"Good morning Tunde,your oil trade banging what's the latest?"
"We brought a white man and lodged him in an hotel,only for certain unscrupulous bankers to connive with him and swindled us"
" If you re sure and have verifiable evidence go to court."
"That will be difficult "
"Do you have a registered company?"
"Nope"
"You mean you don't have a registered company and you re involved in a heavy transaction like this?Quite a risky thing to do"his face went red and hardly flinch his crystal thought,felt sense of awe and betrayal spilling from his sordid cheeks emaciated by the gully erosion of the stern but stylistic rebuke.
"No problem.i knew a man of God pastor ojo at the bakare bus stop with the office in the big shopping complex is going to register your company.You can at least start with business name.i met the pastor through my brother white power and this is his contact"he goggled the contact from his GSM and lo gave him the information"This is pastor adebola contact call him and say white power brother black power gave you his contact.Tell him to register your company "his spirit rose and much excited at the offering and shortly heaved a sigh of relief.
"I will try"his sullen cheeks recovered and light up.
Two weeks there after as black power proceeded in the promenade towards the newsstands,he met Tunde coming from bakare bus stop with the packaged documents three paged documents of registered business name in his hand beautifully packaged.Blackpower face lit with envy and anger perhaps bruised with schock.
"Tunde you did register the company right?"
" Yeah,I was coming from pastor ojo now with the documents see!"as he stopped and handed over the bigger envelope to black power to witness.And lo black power took the interest too.
"You inspired me too.I will register too.If not for you I will have reached fifty years of age to do same."he returned the paper exchange pleasantries and departed.At the time he was forty and the following weeks elder brother forwarded foreign currency and withdraw it for foodstuffs.
He stood at the wardrobe and spoke"
White power let us register our first company.Tunde registered company."
"Good go and register the company.Are we going to be eating food only for the rest of our lives?Are we gluttons?"white power rebuked
"You re right.I will go to bakare tomorrow."he closed the wardrobe and went to sleep.He reached bakare at about 12 am on the dot and conversed with the pastor.
"Did you see Tunde that came to register company?"
"Oh the guy from Ogbomosho?"
"Yes,he collected his certificate of business name recently.So you send him."
"I gave him your contact."
"How much do you register business name?"
"Twenty five thousand "
"Private limited liability how about that?"
"One twenty thousand "
"Quite expensive.I have fifteen thousand here .I will give you the rest later"
"Bring it "as he handed over the little sum.
"What names are you using?"
"Middlesex cosmos "
"Oh let me check is available?"
"Can I use it?"hesitant
"Add resource making it Middlesex cosmos resource"
" okay "
"Give us a month at least.O you seem to have good names.All the names you presented are actually nice.You ll be giving us names.You can come up with good names"
"I will try .So a month right"
"Yes"he departed
He came back in a month time climbing the weary staircase of the three story complex building met the secretary who chatted briefly before he met him.
"Your documents is ready.You Ve sent your fund right still remain a token.Where is my balance of one thousand five hundred?" His face went red and coloured with blood.
"Pastor,I brought Tunde here and we agreed should I bring any client you would get me a commission and you didn't give me a dime from Tunde whom I recommended to you."
"And so what?"
"I didn't complain".
"So bring my change .When re you coming back?"
"I don't know.I don't have money now.i will let u know."he handed over his certificate of business name to him and black power departed having been spurred to register the company based on Tunde's determination and grit.
He had accompanied his brother in one of the outings to the complex and could recall the debt
"So you won't bring my money ."
"I brought you a client and the client too brought several clients and you didn't give me a dime why?"
"Bring my money okay."
"You don't do your part of the bargain.Why re you complaining?After all my unpaid token won't make a millionaire.Dont you get it?"
"Bring my money if you don't want to see the other side of me.Do you hear me?"
His reddish face disfigured his beautiful white shirts bespectacled with sullen cheeks as black power departed.
It was a major leap forward for the family that came to Lagos to revive the family.Although the registration was inadequate until private limited liability company was done a decade after and was as predicted age fifty.This rhymed with the golden prophecy of late patriarchy when he says" these my children won't make it until they re fifty "Moses prognosticated in a sojourn visit in one of the uncompleted buildings they frequented in Lagos and it was exactly accurate
"I can't believe it dad was actually a great prophet too"black power recalled in a chat with white power
"Mum lamented her husband saying 'God take me away and let these children become what you desire of them.Take me away and bless them please "
"Oh you recall mum's thought too like your sister.Incredible.He killed himself tired of living and his belief to receive his divine inheritance was not realized."
"Mum passed on in igando before we registered the company in 2016 at Tunde's prompt."white power reminisced again.
They traded not with the company registered and still rely on tenants stuff to survive in addition to returns from domiciliary revenue.
The eldest brother was a decade old immigrant in Great Britain due for dual citizenship and was granted and used dual passport to travel round the world married to a British woman with five kids like his Dad.He had traveled to Melbourne, Edinburg and back to London . Black power 's reflection barely forget and was ecstatic about started it when brother began world tour with his big bang pop music group.This grew the revenue in the domiciliary and when they recall the incidence in wasaap call, sometimes tears of joy rolled down black power's soaked cheeks, specifically about the importance of brothers' unity not cringing in the face of adversity to triumph beyond their challenges and entreat themselves with beautiful expedition.
The expedition of the kilometer radius no matter how little considering the little effort towards company registered cannot be forgotten in a jiffy and near emigration was a sacred memoir to life in general.
Throughout the hectic period the debates and intellectual development and persistent research in addition to the pursuit of the purpose in life was certainly the prime motivation behind the survival and triumph of their accomplishments.
Hardly had he moved into igando two or three years after 2009 that the traffic in the king's enclave quadrupled at terrifying proportion.Quite a worrisome nightmare in the astonishing dimension of bumper to bumper mould.He sat at the brt bus stop and began to converse in the flashy dunk of the ensuing debate orchestrated by LASTMA 's stop and check points a despicable trio of nepotism, corruption and bribery.
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