The Preacher Son

Episode 24

The phone was a black big nokia 3310 phone which made me proud anytime i smuggle it out to go and show my friends, who were eager to see me operate the latest gadget in town.

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‘Attention, at ease’ shouted the commander of the school guide, who were performing during one of our friday socials day.

‘Breaking yansh’ he shouted. And his comrades all fell backwards like logs of wood. We were all in shock because we wondered if their bodies were not made of flesh and blood.
They kept on performing different skills and display to our amazement. I promised to do the same thing if i reach house that day.
‘Chokolo make una come see one new style i don learn for school’. They all gathered inside our palour and my sister shouted ‘breaking back’ and then i fell like a bag of garri on the ground, it seem like i had broken my backbone because my head was in shatters and a ripple of headache caught me.

‘Why this people no announce say don try this at home na’ i cried while holding my head while every one were laughing.

At the end of the school year i had taken first again and we were given holidays and we were promoted.

It was announced in church that we would be having our children’s day so we were asked to come prepare for that day, we were given drama, choreography and other stuffs.
One of the day i was about going to practice that day with my younger brother and we were about crossing the road. The last thing i remembered was something like a black cloth obstructing my view and then i landed on the other side of the road.

I had been hit and thrown to the other side of the road by an okada(a bike) my head was gnashing blood and my stomach was bleeding. I saw my brother and some people gathered round me and were asking me of my father’s number and other stuff.

Then one of my sunday school teacher came at that moment and took me to the general hospital where i was operated on and stitched.

When i finally woke up i saw most of the elders and pastor in our church and i also saw my church crush ‘Esther’, they were all waiting for me to wake up.

When i woke, the amount of delicacies i saw that day made me wish i had gotten accident over and over again, i ate that day till everyone were complaining whether i was truly hospitalise or not.

When i looked in the mirror my two teeth had been broken which made me sad but i had no choice.

Some women came to visit me after i was discharge from the hospital and Esther and her mother were there, they asked me to show them which side i was wounded and i showed even Esther came to look at my inner recess.

‘If i catch this girl eh, i go wire her’ or so i tot.

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‘My wife i would buy you houses and cars and clothes etc’ i said when the chidren’s day reach, we were acting a drama with a girl who was my wife in the drama. A wife taller than her husband.

I kept on making empty promises and scoping her when i got a heart attack and the devil started calling me. The most funniest thing was that mr devil was an albino named bright, i wondered if devil was proud to be an albino.
We also performed songs, cultural dance and other stuffs which enabled me to recieve a gift of biscuit in my pocket after receiting psm 119 from 1 to 100.

Finally transfer came again and we left Nasarawa state to go into the city of sin-Benue state where the real action from my introduction starts.

We waived our freinds, neigbhours and others goodbye. I would miss them all; Solomon, bright the albino, Amaka my classmate, chokolo my best friend and others. I had totally forgot about my Jos friends and when i had started feeling at home in akwanga.

Then i knew that no place we go to was permanent, we were only on a sojourn to minister in places we are sent to.

I waived goodbye to the village that was now becoming a suitable environment for me, i even started missing aunty PHE sef. To this day i always smile anytime
i remember her.

Now to my real adventure.