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Episode 7 years ago

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”Consider this relationship over o. You came to my house with that thug to beat me up abi? After coming to tell me all your shameful acts.



I corrected you and you slap my face only for your thug to beat me up like someone who had an Okada accident. Shola, it is over between us forever, don’t bother trying to beg me o. Just stick with that your thug, okay?” Tokunbo ranted and raved.



”You know what Tokunbo? You are a shameless fool. I know it’s already over even before you said it. So, I just want to thank you for saying it.




Move on because I am moving on. And please, don’t bother returning all you owe me. You fool.” Shola said bitterly.



I was happy she could give it to him as he brought it to her.



”Eh eh! That boy is giving you liver abi? Then it is final. But you will regret this okay? Anywhere you and those boys go, just watch your back because I will strike back.” Tokunbo threatened.



Shola had wisely at that point begin the recording of the conversation.



”So if anything hits you, it’s me. You have the effrontery to come to my home and tell me rubbish, slap my face and unleash thugs on me!




Ah! You will never try it again, I will make sure I spoil that your fine girl and that no man find you attractive, goodday!” He said obviously pained at Shola’s boldness and terminated the call.



Shola dropped her phone and explained how it went despite my insistence that she shouldn’t.



She said she had met him in the room sipping his wine. She had apologised for coming late and had helped him prepared a brief meal of rice.




He was eating when she started her story but he was non chalant. After she had explained how she became a paedophile, she had gone on to explain how she hid it from him and her conscience won’t let her rest hence her confessing to him and seeking his forgiveness.




She said he had not bothered to allow her end it to the counselling part and our role in it when he got furious that Shola was giving ‘his own honeypot’ (as if he had married her) to young boys and girls. She had tried to calm him down to listen to him that it was now in the past but he had flared up the more and slapped her. She had protested and he had slapped her again which she replied. Then he had started beating her up saying she dared slap him back. She had run out after he had punched and hit her with a glass cup.





Tears streamed down her face again. I stood up and went into our room. Rotimi had followed me and had seen me getting dressed. He did same thinking I intended going back to Ojuelegba to beat the living daylight out of Tokunbo again.




When I got to the sitting room, I told Shola that we are going to the Police Station and she had to go with us. Nothing must happen to us. She went in to change her clothes and took her phone and we got out of the house.




We got a cab which took us to the nearest police station where we lodged an official complaint of threat and assault on Shola. The D. P. O of the station happened to be a woman and on seeing Shola’s face, she ordered the arrest of Tokunbo.



We took the men to Ojuelegba and fortunately for us, Tokunbo was at home. I pointed to him and some witnesses who I could identify from the previous day. They were interrogated and all attested to the fact that he assaulted Shola. He was then whisked away to the station. He spent the night there.



After school the next day, Shola prevailed on the DPO to release him after he had signed an undertaking if anything should happen to the three of us, he would be held responsible. The battered Tokunbo looked at us scornfully and signed the undertaking. He had beed beaten up a little in the cell by those he had met there.




The DPO warned him sternly never to touch a woman again in his life and that he should be grateful that Shola did not press charges against him. She dismissed him with the instruction that all things taken from him should be returned.




We thanked her and left her office. At the counter, I gave one of the officers who I had become familiar with two thousand naira. He was happy and thanked me profusely.




I was surprised that the Police could be of help to us in such a just manner and without collecting a dime for discharging their duty. Really, I was impressed.



Outside the station, Tokunbo met us waiting for the cab we had called. He came to my side, looked at me and said,
”You don’t anything about that B***h, right?


She told me some things about herself which made me angry. I know she won’t tell you cos you are her new toy. No problem, I wish you luck and when she finds a new toy, she would make sure you visit the station again but as the vanquished and not the victor.”



I scoffed at him and hissed. He was a very bad loser and to me, a nonentity.




I told Shola and Rotimi what he said and Shola laughed and *yinmu at him. Our cab arrived and we left him standing there with Shola thanking God for taking him out of her life forever…