THE LITTLE RELIEF, ANOTHER LEVEL OF TENSION
744 Words
Holiday ended,
Everyone went back to school,
Oh we where preparing for our First school leaving exam
And my siblings was preparing for there junior waec examination. My dad was preparing for his promotion exam and waiting for his call up and inuguration.
Our examination time reached we wrote our exams.
Wow!
Am done with my primary school
Everything was now lighter
The shouting, the beating,the insult and everything
Holiday reached again, this time long vacation
Everyone came back
My siblings came back but not always at home
They enrolled in a computer lesson where they learnt computer graphics and other computer packages
As July was ending my dad travelled to ondo for his inuguration and promotion
We where all happy and prayed for God to keep him
Something terrifying happened,
In my dad work place,
A little young boy was killed at night
And other youths who was with him
Ok,
Let's get the full gist;
On a Sunday night
After a Sunday service
All youth was in our church
Aiit,
My dad is a minister
And where he was posted
Was in a very rural area where we survive only on food stuffs and farm produce
Money was a problem we survive only on God
We stayed in kwara state for just two years but different locations in every year.
So this particular incident happened in our own church and my dad was absent.
It was a big slap on the face
People started coming to our house with questions
"Oh, what a great loss but what happened"
People ask Unnecessarily
Some victims that survived and escaped narrated;
"During our band practice in the church, we where all inside all of a sudden our generator went off,
David,one of us and the band leader, went out to check what happened all of a sudden we heard him crying out loud, when one of us came out too, to check what happened, he noticed that a group of boys was holding David hostage,they started coming after us,they have butchered David neck and blood has already filled the atmosphere.
They thought he was dead, immediately the person holding David left him with the mindset he was dead, David picked a life run with the injury, some of us escaped through the office window where they took us. The little boy that was killed wasn't our church member and he was the reason why they came". They continued with the story;" he's our cousin, he's a massive servant in Catholic church, a Thanksgiving service was held and a group of boys which my cousin who was killed identified there faces before he died and called there names before he died too, was throwing bangers in the church and he caution them to stop since then they have been after him and was tracked down to this place where we are doing our practice and was butchered to death".
My mom cried out because has been taken to the station already since my dad is not around, she can't hold her tears.
The land was filled with coldness and fear of the unknown.
The village morn the innocent boy for a certain period, then the police took over the land and started a massive arrest of every youth seen at night outside, every where was so quiet till the day I left that land.
My daddy came back and the news was given to him,he went to the station and after making statement and others, he cane back home.
The holiday was getting to an end, and I was preparing myself to enter into another level it education which is the secondary school
I was happy and sad at the same time,
I was happy because am entering a new level,
And sad because am leaving my daddy and my small brother behind and it was a boarding school
The same school with my big sis
On the day am about going back to school, I cried my eyes out
I left home to the park, my dad followed me back to school and after registration, he came back the following day and waved me goodbye till further notice
I cried throughout out my jss1 first term,
It wasn't funny at all, the food there, the punishment,the water, the waking up early and everything was kind of new to me but my sister took me through all those steps because she was already in SS 1.
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