His medulla ceased at this culdesac or dead end alley of these broad rantings par excellence and his entire ideologue was cued to this radius of ideologue otherwise crybabies cavortedly might rave on rampage in dread of lions in the street of vultures and vampires.Against this standpoint,the machismo hardly his boodle chew the cud.Whitepower seemed quite obsessed to thrive within interlock of this interloping tendencies multiplied by the cube roots of this profiteering predilection took the cudgel to outwit nefarious times for gloats of filthy lucres.
The crows on crease early golden morn was awesome as the cock crows at noon,cruises off his bedspread was tangential as the cryptic winds dense and agog could go.Hardly had the morn crumples,sail aboard his crucible in the wanton quest of filthy lucres.A perpetual lucre glot,a cross grained crosspatch critter as lively as a cricket,remorseless with cross bow, not for once bent at cross purpose of this self glorifying otiose of haunting proclivities.
Hence the streets were terse and dense for then he like a crenellated creepy-crawly had picked up the loose ends of his life in this purple patch of orotund morn.
That the much Ado could be strenuous sometimes as was the rivet in the Nigerian context did not matter as long as cabbages were affixed to the treacle of ado.Behold his crucifix bent to plunge beyond the crepuscular of the primrose bank and the monumental crevices of the Nigerian context.A landlord with fellow siblings not treacly to sob like fellow struggling progenies at the work places.Sloths of adolescent mirage creviced for survival in the underpaid bakery's avocation.
With sordid creeks ,their sapped mien thus began to creep weeping remorse of their sullen credo.
"White power you re richer than us.Imagine five hundred naira per day.You don't even bother we cheated you.Anyway you re also landlord at your home town and earn additional stipends at your car wash sites a good pay of one thousand five hundred naira per vehicle.'
"Is that all ?He's also working here for a loaf of two or three wheat breads per day that cost three thousand naira at least."
"White power is more comfortable"
"I send you.What is your problem?Why carry my matter for head?See me see wahala o!But you ganged up against me and collided with management not to pay me abi?Is that not so ?"
"We re sorry.Not me you have to blame Sunday who because he badly needed a house now to rent from you he was then suddenly sobbered"
"So it means if I were no landlord wouldn't even see your mercy abi Sunday? Isn't it?"
Sunday emotively hiccuped and subsequently endeavored to explain
"no no no not like that I can explain!"
"Explain what?Don't listen to him.He suddenly felt remorseful after last week baking session and he complained to the deputy manager he had housing problem and agents could not see self contain for one twenty thousand naira per year to fit his budget."
"Yes you're right I was there and then suddenly Hakeem suggested white power was a landlord will take the amount."
"Yeah you re right and the deputy manager began to laugh.We asked him why the laugh?"
"He didn't even reply before Hakeem observed that why would he help him since they were haters ."
"Exactly."Sunday looking down in extreme remorse.
"Oh you suddenly love me begging to forgive you after years of starving me my income because peter told you I made money from carwash too.You didn't even know that and Peter too wasn't aware I inherited houses too from my parent both in Lagos and. Ogbomosho My eldest brother in London sent money also built house in lekki.It took us years to donate the house to us since he wasnt coming back to Nigeria.I will soon drop this work one day.You see life!"
"Forgive me please "
"Help him please "
All entreaties fell on deaf ears and the heat from the oven forced white power to leave bakery for a moment and met luckily another guy who gestured him outside as he walked away after a stone throw, walk a bit distance from the bakery spot to car dealership workshop where he washes cars.
"Where have you been?"
"I wasn't around just coming from the bakery I told you I was working on part time."
"So nice to hear that from you."
"Thank you "
"No mention we received new orders of hundred cars.Start to wash them now with immediate effect.How many days to wash them?"
"A week or less if I do twenty four hours non stop."
"Yeah"
"A thousand and five hundred naira per vehicle .About one fifty thousand naira."
"Good,once you finish the order just call me let me know.i will do transfer."
"Thanks this is quite unprecedented!"
"No mention!"
"Let me take my bucket and start right away"
"I ll be on the other sites shortly if any one ask for me call me."
The unexpected exit from the bakery spot was unplanned and quite unusual as well considering the magnitude of the ado compared to scale of ten thousand naira or less maximum pay from the prior gigs that he was used to. Nevertheless quite easily dovetails into the benediction of the period and still quite a release from financial boredom.Sometimes he treks a kilometer from igando to ikotun to save transport fares and feed his family.Sometimes he jumped buses the so called koropes hanging at the back or at the conductor's side to manage transport fares after helping them do loading.And while the trudgings were suffocated with dearth of perks and perquisites to encourage the grimaced work force and the truckloads of gristly fumes in the long kilometer trek in the desperate attempt to beat the rat race one could hazard a conjecture the multiplier trauma of multifaceted multifarious stress brandished against the immaculate immunity of the tramautised Nigerian workers.
Nigerian workers like white power in most cases starved of transport fares trekked the harrowing distances from sunrise to sunset including strangulated period of ferocious sunny days,sauntered the fragile distance to eke out living from the obscurity of their homes into the obscurity of the workplaces mostly underemployed and highly underpaid local work force.
Black power white power's sibling a dribbling grub street hack writer scripturing every details of his brother's anecdotes and grueling memoirs when he comes around passing the bittersweet tales.Whitepower had just arrived home excited to the beautiful presence of sometimes hilarious black power who could also rebuke any inconveniences around him as well as jubilating the golden news.
"Guess what happened today"looking up sternly and skeptical as white power made entry in jubilating mood.
"What ?You seem to glow ferociously"as he dropped his muster of ravishing pen and glowing radiance on his face.
"Car dealer brought about 100 new cars about to wash.Eureka!"
"You mean one hundred fifty thousand naira just like that?"he stood to hug his brother
"Yes but u re quick-witted already calculating my money.Haba!"
"Ha see you we can borrow for house rent pending tenancy rents come from home town.Otherwise landlord might complain before the month ends and they have not pay my salary too"
"It's okay I understand.But we are moving to lekki right?"
",yes o."
"But why worry about the rent again? Anyways,how about the proposal you forwarded?"
"Went well.The guy just returned from hospital and had resumed the project and we didn't even have fund to pay him but we promised stock options besides ten percent commission for the placement fees "
"We will move to banana island too before the year ends,not just lekki.I believe you bro. "
"See like I was telling you anything you re doing is temporary and you would soon live the car wash stress for them. "
"Finally we could be men again too and recover family silver "white power was ecstatic
"Family silver late dad's soft drink factory would finally return back to market."
"We did not plan well when we were coming back to Lagos but finally I Ve done details in the proposal and it well received."
"I think I will be going back to car dealer.He had just left office and I promise it will be finished in one week with twenty four hours daily dedication "
"Waow quite surprising and you would spend twenty thousand for soaps etc alone.Take this token iya sukura just paid for her shop in Ogbomosho.She paid fifty thousand naira."
"What?"
"I just arrived from ATM withdrawn for foodstuffs "
"Wouldn't it affect foodstuffs?"
"No not much this is business and we re building family together since we have not married yet.Take it"
"I thank you brother "
"When you come you meet your food.i ll spent the rest on food at least manage for a month."as he banged the door to exit to car wash at pako bus stop.
The strenuous family life for the eligible bachelors in the country is as excruciating as the nightmare of the other genders and age groups in general and the pulsating tremors of the survival tapestry filled the board with excruciating tremor of the public trauma and cumbersome nightmare of ekeing out a livelihood in the democratic space as opposed to the era of military junta.
Black power would not dare to sewer his critique of the state and standard of living in his writings
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