Yus (just) to carry person from Palaver Dey Plenty (PDP) motor park to the Asylum Protection Centre (APC), na him you dey yarg (charge) J10, 000, 000 million?
Akawuke Operator: Oka e be like you dey stingy small-o?
Ete Obot: (Now very furious, vituperates the A.O.). A bi dem swear for you? E-e-e-ejo go no fi!
A.O.: (As he was about to hop on his commercial motor bike, he fired back at Obot very impudently). After all, no be some person them dey cut ordinary grass dey take J10, 000, 000?
Ete Obot: (Now eyes red with fierce spluttered stammeringly). Ma basi! A ko kill you here and no body ko (go) ask me.
A.O. (Unperturbed by the threat from Obot). Ete yim, you no know from Problem Dey Plenty motor park to that Assylum Protection Centre (APC, a.k.a. House of Fugitives) far well, well?
Obot: (Who cannot take it any more from someone he considered as a nonentity, exploded and barked out). I say yump (jump) up! (In that state of anger, he dashed for his machete he had hidden in a Ghana-Must-Go bag to make good his threat and the Akawuke man sped off, hurling unimaginable insults at him).
Exeunt, A.O: (Looking back to cast a mischievous and an impudent look at Obot as he was hurrying to leave, he said to him). Oka e be like your greed na ogbonge greed. E ko (go) gut (good) make you go for ABA-o, oka (Oga).
And switching his Spotify on to listen to his favourite collection of High Life, the next featured music on play was: Ashawo no be work-o, na management-o-o-o-o-o! Ashawo-o, Ashawo no be work-o na managementio-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!
The curtain falls and the light fades, leaving Obot in a state of unparalleled confusion as he tried to figure out the actual direction of the wind.
*Abnormal Behaviour Analysis.
***To be continued.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Odey Aduma was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator and the Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; member, core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit's chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endangered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.
He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001.
General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.
That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge successes during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day.
Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.
In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism with Specialism in Environment at City, University of London in 2003-2004.
Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).
Also, Mr Aduma is a professional mentor on the Post Graduate Professional Mentoring Scheme of the City, University of London, England, United Kingdom.
