Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 82

7 years ago

Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 82

I actually planed spending two days with Auntie Deborah but I ended up spending one week.

Auntie Deborah has four Kids through caesarian sessions; she has three girls and a boy. Her Car dealer husband wants more male children, Auntie’s doctor had warned her against another pregnancy since she could not deliver her children naturally, and consequently the husband was threatening to marry a second wife. That was the scenario I met in Lagos. I warned my sister against another pregnancy but she said she would rather conceive and bear the husband another son instead of the man to marry another woman, I told her that she already had both sexes of children, what if she takes in again and it is a girl? All efforts to make her see reason fell on deaf ears that I had no choice but to call Baba and tell him that his daughter was contemplating suicide.

Baba was in Lagos the next day in the company of Akin and the DPO of the lekki-Ajah Police station, the man was in plain clothes but has his pistol tucked beneath his shirt.

Immediately he entered the gate, Baba ignored all the greetings and summoned every one to the sitting room. There he bore his mind out to all.

Look! Josiah or whatever your name is! If anything happens to my daughter, I will kill you! I swear by Ogun the god of iron! I will shoot you accidentally! Bet wit me! Bet nah! Uncle Josiah shifted away from Baba as he approached him hand outstretched for the bet. I was a police man and I have killed criminals like you in the course of my career!

Haba Baba! Kilode na! Uncle Josiah protested.
You are pushing my daughter to have another baby abi? Even after the doctors have advised against it! After four operations? Ha! Josiah! O fe pa mil’omo! Baba was talking on top of his voice. You want her to die so that you can bring in your concubine abi? Look! I have investigated you before coming here! Bring the woman home! Marry her and let her give you all the sons in this world but I promise you one thing, you and your stupid wife here! The day I hear that she is pregnant mistakenly, ha ha ha, Sango will bath wit your blood! Bet with me! I have brought the Police as a witness today! Baba went on venting his anger while my Sister was crying.

You are there crying! Baba faced Auntie; can’t you read between the lines? Can’t you see the hand writing on the wall? Didn’t you have a male child for him? Are these not his children?

Baba pointed at the kids in the sitting room as they surrounded their weeping mother.
See their heads like their fathers! Yet he says he needs more boys! Don’t worry, you will get more boys! But not from Deborah!

Excuse me sir! Sir please let me explain things to you! Uncle Josiah was raising his fingers to be heard.

Okay speak! Baba said and paused