episode 3:
I left Abeokuta that night in a bus to Lagos and I arrived
Lagos at the early hours of the morning, upon getting
down at begger, I looked around here I was in a strange
city, I did not know anyone and I have heared that lagos
is a very big city and it should even be called a country, I
clunged tightly to my bag and my box as I looked
around me, some taxies where calling out to me but you
no say person wey no know his destination he beta for
that person to stay where he be than make he get lost,
sorry for the pigin English there, I heard the takes calling
places like idumota, ikeja, ogba, agege and I just stared
at them not knowing what next to do, I was lost in my
thoughts when a bike man approached me
bike man: sister where you dey go (he asked and I
looked at him as thou he was speaking in tongues)
me: (I shook my head and whimpered a little no)
bike man: aunty you no fit stay here ooh, you supposed
get were you dey go
me: really no thank you (I said hoping he will go away)
bike man: sister lagos na dangerous place for person
like you
me: (a little bit angrily) abeg I say I no go, abi na by
force ( I said not believing that I had actually said that
and the man just withdraw himself and returned to the
others, I then looked for a place I could sit and I bought
two gala and a pure water sachet oh my god I was really
hungry as you could tell from the way I rushed the gala,
I stayed there for hours until it got into afternoon and I
was still there)
my pov
I really need to go somewhere as I could see that
people where moving suspiciously around me and the
market traders where staring at me as if I was going to
stay there forever, should I go to ikeja? ah but am not
sure if I will get a place to stay but I really needed to
move away from where I am (I stood up with my bags
and walked on as far as I could go, as I was walking I
noticed a group of boys sitting from my guessing they
were garage boys and they looked somehow suspicious
to me so I clung tightly to my belongings and walked
faster but I saw that they all also stood up and followed
me, at this time my heart was beating faster as I
increased my walking and turned it into a form of little
running but the boys did not stop following me and the
before I knew what was happening they had gotten to
me, and in fear I picked up race and they ran after me
but then I tripped over on my left foot and they got to
me and surrounded me
ist boy: oh girl you sabi run well oh (he said as he
friends laughed)
another boy: wetin dey for her wey they make us chase
her
ist boy: ( he reached for my box to collect it but I
prevented him by using my bag to hit him but his
friends retarded and used force to collect my bags but I
did not stop trying to get my bags bag because if I
should lose my money then I will be stranded so I
fought back with all my might, at that moment I heard
the sound of bikes and all of a sudden the boys all ran
away leaving me and my bags and I quickly picked them
and held then tightly to myself before I looked at who
chased the boys off and I saw that same bike man that I
had shouted at earlier and he came down from his bike
and walked to me)
bike man: are you okay? (he spoke this time with a
correct English making me to wonder if he was the one
that I had earlier argued with) are you hurt? (he said
waking me up from my thought and I shooked my head)
me: no m not hurt. thank you
bike man: no problem, let me help you up (he said as he
offered to help me up but I denied and tried to get up on
my own but I could not as I felt a strong pain from the
leg that I had tripped with and I yelled out and almost
stumbled but I was caught just in time by the bike man)
bike man: your leg is injured, you have to get it checked
( he said but I shook my head) please let me help you
me: no please
bike man: I insist( he said as he looked deep into my
eyes and I did not know hen I said ok and he helped me
up on his bike before he also got on and rode on until
after a long ride he came to stop at a little hospital, I
read the name ST JOHN HOSPITAL seeing the name
john made me to remember mama d’s son and what he
had done with me, the man parked his bike in the
hospital premises before he got down and carried me
into the reception room, as the nurses saw me they ran
to get a stretcher and I was laid upon it before I was
welled to the consultation room and the bike man stood
at the reception, I was checked by the doctor who gave
me some drugs that relieved the pain on my leg and
made me go to sleep, I woke up only to find myself in a
ward and on looking at my leg I saw that my foot had
been plastered in pop and it was hanged up, I looked
around and saw other patients in there but I did not see
the bike man, I then began to wonder where he was, did
he abandon me here, I looked around and saw that my
two bags were not there and immediately a cold shiver
ran through my spinal cord and I became overwhelmed
with anger, so he was a thief, he only helped me so he
could still my things, tears slowly began to form in my
eyes as I thought of what next to do, my money and my
belongings have disappeared and no doubt that the bike
man was responsible for it, how am I going to get out of
this and most especially why is all these happening to
me?
TBC
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