Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

AKPAN

To Mr Akpan, if at all he was considering ever forgiving Ima and maybe supporting her, he completely changed his mind. To him, she killed his mother with her pregnancy. Because if she hadn’t gotten pregnant out of wedlock for that boy, his mom wouldn’t have been slipped, hitting her head on the floor which ultimately led to his death in the night. But the truth remained the fact that he couldn’t stand seeing that other man head that position he had worked so much for, while his daughter and her illegitimate child was next to him.


He was about to leave for work the following day when the same boy his mom had sent to summon him to the village the previous day showed up at his door step. Surprised as he started his Volkswagen beetle, he asked the boy what happened again and was shocked to his roots to hear his mom had passed away that night.



He quickly drove over to his office to notify his superiors before heading to the village with the boy on the passenger seat. As the boy explained how she died, his hatred for Ima only increased.



Getting to the village, he had screamed all over the place for Ima but didn’t see her or the baby. When told she was in the next compound, he made to go there and rip her into shreds. But on seeing him approach, his uncle (owner of the compound) had quickly gone inside his room only to exit with his dane gun telling him he would put a hole through him if he took another step forward. Having fought in the civil war and remembering stories of his uncle, he knew the old man wasn’t threatening him but was only telling him what would happen.



Finally today was his mother’s wake, and the little Sl*t and murderer had finally left the protection of her granduncle’s compound back to his father’s compound. But as if to annoy him the more, the girl had snubbed him all through until when he made to hit her and she pulled out a knife.


After the boy held her back and he stood up with people rushing towards them, he had told her “From this moment, you stop being my child”.

But to his greatest surprise, she had calmly replied “You stopped being my father the day you threw me out of your house” as she quietly walked away.


That was the moment it hit him. He had actually turned his once loving daughter into a monster.



How come did he miss the part that he had actually gotten her mom pregnant (with her) out of wedlock? His family never denied him their support, and had actually contributed for his marriage because he was just a broke young boy then. No wonder his uncle threaten to shoot him. This was the same man that actually paid and got him the apartment he and Itoro moved into when she returned to Calabar after the birth of Ima with his salary from the Nigerian army after the civil war.


She actually meant to kill him and yet he’s talking about disowning her after he already threw her out about a year ago and hadn’t cared about her since then despite pleas from almost everyone including the mom he claims to love so much. What moral rights was he actually thinking he had all the while?