Dial - Season 2 - Episode 74

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 74

“I’m not marrying your sister, Dede or Mansa, whoever she is!” I said suddenly, my voice soft. “I love Maa Abena, and even if I have one day to live, I’m going to spend it with her. Yes, I came to tell you that!”
He smiled again, and it transformed his face, making him so distinguished.

“I know that, Yao Biko, and I would not have it any other way,” he said, and resumed walking.

“So why did you do this to me?” I asked in a voice choked with pain. “Why do you want to kill me?”
“I don’t kill people, Yao, my son,” he said without turning.

“You killed Okomfo Basabasa!” I screamed.
“Nope,” he said with a giggle. “I just made him disappear, to appear here, by the power given me by my God, so that I could change his evil mind!”

I saw that we had come to a most beautiful house with a wonderful gate. A man dressed in a colourful T-shirt and dark shorts opened the gates for us.

I stopped with shock and gaped.

The man who had opened the gates was Okomfo Basabasa, and he was smiling at me kindly and with gentle welcome.

The Holy Man turned, saw my expression, and chuckled.

“Ah, Yao, I see your shock,” he said. “Do come in. I’m hungry. Let’s have some breakfast!”
“Welcome, Mr. Biko,” Okomfo Basabasa said.

“Okomfo?” I whispered, aghast, and he shook his head and smiled.
“No, please,” he answered. “I’m Brother Atta Panyin now.”
“I don’t understand any of this!” I cried in anguish. “Would you stop and explain things to me, please? How did this Okomofo Basabasa or Atta Panyin or whatever the f--k his name is knew your name and recognized you as b0s0mba Nana when he saw you at Etwe-Pe-Kote, if you were just imitating Nana b0s0mba?”

“Because, by the power of the Holy Spirit in me, I let him see the face of Nana b0s0mba, whilst you were seeing this face,” the Holy Man said, and when he turned his face round to me, I didn’t see the handsome bearded face, but the bald-headed moustached face of the real Nana b0s0mba, and I gasped with profound shock.

He smiled, and then the face disappeared, and was replaced by that of the Holy Man!

The Holy Man hugged the man I once knew as Okomfo Basabasa, and both of them moved toward the beautiful house.
“Come, Yao,” the Holy Man said. “I never meant you any harm. Yao, I was just playing with you.”

I stopped dead and looked at his retreating back with a gaping mouth.

Playing with me?

Did he just say he was playing with me?
Goodness me!

At that particular moment, if I had had a rock, I would have easily smashed him on the head with it!

Playing with me…Jesus H. Christ!
“You can’t rock my head, Yao Biko,” the Holy Man said as he reached out and pulled two green apples from the air. “Just try it and see.”

He handed one apple to Okomfo…no, Atta Panyin, and they walked into the cool interior of the house.
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