Vengeance Mission

Chapter three(hard working and prudent)

Chapter Three

Hard working and prudent

Do you know one thing? Often relations who benefit from you in most cases always see it as if you only played your rightful role.

Maybe that explains the reason for his behaving that way and possibly not wickedness my wife concluded. I insist that you should call them requesting for their account details before another event overtakes it.

Since she insisted, I took my phone and dialed Lanre's number demanding to have each of their account details forwarded to me. With great amazement, I guess, he called his siblings, demanding for their account details which he forwarded to me almost immediately.

I asked my wife how much each does she suggest we send into their bank accounts? She answered can you consider giving the ones in secondary school 150,000 naira each, 200,000 naira for the one preparing for university? That would be alright since I will not want them to have too much money on them so that they will not be tempted to spend lavishly.

At the other end each of the four children received a credit alert almost immediately. I suspected, Lanre called, his siblings weeping for joy at the background, that they have not seen such a nice friend like this in their life.

Lanre said that, hope he would not mind that one of them come to Lagos to say a better thank you to me but I resisted it that it was not necessary, after all what are friends for.

Lanre said if you are saying it is not necessary that I come over to say a better thank you, then extend my profound gratitude to your wife for supporting you to give this much. He added we promise to spend the money judiciously, and never to disappoint you in anyway sir. We are grateful and he hung up.

My wife said you can see what I mean that these children are well trained to appreciate every little thing you spend on them. Now I'm the happiest woman on earth that you have helped your late friend's children. Nice you have done it and even fast for that matter.

Lanre called his siblings together to celebrate their new financial status and also to pass instructions to them that though each of them has been credited separately, that he will personally supervise the spending. Adding that they will go to the bank to give a standing order that there should be no withdrawal on any of the account for the next one year as there will possibly be no need to do so with the amount of cash they had on them. Though the way we eat may change but we will not go ahead living a flamboyant life. Did you all hear me? They were all satisfied with what I said.

We don't need to waste time let's get going to the bank Babatunde demanded.

They all dressed up and went to the banking hall. It took less than thirty minutes to get to the bank. They approach a teller at the bank who directed them to go and see the bank manager.

On getting to the bank manager, he demanded to know the source of their money and Lanre told him their story. How they lost their father and mother, and how they were left with no one to take good care of them and how suddenly their father's childhood friend made his appearance in their home to check on their father. Only to be told that we have lost our parents in a motor accident with no one to take care of us.

Mr. Lambe, was the one who sent the money to us after he has seen our deplorable condition.

The bank manager responded, that's good of him, then what do you want?

Lanre responded we want to fix the three accounts leaving just mine, for the day to day maintenance of the family.

For how long would you want this done? He demanded, a year and make it subject to review after one year. Lanre responded.

The bank manager nodded in approval. We will do just that for you. You are such an intelligent and brilliant child to have thought of this good idea.

The bank manager called one of the bank tellers who attended to us very promptly. Considering our ages, she was amazed at our decision because the bank manager rehearsed our intention to her.

She got it done fast and she wished us good luck as we walked out of the banking hall. As we left, Lanre decided to call Mr. Lambe, their father's friend to update him with their latest action on the money he credited into their accounts. As expected, Mr. Lambe was very impressed about our action and I dropped the line and we went back home.

Time passed by, and one of my friends in school, one day called me, Babatunde, you are looking fresh these days, no longer begging for food from friends in the class.

My teacher remarked in the morning that you have a new school uniform sewn and a pair of new school sandals. The sudden change in our appearance in school was the talk of our school. No one actually knew what happened to us.

We now have all the required text books and notebooks, new school bags. No one needed to drive us home before we paid our school fees.

To every teacher's dismay, our school fees were paid on the first day of resumption. My class teacher could not hold his amazement he therefore called me into his office and asked me what suddenly happened to us.

I didn't tell him the detail but simply said we got help from our father's childhood friend.

My class teacher, Mr. Kolapo told other teachers that he was so much impressed by my academic performances. He equally commended Lanre our eldest brother for giving us close supervision at home.

Their family is a product of good parental upbringing, though their parents left them at very tender ages yet they can maintain themselves, a great credit to their deceased parents. Their family is very much enviable, he concluded.

For the first time, one of my friends invited me to come along with him to his house after school hours, but I said no, that I have so many home works to do and more so my brother Lanre will be waiting to supervise me in doing my homework.

I told him though I play but it is not until I was done with my homework and the domestic chores. I'm sorry about that, because I noticed he was almost offended because I turned down his invite.

Next time would do and I went into the class to pick up my school bag and straight to the gate where I waited for my sister and my brother.

Both of them told their enviable stories from both their class teachers and their classmates.

Thank God for his mercies, I just wish the help will continue uninterrupted, and one day we will all become great in life.

As we trekked home we told one another what we want to become in life. Babatunde, I want to become a lawyer, Lekan, I want to become an accountant, me, I want to become a doctor.

We got home, met Lanre at home because he was yet to secure admission into the university. He has written the entrance examination and he has a very high score.

He served our meal, allowed us to rest for a while, after which he began his supervision of our homework one after the other.

No struggle no success was what our late parents always said to our hearing before their death and that we had struck to.

No one was able to beat any of us in the examination because we were always ready at any time to be tested as we always read ahead as if the examination will be administered now.