Must Read: Loss Of Dignity

7 years ago

Must Read: Loss Of Dignity

As he was vigorously praying, his phone began to ring. He was
scared as he refused to answer the call, he thought it was Aunty
Bimbo calling. After the phone ranged for the fifth time, he
developed courage and made to pick the phone. It was 5 missed
calls from Chinedu.

Chinedu don’t usually call people more than two times if they
don’t answer the phone. He only did so when there was
something important he had to say.

Could it be Chinedu had found Amaka?!

Emeka realised that it was not his greatest nightmare Aunty
Bimbo that was calling but his friend Chinedu. He tried to call
Chinedu back but the phone was busy. He was about the try
again then Chinedu’s call came through to his phone. Obviously
they were both trying to call each other at the same time.
“chidi, how far naw.. i don dey call you since but you no pick”
chinedu complained.
“guy abeg no vex, i bin dey sleep, i just dey see your missed
calls now” emeka lied.
“anyways, i just call to tell you say dem don fix new date for the
post-ume” chinedu narrated.

“you be sure guy! so when com be the new date” emeka
enquired.
“na two weeks time. you better read o, unn post-ume dey strong
like akpu” chinedu jokingly said, but it wasen’t a joke per say.
their post-ume was indeed strong.
“actually reading na the least of my problems now” emeka
blurted.
“ehm..ehm. so wetin com be your major problem” chinedu asked
uninterested.
“hmmm, nothing sha” emeka lied. emeka’s heart actually said
something he was too ashamed to tell chinedu that he was
r’aped by a woman.
“owk naw. i go send you the details of my lodge when you dey
come.” chinedu lamented.
“okay, thanks” emeka said and ended the call.
Emeka enrolled for jamb the same year he finished secondary.
The exam was scheduled to hold on a faithful saturday but
coincidently he was also writing literature in waec that day.

Emeka was in a state of dilemma, he didn’t know which one to
write first. If he should miss the jamb it means no admission to
university that year and if he should miss the literature exam that
means he had to write waec again unless he made it in his neco.
Emeka weighed his options and decided to write both. Luckingly
for him, he was writing both exams in Lagos. He woke up very
early that day, did the necessary and headed straight for the
centre. He got there at about 8:45am. Emeka did his biometric
and got to the class where he was going to write the exam. He
stared outside through the window but what he saw made him
frustrated. The queue was so long as if the students were
contesting for the guinness world’s record for the longest line.
Even the students around him could read ‘worry’ written over
him. He had to write literature by 1:45pm plus he needed to
spend atleast 30 minutes on road going back to his school, that’s
if there was no traffic congestion. He placed his head on his
desk and began a prayer session. He literally did not know when
he started speaking in tongues.

Just then, the invigilator barged into the class thereby
interrupting his prayers.
“we shall start now!” said the invigilator.
Emeka was sitted at the front row so he was amongst the
students who were first given the answer booklet. On the first
page of the script was written “do not start untill you’re asked to
do so” he knew time was not on his side so he began shading
stylishly. Emeka was to answer four subjects respectively
namely c.r.s, literature in english, government and english
language which was compulsory. Out of the 50 questions he had
answered about 33.

Just then, the invigilator caught him and said.

“hey you, stand up there!” the man said pointing to emeka.
Emeka stood up, he didn’t know his offence.
“where is the phone?” the invigilator enquired.
“sir, i am not using any phone” emeka said the truth.
“you think i am joking hun, do i look like a comedian? where is
the phone that you’re receiving the answers from?” the hungry
looking invigilator further enquired with an ugly face.
The man took Emeka Script and scanned through it. It was barely
10 minutes when he gave him the answer booklet. He knew
emeka couldn’t have done it all by himself. Emeka stood puzzled,
he had no idea what phone the man was talking about.
“sir, i am not with any phone” emeka blurted.
“leave your sit now!” he commanded.
Emeka did as he was told, the man checked Emeka’s desk but
couldn’t find any foreign material. The invigilator asked emeka to
raised his hands up, he checked him from head to toe but still
couldn’t find anything.

“who asked you to start writing when others had not started?”
Emeka knew that was against the law so he tried to explain
himself but the man cuts him short.
“you shall remain standing for 30 minutes after everyone had
started”
Emeka was bursted!