CHAPTER 19
“Baba is dead”. Atanda told him.
Yomi received a call from Ajoke’s phone next evening, only it was not Ajoke on the other side. It was Atanda.
“I am so sorry to hear that”, Yomi replied. He was sad to hear the distressing news. He hadn’t bothered though to enquire about Ajoke, because he knew that the reason she did not break the news by herself was because her spirit was too severely crushed.
Yomi went over to Baba’s house where mourners were already gathered in the yard. From deeper inside the house he could hear the agonized wailing of Baba’s wife Bejide, as well as several other women. Only bad persons died with nobody to mourn and to wail for them. Baba Lamidi was a good man.
Yomi sighted Ajoke sitting far away, together with Atanda and Ayankunle and several others;
