One of the outstanding problems at the time was light. For the past few days, the environment has been under starvation of electricity due to fact that it has been cut due to non payment. The possibility of restoring it seems very remote as some of the neighbors are more than reluctant to paying their due. In the open, they would confess with all honesty of their lack of means to settle their payment.

Their honest deceit, sometimes could induce one who is not conversant with their language to want to take responsibility to settle the matter without qualm. But reflecting for a moment, one would discover they were merely of a sugar coated tongue, often with the capacity to deflect even a high level personality in research work in a psychology.

The reality is that at a go they can afford to acquire every other object one would consider exorbitant in forbearance of more important thing. In the light of such irony, they can also afford to put on their generator over night through which without fuel of say, two to three thousand Naira the generator may not run consecutively for three days. As it were, it became an irony because it is a term used to describe a word which tends to change with a layer of meaning different from the literal one of which the subtler interpretation, the hearer or speaker is often unaware.

It is one of the reasons of this title –“the miserable conspiracy’’- of which the man in the mix of it all has become increasingly isolated in his blissful ignorance of the truth created and perpetuated by the conspirators. In spite of the isolated ignorance of the individual and the atmosphere, nonetheless, when he has to comment on the situation, he speaks as one unaware of the level of his own ignorance of what is stake. But any listener and perhaps some other characters who are “in the know” would no doubt know that he is front of one- seek for some level of sincere understanding.

As a result, it all seems he get taken, literally, for a ride, as he learn to differentiate between what people say and what they do. With this climate of miserable conspirators, it was not much of a surprise, as he reflected on his previous situations and experience, very much identical with his present one.

After what he called the “bricolage meal” he settles to listen to the news of the day as his usual habit. He does this with keen interest as the only avenue to know what is happen around and other parts of the country side. In the process, he felt so tired not to switch off his radio and walk to his bed in the dark; because he forgot to procure a candle since his electric florescent was no longer chargeable for the past few days. Soonest, he dose off after a brief contemplation of the likely outcome of such an unending discrepancy. And in what looks like a trance he was with one of his childhood friend, called Pepino.

They were just in a highway, in an environment they were well familiar with, although, certain things have changed over time in terms of development in an unbelievable manner. The reason stern from the very fact that, the road that was known to be very narrow has now become so wide due to the construction and infrastructural development going on. In spite of this fact, his friend still take the responsibility to lead the way. But to their surprise, after the highway, they come to a point that there was a close up, as if the construction has come to halt. Nevertheless, they could not stop, as his friend beckon to him to come on over since he knew other part they could pass through to their destination.

In the direction they were heading, there was what looks like a low land with a hill and valley of which they have to climb and descend. Although, he was preoccupied about the environment in which they were, but Pepino was always there to assure him all was going to be okay as long as he was leading the way. In not too long a distance after they had descended from the hill there was what looks like an open river, not without breath taken.

Again his friend reassured him they would do everything possible to cross the river without problem. In this open river was some pretty heap of rubbish as it serve as duping enclave, and over the other side was a village that tends to be responsible for the dumping. The result was the rubbish that floats around and in the open river. As his friend contemplated for a while for their next action, he instructed him to follow him as they both dive into the river to crossover. But as they dive, he observed a bunch of visitors of different brands of huge rats swimming in different direction to alert them of their presence as the rightful owner, and to view themselves as an invader as it were.

Of course, he was not surprise as he figures out that they were there probably due to the rubbish in order to feed for themselves. Gradually, they were at the verge of finding way to the other end, in spite of what look like the worst experience of their life time in an open river as they sighted a town they had earlier contemplated. In a split of a second, Billy perceive himself and Pepino struggled to regulate their final push to be out of the water as Billy opens his eye. When he checks his watch, it was exactly 2am in the morning as he spent the remaining hours trying to figure out the meaning of what looks like a long walk in a trance. Read more on:
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