"Brother jony is so good.A very good musician for that matter and you badly needed to see how he waowed audience at the passing out parade that day."John ecstatic as blackpower shell shocked with chargrin.
"What?"
"I mean brother jony performed wonderful songs in the corpers' camp in Niger."
"How do you mean?Come again".
"They knew he was my brother and i enjoyed the ovation.It was like a magic.What an incredible talent?"
"And what do you suggest?"
"He should travel overseas.He is our Michel Jackson.Very good."he departed after the shop closure as blackpower escorted sometimes downstair.The cousins had shops down where their patriarch baba wura sells electronics and that was a trade later usurped by the ibo boys in rampage of survival in south west after the civil war as most stayed outside east as they attempted to survive.The electronics business was inherited from the old binukonu supermarket legacy of pa Joseph.Baba wura had revived the business and did wonderfully well over the years .They had like departmental stores and supermarket chains all over ogbomoso at the time and the commerce preceeded giant establishments like domino stores ,T.A & Sons,Folawiyos and a host of others in the country despite been based in Lagos.Being an inherited legacy already with good will intact so it was easy to restart and revive.Baba wura succesfully revived the once flamboyant commerce as well as grooming prentices.Brother ademola was a typical sample and a relation who subsequently inherited a brand new volkswagen and was set up to advance his own mettle given the years of service and experience garnered from mentorship.He had mastered electronics and probably ventured in different dimension.The shop downstairs was a cornucopia of electronics and when they opened for trade,the cousins came upstairs to relax where sibblings shortly stayed with Black power often preocuppied with studies and writhings as chronic penpushers to while away time and discuss during the opening period.A wonderful get together that lasted for a decade prior to the great migration.
The breathtaking remarks pervaded the blackpower's room.A legacy bedroom inherited from his seniors afterward their departure to school and ibadan and the cousins perpetually cherished upstairs for the random conversation .The last bonding period in the clan of two closer families in the ancestral youth of Laniyan lineage.
"So it's been long that jony had attempted to travel."white power recalled.
"I think it started in 1992 shortly after the service years "
"Yes i remember Daddy bought Potter a gift the talking drum"
"He called jony the piano man and instructed Daddy when the send mail ..."
"No no no even at 1992 there was no mail.So it was letter and they should tag it'The Piano Man'
A wonderful childhood memoirs that bonded sibblings and they recalled the senator's chaplain from a prominent church in Alabama travelled down to ogbomoso to a mostly white dominant church in the town.Antioch baptist church was predominantly white establishment where all the white folks from the baptist seminary often attended for the church service.It had become their custom and shortly after his graduation from poly technic in ibadan jony frequented the white dominant church at random times to enjoy best english service one could found in the town and play instruments to garner acclaim.It was a wonderful gathering.Suddenly one day a wonderful chaplain Micheal Potter had visited town for a weekly revival .Daddy Congo briefly eyed the opportunity perhaps to send his sibblings overseas and planned a wonderful visit with jony accompanied with wonderful gift of a talking drum.Most memorable incidence of the period .
"It didnt work for brother"
"Why?"
"Because it was leaked out .The secret was leaked"
"Who leaked i wanted to remember"
"No will you call that leak? It was not our mistake or Daddy Congo 's mistake."
"Who now did?"white power critiqued
"It was circumstances beyond our control."
"Oh i recall Daddy wura cintrolled the mailbox "
"Exactly .Then he spread hatred.He said 'so egon was hiding this powerful secrets from me?They didnt tell me jony was travelling '.."
"Yes you re right .Do you think it failed because of that your flimsy reason?"
"Is that a flimsy stuff?"
"Very perry"
"So you dont he was fetish too?"
"I cant sau that"
"Jony said none of you my sibblings finished schools.He wanted that honour for his kids . "
"I dont believe you.See call jony now to confirm the story."
"Okay"as blackpower chatted him up in wassap and he picked it up for the brief wassap call"
"Baba wura fetish or not"
"Somehow.Dont you know only me finished tertiary education at great cost.I wont say more than that."
"I hawar but he didnt connect it and how it happened" white power challenged his stance.
"So you re saying your elder brother sound unreasonable"
"Somehow"
"Chei you have the audacity to spew gibberish from your dirty mouth?Dont you know same unreasonable senior as you call him was responsible for belling the cat that unveiled why soft drink factory crashed?"
"How tell me?"
"I thought you know your history "
"Yarn me"
"Mascot hid fetish object beneath factory floor not far from laboratory"
"Ahhhhhhhh"white power with such trademark of terrible dudgeon rolled on the sofa "i didnt know o".
"So you get it into your empty skull.Now you re loaded with brilliance.You should know that"
"Baba eko was steeped in fetishism."
"That one worse .His mother was the instigator."
"He pressed my head too."
"Yes when he comes round occasionally it affected your growth.Daddy odo ona prayed with Daddy Congo a lot .Fijabi random visit with uncle deoye did little magic too"
"Plus sunny and daddy's personal spiritual effort did wonders."
"Yes the spiritual attack could have been brutal and we could have died young."
"Did you remember how father moved astara religion into true christian faith.I think mum had stronger faith than Daddy.She broke her lene first before Daddy did his act."
"Yes Daddy said God knew i didnt have much so he yende to have mercy on me."white power laughing hysterically.
"So jony didnt go in early nineties as john desired."
"Stop talking about he detested dekunle.He did nt help him when he grew wealthy and got a six figure job at mobil.You know his father bought a lot of shares in those days"
"How was dekunle when you went jine last?Iya ayomide he was almost mad"
"I think he recovers gradually.Akin's friend said his problem was money similar to sunny.Lack of money bring a lot of sickness.i quite agree.Now jony didnt go in 1992 but later ....did"
"How manu years thereafter?2010!"
"Two decades wasted!"
"He had to prayed fervently to travel"
"And remember immediately he travelled and came then travelled again on student cida bu 2011 september mum passed on."
"Did you remember fellow tenant a Police man had accused jony of killing his mother."
"So he should forget lifetime dream?"
"The Police said when you re young you travel and not when you re old.Same things Rev.awolola said you dont travel overseas at old age"
"Nonsense!You should blame Daddy.When he had all the opportunity to do so for his kids,he didnt."
"Anyway you re right "
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