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Episode 3

Kosara was a young girl who had come to the city to live with her aunt and complete her secondary school. She was academically brilliant but had a high level of naivety when secular things matter. She came to live with her aunt’s family immediately after taking her Junior Secondary School Examination (popularly known as Junior WAEC). Soon after she came to the city, she started her senior second school. Her stay in her aunt’s house was peaceful and fulfilling as she was nicely treated as though she was their biological daughter. She loved her new home.

The landlord of the house where Kosara’s aunt and her family lived was an averagely aged pedophile who delighted in having sexual relations with girls far below his age. He derived sexual satisfaction from bedding housemaids and naive teenage girls who didn’t know anything about sex. He usually deceived them using flashy goodies he knew their parents and guardians couldn’t easily provide for them. This landlord who preyed on innocent naive girls had a nephew who lived with him and his family. This nephew of his was just a little above Kosara’s and had unconsciously learnt the bad ways of his uncle.

The moment the landlord noticed Kosara’s presence in his compound, the ungodly urge he had for underage girls rejuvenated and he became obsessed with bedding her (kosara) just like the others. He tactically made his advances, passed his message using gifts and faked care to kosara and waited patiently for the catch of the trap he had set. Unfortunately, naive Kosara fell for his antics and started off a forbidden sexual relationship with the landlord who was old enough to be her father.

This sacrilegious relationship between Kosara and her aunt’s landlord which didn’t last long was discovered by the landlord’s nephew who knew about his uncle’s immortality. With this discovery, he (the nephew) saw an opportunity to have a taste of Kosara’s sweetness. When Kosara refused, he threatened to bring her relationship with his uncle to light. For the fear of exposure, Kosara gave in to his demands and thus became a piece of flesh shared between uncle and nephew. When the landlord had enough of Kosara, he moved on to another naive girl while his nephew continued from where he stopped.

Eventually, Kosara got pregnant while she was in SS 3. That was a few months from her twentieth birthday. Her aunt found out about her pregnancy and was devastated. They (she and her husband) had planned to train her in the university before they knew she had been put in the family way. They felt disappointed but weren’t going to abandon her. Upon serious interrogation by her aunt and her husband, Kosara fearfully named the landlord as the father of her unborn child. She gave a detailed account of what transpired between her and the landlord, leaving out the part where the landlord’s nephew took over. Her aunt and her husband were convinced with her story and confronted the landlord.

He (the landlord) totally denied having anything to do with Kosara. “You people must be mad to come to my house with this rubbish. You insulted me by ever believing such slandering story from your wayward daughter who couldn’t even say who got her pregnant. The only reason I’m letting this go is because I am a good person. Let this be the last time you will ever say such”, were the landlord’s words before he asked them to leave his house. His (landlord’s) wife was also by the side raining abusive words on Kosara for trying to cage her husband with pregnancy. This broke Kosara’s heart the more and she cried bitterly. Her aunt who felt the pain of the supposed denial and insults cried as well.

As they (Kosara, her aunt and her aunt’s husband) were leaving the landlord’s house, Kosara’s auntie stood on the balcony, looked up at the moon and with so much heaviness in her heart she said “as long as the moon still rises, any man who is responsible for Kosara’s pregnancy will be met with the same fate. May his daughters suffer the same fate as my daughter, Kosara”. The landlord was not disturb because he knew he didn’t make Kosara pregnant. His nephew who was actually responsible for the pregnancy was happy that he wasn’t mentioned. Everyone went on with life.

Few years later, the landlord’s nephew repented while in the university and found salvation. He further enrolled into a Bible school and later became a pastor. His sins were forgiven but his penance remained. The landlord’s nephew was Mr Levi Onwubiko, Ugochi’s father. The sins of his youth had come to haunt his daughters.


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