Must Read: Brother Wale - Season 1 - Episode 9

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Must Read: Brother Wale - Season 1 - Episode 9

Brother I don tayah oh! My waist dey pain me!” I complained one night at the hangout.

“really! Your waist ehennnnn!” Brother Wale said, “your waist will stop paining you when there will be no school fees for you next term”
“but Brother I have tried na! I am tired!”
Smoke from the fire attacked my eyes.

“you are tired ehnnnn! Do you know how much we have made today?”

“no! I don’t know!”

“we have made just two hundred naira!” He informed.

“Ahaann! It’s a lie!”
“How dare you call me a liar? How dare you?”
He stood up.

“Me? Did I call you a liar?”

“Then what did you just say?” He raised his voice.

“I talk say me I be liar!” I confessed.

But why brother Wale! We sold at worst two thousand naira that night I was sure. Deep down I knew Brother Wale’s best friend Brother Igboh would take a greater percentage of the night’s sale.

“Brother Where are you going to?” I asked.

“Why are you asking me?” He queried.

“Because I am my brother’s keeper!” I answered.

“Brothers keeper! The only thing you should keep right now is that bean cake on fire!” He walked out.

I knew he was going to – he was going to visit his best friend Brother Igboh. It was this same brother Igboh that made him carried a generator on his head to the market preaching the gospel – Gospel according to Igboh I suppose.

It was a bright Saturday afternoon and Brother Wale had just returned from Brother Igboh’s house situated by the bush part where Igboh kwenu the seller stayed.

“I have head ache!” He complained, “get me water!”

In the kitchen, Maami asked me if Brother Wale was back from his friend’s place, I said yes.

“here is the cup of water!” I offered.

“thank you! Have you eaten?” He asked.

“Yes I have! Your own food is in the kitchen!” I said, “brother there something I want to tell you oh!”
[B]“SB my man!! what is it?” At such time he was very caring.

“ehnn, My school sandal is old, I want another one!”

“ok! How much will it cost to buy another one?”

“one thousand naira sir!” I answered.

“okay I will give you the money tomorrow!”

He promised, but he and I knew the promise was prompted by the brother Igboh in him.

“thank you brother Wale!”

As I bent down to pick the cup to return it to the kitchen, Brother Wale stood up and ooh my world! I thought he wanted to land an award winning knock on my head; the kind they call “konk” in pidgin.

That wasn’t what he stood up to do; he stood up and walked towards Baba Bisi’s I-Pass-My-Neighbour generator, he put it off, picked a nearby board, placed the board on his head and next the generator was on his head with the board as the base.

“Brother Wale! Is everything okay?” I shouted.

“You be m’umu oh, your brother don dey mad you dey here dey ask whether everything is okay!” I thought someone whispered to me.

“E fit be say na the water wey you give am nahim cause am oh!” The voice sounded like Yemi’s.

“How water go make person mad?” I spoke out.

“water and Igboh na madness oh!”
The voice must sure be devil’s.

“Maami! Maami! Maami!” I ran into the kitchen.

As I and Maami ran in search of where brother Wale and the generator might be, we met Yellow on our way.

“Your Brother stand for near market dey preach to the market women oh!” Yellow said, “him dey n’aked, all the small children dey laugh am!”

“How you take know say him dey n’aked?” I needed to know.
“person wey no wear any cloth no be n’akedness be that?”

“so why you no give am clothe make him wear na?” I queried.

“I get clothe? so na this my boxers I go pull give am abi? So that me sef go dey n’aked abi?” Yellow said, “but sha all the clothe wey them take cover him body, him dey troway them!”

I thought my mother stood hearing all what my friend Yellow said, but as I looked left, I saw that she was nowhere to be found.

“Maami wait for me!” I chased after her.

[B]“So Brother Wale don let everybody see him n’akedness after him don hide am make I no see am? Me wey be him brother? Today I must see that him na’kedness wey him don dey hide