Dial - Season 2 - Episode 40

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 40

The earth shook, and Okomfo Basabasa sank into the ground to his waist!

“Hey!” I said through my muddied and dirtied face as it suddenly dawned on me that Nana b0s0mba could just about go all the way and bury the fetish priest in the ground. “Nana b0s0mba! You’re not going to bury him in the ground, are you?”

My voice was filled with fear at the horrible death approaching, and it sickened me, and made me feel great pity for Okomfo Basabasa despite his evil ways.
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“I beg you!” Okomfo Basabasa said as he dropped his horsetail whisk and raised his clamped hands in supplication, sudden tears forming in his eyes. “I beg of you, b0s0mba Nana, I beg of you as one performing the dark arts to the other! Look on me with pity this once, and let the Grand Oracles bear witness to this day that I’ll never ever cross you or Mr. Biko again, that I’ll never treat anyone unfairly again!”

“I warned you,” Nana b0s0mba said, still with a pointed finger. “Down.”

The earth tremor was fiercer now, and suddenly Okomfo Basabasa sank into the ground to his chest.

“Hey, hey, come on, Nana b0s0mba, please!” I said, struggling fiercely to stand up but being restrained by the cords binding me. “You can’t do this, please! The man is sorry! The man has regretted! Surely you can’t murder him like this, please, come on Nana b0s0mba!”

I saw that Abena Adobea had closed her eyes tightly, and tears were seeping down her eyes, pure horror on her face.

Okomfo Basabasa was weeping pathetically now.

I understood his helpless and terror; I had experienced the same just a few minutes previously.

“b0s0mba Nana!” Okomfo Basabasa cried pathetically, the horror dragging from the very core of his soul. “Have mercy, please! Have mercy, b0s0mba Nana! Please, please have mercy!”

“I warned you,” Nana b0s0mba said, fingers pointing, face absolutely colder than the core of the North Pole. “Down.”
Earth tremor…and Okomfo sank into the ground, and only his head was sticking out now.

“Nyoyooooooo!” King Obiba screamed out that insane word suddenly, his eyes bulging out of his head with horror as tears streamed down his face.

“Nyoyoooooo! Yieeeeeeeee! Aooooowooooo!”
We were all screaming and weeping now.
“You can’t do this, Nana b0s0mba!” I wept with a troubled heart. “You can’t murder people like this! There are laws in the country! I swear if you do this I’ll report you to the authorities! I’ll let you be trialled and imprisoned for murder, I swear to you!”
He turned his head and fixed me with a most baleful look.

“Really? Do you know what this man has done?” Nana b0s0mba asked, almost with hatred. “Do you know the number of people he has killed in this village?”
“Mercy, b0s0mba Nana, mercy oooo, mercy oooo, mercy ooo!” the head of Okomfo Basabasa cried. “Yes, I killed the old king, Nana Kwakupia! I poisoned him! I also poisoned the Medicine Man, Opanyin Okoto…yes, Abena Adobea, I poisoned your father because he opposed me! Yes, b0s0mba Nana, I have killed a lot of innocent people!
But don’t do this to me because of my sins ooo! Mercy ooo! I will admit to the whole town that Maame Ntiriwaa is not a witch, and that Kwamepia is the rightful heir, and should be king! Yes, I took his inheritance and gave it to Obiba so that I can have access to the gold and the lands of the crown! I beg you ooo! Forgive me ooo! Mercy, b0s0mba Nana, mercy ooo! Have mercy, please, I beg of you!”

It was the most heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching spectacle I had ever witnessed, seeing a man’s head sticking out of the ground and begging for mercy in that most horrible way.
“I warned you,” Nana b0s0mba said, undaunted by any of us, his finger still pointing. “Down.”

And Okomfo Basabasa’s head disappeared into the ground…he had been swallowed up whole now, buried alive!

I wept.
I wept bitterly.

It was the harshest death any person could experience, even a great enemy.

My heart was broken, and my hatred for Nana b0s0mba peaked as I wept, broken by what I had seen, and wishing with all my soul that I never had to witness something this horrible!