EPISODE 21
As soon as they branched to
Ijemo street in Abeokuta, they
saw a huge crowd gathered and
people shouting on top of their
voices. Annie: “1st daddy please park your car I want to see what is
happening there” she said
pleadingly. Ralph: “No! it is very dangerous, I
cannot allow you to go there. I
think it is jungle justice o. kai” he
said when he viewed what was
happening from a better angle. Paul: “And on a little boy for that
matter. Jesus Christ!” Annie: “Daddy park the
carrrrrrrr…” she screamed angrily
stomping her feet on the floor of
the car. The car went to a
screeching halt at the corner of
the road and Annie leapt out of the car before anyone could say
anything to her (she was by the
window side). She ran towards
the scene of the mob action
without looking back. They all
exchanged bewildered looks and ran after her. Dickson: “Annie waiiiit!” he
shouted after her as she kept
running as fast as her little leg
could carry her. Sammy was already very weak
from the beating he had already
been given while they kept
shouting incentives at him. He
heard someone call him a terrorist
terrorizing the neighbourhood. He heard another calling him a
killer, killing innocent people
before snatching their
belongings. “But I did not do all
this. God where are you?” he
looked up to the sky but all he saw was blood, blood that had
dripped from cuts on his head
and eyebrow. His lips had a deep
cut too. He heard someone say
“set him ablaze to serve as a
deterrent to other thieves like him” and many of them agreed
with him. Someone brought a tire
and threw it over his head, he
was too weak to even remove the
tire, he just laid there giving up
hope of survival. Just as he was closing his already half closed
eyes to prepare himself for the
pain that was to come, he felt
someone lift the tire from his head
with difficulty and lifted his head
up rocking it on her laps. He was surprised because the person
seemed really small. He opened
his eyes and with his bad eyes
saw a little girl looking down at
him with tears all over her
beautiful face, she reminded him of his mother. She smiled at him
when she realised he was
looking at her. Annie: “It is okay! No one will
touch you now, my daddies are
here, and they will not allow
anyone to touch you. The people
around were surprised and kept
taking pictures of the scene. The three men who were doing the
beatings were angrier than ever. 1st man: “whose child is this? Come and carry her before we set
her ablaze with this thief” he
ranted. Annie: “You will not dare it. Who
are you to beat an innocent boy
like this? There are big thieves out
there who has stolen your future,
why didn’t you go catch them
and set them ablaze? How can you still want to set him ablaze
with all the blood on his body?
Let me tell you the truth, if you
can open your eyes and do this to
a young boy and even getting
ready to set a living human ablaze then you are a murderer. It’s you
who needs to be set ablaze. It’s
you who needs to be taken off
the surface of the earth” she said
daring anyone to come even
closer. The people around shook their heads in agreement to what
she said and marvelled at her
boldness. 2nd Man: “See, this small girl must be his accomplice, let’s set them
ablaze together” immediately the
words left his mouth, someone
from the crowd stepped forward
and gave him a stinking slap. Let
me see you try that. By this time, her daddies were already
standing behind her waiting for
anyone who would make the
move to touch her and the little
bleeding boy. 2nd Man: “How dare you hit me like that you scoundrel?” The Man: “It’s you who is a
scoundrel and for your
information, I am a police officer
and my team will be here soon,
guess who will be arrested? You
and not this little boy. Like the girl said, you are dangerous to the
society and I will make sure the
three of you are charged for
attempted murder. I saw the
person who stole the phone and
it wasn’t this boy, it was someone else…” he was still talking when a
police van came to a screeching
halt right where the whole thing
was happening and sent some of
the crowd skittering from the
road. The three men tried to run away but people held on to them
tightly while the police men
disembarked from their vehicle,
and bundled them into their
waiting carriage. Sammy was rushed to a nearby
hospital where he was taken to
the emergency room due to the
multiple injuries he had sustained.
Annie had wept all the way to the
hospital, her hand and body were covered in blood. “Don’t worry
friend! You will not die, I will pray
for you very hard. I will ask my 2nd daddy to take me to church so I can pray for you there too”
she said amidst tears as her
entourage watched in awe. Paul: “Come now let’s go home, I
guess there’s no more Olumo
rock for today” Annie: “Please can I and aunty
Ewa stay with him here? Please?
Give her transport fare, we will
come back on our own
tomorrow” she said pleadingly. Ralph: “No way! His parents will
come for him, we are all going
home together now. I have
settled his bills for now. So baby, I
am afraid we cannot grant you
this wish” he said looking hurt when he saw the disappointment
registering on her face. Paul: “Let’s go now” he said and
tried drawing her along but she
refused. Annie: “No! I will not leave him, I
will never leave him” she said
weeping in a way that tore their
hearts apart. Dickson scooped
her into his arms forcefully as she
struggled and kept struggling, screaming on top of her voice… == Richard became frustrated in his
search for his son. People
contacted him to tell him his
whereabouts but each time he
reached there, it would be as if he
had disappeared into thin air like he didn’t want to be found. He
noticed that ever since Sammy’s
disappearance, his wife had gone
back to her normal moody self.
She blamed him for Sammy’s
disappearance and refused to allow him touch her or even talk
to him. He stopped going home
regularly, he lodged in hotels
sometimes or go home with one
of his bachelor friends. He kept
late nights most times and got back home drunk. That night, he got back home and
found that Ophelia had been
waiting for him unlike the other
nights when she wouldn’t even
act like she cared. She sprang up
to her feet as soon as she got a whiff of his presence. Ophelia: “Where are you coming
from by this time?” Richard: “None of your business”
he replied and walked tipsily
towards the kitchen. Ophelia: “How can it be none of
my business when I am your
wife?” Richard: “Ahahahah… wife? I
didn’t know I had a wife in this
life and for your info, my wife is
dead and I don’t know who you
are” he said with sarcasm
apparent in his voice. The alcohol flowing into his veins had made
him unusually bold towards her. Ophelia: “What do you mean by
that Richie?” Richard: “I said my wife is dead
and I don’t know who you are or
why you call yourself my wife” he
reiterated his earlier statement
and she burst out into tears. Ophelia: “Then what am I doing
here?” she asked with her left
hand on her chest. Richard: “Even I do not know the
answer to that question. What
exactly are you doing here? It’s
not like you warm my bed at
nights, you even stopped
cooking for me so tell me what on earth are you here for? I
punished my own son severely
just to save your dignity and now
he has gone missing. Instead of
you to lend me your moral
support, you are giving me attitude, for what? Did you marry
me for me or cos of my son?” As
soon as he said this, what Sammy
told him came rushing back at
him. “Wait! Was Sammy probably
right? What he said about you, were those right? You know I
never really asked you these” he
said with his gaze boring into her. Ophelia: “How can you ask me
that? Don’t you ever ask me that
kind of question again. I actually
waited for you to make some
restitution but I never imagined
you’d turn out to be a jerk” she said and walked out on him. Everything came rushing back at
him, the way she was when they
were dating. How tight she was
when they first made love even
though she was not a virgin. How
happy she became during the time Sammy alleged was the time
she started molesting him and
how fast she went back to being
moody when he disappeared.
“Oh Sammy! Were you saying the
truth? I hope not, I am just over reacting. I guess I should stop
drinking alcohol, it is mushing up
my brain. There is no way she
would be a lesbian or a
paedophile. Yeah no way! I know
her very much, Sammy just wanted to get her out of the way”
he said...
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