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After the first day fiasco with the goat,we got better and Alfa was always on hand to help skin the goats ,we even went as far as making pepper soup with the head.We were on a spree ,taking down goats at will.We were so 'prosperous' that some of our friends would come around and share from the bounty.
We were so carefree that Alhaji found out what we had been doing,Alhaji being a thief himself,did not bother to confront us ,instead he started stealing goats too.He had a family of a wife and three children with another two extended family staying with him,meaning Alhaji was stealing twice the number of goats we were stealing.
After months of these pilfering by Alhaji and our team,the supply of goats suddenly dried up.Only two things could have happened,the first one was that the owners of these goats had finally found a way of 'sheltering' them or all the goats had a meeting and decided to relocate so as to avoid extinction.
A meeting convened.
'So,una wan tell me say four wheeler no dey for this whole Ilorin again'...i asked
'Omo,we no fit go beyond our vicinity o,make the thing no turn to capital offence o'......Uche advised
'How goats no go finish when na every weekend Alhaji de do goat asun'........Obi was furious
'Anyway,we have to find a way to solve this issue o'.........i said
'How now?no more 2 wheeler sef'.......Obi reminded us
'We will find a way,make we come from lectures we go continue the gist'...
'we better o,am running out of my last supply'......Obi said it as if we were dealing in drugs
Weeks turned to months,and it got so difficult to even see a goat walk by talk less of hunting one,Alhaji seemed okay and did not show any sign he was bothered,infact we all kept mute because we knew what each of us were doing.No one dared to bring up the subject,it was like an unspoken code.
After several discussions,we still could not find an alternative to our meat addiction,i called it addiction because of a particular day that Uche wanted to eat fried eggs and boiled yam but because he was thinking of meat all the while,he got the eggs ,boiled the yam,made the egg sauce,then proceeded to break the eggs only to find out that he bought boiled eggs.
A particular day i had gone to school for lectures and was in a hurry to meet up and i ran into Madamski,the most patient hustler i have ever met in my life.
'Jojo ,make i see N20 Naira dere now,i go return am for evening'....he hustled me
'Madamski,abeg i don late ,wait for me'......i lied as i moved on
'No wan,i go wait for you here'.....
Hours later,finishing from lectures ,i was dog tired,i started to shuffle towards the bus stop,i was already thinking of the horror of struggling to get a cab,when i met Madamski at the same spot i left him.I had totally forgotten about him,i would have changed my route because when Madmaski says he is waiting for you,you can bet your life he would be waiting.
'Jojo,how far now,i still de wait you now'...
'Madamski,you no de give up'....i was exasperated
'I even get one mercenary job for you sef'......he knew about my sitting for exams for selected people for money.
'ehn ehn,u dey scope me because of money abi?......
'Lailai,u sabi Ronke now,na she dey look for you sef'.......
I knew Ronke,i had done some mercenary jobs for her before,she was a sure customer,always paid on time.
'Omo,na N10 naira i get now o,u go take am?'....i had to get madamski off my path
'at all at all na witch,give me,i go tell Ronke say i see u'....
'Make she check me for department for wednesday'....i started walking towards the bus stop.
Thirty minutes later ,i was at home and surprised that the others were yet to get home but something was amiss.As i was entering the building i bumped into Kunle.Kunle was Alhaji's right hand man and his hacthet man ,once you see Kunle around then you know something was going on.
At first i though,our neighbour was having a party when i began to perceive the smell of roasted meat,i decided to check through my back window to ascertain where the smell was coming from.I could always see Alhaji's backyard from my window and as soon a s i peeped ,i saw that he was roasting a large piece of animal.
'Ha this Alhaji sha,dem don kill four wheeler,omo where dem go root this one from now this time wey dem sacrce'...i though aloud thinking i had enough gist to give the others when they got home.
'But wait a minute o'.....i paused
I saw the head of the suppose four wheeler,it looked smaller,something was not right.I waited a bit at the window,hiding behind the curtains.I had to see more.
Alhaji kept turning the meat so as not get burnt,i waited.
He turned the laps,i waited.
He turned the breast,i waited.
Then he turned the head,i squinted.
I could not believe what i was seeing,at first ,i saw that the ears were kind of longer.Then i saw the teeth,the fangs were long,Goats don't have fangs..........it slowly began to dawn on me that in the absence of goats ,Alhaji had gone higher.
OH MY GOD!!!! ALHAJI HAS STARTED EATING DOGS!!!!!!!!!
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