Anini Reloaded - S01 E02

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Anini Reloaded - S01 E02

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 2

As early as 7am I was already searching for a job in my community and its environs.

I couldn’t sleep at night due to thinking, about my family’s predicament. I trekked everywhere from company to company, and one office to another with my well sown suit and file in my hand, sweating profusely.

After all attempts in each office failed, I decided to rest in a small shop where I bought fanta and started sipping it slowly until I would gain strength to move on. This time i planned to visit the nearby developed town called Ughelli.

I was insanely taken away with the remembrance of my Late Father, as i stared at a man who came to the store to get a bottled water.

I haven’t even talked about my father, let me just give a brief information about him. Did I say brief? My old man’s story file is large, Occupying more than 10gig in my hard-disk (cerebrum).

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My dad was a very generous Banker, he was the only child of his mother but had a step brother because his dad (my grandfather) married another woman since his mum (my grandmother) could not conceive anymore as a result of a critical accident she had. She later died of cardiac arrest. With God on my dad’s side, he became successful in his education, finished with good grades and got a nice job as a banker the very year he graduated. He got married to my mother who was his girlfriend during his school days. Things went well with him and he was promoted to the post of the general managing director in ICglobal which was the bank he worked, he started doing charity to everyone he came across and also to his step brother.

He did everything for his step brother Mr. Jude who didn’t go to school but learned to be a mechanic as an apprentice, in his youthful days. He gave Uncle Jude money to start up a business of importation of cars and other goods.

My dad built a befitting house in Lagos where we lived, and a small duplex in the village. I was in JSS3 attending one of the best schools in Lagos when my dad died after returning home from his step brother’s house. He was taken to the hospital and the doctor told us he was poisoned with cyanide and dichloromethane which had eaten up his heart and liver.

We couldn’t question uncle Jude as he was very fast with his moves, he accused my mum of killing his brother and packed us out of my father’s house. He converted all my father’s property to his own and left us stranded. My mum managed to train my siblings and I with the money my dad deposited in her account every month, and when it got finished, we relocated to the village as she couldn’t afford to pay the rent anymore.

An ancient mud house was given to us by Uncle Jude since he has denied us right to stay in my father’s duplex in the village.

Back to my dad’s burial, he made sure my dad stayed in the mortuary for 10months without any good reason, and after that he bought a casket worth one million which my dad was buried with, and threw dollars all about during the burial. Uncle Jude claimed he gave my dad a befitting burial.

After the burial he gave my mum #1,000 to use in training us for the year, and come back the next year for another yearly allowance of #1,000 Mtcheeeeeeeww seems I have to stop here because am about crying.

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BACK TO FORMER SCENE

All the components of my makeup as a human were covered with frustration and anger, as I paid the annoying young girl who was hitting my head to wake up from my trance and start going. She even ended up calling me a poor man wearing coat

The tin pain me sha but I swallowed it, especially when she referred to my expensive suit which i used in defending my seminar as coat

She wasn’t up to my younger sister’s age, so I decided to keep her quiet just to avoid temptation of committing murder…

I left her without altering a single word and went to the road side, to get a cab that will take me to Ughelli town to continue my quest. Thank God there was still time for me since it was exactly 11:23am, I still had up to 5hours to move round Ughelli which had big companies compared to the rest cities around my village….