Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 71

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Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 71

I went to the orientation camp along Abuja-Kaduna express road and spent three interesting weeks there. I was the platoon leader of 3rd platoon. I had introduced my self to the Camp Commandant, Captain Kefas Dalong immediately I got to camp and I got acquainted with his soldiers too. We usually drank beer together at the camp mammy market every night. Most of my fellow corps members respected me because they thought I was a serving Army officer who came for the NYSC programme. Two of my serving Colleagues visited me while still at the camp in their military uniforms, they were with me in my room and at the parade ground until we went to the mammy market at night, I invited three of my platoon girls to join us in the fun at the mammy market at night and with the permission of the camp commandant, we all left camp for town that night to club and afterwards we went to the Officers quarters in the barracks. We did not return to the camp until the second night.



After three weeks I was sent to the command and staff college Jaji for my primary assignment as a junior instructor. One of the Officers that visited me while on camp was also an instructor at the college Jaji.



The marriage introduction slated for February 3rd was done while I was at the camp. My dad had insisted on rushing everything as if he was about to leave this world. The traditional marriage was slated for April during the Easter holiday.


Now, Baba landlord my father is a man of enormous wealth by the layman’s standard. He is a pensioner and has little to spend his money on. His six daughters are happily married to wealthy men in different fields. The women also own their own businesses and showers Baba with material and monetary gifts. They pay monies into his account at random trying to impress baba, it was like competition among the ladies. Meanwhile Baba was tired of buying Lands and building farms. He does not brag nor show off his wealth for fear of the Village witches and wizards. He has four Exotic cars parked in his compound at home. The cars were given to him by his sons’ in-law. But he told the Villagers that they belonged to the husband of the second daughter who happened to be a popular car dealer in Lagos.