Must Read: Taking Chances

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Taking Chances

However, that hadn’t stopped him and Adamu from discussing the business of their employer.
‘Okon Okon, you don dey go?’ Adamu had intercepted him one Wednesday.
‘ehen na, I go sleep here?’ he had replied irritated.
‘How madam Daisy na?’ Adamu had asked smiling sheepishly
‘See me see trouble oh, na me be Madam keeper?’
‘ahn ahn, take am easy, we being get kwata?’
‘me i get better place to go so i no get time for your nonsense’ Okon
had replied and made for the gate.
‘but come oh, how you see this madam and oga issue na’ Adamu had asked undaunted by his nonchallance.



Okon had sighed and halted. His interest piqued.
‘Adamu my friend, Madam no dey happy at all’ he had said, pity etched on his face.
‘walahi, oga no dey try!’ Adamu exclaimed, his hands akimbo.
‘at all at all, he no try. Madam Daisy dey very nice i swear’ Okon had concurred
‘…and fine too’ Adamu had added sharply.
‘Yes oh. Infact she be correct woman’
‘But why she con agree marry oga just like that na?’
‘Me i no know oh, you know all this big big men with their wahala, who know which kain problem make her gree’ Okon had replied.
He too had unconsciously long folded his arm across his chest like his partner. They had looked so serious then, discussing Daisy and Jide.
‘Haba ba! If to say i get money like oga, i for don marr…’
‘you for don wetin?’ Okon had cut in sharply. ‘I no even fit laugh’ he
had added looking around as if to confirm no one had been listening.
‘na true i talk na’ the delirious Adamu had added undeterred.
‘abeg oh, no be me and you, being dey talk am’ Okon had said, drawing his ears in an ‘am innocent’ gesture.
‘bye bye’ he had added quickly and left the bemused Adamu still standing without a sign of remorse.
‘Abegi, you too dey fear!’ Adamu had called out to no one in particular, before retiring inside.


Daisy never knew the house aids had discussed her, she was too wrapped up in her grief and regret to pay attention to the glance of pity Adamu and Okon often had on their face whenever they addressed her.