Must Read: Choice & Consequence - Season 1 - Episode 3

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Must Read: Choice & Consequence - Season 1 - Episode 3

”The girl fine sha.” Charles said sU-Cking the life out of his bone. Afterwards he began to crack it like a local dog.

”She fine die.” I responded quickly nodding my head in agreement.

”You like what you see ehn? Is that your school girl friend slowly fading away?” he asked with a smile playing on his lips.
I looked at him in disbelief ”fade away for where? That girl is my one and only true love but this babe… this babe set die. Did you see that waist calling out to me?” Nor be me dey cry ‘your waist your waist’ na the waist dey cry give me. We began laughing again and I nearly choked on my meal. I pushed the plate aside and yelled out to Mama Patience.

I discovered this place like a dog chasing a bone and I’ve never eaten anywhere since. I had gone further to recruit my roommate, Charles although Mama Patience didn’t seem to appreciate my effort. When i asked her for a discount she was quick to remind me, ”na my market dey bring dem come. Food wen sweet, dey use im own mouth call customer. If I reduce all my customer money, how I go train my children make dem do NYSC like una?”
I was serving in the South South region of Nigeria and there was nothing exciting about this place yet. However I was glad to be out of my mother’s hair and that city that refused to let me out of her grasp. Well it was partly my fault; this was the only place I knew. Although I was not an indigene, I was born tere, raised there, attended primary, secondary school and University. Virtually everything I know revolved around Benin and its environs.

I tried to leave during my tertiary years but everybody said I would be the biggest fool to ignore the greatest University this side of the region and so I stayed put. I went ahead to study Banking and Finance at the prestigious University of Benin and needless to say, I enjoyed my time there.

So permit me to take back my earlier statement and say this has been the most exciting place I have visited since my last trip to Lagos. It was rugged, the mosquitoes were merciless, the power was epileptic, the students were not ready to learn and the accommodation (provided by the school) was a mess but I loved it here. The air was clean, the fruits were fresh, and water pure. I had eaten all manner of fish and had even discovered mussels and crabs!