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Travails

On one cold morning I was at Aduwawa Park, I boarded a Toyota Hiace bus to Abuja. The driver overspend non-stop until we arrived at a checkpoint and an army officer stopped us, and the driver attempted to run.

"Stop tbere."

The driver pulled up by the side of the road. The soldier came close to the vehicle.

"You nor are me."

"My brake dey fail."

"Wetin concern me if your brake dey fail."

He peeped the car windows, the passengers looked distaraugut and he signaled the drivetr to go.

"Dey go."

"Ehn."

"I say go."

"Thank you sir."

The driver drove nonstop until he was stopped by a police officer.

"Why you dey drive reckless?"

"My brake dey fail."

He noticed one of the passengers on dreads and he screamed "You come down".

"Me."

"No me, come down jare."

"Wetin you be."

"I be footballer."

"Bring your bag."

The passenger handed the police officer his bag and he searched it and gave it back.

"Go."

The driver drove off and drove nonstop until he arrived at Zuba at 2AM and drove off. Some of the passengers found their way while others including myself stayed at the park.

"Driver down leave us?", one of the passengers said.

"He don go see woman", another of the passenger said.

One of the passengers lit up a blunt and began smokimg.

"You dey smoke", one of the passengers asked.

"No, wetin my eye down see for drugs no be here", I said to end the conversation

"Me I dey smoke but na only occasion", the passenger said.

"This one better pass shisha", one of the passengers the only female passenger said.

"Shisha no reach this one", the smoker said.

"You na footballer", the smoker asked the passenger on dread.

"Which kain?, na wetin I dey tell them."

"Sharp guy."

"That police man think say I be mumu, say I go carry am for bag."

"Normal"

"Dey down stop me they kon dey search my woman bag, dey scatter her pant, I reggae for them."

"Correct guy."

The shopkeeper at the kiosk came to warm the lot of Drug law Enforcement agente.

"Dey dey hold for here", he said

"No wahala", the smoker said.

"Na lie", the smoker said after the shopkeeper had left.

"All this guys they full Benin now", the male passenger on afro said

"They many", the smoker said.

"Na because of one guy wen scam Governor wife, he come pack EFCC come."

The smoker laughed manically.

"Wetin sup", the guy on afro asked.

"E get one film wen I watch wen funny die, I just dey remember am."

"Wetin be the name?"

"Mr Bones."

"I know am."

"You down watch am."

"I down watch am."

"E funny die."

"I swear."

"Na all those kind film I dey watch"

"That film too funny."

"I swear, no be lie."

The next day, I boarded a motorcycle taxi okada to my house in Kubwa Phase IV