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Episode 8

They got to the baba’s house, greeted him and her friend spoke up.

“Baba, this my friend has been suffering so much from this man’s hands. He treats her like a slave, he doesn’t give her food money or any money but he prefers satisfying his relatives.”

“Hmmmmmm!!. What should we do now?.” Baba asked.

“Baba, we just want you to punish him.”

“Well, punish him ranges on the one you wish. Should we make him completely mad?. Turn him into a complete slowpoke?. Or take him out of this world entirely?.”

“Arh baba!!.” Were the exclamation that came out of Mrs. Jacqueline’s mouth

Her friend made to pinch her at the side, she resisted and spoke up

“Rara o(No o), he isn’t completely bad the way my friend had put it. I don’t think all you have presented forward is the solution to this problem.”

With that sort of friend who did that, you would have known she is not a friend material. What would she have had in mind, to kill the husband?. so as, her friend would have all the wealth to herself or she was also nursing some hidden agendas.
She made to pinch her again, when
She immediately responded with a shout.

“Wo jeki n soro jo(look, let me speak up), I love my husband no matter what. All I want to do is to make him submissive to me, whatever I ask him to do, he should do.”

The loud laughter that evaded the room after she spoke got her and her friend really afraid, they thought the gods were angry or rejoicing but it was the Baba’s laughter.

“Hahahahaha, you mean we should turn him into a complete slowpoke, use pant to hit his head and make him a nuisance?”

“Let us remove the nuisance part baba because if he should be a nuisance, how will he provide for me and his family?. Let’s just make him a slowpoke, or prepare a love charm that would bind him to me than his blood.”

That is the result of having bad friends I thought, once a woman starts visiting her friends, telling them what was going on in her matrimonial home, one needs to be very watchful. More so, she is not a catholic and I wondered what might have drawn Mr. Sigismund to this lady when the Baba gave her the love portion he prepared.

“Use this one and add to his tea, this to his food, this under his pillow. You should say this words to them,………………,!!!. they would become effective 3 days from their first use.”

After the consultation, they paid the Baba and promised to give him more, once the charm starts being effective when Papa drew my mind back to the matter on ground.

“I warned you then that you shouldn’t marry that woman but you resisted saying, ‘She is the person you dreamt of.’ Now you can’t get your senses right even when your sisters are busy disgracing themselves in the neighbourhood.”

Papa proceeded talking to them, telling Rev. Sister Mary he couldn’t believe she could slap her sister, Mrs. Daniella and Rosaline tearing each other’s clothes and belittling themselves in the neighbourhood as if they were fighting for same husband(a man).

I pondered who on earth could come down to settle the dis-unity amongst Mama’s children apart from Papa. Since Mama’s death, Papa continued on his reconciliation mission.

He was able to settle the fight that day, they all pleaded sorry. Rev. Sister Mary’s colleague that heard what happened arrived in time to meet Papa on his mission and they also scolded them, Sister Mary especially for dragging the image of the nuns on the floor, and setting herself so low like a layman. Why didn’t she hold her peace?. She just went too far raising her hand against her elder sister.

With the intervention of elders living around, Papa and the nuns were able to reconcile Mama’s children back that day. And I hope in my mind that, that would be the last time a gathering of reconciliation would occur before Mama’s burial and after.

We were giving obituary after all that happened, the wake-keep ceremony was to hold on thursday, 13th december 2008. About two(2) weeks from that day at the church hall of St. peters’ Akowanjo. The Requiem Mass was to hold by 10am, 14th of same month at the St. Micheals’ catholic church.

Preparation has began in ernest.


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