My door was ajar when I got home, I was sure I
didn’t leave it so. I placed my ear close to the
slightly opened door for any sound, there was
none. As usual there wasn’t electricity so I
couldn’t see much, but when I put on my
rechargeable lantern..what I saw was shocking..
My television had a hole in the middle, with
wood from my broken wall hanger in it. My
clothes had been slashed, I could smell
something really awful but I couldn’t find the
location. I sat down to place a call to
Abayomi..then I saw it. Whoever had broken in
must have been suffering from dysentery. My
bed was splattered with human dung and
urine. I placed the call..
Me: Abayomi, somebody broken into my
apartment
Abayomi: I think you should come to my house
Me: I say my house was burgled and all u can
say is that I come to your house?
Abayomi: Just come
He hung up..
Toun was at the door when I got to his
apartment, she led me inside where I met a
worried looking Abayomi and Timi. I quickly
explained to them what happened to my
apartment.
Abayomi: Timi’s apartment was ransacked too..
Me: your bed had dung on it?
I faced Timi..
Timi: No, I think he emptied his stomach on
yours.
Me: what did they do to your apartment?
Timi: my laptop is gone, the tap in my
bathroom was left on and the water channeled
to my room, my rug was torn with different
patches of holes in it..
I laughed…c’mmon it was funny..
Abayomi: I called Uche, we have to meet him at
Aiyegbami in 30 minutes.
He looked at me, his eyes daring me to refuse. I
looked at Timi, his face was blank. Toun hugged
me from behind…
Me: Alright..
Aiyegbami had this eerie weirdness about it,
you seldomly saw girls loitering around at night,
it was more silent than other parts of Ago-
iwoye. Even the scanty bars that were opened
weren’t playing loud music. Aiyegbami was one
of the places they warned you about when you
gained admission into the institution. The house
in which we were to meet Uche was a three
bedroom flat. It must have been built in the
mid 80’s, it had the architecture. Guys were
infront of the building, most of them Coverless,
cups of ‘shepe’ was in abundant, while tobacco
filled the air. A small looking boy of no more
than 18 came to us
Boy: who una dey find
Abayomi: Uche
Boy: wetin happen?
Abayomi: him say make we come block am for
here.
Boy: wait, I dey come, make I go ask am.
Somehow, being alone with Abayomi here
started to look like a bad idea. I saw the tall
frame of Uche emerge from the door, he had a
stick of cigarette sticking from his mouth.
Uche: my people how una dey?
Abayomi: we dey o…howfar?
I didn’t bother with the pleasantries. That I had
agreed to go along with him didn’t mean I
would be all smiley. Uche led us into the sitting
room where a lovely pool table was, there was a
two-sitter cushion by the left, I didn’t bother
waiting for uche to tell me to sit, I sat. He and
Abayomi stood by the pool table to discuss.
Abayomi: hope you haven’t spoken with
National yet?
Uche: No, we would meet tomorrow though
Abayomi: is there a way we can work through
this?
Uche: what are you suggesting?
Abayomi: reduction in the money you want to
sponsor us with, so you might not have
complete monopoly?
Uche: what has changed from the last time we
spoke?
Abayomi: my partner and I just think we need
some kind of security..
Uche: is there something we should know
about?
I looked at Uche, if he had anything to do with
the incidence, he didn’t show it.
Abayomi: not at all, except ofcuz what
happened at the rally.
Uche: yes I heard about that. I wouldn’t be able
to decide on what you are offering, I would
have to discuss with my client.
Me: that’s another requirement, we need to
meet this client...
Uche smiled…
Uche: the funny thing was that he told me you
would say this..he is inside with a visitor, he
would come out soon..
Abayomi and Uche started discussing about
politics, from Osoba to Gbenga Daniel and how
PDP was going to rule Nigeria for 50yrs. They
were arguing when a girl came out of one of the
rooms, with the way she walked and how her
hair looked, she had definitely just be bleeped..i
knew her. She was one of those so called big
girls that spent most of their time at Gate-way
with politicians. Coming outside from the same
room where she had exited from was the guy
that had been with Uche at Bele, he had
remarkably small eyes, very dark with a sharp-
low hair-cut. He was on singlet and boxers but
that didn’t make him any less charismatic, the
way he walked was almost like he was a model,
but there was a darkness about him that
doesn’t suit a model. He didn’t bother escorting
his Bleep-mate, instead he gently came to sit
down beside me.
Uche: Abayomi, Tana this is my client
Abayomi: bro whatsup..nice to meet you..
Me: hi
It might be an aftershave or something, but he
was smelling so good and fresh…
Client: I have been wanting to meet you guys, I
am Jafar.
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