Joe spat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I closed my eyes in horror as I watched fist break teeth and
blood splatters on the ground as they kept wrestling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Even now as I sank to the ground, I welcomed the strong
smell of the smoke and enjoyed the blurry sight of soft fire which had engulfed
the ratchet looking curtains on the wall. I heard the loud voices from the
ladies outside and the heavy bang on the door as someone struggled to push it
open.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor know say pesin dey dia again ooo…chei…na dat small
girl wey waka come hia yesterday ooo…” Moaned Awero faintly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At that point I wasn’t feeling the parts of my body anymore
and quietly I slipped into unconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I walk down the street determined to put the past solidly
behind me. I felt betrayed, ‘how could doctor Gerald do this to me? And oga landlord, after his promises of marriage?’ I asked
myself as I saunter down the street. I had walked for over two hours when from
nowhere, heavy drops of rain began to fall, I quickly took </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">shelter</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> at a nearby stall
and from the looks of the heavy dressed women in the stall, I knew I quickly
needed to take permission.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pushing the light curtain which barricaded the interior of the stall from view, I peeked into the stall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Good aftun sisters…abeg I fit stand hia till rain stop?” I
asked one of the ladies, whose make-up almost ran down her face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You see any pesin wey dey stand for dis stall? Abi na you
build am?” The lady asked me as she stepped out of the stall till she was standing close to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I carefully look around me and notice that I was the only
one taking shade at the stall, all the other pedestrians stood far away from
the stall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who be dis chick?” Asked a light skinned lady who came out to join her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The two ladies were very </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">skimpy</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> dressed and had strong scents of perfume on them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor know de kain rat wey enter our stall ooo…abi na maggi
we dey sell?” Another busty lady emerged from the stall and towered over me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I fall to my kneels in a plea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Sister…madam abeg nor vex…I go comot…abeg nor vex…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Kneel down for dia…born fool.” Shouted the
busty lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na wia you from come? Wia you dey go?” Asked the first lady
I encountered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na my husband pursue me from house…” I say quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hehhehehe…im catch you for on top man?” Another lady asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No…ahhh… I nor be ashewo ooo.” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin you talk? You nor be wetin?” Screamed the busty lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I talk say…I nor be ashewo…” I continue but was cut short
by a slap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“See dis mumu ooo…na wia you dey? Na wetin dem dey call dis
joint?” The fair lady asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Dis na ‘Baby Oku spot’ alias ashewo joint…abi you nor dey
dis area?” Asked another lady who had emerged from the stall and whose hips seemed to stretch on forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhhh….” I scream and clamp my mouth shut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Why you dey shout? You be JJC? Na wia you from come?” Asked
the busty lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I be Senorita…” I said with a shaky voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You be wetin? Senorat?” Asked the busty lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita!” I echo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“See fine name wey dis gial give herself. Come…come first,
na ya mama give you dat name?” Asked the fair lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I nod and get a slap on the head, my ears were already ringing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh…Awero, Olopa dey come ooo…abeg make we sharp hustle
dis gial inside…” Said the first woman I spoke to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was dragged into the stall with scattered tables and
chairs, I walked over to sit on one chair when the chair was dragged away and I
was forced to kneel on the ground. One of the women collected my small bag and
sniffed through its contents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Idiat…who send you come? Talk now or we go dash you give police.”
Said the fair lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Auntie I beg.” I sob.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shat up…I resemble ya mama sister? Or na for yellow levels?
Abeg hold ya own dia.” The fair lady spat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We fit use dis gial do our small waka ooo…dat man wey get
biar biar wey me and am do for yesterday nor give me shi shi. I fit send dis gial
make she go collect my money from am.” Said one of the ladies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We must first see say, dis gial nor be spy…because if she
be spy ehn…our own don finish for Lagos ooo.” Said the busty lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Madam,…I nor be spy…I swear.” I said as I touched the
ground with the tip of my finger and touched my tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who give you permission to speak? Hold ya lips!” Shouted
the busty lady whose name I learnt was Awero and who obviously headed their leader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I held my lips and stared at them with pleading eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You be virgin?” Asked the busty woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I nodded and then after second thoughts, I shook my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Which one you be, virgin or not?” Asked the busty woman
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I be virgin…ma.” I reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So man never touch you.” The busty lady added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ha…I don get plenty man friend…dem dey touch me na…I for
marry…” I was cut short with a quick slap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I ask you question if you be virgin or not, you talk say
you be virgin. Now you come dey yarn rubbish.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I think say virgin na wen person don mature finish…” I
reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The women fell down in heaps of laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Idiat!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Born fool.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“She-goat”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They all rained insults at me. Suddenly, everywhere fell
silent as through the thin curtain at the entrance of the stall, we could see
the policeman walk towards us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Quick! Hustle am go inside…make I settle olopa.” Whispered
Awero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was quickly taken to the back of the stall where I saw
that there were a scattering of rooms. Immediately I got in, the door was shut behind
me and latched, I was left there alone. Quietly I walked to the bed in the room
and lay down till sleep claimed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-72619360974943967872014-05-27T03:49:00.001-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.376-07:00Conquered!
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I sat down at the kitchen watching the hot water boil but
really my eyes weren’t on it. My gaze was focused on the kettle but my
thoughts…were complicated. Since Dr. Gerald or Segun as his family knew him, came into this house, I hadn’t had
peace. I stopped sleeping well and even started moping around as one who was
not willing to live. Deep down I knew I loved Segun but had it not been for his
father, I wouldn’t have found myself a roof after Solo kicked me out. I snapped
out of my reverie when the gas was turned off instantly and I looked up to see
Iya Segun glaring down at me in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abi you wan burn house? Dis water don boil teh teh!” She
says as she snaps her fingers to show me how long it had boiled.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Mtcheew….” I hiss and proceed to remove the kettle from the
burner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“So…na my tank you be dat abi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg comot for my front…” I say rudely as I try to reach
oga landlord’s water flask which stood on the counter behind Iya Segun.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come carry am na…since you nor fit talk ‘tank u’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Comot for my front ooo…if I use hand beat you ehn…pesin no
go fit hold me ooo.” I warn.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ehhh…see dis small gial wey I fit born…I don die ooo.”
Screamed Iya Segun as she fell to the ground screaming hysterically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The house woke up to her screams and immediately, I realized
what she was doing. She was trying to rouse her son Segun. I knew I was in a
fix, if I had threatened her when Segun was not in the house, it would have
been a different ball game, but now that Segun was around…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Segun burst into the kitchen in confusion,. He had heard his
mother’s screams and wanted to know what was wrong. I stood at the kitchen
innocently staring at Iya Segun, she was rolling on the ground and moaning.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Mum is everything alright?” Segun asked his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na dis gial ooo…Senorita!” Iya Segun exclaimed as she
pointed at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Segun turned to me questioningly and I shrugged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“What happened here? Senorita!” Segun demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor do am anything.” I reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“She push me for ground ooo.” Iya Segun screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I can’t take this nonsense anymore…I am fully aware that
I’m from a polygamous home but I wouldn’t tolerate a mad house. I have to speak
to my dad about this.” Segun said exasperated and walked out of the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as he walked out, Iya Segun gets up from the ground,
wipes away the crocodile tears from her eyes with the edge of her wrapper and
laughs hysterically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ya own don finish …my son go carry you comot from dis
house today.” Iya Segun laughed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I hurriedly brush past her and stormed out of the kitchen as
I headed to my future husband’s room. From the door I could hear the rapid
exchange of words between oga landlord and Segun. Segun kept saying repeatedly;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita has to leave! You could pick any other woman but
not that girl… I’m not supposed to say this but… I was her doctor and I'm privy to her medical record and she’s a home
wrecker! Do you know how many homes she’s been to apart from this house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Oga landlord mumbled some incorrigible words that I couldn’t
hear. I tried opening the door to the room but it was locked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oga landlord…sugar…” I call out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Stay out of this Senorita!” Segun shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I sniff back the tears that had begun falling from my eyes
and wait paitently at the door. After a while, the two men emerge. Segun had a
smug look of satisfaction on his face while oga landlord looked like he had
just been dealt a heavy blow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…you have to go!” Oga landlord said without
emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I opened my mouth in shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes…you have to go but we won’t be sending you into the
streets, I would get you an accommodation somewhere far from here and you’ll
also be given some money to start up a business for yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Noooo…oga landlord…you talk say you go marry me…” I cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…abeg comot for my house. Go pack ya load…” Oga
landlord said, unsure of himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Iya Segun and Mama Jibunoh came to the scene and stood behind me,
smirking all the way. I turned back and looked at them, they hiss and chuckle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg…no send me comot… I nor get family, I nor get
anybody.” I cry louder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita please go and pack your stuff.” Segun ordered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay…if you nor want make I marry ya papa, I fit marry you
abi?” I ask Segun in tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I feel a heavy slap at my back and cringe as Iya Segun heaps
a heavy curse on me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oloshi…oloriburuku ni…Aje…you wan marry my Segun. Which
qualification you get? You go school? Who you be? Abeg make you know am say,
dis Segun no go marry you lai lai... infact e nor fit marry any gial wey nor
get qualification.” Iya Segun says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I look at the hostile eyes which bear down on me and shake
my head in self pity, looking each of them in the eye I say tearfully;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Today na de first and last wey pesin go thruway Senorita
comot for house again. I go get qualification, I must to go school and when una
see me again, una nor go believe say na dat girl wey una pursue comot from house. I be
Senorita the Lagos chick, and I nor leave village come Lagos for nothing.” I say silently as I
walk away from them and enter my room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There I packed up my meagre belongings and not waiting for
anyone’s to show me out, I walk out through the door. I stopped when I heard my
name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It was Segun, he walked up to me and handed me a bundle of naira notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I am really sorry that this had to happen but I want you to
know that I’m not a terrible person. Please have this for yourself, at least it
would help you out till you find something meaningful to do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I eye him from head to toe, hiss and walk out of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“If you wan do something for Senorita…you for propose
marriage!” I mutter under my breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The days passed in a blink of an eye and while Oga Landlord did my every whim, his wives made my life difficult. We lived in peace
however and while I waited for my wedding date to be set, I was busily taking
my wifely roles seriously. I had just turned on the television in the sitting
room when I heard a knock at the door, I shrugged my shoulders and ignored the
knock. I heard the knock a second time then a third but still ignored it.
Suddenly, Iya Segun bursts out of the kitchen soaked in sweat and raining
insults at me, she heads to the door and opens it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Omo mi….Segun!” She exclaims in delight as she hugs the
young man who had just stepped into the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I turn to look at the young man and freeze in recognition.
The world indeed is a small place. Lo and behold, Iya Segun was hugging my
doctor. I stand up on wobbly feet and walk towards the young man who stares at
me in shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita?” Segun says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Doctor Gerald.” I whisper silently. I couldn’t believe I
was staring at the doctor from the mental institution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita? Is this really you? I looked everywhere for you…”
He started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Doki…na waka ooo…na booth I enter come find myself for far
place.” I sob.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What is the meaning of this? Wetin be dis one na? Abeg no
near my son abegi.”Iya Segun screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Calm down mom…” Doctor Gerald said as he turned to face me. In a
quiet voice, he said to me. “I have been so worried about you. And do pardon my mom's manners, I'm her favourite son and here at home, I'm popularly known as Segun. But is this really you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes Docki…na me be dis ooo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At this point Mama Jibunoh had walked in on us. The way she
clapped her hands signaled that she was in shock over fact that I and Segun were friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin dem dey talk? How dis one come know Segun?” Mama
Jibunoh asked with anger in her voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmmmm…dis one pass me ooo.” Shouted Iya Segun as she walked
over to the sofa and sat down, with her chin in her hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Segun, fully aware of the confusion our discussion has made
on his mother and step-mom, turned to them and said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Sorry Mummys, Senorita used to be my patient at the
facility where I work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His mother stood up and holding her head, she screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yekpa! Dis gial? Segun, nor be for mental hospital you dey work?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes ma…that’s where I work.” Segun answered innocently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Iya Segun slowly broke into a dance and Mama Jibunoh joined
her, not really knowing why they were dancing. Segun was confused and I decided
to bite my nails in confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“This gial…na your papa ‘new wife’ ooo... God don answer all my prayers, ya papa nor go marry mad woman, nor be for dis house ooo.” Iya Segun proclaimed with loud shouts of
joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What? My father’s wife? Senorita?” Segun asked in
confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes ooo…but there’s good news!” Shouted Iya Segun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At that moment, oga landlord steps into the sitting room.
His face glows as soon as he sees his son Segun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Segun! Ahhh Welcome home my son!” Oga landlord booms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Segun’s face couldn’t un</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">register</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> the shock he felt moments
ago but he walked over to his father and bent in greeting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After long pleasantries have been exchanged, Iya Segun began
to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My husband…Segun carry news come!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What kind of news?” Oga landlord asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Heheheheeee...” Iya Segun laughed heartily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At that point I had started scratching my hair, I turned to
stare at everyone and they all seemed to stare at Iya Segun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I think I need to rest a bit…it’s been a long day.” Segun
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Nooo…please ooo, we must to expose this girl. She nor fit come here dey form madam wey she nor be.” Iya Segun said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wait…I hope say nor be my new wife you dey run mouth for
like tap.” Oga landlord warned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hahahahaha… darling…” Iya Segun mocked. “Na kolo you keep
for house ooo. Na mental case you wan marry so…” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oga landlord stared at Iya Segun as he tried to comprehend
her words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin you dey talk?” Oga landlord demanded from his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Your son Segun talk say, he don treat Senorita for his
mental clinic before.” Iya Segun said excitedly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin dat one come mean?” Oga landlord asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hehehe….so you never understand the tori wey I dey yarn so…” Iya Segun mocked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abegi…if you nor wan finish ya gist, carry yaself comot for
my front.” Oga landlord said and turned to his son. “Segun…welcome, shebi you
go stay reach two weeks.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’ll be here for just one week or less…” Segun said quietly
still unnerved by his discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oya go cook food for ya pikin kia kia…carry Senorita join
body…she need pesin wey go teach am to cook sef.” Oga Landlord said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhhh… my food nor dey sweet you?” I asked quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My sweetie…your food dey sweet me well well…” Oga landlord
said to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What’s the meaning of this? Daddy…what are you doing with
Senorita?” Segun asked, then turning to me, he asked. “Senorita! What are
you doing in my house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Truth to God…I nor know say na ya house be dis and na you I
dey find when I commot for hospital sef…na even dat time I comot from Lagos!” I
stammer. “I nor even know say Dr. Gerald be de same pesin as Segun.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Daddy…this girl is my patient and her life is too
complicated and…” Segun started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Which gial? My wife? You nor know wetin you dey talk…abeg
comot for my front jare. Senorita sweetie…make we enter room.” Oga landlord
beckoned to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I hurry over to his side not really knowing whether to stay
or leave. Dr. Gerald had been my crush while at the institution and now, I was
about to get married to his father. How did my life get this complicated?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as I stepped into oga landlord’s house, some
unfamiliar sensation nagged at the back of my mind but I ignored it completely.
Even if oga landlord’s wives would not be in the greatest of moods when they
see me, I was ready to take my chance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While I was in Solo’s house, I had
observed the landlord and his family. He lived with his two wives and about
three children or grandchildren who were really so young. I used to wonder then
if he didn’t have any older children but my doubt were assuaged minutes ago as I had seen
some pictures of young ladies and men on the walls of the house which suggested
that he had grown children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Minutes after I entered Oga Landlord’s palace as he
addressed it I was shown to a very spacious and unkempt room. It was littered
with strewn clothes and old newspapers. As soon as Oga landlord showed me in,
he gestured to the bed where I readily sat on. It didn’t take time before
action begun and as we sweated under the dusty covers of the bed, I couldn’t
help but admire the strength of Oga Landlord despite his age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Exactly two hours after I had entered my new home, the two
wives came home from the market bickering and gossiping. I was at the kitchen
carrying out my new duties as the newest wife in the house and thinking to
myself ‘Chai! Na so Senorita turn landlord for Lagos ooo’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I knew Iya Segun and
Mama Jibunoh very well besides who wouldn’t? They were the women who made life
difficult for most of the tenants in the house through their useless landlady schemes . Oga landlord had turned on the television in the sitting room with the
volume so high and loud that it could deafen the deaf. I swayed to the heavy
beat of the MTN advert on the television and hummed under my breath as I burned
the eggs over the stove. I didn’t stop dancing when the two wives of the
landlord walked into the kitchen with heavy market bags.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shio! Who be this?” Iya Segun asked aloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh…Senorita! Who hire you come?” Asked Mama Jibunoh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hire wetin? We talk say we want housegial?” Iya Segun
boomed in her overly loud and manly voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
ignored the two women and continued frying the eggs and swaying to the
loud sound coming from the television.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come
ooo…Senorita! Oga Landlord hire you come?” Asked Mama Jibunoh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
turned, stared at her and at Iya Segun and laughing softly, I continued turning
the already blacked eggs in the pot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ehhhnnn…you dey see this small gial? No be question wey
Mama Jibunoh dey ask you so?” Iya Segun queried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abegi hol am for dia? Shio…which kain question una dey
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mama Jibunoh and Iya Segun clean their eyes with the back
of their palms and stare at me in shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin she dey yarn?” Iya Segun asked, shocked at my
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wait ooo…Senorita…or wetin be ya name sef. Who give you de
authority to run ya mouth for we front like tap?” Mama Jibunoh asked outraged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Mtcheewwww…” I hissed and proceeded to turn off the heat
from the stove.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Iya Segun could not take it anymore, she stormed off,
screaming her husband’s name at the top of her lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Baba Ayomide! Baba Ayo!” Iya Segun screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mama Jibunoh stood and looked at me pitifully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na wetin Oga Landlord tell you? My dear…dis house no be
place for young gial like you. Shebi you know say oga landlord get pikin wey
big pass you, dis no be ya place at all.” She advised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“If dis place nor be my place, na how it take consign you?
Abi you never marry? Gials wey dey marry for dis Lagos boku…why my own go
different?” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mama Jibunoh shook her head and stared at me till
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Your husband nor go kill me. E talk say im wan marry dis
ashewo!” Iya Segun says in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Marry? For which house? Dat man nor dey pity imself. Me I
nor fit fight for man with this small pikin lai lai.” Said Mama Jibunoh as she
walked away from the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You! You! Shebi you wan live for inside this house? Na for
here you go know say, rat nor get place for inside house. I go do you sortee you
go fly leave dis house.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hehehe…see pesin wey wan drive me commot…abegi commot from
my front.” I said rudely as I carried the frying pan and black burnt eggs out
of the kitchen and headed towards my future-husband’s room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as I reached oga landlord’s room door, I mutter
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Una wan chase Senorita commot…who sigh? My leg don waka
enter dis house, e nor go ever comot again lai .lai.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a Saturday evening and I had stayed in Oga landlord's house for two full weeks. It was the steady banters between myself and his wives that got me upset. Iya Segun and Mama Jibunoh refused to let me enjoy my marriage to oga landlord and I was already getting fed up. Oga landlord and I hadn't solemnized our togetherness but I wasn't bothered. He was my husband all the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was downstairs washing my clothes when one of the occupants of the compound walked up to me and said;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">"Oga Solo dey pack commot for this compound. You don see wetin you cause? You dis gial sef, e be like say u get badluck nor be small." The girl said and </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">proceeded</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> to walk away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Auntie abeg come." I beckon to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The girl comes back and I quickly give her a slap. The shocked girl's hands fly to her cheeks and she stares at me in shock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Why you slap me?" She asked in anger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"You wan slap me back? Try am na...make my husband finish you and ya yeye family for this compound. Abeg waka comot for my front jare...yeye dey smell." I warned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The girl walked away still nursing her cheeks but my mind couldn't stray from the words she uttered. What does she mean that Oga Solo was moving out of the house. I knew I had to find out for myself so I hastily left my clothes and went to Solo's apartment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His bags were outside and he was in the house conversing with some tenants. I heard their voices very clearly as though they were talking to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Solo...you too dey cool ooo. All these while,</span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> I believe say dat gial Senorita be ya side chick. I nor know say una nor dey do at all." Said one of the neighbours who was known for beating his wife every other night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Chei...you disappoint me ooo. Solo, so you mean say that gial use you do wayo. You sure say she nor dey target landlord since? Some gials dey use pesin to get to pesin. Gials of nowadays dey evil ooo...my guy, look yaself well. Look ya house sef. Na so you pack enter dis house? Dis gial chop you big time." Said another neighbour whose drunken antics woke up the compound every night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Hmmm...I guess I over worked the good Samaritan in me this time. But all the same, I need to move on with my life and make sure that I'm never taken for a ride again." Solo said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Abeg I fit take dis ya iron? My own don spoil and I nor get money to repair am." Said the first neighbour.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"You can have it...it's not as good as it used to be. Thank you guys for your help, I'll be leaving now." Solo said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">At that moment, I knew I had to either go inside the house and bid him a proper goodbye or turn and leave as I came. I quickly rushed into his house and the astonishment of the other men couldn't have deterred me more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Solo." I whispered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"What are you doing here?" Solo asked in a pained voice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">The two men hurriedly left even though they were itching to listen to our conversation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I nor know say you dey pack commot...you for tell me."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Tell you what? So that you can run me dry as you did before. Sorry, but I was fooled once and I wouldn't make that mistake again."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I just wan say thank you for everything you do for me. I know say you nor go believe me but if not for you ehn, I nor go know wia I for be. Even my sister from village, Janet, nor helep me like you."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"This is medicine after death. You should have thanked me better by being smart and not allowing that useless swindler use you again the second time. But, why am I saying all this? I wonder why I'm crying over spilt milk. It's all over."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I just wan tell you say, anything wey you wan make I do for you, I fit do am."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Solo threw his head back and gave a loud shout of laughter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Please leave my house, I need to leave now and you're in my way."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Abeg nor throway my thank you..." I continued but was interrupted my the loud shout of my name. It was the landlord.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Senorita Baby!" Oga landlord screamed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I could hear his wives laughter and insults as they heaped curses on him for procuring a woman much younger that they. They too mimicked my name as they added words like 'oloriburuku' to it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Abeg Solo...nor ever forget me ooo." I said while trying to ignore the commotion going on upstairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Solo forced out a chuckle. "You ruined my life. How would I ever forget you?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I took that as a positive response and turned to go but Solo's words stopped me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Are you really going to live like this? As the bed mate of an old man who has lived his prime? My advice to you is, go out, work hard, make money and get an education, you need that." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">'You dey insult me?" I ask.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"No...I'm telling you the truth. In a world like this, you can continue with your level of IQ. You need to be sharp, articulate and sensible. I'm sorry to say this but you are a very foolish girl Senorita. After all I did to make you an better person..." He trailed off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Solo... I come thank you ooo. I nor come to hear ya insults." I finish off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">My name resounds again and this time I respond.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"I dey come ooo...my sugarcane."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Oga Landlord had instructed me to give him a pet name and I had chosen 'sugar cane' since it's one of the sweetest crop I've ever eaten.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Solo shook his head while I hurried upstairs to face the newest phase of my life. As I climbed up the stairs I said aloud.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">"Senorita don give thanks, if e nor wan hear, na him palava...as for me, na to dey climb to d top be my own."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I felt myself on the ground outside the compound and the
stares of people as they looked on at me. I wailed loudly and screamed in
tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“You must leave my house today…you witch!” Solo said to me
then turning to the onlookers he said. “If you want to prosper, flee from this
girl…she is </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">bad luck</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo abeg…wetin I do you? Abeg no chase me comot…I nor get
wia I fit go.” I cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As the commotion continued outside, the landlord walked out
to the balcony of his flat. Solo’s house was structured in a way that the
landlord lived upstairs alone while all the other tenants lived downstairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solomon! Why the noise? What is happening?” The landlord
asked Solo, his head peeked out of the balcony railings of his house. This was
the first time I was ever hearing Solo’s full name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oga landlord, this girl has finished me! I brought her into
my house weeks ago and she swindled me. I have nothing left…nothing! My
girlfriend left me because of her, she made away with a generous amount of my
money and now my furniture has disappeared too, I have lost everything. How can one girl do this to me?
How?” Solo said in tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My heart went out to him and I wondered how I could do all that
to a grown man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You are very insensitive…how would you throw a poor girl out on
the streets. I have noticed that she washes your clothes, cooks your food and
takes care of your needs and why do you repay her with this?” The landlord thundered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“With all due respect sir, I beg to differ. Bringing this
girl into my house has been the worst decision I have ever made. I cannot let
her back into my place…no way!” Solo said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo na beg I dey beg…nor throw way me for outside I beg.”
I pleaded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Get out of this compound…get out!” Solo screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You have no right to send her out of this house. Is this
your compound? Did you build it? Did you inherit it?” The landlord screamed at
Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well sir, it seems you do not understand me at all… you can
leave her in your compound but you can’t force her into my house besides I pay
my rent and have the right to let her in or out.” Solo screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My dear, what is your name?” Asked the Landlord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Na…na Senorita sir.” I answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…get up and come upstairs to my flat, you’ll be
living with from now on.” The landlord said, flashing me a smile with his
sparkling gold teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I get up from the ground and squaring my shoulders, I catwalk
towards the staircase of the house. Some of the tenants smirk and say;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Iya Segun go use pepper for dis one yansh ooo…landlord don
arrange new wife for himself ooo shio.” Said the first neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Dis one na competition shaaa…Iya Segun and Mama Jibunoh wey
don old finish…this our compound go sweet wella…deir action film no go be for
hia ooo..” Said another neighbor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oga landlord, you disrespect me ooo…how would you house her
after I’ve chased her out of my house.” Solo shouted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Shut your little mouth! When I was building this house,
where were you? Get back into your room, wear a shirt and go and make a
statement in the police station.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Good idea sir, I will make a statement and identify her as
the culprit.” Solo threatened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oga landlord waved him off and walked over to open the door
for me. As soon as I entered the house, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I have seen you all these while and I have always envied
Solo. You will be my new wife and I will throw a big party for us.” Said the
landlord as he hugged me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I smiled at my goodluck and said to myself;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na how God dey bless pesin? From grass to grace, na im I
dey so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as those hands grabbed me close, I sunk into his
warm embrace. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears, ‘Benson was here!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Benson! Oga Benson! Na you?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na me ooo…” Benson whispered as he roughly kissed me on
the lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wia Johnny? Wetin happen for our office?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahh…dat one na long tori ooo…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abi Johnny don open office again?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How you dey? Hope say you dey fine?” Benson asked, carefully deviating from my question.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I start sobbing quietly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na for kitchen I dey work now ooo. I nor dey do seke work
again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“E fit you ooo…see as you come fine like paw paw.” Benson
says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“If I hear…” I warn angrily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Why you dey vex…kitchen work fit u na.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita nor come Lagos for Kitchen work ooo…nor dey talk
dat kain </span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">rubbish.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “Okay…sorry, no vex. You
dey go house?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes ooo…I dey live with Solo…e don even try for me sef
after de time I collect im money.” I say and suddenly stop quickly. ‘Benson,
wey de money wey I give you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Which money?” Benson asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“De money wey I give una for dat business wey we talk…wia e
dey?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ohhh…no be me you give money ooo…na Johnny and e dey
police custody.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin? For wia?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My dear…abeg forget that tory…I just miss you die.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I look at him and hissing, I turn away and head out towards the
street. He runs up to meet me and pulls me close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…I know say wetin we do you no good at all but nor
be me ooo…na Johnny.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na so una come troway me for dustbin abi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Me? When?” Benson denied vehemently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na for dorty dem find me na…” I continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What are you talking about?” Johnny asked, changing rapidly
to English.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Forget jare…make I dey go house. Tomorrow na kitchen work
again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Err…Senorita…abeg I need ya help.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I stare at him confused, this was the man who just a few
days ago told me about the money he had made due to business investments. I
didn’t understand why he needed my help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin you want?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He smiled and placed his hands on my shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Sweetie, abeg I dey find place were I fit sleep for today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin dat one come mean? I resemble landlord?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita abeg, na you be my only hope. I take God beg you.
Johnny carry all my money run comot…all de investment wey I make don waka. Abeg
if I fit sleep for ya house, I go dey happy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Nor be me get de house abegi. Na Solo get am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You fit beg am on my behalf? Tell am say I be ya broda.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I look at him and immediately feel sorry for him, his
shoulders slumped forward and his eyes looked tired and weary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“De day Solo see me for express road, I tell am say I be
orphan. I nor fit tell am long tori again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oya make I follow u reach house, we go agree wetin we go
talk.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ten minutes later, we were inside the house, Solo was
already at home and from the look he gave me, he wasn’t too happy that I stayed
out later than usual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo gurevening.” I greeted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Where have you been?” Solo thundered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na work I go…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo turned to stare at Benson rudely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who is this man with you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ehen Solo make I gist you. As I dey waka from kitchen na so
I see one man wey dey for front, something come tell me say, ‘Senorita! Dis na
ya broda ooo…’ na so I come shout im name. I come see say na my broda for
village.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo looked carefully at the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I think I know you…you’ve been seen regularly at the next
street right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No…lai lai…na my first time to see Lagos be dis ooo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I fall on my kneels before Solo and beg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg Oga Solo, e nor get wia e go sleep for today…abeg
helep am.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo grudgingly agreed, he stared at Benson for a while and
said to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I am going to for night taxi work, will be back tomorrow
morning because I will be sleeping over at my friend’s place. Make sure you go
to work on time tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Sure…thianks Solo.” I echo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as Solo leaves the house, I fall into Benson’s arms
in helpless relief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I woke up as soon as I heard the door crash open. I yawned
and stared at the intruder, it was Solo. Everywhere looked different, the whole
house had been picked clean, there was not even one furniture left in the house. I was astonished as Solo was, my mouth hung open in shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What happened here?” Screamed Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I clean my eyes with the back of my palms and stare around
the room in a daze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin happen?” I squeak stupidly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo crouches to the ground and sobs loudly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What kind of misfortune have I brought upon myself.
Senorita! Oh my God!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Neighbours started gathering, everyone had questions and no
one had seen anyone leave the house with any of the furniture, besides the
house must have been raided in the night while everyone was asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita! Where is my television? My radio! My fridge!
Where are my valuables?” Solo asks in confusion and despair. "I worked hard to get all those appliances and now, they are all gone. Not even a dust trail is left."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo…I nor know…na sleep I dey sleep…” I croak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Don’t let me slap your senses back into your head. Where is your brother?” Solo screams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My broda…Benson!” I said in alarm “Benson! Oga Benson…wia you
dey ooo?” I ask in tears while I look around the empty sitting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “Who be Benson?”
Asked one of the neighbours “Abi una get broda wey dey live for dis place?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Her brother came here yesterday, begging to spend the
night. I let him in and…” Solo trailed off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wait…where ya broda?” Our neighbor asks me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor knooooo…” I wail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You sure say na ya broda or ya boyfriend?” Asked another neighbor,
a woman this time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na…na for wia I dey do seke work, na dia I see am ooo…” I
confess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What? He’s not your brother? Who is he? Who did you bring
into my house?” Screamed Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na de man wey collect dat money wey Anna give you. Na im I give
all dat money, e talk say he wan use am do business…” I start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-12958688323570333572014-04-09T04:06:00.003-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.331-07:00Let's Help Save MJ<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Here's the harsh truth: My fiancee could die.</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Here's the silver lining: He doesn't have to.</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Here's the simple solution: Five minutes of your time.</b><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Since he was eleven, MJ has suffered from Mitral and Aortic Stenosis - a heart disease that causes his valves to leak. In 2006 he came to the UK in order to have life-saving surgery that is not available in his hometown of The Gambia. It is now 2014, and having not been able to have the surgery due to lack of funding, we have now been advised to raise it ourselves. The cost of the surgery is going to be a huge £30,000 - far too much for a young, working class couple such as ourselves to afford.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">MJ has been advised by his consultant that if he doesn't have his treatment within five years, he will die; however, there is now an added threat from the UK Home Office that he is also in danger of being sent home - to the very place he fled from to avoid certain death.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"></a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">We need YOUR help to afford the treatment and consequently keep MJ alive. If you are unable to donate, then simply sharing this page can do a world of good. MJ is just twenty five years old with a disease that predominantly affects the elderly, and so with the necessary treatment, doctors are certain he will easily make a full recovery, but without it, he will only get worse. Together, let's stop that from happening. Let's help MJ live.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">I’ve had quite a few reasons to quit Facebook and proceed with life out of touch from basically the world recently, but I’ve kept it alive purely to stay connected. Now, obviously I’m not BFFs with everybody on there, but that doesn’t fuss me because what I write and share wouldn’t reach many people at all if I expected to know and speak personally with every single one of them, and I want it to reach people. That’s the truth, and I expect a lot of others probably feel the same.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">However, I recently posted an important article about my fiancee’s heart condition, how the only way for him to stay alive was for us to somehow come up with more than £25,000. I hoped, at least, that all of my friends would share that one particular post, because I thought that while we indeed weren’t all best friends and didn’t talk every single day or maybe even ever, the simple matter of caring for life was something we all had in common.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Out of almost 350 of my friends, I’d say that around twenty people shared it. It did end up making quite a stretch, because some of their friends subsequently shared it too, for which I’ll be eternally grateful; I got a few messages from complete strangers who had a couple of mutual friends saying how sorry they were about our situation, and a few of them even donated to my fundraising page. But I’m not going to lie. I’m disappointed – hurt, even – that more than 300 of them completely ignored my message.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Well… that’s unreasonable. Maybe they never go on Facebook, or have stuff going on themselves – we’re all human, after all – and so in that case I have to put up my hands and apologise. But sometimes it’s hard to be totally reasonable, especially when your fiancee’s heart is a ticking time bomb.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">A line about MJ. We’ve been together for almost seven years. For the entire seven years, we’ve had this issue – in fact, he’s been struggling with it since he was eleven, and he’s now twenty five. We didn’t know until a few months ago that we were going to have to come up with the money ourselves, because we thought the NHS was going to help us out. Problem is, MJ is a Gambian national. It may seem fair enough that because of this, he has to pay for surgery that is completely unavailable in his home country, but I wonder if it would open your mind some to know that he came here in 2006 specifically to have his heart fixed, and they didn’t fix it.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">They didn’t do it because the funding that was supposed to be available for MJ from Gambia was voided for some unknown reason after he was already in this country. In Gambia, he was having heart attacks. In Gambia, he was diagnosed with Mitral and Aortic Stenosis – a disease that causes his valves to leak – and he was subsequently told that he needed surgery they couldn’t give to him, otherwise he was going to die. So multiple times, MJ has been to the hospital here under the impression they would operate because that’s what he’s been told, but every time it hasn’t happened. It was only explained to us in 2009 – three years later – exactly why it wasn’t being done: because he didn’t have the money.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">As a young, teenage couple, with MJ having no family around to help explain it, we thought the operation would be done and the money dealt with later. Not the case. So in 2010 we had to apply for a visa that would allow him free treatment, because I think we can all agree that £25,000 is a ridiculous amount of money to just whip out of your pocket. The Home Office then took two years – I repeat, two years – to merely refuse. When they did, we appealed. Again, they refused. Since then, it’s been a back and forth between us and them, with us saying that he needs this surgery within five years otherwise he will die, and them saying that it isn’t their problem. Now, because of the amount of time that has passed with MJ not being on the right visa, they want to send him home. That can’t happen. Why? Because MJ will die in Gambia. Still, their answer is no, and yet they want MJ to leave on a voluntary basis. But tell me: would YOU willingly walk to your own death?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">So before they get really pushy, we need to try and raise this money. We’re on a time limit – two, in fact: MJ’s heart’s time limit, and that of the Home Office.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Social media connects the world. We share hilarious memes and cute cat videos, and yet just twenty of my friends clicked on a link not too long ago entitled: ‘Can you help mend my fiancee’s poorly heart?’ I think to ignore such a thing is to indirectly say that as far as one is concerned, MJ can die. It seems extreme, but does it really say anything else?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">I don’t like to think that anybody I’m associated with could be capable of such a thought, which is why I’m asking you to at least share this post. Just share it. It happens with the click of a button, and you – one person – have just opened it up to hundreds, maybe even thousands more. I’m not religious. My faith lies in us. I believe that we’re in control of what happens to each other, and I believe that because of that we have a huge responsibility to help each other in any way we can. So I’ll continue to post my hilarious memes and cute cat videos for everybody’s entertainment, but remember this is the one I care about, and this is the one that matters. This is the one that’s about life and death, but hopefully, life.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">I don’t want likes for this post. I want shares. I need shares. MJ needs shares. I’m British, and if I had the same condition as he, it would have been treated back when I was eleven. MJ has suffered for fourteen years because he comes from Gambia, so let’s not let him suffer any longer.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">One more thing: By posting this, I don’t want to open up a dialogue anything political; I’m merely explaining the facts. All I want to do is make sure my fiancee stays alive. He’s young. He’s otherwise healthy. He’s human. You can help him stay that way just by sharing. That’s all I ask.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">If you do want to donate in any scale, here’s our fundraising page.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_35211636" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none;"><br /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;"></span><a href="http://www.gofundme.com/68fbzw" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.gofundme.com/68fbzw</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Thank you, and again, if you like this post, please don’t let me know by pressing the ‘like’ button - let me know by sharing it.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Josefin Sans'; font-size: 19px;">Tweet me @karisgould if you have questions – I’m happy to chat - See more at: http://africansweetheart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/fiancees-life-saving-heart-surgery.html#sthash.9X4yA1td.dpuf</span>Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-47235696048723164052014-04-07T07:12:00.000-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.362-07:00Iya Rosa's Kitchen!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as I walked into Iya Rosa’s kitchen, I told myself
‘Senorita! Dis place no be ya portion laiye…’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The kitchen was very big and quite messy too as the whole
place was filled with flies, dirty bowls of finished soup and foods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Customer…” Shouted a very tiny looking woman who had a
front gap-teeth. She walked over to meet us and smiled in welcome. “Wetin una
wan chop? Abi na ya new gial be dis?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo laughed and spoke to the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Iya Rosa…I wan talk serious talk with you today… I go chop
but no be now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh…hope say no problem?” Iya Rosa asked, sounding
worried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“At all. It’s my err…it’s this girl, her name is Senorita
and I want you to give her a job in your kitchen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmmm…. I see.” The woman replied as she stared at me from
head to toe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I really want you to help her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na jolly just come?” The woman asked Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No…she is a confirmed Lagos babe but please I need you to
teach her to be responsible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh…she go response by force…” Iya Rosa said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Thank you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I get vacancy for waitress, the one wey I get don carry
belle follow one man. I hope say dis Seni wetin be her name sef?” The woman
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita.” Solo supplied,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay… I hope say Senorita no go follow all dem men wey dey
come chop for hia. Na fine gial she be and many men go pursue am.” Said Iya
Rosa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I silently rejoice at her words about my beauty and I
smile at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Senorita has a heavy debt to pay, she </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">doesn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> have time
chasing after men. She owes me more than a hundred thousand naira and she must
pay me or else she’ll leave my house.” Warned Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I shiver in anger and fear. I didn’t want Solo to get angry
with me for any reason at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So we go discuss money wey I go dey pay am abi?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Yes…please give me all her salaries, I need to augment the
sum of money that she took and return it to its owner.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The woman smiled in understanding. Less than an hour later,
I was given a pink checkered apron and my job began. The first three hours were
stressful as I mixed up the orders every time and got disapproving looks from
my new madam. However the best part was the glances I received from men who
came to eat and my madam seemed to notice them too but made no comments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">My first three days at the kitchen were the best days in my
life as many men </span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">couldn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> tear their eyes off me. I was the center of attention
and the fact that I hardly spoke to anyone had them all rushing to ask me to
take their orders. Iya Rosa’s business boomed in those three days as she seemed
to have stolen all her </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">competitors</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> customers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">One day, I wondered aloud why the place
was crowded and one of the other waitresses told me that it was my
beauty that attracted the men. I had long forgotten about my beauty as the
tolls and stress of life had taken so much out of me but now at Iya
Rosa’s kitchen, I can feel my beauty return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was almost eight pm and I was already closing up
for the day with Jemima, the store keeper when one small boy of about ten years old walked up to and said;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Aunty…e get one broda wey dey find you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I crane my neck in a bid to see who he was talking about but
couldn’t see anyone as the street was dark and Jemima, had
turned off the lights and was already closing up the shop. She seemed oblivious to our conversation as she stood quite far away from us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who be dat?” I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“He dey for dia…e talk say make I give you this…” The boy
said and placed a note in my palm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hummm…” I whisper and stare at the money with interest, it was a thousand naira.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The boy having delivered his message, hurried away from
sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who be dat?” Jemima asked as she walked up to meet me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I nor know ooo…na one boy wey dey find him street.” I lied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na wah for people ooo, how pesin go send pickin comot from
house for dis kain time?” Jemima said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I nodded stupidly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“So… make we dey go house.” Jemima said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I noticed something strange about Jemima since I started
work at the kitchen. She persistently followed me home each evening and accompanied
me to work every morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I wan go buy something for dat side…” I lied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oya make we go dia na…” Jemima said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg dey go house jare…I wan buy private something for dia.”
I say again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Which kain private something? No be de woman wey you be, I be so?”
Jemima said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Shio! You don turn bodyguard ooo like play…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Dat one you dey talk na tori… wia you wan go?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At that moment I knew that Iya Rosa had assigned Jemima on
my case. It was a very competitive market and no one wanted their workers
stolen by other kitchen owners in the area. Suddenly like a miraculous dream,
my breakthrough came, it was Jemima’s phone. It rung.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Helloo…wetin happen? I dey come back na…why you dey talk
like dis? Wetin I do again? Na eight o’clock we dey close na.” Jemima spoke
into the receiver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as Jemima ended her call she looked at me in
desperation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin happen?” I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na my Oga for house ooo… e dey suspect say I dey do one man
for kitchen hia. He dey hala me sake of say I neva reach house.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Carry ya leg dey go ya house na…wetin you still dey do for
hia.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg no tell madam say I no follow you waka reach house ooo…” Jemima begged me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No problem.” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As soon as Jemima hurried off, I look around and walk towards
the direction the boy had shown me. I walked for a while and when I had given
up hope that there was anyone looking for me, I felt the crumpled naira
note in my palms and moved on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fine sisi…” Hissed a male voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ehn! Who be that?” I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I dey for hia.” Said the man as he turned on the torch
light in his hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I walked towards the small empty stall beside the road. The road
was not too bright as there was no light and there was hardly any generator on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How far, how you dey?” Said the man in the stall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I couldn’t see his face but his voice sounded familiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I dey fine…abeg who you be?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You nor remember me again?” Said the man as he turned the
torch light towards his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I gasped as soon as I saw him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Benson!” I whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wait oh!!! Where is the money?” Solo asked in a baffled
voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you asking me? Ask Senorita besides she was the only
one left in the house when you drove me home.” Anna snapped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I heard Solo’s footsteps as he walked up to me. Tapping my
shoulder roughly he said;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wake up quick! This faint will not solve anything…where is
the money?” He asked me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was seriously feigning unconsciousness till the desperate
urge to sneeze materialized from nowhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Aaaaarrtttishoooo!” I sneezed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita! Get up and explain the disappearance of the
money.” Anna screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My cover was blown so I had to stretch tiredly and slowly
rise from the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Speak!” Solo demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have never seen him so angry in the short while I spent in
his house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oga Solo…u fit give me water make I drink? My throat don
dry so…” I squeaked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I received a heavy slap and another, then a blow to my head.
At that point, I knew he was serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahh…no be me touch de money ooo… na dem take am…” I squeak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who?” Solo asked, ready to give me another blow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na Johnny and Benson…na my oga and him friend. Na dem ooo…”
I cried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How did they get into this house? How did you find out that
money was in the house and in my bag…how?” Solo asked, pained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I launched into the story, afraid that Solo would kick me
out of his house for lying to him and stealing from him. By the time I was
through with my tale, Anna was already heaping curses on me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Idiot…ashawo ten kobo…so this is how you run from one man
to the other right? You have not seen anything yet… your days are over in this
house.” She screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita! You will work hard for that money and pay back
every dime. Starting from tomorrow, I am taking you to Iya Rosa’s kitchen at
the entrance of this street. You will wash plates, cook, and clean till every
dime you've stolen from me is paid. Do you understand?” Solo said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who’s going to wait for her to gather up the meagre
shillings that she’ll pick up from her lousy chores at Iya Rosa's kitchen? I want
my money now!” Screamed Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I have some money in the bank. You can wait while I get
dressed, I’ll pay your money in full.” Said Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I opened my mouth in shock. Solo was the kindest man I have
ever known, I wondered how I would pay him back for all his kindness to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What? Are you going to pay me with your hard earned money?”
Anna asked baffled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I never begged you for that money, yet you forced it on me.
Now it’s missing and I want to pay you back every dime I owe you, is that too
much to ask?” Solo asked in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Baby, I can’t believe you’re doing this. Do you love her?
Are you guys sleeping together? This is the reason you
let her stay right? How could you do this to our love?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Do you want your money or not? Please spare my time and
let’s get to the bank so that I can give you your money in full. </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">You've</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> always
been insecure of our relationship and it started when Senorita entered this
house. Look at her? Look at yourself? Who would trade her over a damsel like you? I refuse to
believe you still have trust issues where I am concerned.” Solo said bitterly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I’m not interested in the money anymore, you have hurt me
more than I have ever imagined. Even after all this tramp has done, she’s still
under your roof. I’m leaving and you know where to find me.” Said Anna as she
stormed out of the house and banged the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Praise God! She don comot for hia…witch!” I boo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Will you keep shut?” Solo said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo I dey sorry, I think say you go happy sake of say she
don comot. E don tey wey dat gial dey do you bad thing…” I continue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you mad? You have no remorse whatsoever. I am in a
dilemma because of you and here you are rejoicing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Di…wetin? You never die na…” I whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oya…wear your slippers quick, we are going to Iya Rosa’s
shop now. Perhaps it’s time you started cutting your clothes to your size. Look
at what your supposed secretary work has brought you.” Solo said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I quickly wear my slippers and follow him out of the house,
muttering under my breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Me wey don do seke work go join kitchen for wetin? A whole Senorita like me! Shio I go show dem for dia say, seke pass seke!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo! Oh my God! I thought something had happened to you.
Baba Michael called me and told me that something bad happened… I rushed down
from school. Why didn’t you tell me anything?” Screamed Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We were in the house, Solo lay on the sofa staring at the
ceiling, I lay on the floor of the small sitting room still dumbfounded over
everything that had happened. I couldn’t imagine how Johnny and Benson
disappeared in one day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hello dear…” Solo whispered as he turned to look at his
girlfriend who had just entered the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I need an explanation…” Anna demanded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Please sit down and stop screaming, I’m having a headache
and haven’t slept since yesterday.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What happened?” Anna asked, dropping her bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“It was right after I dropped you off. Suddenly, my phone
rang, it was Baba Michael who was calling to tell me that he found the door to
my house open and when he knocked, no one answered.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Okay…so what happened?” Anna asked impatiently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“When I came back, I looked for Senorita but to no avail. I
went back for some rounds with the taxi and came back at nine pm to still meet
an empty house. I initially thought that she went to get something’s to prepare
dinner but I was surprised to still see an empty pot so I sat in the sitting
room, waiting for her. Somehow, I slept and woke up this morning to a heavy
knock at my door. It was Ismail’s son who had gone to empty their dustbin and
who told me that he saw Senorita in the garbage heap.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What??? What was she doing there?” Anita asked puzzled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t know…some people said she was duped of large sums
of money but come to think of it, how much does she have?” Solo said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Money? She has no money…where would she get huge sums of
money from?” Anna asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“It baffles me…Senorita started work a few days ago and she
hasn’t even been paid…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Where is the money that I gave to you?” Anna asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“It’s in my bag over there at the corner.” Solo answered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My ears pricked, I was finally in trouble! All these while,
Solo didn’t know the full story of my encounter with Johnny and Benson and now,
his girlfriend was about to solve the mystery. I had to act fast;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“My head! I don die ooo…” I scream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo rushes to my side and quietly shakes me, in a terrified
voice, he says;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…sorry… I could only afford the Nazareth clinic but
you refused that the doctor examines you…all the other hospitals are
expensive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anna ran to us and dragged Solo’s hands from my body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Stop touching her… she’s not dying haba!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“She is very sick and it’s all my fault, I should have taken
good care of her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“When did you become her guardian? Anna asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The day we found her at the side of the road.” Solo
snapped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh please! I can’t take this anymore…how do you expect me
to believe that there’s nothing going on between you two?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Believe whatever you please. I am not ready to deal with
your jealousy today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Me? Jealous? Of this piece of thrash? She’s not half the
woman I am!” Boasted Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That insult was too much, I shed off my pretense and
struggled to my feet, Solo was surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Wetin you talk?” I asked Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh! So you have been pretending all these while.” Anna
spat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Talk that thing wey you talk before…talk am again!” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You’re not half the woman I am!” Anna said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I jump and throwing my hands in the air, I slap the breeze
and touch my tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I swear for my mama head say, you no fit hold man like me.
Who you be sef?” I ask in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita! Stop this! You are still recuperating… don’t tell
me that jibes like this can get you all worked up.” Solo started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are you taking her sides over mine?” Anna queried Solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo was lost for words and shaking his head, he walked to
the sofa and sat down, trying to ignore the two of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I go beat craze comot for ya head…” I warn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t have time for illiterates like yourself…” Anna says
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I push her hard and she falls to the ground in a helpless
heap. Solo stares at me, his expression, unreadable. Anna gets up again and
lunges towards me, I push her again and she falls a second time. She tries to
stand again and I jump on her, determined to beat her blue black. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Stop it! I will not have two wild cats in my house. Get up
both of you and get out!” Solo says as he struggles to drag me off Anna’s body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He separates us and proceed to throw us out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Solo! I am your girlfriend and I won’t leave this house.
She’s the one that’s supposed to leave.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Go home Anna! We’ll see some other time and as for you
Senorita, get out of the house and stay outside.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ahhh… no be me cause am…na she ooo” I wail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“If I leave this house, Solo, if I leave this house, it’s
the end of you and me.” Warned Anna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo ignores her warnings and pushes us out of the house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Give me back the money that I gave to you now!” Screamed
Anna in anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo walks towards the bag in order to retrieve the money. I
look around for an escape route, there’s no other way out of this mess. Solo
would find out soon enough that the money is missing and I haven’t had the
chance to go looking for Johnny and Benson in order to ask for the money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I kept it here, I am sure of it…” Solo started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Don’t give me trash…where is my money?” Anna shouted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo scattered his bag and searched for it frantically but
it wasn’t there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita…” Solo called out to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was too late, I had long reached the floor in a mock dead
faint. Deep down I muttered to myself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Make una dey find money de go...Senorita don faint!"</span></div>
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Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-2890749226068986042014-03-20T09:07:00.002-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.343-07:00The Morning After!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What happened? Is she alright?” Solo asked someone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I didn’t know whom because I was still drowsy, probably due
to the effects of the drink I had taken the day before with Johnny and Benson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Senorita! Oh my God! What happened to you?” Solo asked
again as he proceeded to carry me into a waiting vehicle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I felt fuzzy and weak. My limbs ached and I had started to
feel dryness in my throat. As soon as my back touched the car seat, I weakly
opened my eyes and stared at Solo, he looked so worried and disheveled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Where you want make I drop una?” Asked the driver of the
vehicle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Please take us to Nazareth hospital. Thank you so much Joe,
I really appreciate this.” Solo said to the driver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na nothing na…no be taxi driver we be?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solo nodded in understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Soon enough, we were at the hospital and a stretcher was
brought. I lay on top of the flat surface of the stretcher as I felt pains rack
my body. The nurses wheeled me into the examining room while Solo waited
outside. There, I was stripped out of my clothes and cleaned of abrasions and
cuts which weren’t many. Soon, a male doctor walked in to attend to me. Even in
my dazed state, I was conscious and knew the happenings around me. As soon as
the doctor walked into the room, my senses were alert. I started screaming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Na man ooo…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The nurses stared at me in shock as they listened to my
rantings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Abeg…wia my cloth? Na man dey see my yansh so…” I screamed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Did we admit a mad woman?” The doctor asked irritably.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t know doctor…” Answered one of the nurses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Who brought her in?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“A man.” Answered the second nurse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Did you get a report from him?” The doctor asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“No doctor… we felt it was an emergency…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Please go and ask if she’s suffering from any form of
mental disorder.” The doctor asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The nurses hurried away, leaving me with the doctor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You still dey hia abi? If na when Senorita be Senorita ehn…dis
thing for no happen…” I boast, still lying on my back, stark naked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Is it an abomination to be examined by a male doctor?” The
doctor asked me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You still dey hia dey ask me question…una nor fit bring
woman?” I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The doctor ignored me and waited for the nurses to arrive.
When the nurses entered the examination room, he turned to face them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take her to another hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Which kain? Look at her na, she resemble decent gial? No be all these gials wey dey waka like tyre wey no get vehicle so..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Doki wan climb me na so I no gree!!!” I screamed aloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Andalus","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everyone in the
hospital stared at me astounded. I drowsily jump down from the stretcher, straighten my dress with my hands and walk out through the entrance of the hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was really moved by the story of this cute angel and that's why I am posting this on my blog. Please help her anyway you can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">11 month old <b><i>Faith Ayomide Adeyemo</i></b> has been diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, which is a rapidly developing cancer that develops from the immature cells of the retina. We ask all friends and family to please help in any way you can.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Family and friends are using the social outlets to raise funds for the expensive treatments Faith is currently receiving.. Her parents can not afford to pay for the bills out their pockets.. She already went through the medical procedure and one of her eyes was removed to eliminate the cancerous cells and prevent future cells from spreading. We have 9 days to raise and to come up with the rest for Faith to further her treatments.. GOD ALMIGHTY WILL INTERVENE IN ALL OUR MATTERS AS WE HELP KEEP FAITH..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let’s spread the word and help raise as much funds as we can to assist the Adeyemo family in medical expenses. Have a little FAITH, in baby Faith!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please find the link to her site here for contributions: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/friends-fighting-for-faith </span></div>
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Such a cute little Angel...</div>
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Adaeze Writeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09526547498295257422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528513176503436587.post-23227145795675540342014-03-17T06:59:00.003-07:002014-07-31T18:29:22.337-07:00YAY! I got nominated...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While I was on my very long break I got nominated for the
Liebsters award by an amazing professional make-up artist, <a href="https://plus.google.com/103966816619454433227" style="font-weight: bold;">Chinazor Ezeh</a> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">www.blushesanddimples.blogspot.com </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now, to do this, there are certain
rules to play by…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">· You must link the person’s blog who
nominated you for the award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">· Answer the 11 questions given by the
person who nominated you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">· Pick an additional 11 people to nominate
with UNDER 200 blog followers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">· You cannot nominate the blogger who
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">· You must inform the nominees that have
been nominated.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is my first nomination ever
and I’m excited… triple Yay!!! Thanks Chinazor. Below are her questions and my answers.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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love most about it?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I started my first blog in September 2013 and I think I love
the fact that I can create a world of fictitious characters and make them look
real. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Describe yourself in 3 words.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Very lively, Stubborn and God fearing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Who is your favourite Nigerian blogger?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This answer would sound weird to some people but I love
Stella Dimoko. She adds spice to every one of her posts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"><b>What are 3 special things most people don't know
about you?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I could be walking down the street and see a
poor beggar or someone that doesn’t look well fed and apart from giving alms, I
take time to pray for that person because if I don’t, I feel bad all day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I get excited by my friends’ successes and can’t
stop boasting about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I love praying, I could spend the whole day on
my knees.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: orange;"><b>What keeps you going in life?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> God.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</b></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: red;"><b>If you were to choose between being a tree and a
car, which would you be? Give reasons.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A tree because it grows and the ability to grow
is the biggest opportunity one can ever have.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: blue;">If you were allowed to speak to President
Jonathan one-on-one and ask him just 2 questions, what would you ask him? (You
berrer answer!)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Haha… my questions will be; ‘How do you feel
whenever you Google your name and see bad comments about you? And why hasn’t the
crisis in the North been resolved?’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8.<b style="color: #134f5c;">If you
had just 3 words left to speak in your life, what would you say?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Thank You Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">9. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Which Nigerian celeb would you raid her wardrobe
if you could?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Agbani Darego… she's so fly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10.<span style="color: #0b5394; font-weight: bold;">What
totally creeps you out?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are these
caterpillars that come out during rainy season especially places that have lots of trees, I get goosebumps when I see them
and itch all day.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">11. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <b><span style="color: #a64d79;"> </span></b></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">What is
most important to you in life?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God, Family, myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hope you enjoyed reading my answers, now I’ll nominate
special blogs to pass on the torch…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve answered all my questions, here are my 11 questions…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What do you love about blogging?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Would you say your blog reflects your persona?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What trait of yours do people find impressive?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Describe yourself in one word.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do you love fashion? What’s your style?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What motivates you?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What movie can drag you to the cinemas?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Do you have any favourite foods?</span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you were to be a car, what kind of car would
you be and why?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ring or gold ring?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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