Must Read: Brother Wale - Season 1 - Episode 10

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Must Read: Brother Wale - Season 1 - Episode 10

“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 from me since” I was lost in my thought.

All of a sudden I collided with something and another something poured me.
“you no dey look where you dey go?”
Mama Luku the palm oil seller said.

“Sorry Ma!” I saw that I had been baptized with palm oil.

“you must pay for my oyel oh!” She held my shirt.

“I go pay!” I empty promised.

“oya bring the money!” Mr. Macho was so quick to punch me to the jaw.

He had appeared from nowhere.

“Yeah my mouth oooh! Brother Luku wetin I do you?” I cried.

“Bring the money for the oyel now!” He thundered.

“I no get am here! E dey house!”

“you no get am here abi!” Brother Luku let out another punch that spun my head like a big wheel.

Then I was on ground, and I was dumb too.
“get up come fight me na!” Brother Luku was the Heavy weight Champion the neighbourhood boosted of.

As I lied on the ground I recalled I had an outstanding beef with Brother Luku for plucking Mangoes from the mango tree in front of their compound without his permission.

“I am sorry!” I managed to say.

“Sorry for yourself!” He tapped my head and i heard them left.

For Forty minutes I was lying on the ground like the man beaten by thieves in Jericho’s road in the parable of the Good Samaritan yet there was no Samaritan to come help me up.

Children surrounded me and laughed. “na una papa una dey laugh!” I cursed.

When I got home Maami was shocked and she personally gave me a clean bath promising to pay for the palm oil I poured. When I asked her where Brother Wale was and she told me he had been admitted in the hospital I smiled again.

I smiled because my “best friend” wasn’t mad after all.

“take this thing! Wale said you should take it home for him!” Brother Emeka handed over a parcel to me as I closed business for that night.

I could feel from touching the parcel that what was inside was nothing but Brother Igb