AJEGUNLE: The Tale From The Ghetto (By Fikfaknuel) - Season 1 - Episode 5

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AJEGUNLE: The Tale From The Ghetto (By Fikfaknuel) - Season 1 - Episode 5

Alani called Basiru for an emergency meet the day after his confrontation with John Paul. Basiru was still in his bed enjoying the comfort of his ever-young wife, Kikemo, when his phone rang. Upon picking it, Alani's voice sounded through the phone.

"Did you confront any cultist?" Alani asked softly, almost whispering, his organs of speech were finding it hard to relay his question without stuttering. This happens when a person speaks when angry, or terrified.

"Cultist? No, how can I possibly confront a cultist?" Basiru replied, replaying past events in his head to know whom he might had offended, that was a cultist, that could make a grown man so scared, that he was speaking so softly into a phone, when they weren't having an extra-marital affair.

"Oh...you want to play that card on me eh? People have put you on the scene, and you want to deny it? Didn't I warn you to stay off that matter? Abandon those thoughts, my exact words? But no, you wanted to prove that the finger-sized manhood that dangles between your legs made you a man."

Basiru was shocked, he had never heard Alani speak with such finess and 'big english', it was another thing that fear could cause and the fear was beginning to transfer through a phone call. Basiru remembered the young man, who he had threatened earlier, his eyes had something about it, dark, evil, taunting. It was now Basiru knew that it was he.

"Are you still there?" Alani's voice interrupted his thoughts. "The people that saw you hold a young man by the trousers said that the man was none other than John Paul, the judge. He is a senior member of a cult based in Ajegunle but operates here in Kirikiri. And you have angered them." Just when Basiru thought the bad news couldn't get any worse, Alani's voice which had now regained composure spoke again.

"I'm at the office now, and upon arriving, I met two junior officers who showed me something which they saw, a fetish-looking object, tied in a red rope, but inside a blue beret. One of them who happens to have a cousin in Ajegunle says it was a warning, from the members of the Aro confraternity, and this warning comes with an 'action date', so it isn't really a warning, it means they are coming, coming for us, coming for you, I can't tell which"

Basiru's clasped his head in regret as soon as the call ended. What had he gotten himself into? Was this how he was going to end? A target of cultists? What was going to be of Moji, his son at the boarding school. Would he come back and be told, that his father is no more? Basiru shook his head in disbelief, hard to believe but, here he was, facing reality. The Aro cult, terror of day and night, coming after him. He needed to seek protection. He had to. And when the idea came to mind, he only trusted one person for the job, Aja Igbologun, his uncle.