SURROUNDED
EPISODE 8
The shock of what just happened was heavy on me. The whole drinks!!! Not one bottle survived. My salary is to be paid in two days and the Agreement is whatever damages caused by me will be deducted from my salary.
I just sat on the road and started crying. My salary is 25k. The drinks are worth 125k. I will be working for three months without payment. I cried more when i remembered that my remaining money is with my oga. I can’t leave if i want to.
The incident got to my oga. The man quickly said, thank God I’m with your money. I will minus it from your money in my possession. He insulted the life out of me.
I watched on the pay day how my fellow workers were receiving their salaries. I couldn’t hold back my tears. The next month, i went to my master and asked for my remaining money. I want to put it in the bank. The answer he gave me shocked the life out of me. He said “WHICH MONEY” i felt paralyzed. I replied “the remaining money from the one i gave to you” . His reply descended like atomic bomb. “is it because of 5000, you are blocking my air”? I was like sir??? He said, “yes na. You gave me 130thousand, i deducted 125thousand. Don’t you know maths”? Nooooo, i shouted. Sir, i gave you 180thousand o. My money is remaining 55thousand sir, not 5000″. My oga stood up and gave me a dirty slap. “Idiot, he shouted, are you mad? Oh, you now call me a thief ? This is how you pay me back?. I housed you for free i even give you free food sometimes, now you call me a liar and a thief”? “Sir”, i replied, with heavy tears in my eyes, “i gave you 180thousand sir. I……… I didn’t finish my statement when my oga bounced on me. He beat the hell out of me calling me a thief and an ingrate. He threw the 5thousand at me and pushed me out of his premises. He warned me not to step foot in his compound. He called his boy at home to bring my bag to his depot. My bag was brought. Once again, BACK TO THE STREET. I cried. That night i decided to end it all. I am tired. I decided to take my life. I went to a nearby shop and bought liquid insecticide. I bought 10 bottles. I needed to die very well. I took them with so much anger and so much rage. I was looking for a lonely part. My plan was to finish everything at once and die. I got to a lonely street. It was about 7:30pm. I just dropped the 10 bottles of liquid insecticide on the floor and sat down. I needed moral to drink them. So i started remembering all my failures and losses. The next thing i heard was “OGA HOW MUCH” I didn’t know a woman was standing in front of me. “WETIN”? i replied harshly. “The otapiapia na” the woman replied. Ah no dey sell am. Just get out”. “I won buy all of them o” E dey work”? To chase her away I said 2000. “For all of them”? She asked. “Yes” i replied. To my greatest surprise, she gave me the 2000. “Oya tie am for nylon. Do quick abeg, time no dey”. I started searching for the nylon. My mind was, after selling this one, i will go and buy another one. I packaged it for the woman and handed it over. The woman now said “Thank you o. Better pikin. Your mama no go cry for your head o. Thank you o”. Immediately, i felt cold. I watched this woman as she left. My eyes went straight to the back of her leg. I got goose bumps all over me when i saw thesame birth mark my mother had on thesame spot, on the woman. I started crying again. I cried non stop not minding i was on the road. Passersby didn’t even care. Everyone was minding their business. I took my bag again and continued the journey to NO WHERE.
I got a lodge of 1k for one night. This time, i did not talk to any female. I did not come out of that room till morning. I couldn’t sleep. What happened that day started playing around my head. My phone rang. It was my father. He called to say he just acquired 5 buses for transportation. My sister is getting married, obiora is commissioning his shopping mall, i should come down to the east. I told my father i don’t have money. He asked about my business, i told him all I’m passing through. He said God will help me. I should borrow money and come. He dropped the call.
I got very angry. “Look at these people. I should borrow money and come? When i have millionaires as father and siblings? I should borrow money and come? I started crying and kicking the chair and table in the room. I couldn’t sleep that night. The next morning i left.
I saw barrow for rent. I saw a park where barrow men stayed. I went to rent a barrow and took position like others. Some were looking at me. One of the guys came to me, “bros welcome”. You don pay park money? Na #200. Come mah carry you go where you go pay. He took me to the area boys. I paid my dues and they gave me the uniform. The guy took my bag and safe kept it for me. Meeting Afam was good but it introduced me into so many bad things that made my life worse.
I told him all i have been going through. He said i am weak. He asked if i smoke, i said no. He said i needed it. I need to shack up. Afam introduces me to cigarette, drinking and then gang of BAD BOYS.
We are barrow boys in the morning and ARMED ROBBERS AT NIGHT. I went through intense training inside a thick bush on how to handle the gun. I was initiated into the group. My first assignment was my father’s house. I never knew, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN THE DEVIL THROUGH THE POWER OF THE DEVIL.
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