How it goes on the EBIAG Planet:

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« Reply #100 on: 06 October 2014, 14:12:39 »
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Prof...update ooo.

EBIAG Planet is quite interesting....
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« Reply #101 on: 06 October 2014, 15:05:40 »
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tnx for d update. Mor pls
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« Reply #102 on: 06 October 2014, 16:34:39 »
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Prof...update ooo.

EBIAG Planet is quite interesting....

yeah, and it pormises to be more intresting my broda..
how are u doin?
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« Reply #103 on: 06 October 2014, 16:46:00 »
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Still observing our able breadwinner of the family..John would be really ashamed of the silly notes he wrote in the past..

Nice one Sammy, looks like I'll have to borrow a characteristic from Oliver Twist today

More please..
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« Reply #104 on: 06 October 2014, 16:48:48 »
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Bro sammy!!!!! Update please
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« Reply #105 on: 06 October 2014, 17:36:38 »
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Still observing our able breadwinner of the family..John would be really ashamed of the silly notes he wrote in the past..

Nice one Sammy, looks like I'll have to borrow a characteristic from Oliver Twist today

More please..

feel free to borrow anything from anywher cos u are in a free (-w-o-r-l-d) EBIAG. Cheers!
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« Reply #106 on: 06 October 2014, 17:40:45 »
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More update boss
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« Reply #107 on: 06 October 2014, 23:15:02 »
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sammy, thanks for the update, i was able to register all over again..........pls our dinner na
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« Reply #108 on: 07 October 2014, 03:31:12 »
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sammy, thanks for the update, i was able to register all over again..........pls our dinner na

Wlcome Princess...sorry there was no dinner, but sure there should be breakfast.
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« Reply #109 on: 07 October 2014, 04:38:02 »
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CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT
We began to live from hand to mouth for the rest of the year. My father and her illegal wife had sold most of the property—Television, Radio, Refridgerator, yet they couldn’t meet up. Now they began to appear religious, trying to attend vigils and other church services. However, Toyosi didn’t cease from going to herbalists to get solution, but they had none.
December was drawing close, but we had nothing at home. Toyosi threatened to walk out of the relationship to wait for her husband’s return but John persuaded her to stay to take care of Bode with him for the moment.
Toyosi would weep all alone sometimes. I wondered what actually was wrong with her. Did anything go wrong again? I would ponder. I thought all was getting better, but I never knew something had gone wrong between the illegal couple which I didn’t know.

I intensified my asking for my mother, but I didn’t get any direct answer. Toyosi asked me to see my father concerning my mother’s issue. When I did, John didn’t reply me. I wondered how someone could be so stubborn. After all these ‘nine plagues of the Egyptians’ which had come upon him and his family (except me), this man still refused to let my mother go. Certainly my father is another Pharaoh in the making, I thought.
It was soon going to be New Year day, yet there seemed to be nothing at home to use to do the New Year day. Bode was complaining vehemently. The evil hand of malnutrition seemed to have had much grip of him than any other person in the family. Bode’s once bulgy cheeks had shrunken so much. His neck had gone thin for lack of balanced diet and one might easily pass him for a kwashiorkor patience. The sicknesses which swept across the family, sparing me those times, really did much to their financial status.
Toyosi expected a response from her husband in form of money, but she got nothing.

The New Year gradually dragged in. It was all hunger-strike for us. If not for Mrs Omotayo who gave us some cooked food, we wouldn’t have had anything to eat throughout the New Year day. Toyosi humbly took the meal from her that day and shed tears. Bode shed tears too, asking his daddy why he didn’t perform his responsibility as a father to take care of the need of the family in the New Year. It was then John joined in the cry. I wanted to cry too, but all I had was laughter. My father was angry with me. He thought I was laughing at their calamity, so he ordered me out of the room.
I clutched to my pen and then began to write something:

NEW YEAR HUNGER
Glancing at life sometimes
You are left to wonder
Is it worth living?
Yes to some it is,
Cos they have what it takes
To make life worth living
But to some it’s not,
A capital NO,
Cos to them it is but
A moment spent in woes

While some celebrate
A New Year indeed,
Others Celebrate
A New Year of Hunger…

I flipped back. I had written over fifty poems so far. I remembered how I begun those days; how Toyosi tore my first sets of poems. But I wrote them again and she didn’t get to know. If only I knew where that Judimax was, I would take my manuscript to them and get published. It would be a dream come true. I would make the whole world ask Toyosi and my father where exactly they kept my mother; six feet under the earth or where else?
I remembered my mother again. My patience was no more in place. It was already more than a year since she was jailed for no reason at all. Something made me think of committing patricide. I was going to thrust a knife through my father’s belly at the dead of the night and end it all at once. I wouldn’t be without my mother all day. It would be better to kill my father and then get killed in return than to allow this sinner go scot-free.
I went to bed, waiting for my father to sleep as well. I was going to rise up and walk straight to his room to do the job, I thought.
I got up from bed and reached for a knife close by, a kitchen knife. I began to walk stealthily to his room. Toyosi left the door ajar. I didn’t care where she was. I opened the door gently and found my father dozing on the bed. I walked straight to him and lowered the knife into his body with all my strength. I watched him grope for death. Now I needed to escape into the night, never to be seen again, but then Toyosi appeared at the door and screamed! I knew she screamed. going by the raised muscles on her neck.

I woke up from my nightmare. So it was a dream, I sighed. How on earth would I have killed my own father?

Note- this post was edited due to a little error, thanks.

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« Reply #110 on: 07 October 2014, 05:50:52 »
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Make she toyosi die joooor
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« Reply #111 on: 07 October 2014, 07:35:38 »
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Make she toyosi die joooor
mak she neva die oo...tori no go sweet
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« Reply #112 on: 07 October 2014, 07:52:45 »
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Make she toyosi die joooor
mak she neva die oo...tori no go sweet
ehn ehn. Okay. Make she no die o. But she must regret
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« Reply #113 on: 07 October 2014, 07:55:42 »
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oga ,pls more food oooooooooo
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« Reply #114 on: 07 October 2014, 08:49:43 »
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Good morning ppl....some of us are viewing without commenting, why nah? Let's say sth about the story nah, to encourage d OP. Thanks.
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« Reply #115 on: 07 October 2014, 09:06:40 »
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Good morning ppl....some of us are viewing without commenting, why nah? Let's say sth about the story nah, to encourage d OP. Thanks.
ok boss
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« Reply #116 on: 07 October 2014, 14:20:49 »
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I still follow, waiting petiently to see the end of the illegal couple.
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« Reply #117 on: 07 October 2014, 14:49:31 »
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The story is very nice really enjoying it .thanks to the writer
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« Reply #118 on: 07 October 2014, 15:14:50 »
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The story is very nice really enjoying it .thanks to the writer

God bless the readers too
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« Reply #119 on: 07 October 2014, 15:46:08 »
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Viewing this thread, Amsad, Cindydearie and SammyHoe
They will not comment o (laughing)
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« Reply #120 on: 07 October 2014, 16:36:37 »
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Update bro !!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #121 on: 07 October 2014, 18:29:15 »
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*Grab a chair and have his seat*prof sammy I am awaiting the update
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« Reply #122 on: 07 October 2014, 18:53:26 »
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Sammy con give me dinner o, I dey hungry o
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« Reply #123 on: 07 October 2014, 19:30:41 »
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Oga sammy Rose don dey hear?
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« Reply #124 on: 07 October 2014, 20:56:03 »
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Oga cum n update pls
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« Reply #125 on: 07 October 2014, 21:06:44 »
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Oga sammy Rose don dey hear?

She dey 'hear' sign language, lol
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« Reply #126 on: 07 October 2014, 21:07:08 »
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Good one Sammy, sending you a PM
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« Reply #127 on: 08 October 2014, 00:37:52 »
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Oga sammy Rose don dey hear?

She dey 'hear' sign language, lol
ahhh oga sammy hw toyosi scream come wake am for reality na,abi toyosi open her eye frm sleep do sign language of screaming
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« Reply #128 on: 08 October 2014, 00:59:33 »
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how come rose heard her scream?? nice updates by the way.
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« Reply #129 on: 08 October 2014, 02:27:55 »
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hmmm this story is really nice oga sammy where is her mum?
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« Reply #130 on: 08 October 2014, 03:38:27 »
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hmmm this story is really nice oga sammy where is her mum?

A little more time sir and u will know. gud morning sir.
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« Reply #131 on: 08 October 2014, 03:42:13 »
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Renzyl, Peksmay and Akinkudin, thank you all for your correction...
Sometimes I just have too much on my head and tend to forget some key points...
I have made the necessary correction on my last post.
God bless you all...and pls do correct me as soon as you spot anoda error.
Thanks
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Renzyl, Peksmay and Akinkudin, thank you all for your correction...
Sometimes I just have too much on my head and tend to forget some key points...
I have made the necessary correction on my last post.
God bless you all...and pls do correct me as soon as you spot anoda error.
Thanks
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« Reply #133 on: 08 October 2014, 06:25:09 »
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
It was not quite long when school resumed for those who went to school. Bode’s parent began to find it very difficult sending him to school. Biodun and Laide had no problem at all. The taxi was back to pick them up every day.
I sat down thinking deep. Will this year pass by gradually without seeing my mother? I thought. How could life be so cruel like this? I made up my mind to see my father once more. I don’t think he would listen to me. He was already in deeper thought than thinking of a way to get my mother out. He would need money to bribe the Chief Warders and all the police involved in extending my mother’s jail term.
I would do anything to see my mother again, but who could help? My mind went straight to Moses, that young man who helped me cross the express road on my graduation day two years back. I remembered I had crammed his home address, maybe I should just visit him and tell him everything, I thought.
I had saved some amount of money, so I would not have problem getting transport down there, though it was far from Ejigbo where I resided. I wrote something on paper and decided to pay him a visit.
Toyosi had taken some of her husband’s property to a market to sell them off. She made the decision as a punitive measure for her husband’s refusal to respond to her letter, in which she told him to send her some money. Toyosi would tell her husband that she was forced to do that when hunger came knocking hard at the door of her stomach. Her husband would be around the next month and she would return to him.
I wrote the address in my head down, the home address of Moses who helped me cross the road that day:
Immaculate Moses; Plot 5, Estate Road, Lekki.

I also wrote all information down regarding how to get to the exact place. I would be showing the paper to anyone I come across so that I wouldn’t miss my way.
John had started working as a labourer for a factory. He would help them offload some things from large trucks, just to make sure that he kept body and soul together. At first, he said he wasn’t going to do that, but when the hands of hunger began to beckon on us, he had to do it.
That morning, I took off. I didn’t want to leave late, so that I could return home early enough before any of Toyosi or John would come. Bode had also gone to school too, though he was still owing the school fee for the term.
I didn’t find it very difficult locating the place where Moses lived. I met someone and showed him the letter. When he saw it, he waved his head at me and spoke. I made signs to him to say that I couldn’t speak. The man understood me quite well, so he wrote it for me:

Immaculate Moses the son of that headmaster is no more living in this place. They have relocated to their new house since last six months
Where is their new house? I wrote back.

It is in Festac, but I don’t know the address

I bowed down to thank the man as I began to depart. It was still 12pm then, so I had plenty of time, I thought. Lekki was a very beautiful place I didn’t want to leave. I roamed the streets and most of the time got tapped by people to tell me that I should leave the road. Many car owners had peeped out of their windows to ail insults at me, but I was not bothered since I didn’t hear a thing.
At last, around 4pm I began to make back for my home. I knew where to get the right buses, so I did, but I was the only person in the bus. For some times, I remained the only one as the bus conductor kept shouting to call in passengers.

Soon, the bus was half-filled. I began to doze off as the air blew its cool on me.
When I realized myself again, I was kneeling beside a traditional man dressed like a cultist. I was carrying a big calabash. Five other people were kneeling down too, with calabashes on their head. I had had about money ritual before, so I guessed that was what we were there for.
I couldn’t think at all. I was just looking at them like a zombie. The man took turn to ask each victim some questions one after the other, which I perceived they were answering. They fell down dead as soon as they had answered those questions.
I was still on my knees when they brought a young boy in. They made him kneel down too. His face seemed familiar. Yes! He was one of the bullies who sneaked to my school to torture us. He was attending a school for normal people in Ejigbo. It was just a fence that was demarcating us. His name was Austin.
Austin had even succeeded in raping some of our girls. When he attempted to rape me back then, I caught him aback, grabbing him by the neck. I pushed him away and ran. Austin had been expelled from his school the day he raped a blind girl called Amina. Amina was the most gentle girl back then. Austin crept to our school through the hole they had drilled into the wall. Amina, who was walking towards the toilet with her walking stick, was gripped by Austin. She was raped to unconsciousness.
Austin was caught by some of the deaf people in my school, then he was expelled.
To be continued…

I finally got here..well done sammy. Bt puleez I want more soon puleeeeeeez.

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I finally got here..well done sammy. Bt puleez I want more soon puleeeeeeez.

Just what I don't have is time. Sometimes I tend to forget that I'm still writing the story here because I have finished it one month back on my official website www.ebiag.com. Okay now let me go and copy from there and paste here.

SammyHoe:
Just what I don't have is time. Sometimes I tend to forget that I'm still writing the story here because I have finished it one month back on my official website www.ebiag.com. Okay now let me go and copy from there and paste here.

OK..tnx.

Mheen,its been a long time ooo,sammyhoe well done o and happy new month. And Edogho I see you ooo.

Odward:
Mheen,its been a long time ooo,sammyhoe well done o and happy new month. And Edogho I see you ooo.

yES O oDWARD! i'M always on the EBIAG official website posting stories and news. We're really missing YOYO BITTERS over there o.

SammyHoe:
yES O oDWARD! i'M always on the EBIAG official website posting stories and news. We're really missing YOYO BITTERS over there o.

heheheheh....it is well!!!

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The kidnappers turned around to face me first since I was the one who was here before Austin. They began to shake a gourd over my head. I didn’t hear a sound, but I knew it was making a sound because mother had told me about it while we were watching a Yoruba Nollywood movies many years ago. She had told me that people could be used for money rituals but I laughed over it. Now I would be a sample, perhaps a scapegoat.
My heart beat fast but I didn’t move since my external organs were all numb. They were talking to me, but I was speechless. Following the movement of their lips, I knew what they wanted—my name. Everything in me was willing to tell them my name, but how would I do it? I tried and tried to voice it out through my mouth, despite the fact that I knew I couldn’t do it. It didn’t just work, then I put my hand to use. They were confused with the way I gesticulated, but it gave them the clue that I was deaf and dumb.
“Speak,” they said in their dialect which I understood by lip-reading. They gave up.
The kidnappers turned to Austin who was looking directly at me. He was in school uniform, perhaps he was just returning from school when he was kidnapped. Austin fastened his eyeballs on me to the extent that they suspected that we knew each other. They asked him if he knew me and he nodded his head in the affirmative.
“Ki ni oruko e?” they asked him and I understood by watching their lips. I knew that they were asking for my name from Austin. The boy didn’t hesitate before saying, “Rosa Rosa!” My eyes were fixed at his lips and I knew he was pronouncing my nickname and not my real name. I was bitter because I wished he would pronounce my real name—the spell was really on me. Only my close friends in school would know me as Rose and not an intruder like him.
The men smiled and stood before me, shouting my nickname. They touched my head with the local timbrel in form of a long gourd and chorused my nickname, but nothing happened to me.
They were surprised.
They went back to Austin and asked for his name. He easily told them his name and they put the gourd over his head. He fell flat and passed on. They laughed--a wicked laughter.
They came back to me and recited my nickname over again. I was unmoved. They were contemplating on setting me free, but one of them said they should ask me for my name again, perhaps I was pretending that I was dumb earlier. They asked me in both English and Yoruba, but I couldn’t respond, though I made the sign language to them as a reply.
They sweated. I wondered why they couldn’t slaughter me directly with a knife, perhaps that would not produce the kind of money they wanted, I thought. All my spirit wanted to tell them what my name was and I just desired to speak at once, but I couldn’t. They were amazed when they saw tears flowing. They asked me why I was weeping. I perceived what they asked and waved my hand over my mouth to show my willingness to speak.
After trying several times to speak without success, they gave up on me, but I still had the urge to say my name. I shook my fingers in a way to show that I needed a pen to write my name. They understood me. I remembered I had a pen with me earlier into which my name was already written on a rolled paper. I scrambled for the biro in my pocket with my left hand but couldn’t find it. I swapped the hand I was using to carry the big calabash from the right to the left so that I could use the right hand to search my right pocket now. I did but didn’t feel the biro there. Then I pointed towards Austin who was lying lifeless beside his bag. They understood me.
Hastily, they ransacked his bag and came up with a pen and a paper. I would now write down my name and then, they would call it and I would fall dead. I knew I would fall dead but I couldn’t just control my desire for death at that moment.
I held the pen and scribbled something into the paper. The ink wasn’t flowing. I tried hard but it wouldn’t just flow. The men were scared. They ordered me to leave immediately, leading me through a path. I had to find my way home.
It was already too late for me, so the main gate of our house had been shut. Toyosi and John didn’t even care about my whereabouts. They were sleeping soundly in the house already. I hit the gate hard for minutes. It was Taiba and Mrs Omotayo who came to open it for me. The latter turned around and left when she saw me; only Taiba remained. I shook with shock as the horror of that day came rocking my brain again.

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Odward:
Mheen,its been a long time ooo,sammyhoe well done o and happy new month. And Edogho I see you ooo.

high priest long time. where be u since? missed d yoyo.b fest o. how ur bro stormy? i missed his wahala die... help me say hello to him.

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CHAPTER FORTY
It was on a Sunday, I had the chance to play with my friends, Biodun and Laide, all because Mrs Omotayo their mother had been to the fellowship. She even invited Toyosi and John that day and they had all gone.

Bode didn’t go with them. He had a friend, Obinna, who often come home with him from school. Obinna came that day to play with Bode. They would scatter the whole house and expect me to tidy things up. Obinna was a bit older than Bode. He was also a troublesome type. I wondered why Obinna didn’t see things the way I see it. He would also join hands with Bode to make fun of us, calling us several names which I couldn’t hear.
Obinna cut many different species of leaves and stuck them into his mouth all at once to mock me. I sounded my gibberish to him as a warning and he laughed. I didn’t know where the suggestion was coming from—I just felt like going in to take a metallic object with which I would bash his head. I controlled the urge, because the sermon we heard in church just in the morning that Sunday spoke about endurance.
Obinna came to Biodun and knocked him on the head. Biodun lost balance and fell. I rushed to the scene and pushed Obinna aside as I began to raise Biodun up, but then, Bode had tied Laide’s wheelchair to a pole. He was laughing.
I was fed up.

Taiba was inside the house, sleeping. She was the type one would wake for an hour without success. How was I even going to tell her that Bode and Obinna were dealing with her mistress’ children? Even if I wrote it down, she would not be able to read it because she was a stark illiterate.
I challenged them to a fight, but they beat me easily. Obinna’s bone was stronger than I had expected. Sometimes back, my mother told me that the Ibo people were strong because of the Akpu they eat frequently. Back then, I didn’t believe her, but now no one taught me to do so. Even Obinna alone would have beaten me up, let alone the two of them.
As Obinna sat on me and kept punching me, Bode came with a pack of sand, which he had gathered at the backyard with a packer. They were going to pack them into my mouth. I held my mouth tight as Bode came close. My two hands were behind my back, being held strongly by Obinna. Bode tried to force my mouth opened, but it was very tight for him.

I turned my face around and saw Biodun approaching. He must have been hearing my groans and he thought he could come and suffer with me. Laide was shaking like an epileptic patient on the wheelchair where she was fixed. If only she could move now, she would have wheeled herself to me also, to avenge me. I was cold with self-pity. What wrong have I done to merit this? I thought silently as Bode eventually made it and put some sand into my mouth. I thought I was going to die.
I stared into the sun which was already at the west. Who would help now? Help does not come from the west or east or south, I thought. Then I remembered God. If only he could save me once more, just the way he did me three days back in the hands of the kidnappers.
To my shock, Obinna rose swiftly and rushed away, as well as Bode. They collided with Biodun who was standing by. They were off to the gate. Shockingly, Taiba fluttered out of the apartment too and went after them. Maybe they saw her rushing out, that was why they took to their heels so that she wouldn’t beat them up, but no, I was wrong. Biodun too was trying to flee. Why was he trying to flee when he had no eyes to see that the others had fled? I coughed out sand and began to rise. I had managed not to let the sand get into my throat.

I turned my eyes backward and saw Laide. She seemed to have died on her wheelchair. I was shocked. What could have happened? Why was she not able to move her body again? I asked myself. I was confused about which of them I should first attend to—Biodun on the floor or Laide who seemed to have collapsed on her wheelchair. I rushed for Laide first, believing that Biodun would get up from the floor soon.
I shook her but she didn’t respond at all. I rushed into the room to get salt which I poured into a bowl of water. I poured some water into her throat and sprinkled some on her body and she coughed back to life. I loosed her wheelchair from the pole she was tied unto and pushed it close to Biodun. I tapped him to life too. He raised his head and I let him lay it on Laide’s lap. They were restless.
I thought Taiba would return from the chase of Bode and Obinna which I thought she was out doing, but twenty minutes had come and gone, yet she couldn’t. I rushed into Biodun’s apartment and made a lukewarm tea. I sat before them and began to spoonfeed them one after the other. Just then, the gate opened and three people entered in a rush—my father, Toyosi and Mrs Omotayo.

...continuation

They fastened their eyes on me as they looked towards us. Just then, I felt a vibration and they scattered different direction. Even Biodun’s head fell from Laide’s lap. I was the only one who didn’t have a clue.

The whole world had turned upside down. Some people rushed into our compound and rushed out again. Toyosi had signed to me to ask where Bode was and I told her that he rushed out some moments back. Toyosi didn’t think twice before jumping into the street herself. Mrs Omotayo was in tears as she saw her restless children. She somehow managed to ask me where Taiba was and I rolled my index fingers before her. She understood what I meant—that she had run away too.
John was just roaming around the house. He was confused. It was as though he would run mad if Bode wouldn’t return to the house. I thought the end of the world had come, going by what I saw; cracks on our walls. A window pane had even fallen from our own apartment.

Mrs Omotayo was scared to go inside her apartment, so also was John. They feared that the building could collapse on their heads.
Toyosi returned late into the evening, around 10pm and asked my father where Bode was. As a matter of fact, the two of them asked each other same question at the same time. They put their hands on their heads and wept.
I didn’t know if my deaf and dumb status was a plus or a minus. Till late in the night, I still couldn’t get a clue of what was really happening. For the rest of them, it seemed they now understood, having sat round their rechargeable radio, listening to the breaking news there.

Biodun and Laide had also fully regained their consciousness. He was the one who wrote a note to me to tell me what actually was going on, yet there were three able people in the house unable to do that.

That night, Biodun just walked up to where I was standing and gave it to me. Then immediately, he turned back and began to go to where her mother was sitting. Mrs Omotayo must have seen him come to me, but she had nothing to say now. Afterall, I was the one who fed her dying children with tea a while ago, something Taiba was not around to do. Who knows if they would have died if I hadn’t done that? I thought.

I opened Biodun’s note and began to read; writing in Braille was such a wonderful type of writing that you wouldn’t need light for while reading. I traced the letters with my fingers and got the message in the dark.

A news from the radio says that the armies in the cantonment were only testing their bombs. So, all is well! Thanks so much for saving our lives.

“What!” I thought hard in my heart. Testing bomb! How come they were doing such things within the city? I thought mother said the intense sound of bomb could deafen someone. Does that mean that everybody in Lagos right now are deaf and dumb? Of course no, because till this moment I still saw Toyosi and John speaking to each other with their lips and rolling on the floor, crying for Bode’s absence. Mrs Omotayo was trying to console them. I guessed she hadn’t heard what Bode was doing to her children when the bomb blast occurred. If she knew, she wouldn’t have taken it lightly with them.
I reached for my poem book in the middle of the night. Then I wrote the date, January 27, 2002.
BOMB BLAST!

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noblebright:
Indeed we're all able Sammy what a great story, her father n toyosi payed to there own coin n Rose get married to some she never imagine, to be sincere I leant a lot from this story (1) in any situation u see yourself just remember that you're ABLE n so on. Sammy I couldn't comment on Ebiag website n I don't no y

How? Why?