A Walk In The Hood

Light Never Come Up, Chaos never go off

Some houses in the ghetto do not have bathrooms or toilet, most times very early in the morning around 4:30-5:00am you see grown men and women taking their bath outside the house with their children by the gutter and some of those area boys will start sighting them and noting them as their targets. You know most of this parents are not always at home which gives room for all this brothers to send them(small girls)on errands and ask them to take it inside, which some of this girls after they are been abused they enjoy it and turn addicts not all of them though, some are left to deal with whatever comes after the abuse, You might not really get the vibe of the ghetto if its just a week you spend at the ghetto, because this guys will probably be on there best behavior, but if you get a one room apartment in the ghetto…Gbam!!! Yes they will know you are there to stay.

You can just come down from the bus and somebody will just snatch your bag, when you shout ole!ole!!ole!!! someone can just say “sorry oo, naso them they do for here, no vess”. When you are living in the ghetto you have to get used to police raiding. Do you know how many people they rub in front of there house, there was a Sunday morning a friend asked us to go watch match on the field, I declined and told him I was going to church, sometimes hin dey come my side for afternoon but that particular day he didn’t show up at my side only for me to go to his house and his girlfriend told me he was arrested, we decide to go check him at the police station, they asked for his name which I told them Ikechukwu guess what they told us next..

“ah ahn you see that boy, I catch am smoking igbo” we were like “ ah oga but ikechukwu no dey smoke” they shouted at us to shut up that what do we know, they brought out my friend with a big wrap of igbo and claimed that they caught our friend smoking that which in real sense ikechukwu doesn’t smoke. They gave him a heavy slap WO!! “babe na me smoke am ooo” he had to lie that he did it.

There was a time they picked my friend and I from the bike and took us to the station, termed us criminals and in their statement they said I was holding the gun and my friend was holding the bullet.

Funny right? Same way I felt cause I’ve always known bullets and gun are always together, they shunned us and said that was what they saw, which is not true.

***********I need another blunt**********

I want you to note that the ghetto is filled with criminals as well. People that have taken crime as there only source of livelihood, they don’t think of anything else than committing crimes, they are not scared they might die at anytime.

There was a time I went to yemetu in Ibadan with my friend, mehn I was really scared ‘cause mere looking at the faces of this boys you definitely have to shiver.

This are the set of frustrated raw materials I made mention of earlier. Another thing I like about the ghetto is they force their children to be artisans from since when they can’t go to school, they either take them to a mechanic workshop or furnitures or any other skill you can think of. They do this so that the children will not have time for crime but you know the devil na, as clever and smart as he is, he still dey use them ooo loju pali.

Meaning:- the devil still use them for his deeds.

In the ghetto, cultists has taken over they are so rampart that you’ll see a group of small boys from the age of 11-14 called Awawa boys enter a place, chase everybody and steal from that place. Some say, at there initiation period they can be told to kill someone which they must do for the culture lol are you surprise? C’mon don’t be, it is what it is

*************** let me ask you a question**************

What is your view about the ghetto?

My view:- the light never comes up and chaos never goes off, the happiness and joy they derive living in a dirty place makes it a unique training ground.

it is left to you to choose which or what genre of life you want for yourself either the mad, stupid or sane there is room for everyone.

The likes of patopranking grew up in the ghetto selling rat poison, olamide badoo even wizkid grew up in the ghetto surulere is a ghetto….

Infact ehn if you grew up on the mainland asides ikeja, omo everywhere na ghetto depends on what you call a ghetto but the ghetto is a very dirty place.

There was a place I went with my friends in the ghetto at Ibadan, if you see the faces of the indigenes. There was one that has scar on his face, another one has nothing. They just sat down looking at us and we were also looking at them, my friend hailed them and asked for smoke and schnapp along the line they got comfortable around us and joined our conversation ‘cause my friends and I were discussing. It was when one of them laughed, I got to know he doesn’t have any teeth.

Their leader later said “you geh luck ooo, we thought you were one of the forces” they dipped their hands under the chair they were sitting and brought out guns. The chair is a tattered sofa, they are always ready, you cannot live in the ghetto and not be observant of where you are, you have to always be ready.

So also Nigerians, we are always ready to face anything. When I said Nigeria, we all have this lifestyle instilled in us. You notice an average Nigerian man in another country going to a particular destination and another man going the same destination, you hear something like “ ah won ti ntele mi” meaning he/she has been followed.

This is what the guys do not know and they get kidn*pped easily, because they don’t care they were born in a perfect kind of society, they have nothing to worry about or been scared of.

You don’t expect me that was born in a ghetto kind of country not care, sorry boo I care. There was a time I was meant to get something from a*****e on the street at night, I practically begged my friend to please follow me, not because I can’t go alone but because I was too scared to walk alone.

*************You don’t walk alone in the ghetto***********

Forget lagos highland or mainland, an average lagosian is always ready to switch to any mode depending on which one you seek for. he whines down and say something like “ ma pa e, ma pa e danu, c’mon gerrout” he zooms off, just that ginger, the zeal.

There was a time a girl was beaten from the third street where she went to see her friend, some boys were calling her but because she didn’t answer them they grabbed and beat her. She cried home to her brothers hefty grown ass men. Immediately she told them what happened, these brothers went to that street naked with their balls dangling and cutlass in their hands.

…they shut down that street, Nobody could move or walk around, I mean extremely nobody. There is something called “see no evil” they also call it “cane”. When they say you "share one man", it means you are a cultist …