Lekki Sisi - S01 E52

Story 2 years ago

Lekki Sisi - S01 E52

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 52

Because It was dark, I couldn’t see whoever was talking to me. But I felt a presence. Which of the inmates, I couldn’t tell.

‘Yes I am.’ I responded.

‘I’m going to die.’ The woman said.

How do you respond to such an emphatic statement.

‘Why would you say that?’

‘I was arrested few hours before you got here. I poisoned my husband.’

I blinked. ‘Why?’

‘He’d been cheating on me since we got married. For years, I internalized the pain but I just couldn’t bear it anymore when he announced he was taking in another wife. He said I was of no use to him since I couldn’t give him a child. As always, I smiled when he said that. I have never been known for emotional outbursts. I always remained unruffled, no matter how hard you try to upset me. But Inside, I was a volcano ready to erupt. My husband looked at me one day and said, ‘don’t anything get to you?’ I wish he could hear my cry of frustration. Anyway, the morning he was supposed to pay the bride price for his new bride, I poisoned him.’

I sighed. ‘Is he in the hospital now?’

‘He is dead.’

I gasped. ‘oh no!’

‘I was the suspect since I served him breakfast that morning. Yet it’s difficult to pin it on me because my in-laws were around that day, bustling about the kitchen in preparation for the ceremony. I denied having anything to do with it. I told them I only served my husband the food handed over to me from the kitchen.’

‘But it was you who poisoned him?’

‘Yes I did. Although I have lots of witnesses ready to prove that I wasn’t capable of committing such a crime. My mother-in-law believes I did it. She was the one who got me arrested.’

My head was as dark as the place I was. What advice was I supposed to give in this situation?

‘Tomorrow when my lawyer arrives, I’m going to tell him I’ll plead guilty to the crime. I know my husband’s ghost will chase me to an early grave even if the judge acquits me.’