Chance or Destiny...Part 5 Continues.....

.....we hit it squarely....travelling at 90km/hr..it was thrown high in the air as it made a howling yelp,it hit the side of the cab and landed with a sickening thud..

The impact threw the cab into a spin ,the driver struggled to steady the car,it veered off the road towards the forest .....it hit a boulder and spun straight back into the road coming to a rest parallel to the road.

'Jesusssssssssssssssssssssssss'...screamed almost everybody in the cab.They were all woken up by the noise of the impact and some were tossed about.I held the back of the driver seat to stop myself from being tossed about in the car.
'Na person ? or animal,what did we hit?.....questions were flaying..

I was not really scared maybe because i saw the animal before we hit it so i was  ready.

We looked back and saw the animal still thrashing on the dirt road..We could not identify the animal but i had a gut feeling it was not a herbivorous animal more of carnivorous,i saw a flash of its canine before it was hit.
'Driver ,go carry the animal now,na correct bush meat be that'.....one of the passengers spoke with anticipated gaiety

The driver did not say a word ,he did not even bother to get down from the car to check the damage.He engaged the gear straightened the wheel and zoomed off.

Now no one could sleep again ,everyone started talking at the same time,it was raucous .

I still observed that the driver did not make a single sound,i had a feeling he was not seeing the incident from the point of view of the rest of us.

'This guy harsh o,see as we miss better meat'....someone chipped in a pithy comment.

15 mins later,everything became quiet again....

in a quiet tone i asked the driver....'Oga hw far?i no say you get reason wey u no stop'

'Dem dey take animals rob,if u go down to go carry am na the end be that iwotago?..he answered nonchalantly.

'oh ok ,i see...how many more hours before we reach camp?.....

'about an hour...


One hour later we got to camp,i alighted with my new corper friend Segun thanked the driver profusely.We had made it shortly an hour before midnight.

The camp was already buzzing with graduates,it was like a grand reunion for friends and foes and a feeling of  'joie de vivre' was in the air.

Segun and I made our way to the hall for registration and all the other official matters.Two hours later we were all done but tired,we proceeded to mammy market to get something to eat.
I had just received my order of Akpu and vegetable soup when  a hand grabbed my shoulders.

'Jojo Natty,late comer!!'.......said the voice

I knew that voice no doubt.

'Makanaky baba!.....................................