The Possibility Of Dreamd.part 235

Depending on what one is trying to do but there are folks like who love borderless information and could gather information without boundaries.Not only that they could transform anything once they could assemble adequate information to every emerging plight either individually or socially.The task of information intelligence and natural intelligence offers invaluable service to the enterprise of human ambition routine and assimilated nature of preparedness to make it happen from the most repugnant and reasonable angles put together.We cannot afford to squander the hard earned resources of future time our most precious and most sacred asset of life time.That sacred asset is lifetime or the appointed time of life and the affordability of information intelligence on one side and  information intelligence marketing on the other hand enable the fertile ground of the preparedness to handle dreams and visionary outstandings of a lifetime.The use of arts and consumption of its crafts with the most appropriate information intelligence marketing as most ideal instrument for valiant becoming afford the clinical redesign of the human life reap the clinical investment in the time of life strengthening the quality of routine maneuver to exploit attainment schedules towards attainment.We might be blessed with skills and not operate at the lowest cost but with information marketing intelligence we grow the quality of those skills operating at the lowest cost for the the transaction of trajectory routine and at the most expensive prices for the buyers of those skills increasing the standard of living and standard chemistry of investor's life time .We face the future in this context as the risk of uncertainty reduces.

The Possibility Of Dreams.part 234

Let me repeat it and I think I Ve said that before that the moment you can see it you can achieve it .It comes so easily to the mature minds and it makes room for continuous improvement over time .Once we have the spark say a golden dream it is very easy to build on it and we re not even afraid when we start basic framework for information gathering flow to begin to critically analyse the marketable sides and commercialisable pattern of a dream turn into vision slowly being transformed into plan and subsequently shaped by the substance of attainment schedules tied to the inherent attainability measures for critical fulfillment.Generally the future means the unknown and that it is risky and heavily risky without a plan that indicate first class nature of preparedness there can be under heaven.Those who walk in the opposite are bet living a risky life facing the risky unknown without any insurance whatsoever to insulate them from being drown into its murky waters.We quite agree it might entirely affordable to make blueprint to launch a buffer and effective buffet to get your bearing but gradually as you afford to gather information and increase your intelligence you confidence grows to a certain level to be able to perfect the framework for future insurance.It is impossible to navigate the future in the opposite direction and every one who oppose this fact certainly at old age do not have ample provisions to savor old age and even kids would not rewards because he left little or nothing for the kids and they will pay him back with little or nothing.

Political Intolerance In Nigeria.Chapter 7.page 6.

"Don't stop read on please.We re getting to the vital part of the interview.Perhaps the best leadership interview in the nation's history and compare creditably with the interview on Entertainment Express with Gowon over the role awolowo in his regime.Read on."

"Question:You served Buhari and later babangida.Buhari was accused of civil rights abuses by babangida who appears to be planning comeback after Obasanjo."

He cuts in"..If God Nigeria... alright I'll come to the topic of Babangida.I shall compare Buhari Babangida and Obasanjo without any apologies When Buhari 

Political Intolerance In Nigeria.Chapter 7,page 5

"......because l am not going to change and become a Muslim".He just laughed and said "Those who even think or say it are stupid.How can I islamise Nigeria?Show me how I will do it?Will I shut down all  churches and turn them mosques?I did not take Nigeria to organization of Islamic countries.Because of the economic situation in the days of former president shehu shagari we had nothing.We had to resort to barter.When they said we could get a loan from OIC without interest that was the only interest I had.I pulled down mosques because they were not in proper places.In my regime it was not a case of Muslims or christians,being locked up.It was a case of corrupt people."

He also narrated to him 'when Tunde Idiagbon was trying to compel his wife to become a Muslim he was the one who refused ".He said he was a disciplined person beyond compare and manages resources well .The bakare concluded"I will rather follow such a person than join looters."He said Buhari hardly print posters or billboards but the people he had helped that got contract during petroleum trust fund without lobbying printed posters for him and he only pay for public venues."

"What you said was true and Tam David West also confirmed your sources and Bakare's remarks about Buhari as the truth.See the Vanguard of June 13,2005 a year when daddy died"

"Which page?"as he stood up and take a paper below the top shelf as black power gestured the direction and opened it.

"Page 30 go to the third question.You know the interview was done by two journalist Uzor maxim uzoatu and Paul Odili"

Then white power reads"Oh I see.'one was during murtala Muhammad 's administration:his style was unique.And whether one likes it or not, Muhammad Buhari 's regime was only the second example of a successful leadership.I believe if Murtala had lived longer, however history would have judge him differently.Fortunately he died very early.He came at a time Nigeria needed discipline and he provided it.I served under Buhari and Idiagbon and murtala Muhammad too as commissioner of education in Rivers state from 1975 to 1979.I worked with Buhari and I can stick out my neck anytime to say there is no leader present in Nigeria that is like Buhari like Muhammad Buhari;none . Obasanjo is a very poor poor distant ...I can't even call him second.Why am I saying this? Buhari gave leadership by example not sermons.He gave discipline and possessed personal discipline.Without personal discipline you can t get anywhere."

Diana The Swimming Devil

People have tremendous strength of mind and they could really do anything.I was reading the story of a diehard fighter Dianna Nyad born in 1949 an American author motivational speaker and journalist became the first confirmed person to swim from Havana,Cuba to Florida without the assistance of shark cage or swim fins a distance of 102 miles or 164 km a feat achieved at the age of 64 years.Hence on 2nd of September,2013 she achieved the milestone.In 1979 over a period of 2 days swam from Bimini island in Bahamas to June Beach , Florida failed four times and succeeded on the fifth time.

Someone once said mental determination is a more potent factor than the energy of youth."Challenges and old age did not set her back.She set a distance of non stop swimming without a wet suit a record that still stands till date.She had a lot of setback in her early life but not perturbed keep moving on .She was an infant when her dad died and at age 3 her mother married a Greek real estate developer Aristotle Nyad and he adopted her .It was in her 7th grade that she began swimming and was tutored by an Olympian and hall of Fame coach Jack Nelson in the sixties.She could not participate in 1966 Olympics due to strange disease Endocarditis a heart infection.She spent three months in bed due to the strange ailment.Then she started swimming and discovered she had lost the speed and not just appetite.She once jumped out of a 4th floor dormitory without a parachute and was expelled by the university authority.So sound strange.I was amazed when I read the story.Human beings are so much wonderful with the use of the mind to achieve scary things.That is why I called her Dianna the swimming devil.

Good Love

How do we deal with those who made us to weep?

Who do we trust so much that we explain your problem to them?

Not everyone that smile at you is your friend.That is understandable but not everyone d realize that and they can t even differentiate true lovers from haters

I watch a TikTok survey of tiktoker one day and I was impressed to uncover we move more with friend enemy or frenemies than true lover.Quite a popular tiktoker I Ve forgotten his name now had interviewed ten people mostly girls and interrogated them on matters of the heart strictly matters of love to test the strength of their lovers only one lady passed the test.

The lady was asked :do you trust your boy friend?"

"She said not really and was asked at what percentage and she said 30percent .Why, thirty?"she was asked and she replied"he s a womanizer and they agreed to call up the guy and he picked up the call.Then they told the guy "Your have a package from courier company forwarded by your girlfriend to give you and it wrote your name on top.Before we deliver the package to your door steps we wanted to confirm whether you know her name."So he asked the guy what is her name?"And he said "tope"

Only this lady was lucky her so called womanising boy friend got her name correctly and others failed to have one girl friend and they have several girlfriends and these stupid girls believe they trust their boyfriends.Whereas all the  boyfriends of these nine girls have several girlfriends apart from them.What a comedy?

People really don't know the good love until trouble strikes.It is true blood is not thicker than water and even family will cross quicker than strangers.Although frenemies are the best because they re better than nothing and with nothing life is miserable lot.We manage them until someday good lovers might appear.Infact for many folks especially the poor they may not get good lovers in a lifetime even as the rich manage their group of lip service people who claim to love them but instead their money.

It is unfortunate when they hurt they walk away unpunished taking the biting onus and scar they inflict as if nothing happens.

White Power Triumphant Anecdotes.Chapter 8.page 1,2,3,4..

He could recall now the ordeal at the governor road when they left ijegun area .This period lasted between 1995 to 2009 when they lived in ijegun, Ikeja,governor road at alimosho , hang out at saint saviour and slept outside at the uncompleted deeper life building and baba legba and later moved to custom bus stop at abaranje in Lagos was as grueling as it sounds and was such an excruciating pang for any hopeless tenant in Lagos to experience.The best option in such condition black power had remorsed at one time was to commit suicide and call it quit with life.Infact it could have rhymed with the postulation of one of his late uncle 's wife a much cherished woman in their lineage.Obviously and frankly,aunty bunmi a robust mother of three had made the statement several years prior to the great migration and departure into Lagos.Considering the terrifying situation the Laniyan family passed through in life had concluded "I don't consider living a better option for a family like yours to undergo such terrible ordeal and if I were to be in such traumatic situation the best thing is to commit suicide and call it quit with life, "to which black power promptly replied "affliction in general causes mankind to move closer to God".Can you imagine same black power turned to be atheist emulated his distant mentor Wole Soyinka and quit his belief in supernatural that apparently survived the family through wilderness trials?Quite unbelievable,Quite uncharitable and that was the stupidity of the highest order but that was the gospel of how peculiar it could be when kids grow up to follow unpopular path in life.Viccisitudes by verisimilitude and verity in life is responsible for this unholy reprisal of objectionable catalysis.

White power 001 his much cherished sibbling in one of their relaxed brainstorming sessions had relieved himself with the anecdotes "You could still remember those years of loneliness, sleeplessness and homelessness."black power reminisced 

"You know we slept outside before?"he shocked his brother's memory.

"Yeah at babalegba that was 1999 a good Samaritan woman had aided us and get us uncompleted building to stay temporarily.An uncompleted deeper life building was also a hide out and we hang out there like we did at babalegba."

"At least we slept for a year outside and we feed with potential rents that should have been used to pay rents.We hang out saint saviour and deeper life building and slept at uncompleted buildings."White power with memory as sharp as razor still reminisced the anecdotes.

"Uhhmmmmm "

"Joys b guest house was another hide out and we sleep there every night.Enjoying water borne basins for the first time since we moved from ijegun"white power recalled again.Monsuru a hotel staff became tight friend with black power and aided free access to the hotel facilities until alhaji abiodun a former UTC director and hotel owner burst bubble and chased them from the facility.Wale an electrician mostly repair fridge and from wale to bada and kunle who later died like bada offered nothing but feeding .He became a washer shortly eating beans and wale and popular offered adequate feeding.Popular Bakery offered him enough nutrition at the same time he was a vendor."

"You move from popular bakery to ...."

"Onwards to car wash and worked shortly with wale veterinary doctor and later discovered Kings dealer bread where mayowa one of the sons of the founder became my close friends".

"So white power you remember DJ?How did you meet him?"

'We go around Lagos erecting billboard and distribution of posters .He didn't pay me.I was mercilessly exploited an ijebu man.His wife a good later died and he founded community magazine Edu magazine.You remember he stole your idea?"

"I went there to type my essay in his office at governor road.He saw I was into journalism and started the magazine shortly after and I did encourage him"

"He was a dubious person.Though he took me places like trade fair, excursion at lekki and Abeokuta,ikoyi to erect billboard.Yet I was paid nothing and only bought food for me.I wasted my time with him and had no education.He reported me to dad about escapades at the seven up brothel ."white power had recalled his memoirs.

White power had worked temporarily with GNLD store in cele express well paid until he was deceived and sent on errand to buy ogogoro or ethanol and was sacked.He was paid almost a thousand naira per day and was tired of life and returned to car wash and mayowa at his father's bakery placed him on irregular income.Then he left mayowa place he went Jaiyeola where crook laide lasupo took him to busy body car wash in igando left later and went onto work with Jaiyeola at college bus stop igando and thereafter worked shortly with Ola at another car wash venue.Old soldier was instrumental to the growth of his car wash revenue generating business.He first met the now late baba oja through Omo oba Adeyemi and later met baba Fred lawyer for the first time at alhaja's place and met old soldier at the former landlady place and then Dele the otunba and Mubarak father.They provided ways and means of earning a living from car wash business.Obviously old soldier was instrumental in helping his car wash revenue to grow over these period he was kind of grateful .What an excruciating memoirs!

The movement was not sweet from one pillar to post.Nevertheless they moved into the self contain adjoining the landlord buildings who was also somehow fetish like the earlier landlord Oyegunle whom they later learnt moved overseas like black power's cousins when they moved to Denver Colorado.The first two years rents were paid and they felt at ease until there was altercation with the landlord and black power was psychological traumatized like the rest of the siblings especially whenever they come from work.Then the third year money was collected not awared of the sinister motives by the landlord lukman avowed Muslim faithful as he was fondly called.He had roped the laniyan family accused Blackpower, white power and sunny with allegation for beating up his wife and took them to the police. First he began the fracas by disputing passage of water over the fence perhaps to avoid fence damage from daily water exhaustion which though maybe understandable to some extent but go a notch higher and accused innocent folks of beating up his wife was particularly disturbing and disgusting as it seems.Suddenly he arranged with a local hospital to fake bruises on his wife as she lay there emaciated on hospital bed well dramatized in the make believe drama to convince the unsuspecting police corporal and made a statement against the siblings.Somehow some agents and police officers loyal to black power 's patriarch were instrumental for their release and justice denied was finally secured for the innocent folks.The ikotun igando roundabout police station was later dismantled and something peculiar and esoteric often times follow the siblings even in their wilderness trials as they endeavor towards their promise land often times something unusual tends to happen . Perhaps much linked to their spiritual powerhouse  Sunday emotively a strong prayer warrior in those early tedious days who was blessed with robust spirit of fighting and learned efficiently how to fight battles with prayers was nevertheless the greatest source of power or the main arsenal that pulled the siblings together especially when their respective avocational outlets were in tatters and parent grew older living on their assets and properties at home giving them stipends and bounties even in Lagos though it grew over time as properties appreciated with the slow growth of Ogbomosho economy which was progressed substantially when Lautech university entered into the fetish and most religious city in Nigeria.The siblings still believed the family silver could be revived whereas things had changed unlike when their patriarch founded the soft drink factory and industries in the sixties , seventies, eighties and even nineties thrived better regardless of the incursion and economic ravages perpetrated by structural adjustment program (SAP) of the babangida regime .He could recall the mimicry of black power unbridled taste for dictions and the day lukman was to belch his remorse for his prolonged misdemeanor and he came over into the apartment and fake the promise that didn't last.

"We should not be quarrelling.We are brothers and any conflicts we have should be settled amicably."he departed with fake gesture and several weeks having made up his mind to chase the tenants despite despicably collecting their rents sent them parking and the next port of call after exit was abaranje in the 1999 to 2000 period.

"Ikeja was the best place and most expensive place to live" he noted

"Daddy can buy property here when factory resume"

"Who will revive it?"

"I think nobody but we will do it"

"Jonathan has turned to music nobody is like daddy"white power noted as he moved from police college when they sometimes strolled away from the pastorium and relieved the stress of living in overcrowded house a beehive of meetings and gatherings for church members and church workers calling him in randomly to see the man of God for help counseling and the rest of church pieties that occasion demands.They had moved into Ikeja pastorium after they exit Oyegunle house in ijegun and moved there.Their nagging aunty was married to pastor okewole who see kids were in London but married second wife the Blackpower 's popularly known as mama Ikeja .There was nowhere the whole family could sleep after altercation with Oyegunle and non payment of rents forced the landlord to terminate their respective rights.

"Daddy where are we going to live now?"white power was perturbed and the mother came to the aid.

"Depele my sister stays in igbodo market Ikeja and live with her husband in the pastorium.She will offer help."she confided in he husband.

"Oh first Baptist church Ikeja next port of call"white power jubilated and there was phone call and the accepted

"Come over the whole family for the meantime "the family was elated and the joy of staying Lagos capital and very optimistic they good men of god could be helpful to the family and perhaps family silver might be revived.How they were wrong.That was how they moved to Ikeja and thereafter the good disciplinarian as expected became much worrisome virago though sporadically."White power eat the food like a civilised person stop the spat in your mouth and clean the spilling the bits in your mouth before taking further morsels.

"white power ignored warnings and it turned out to slap."mama Ikeja.

At one time they had gone to Ikeja airport sneaked into the Reverend's blue Peugeot drove them to the airport and when they came back white power was beaten for dodging house cleaning.A cup of coffee offered in exchange to cooled his frayed nerves.He was fond of Police college playground watching football and basketball and occasional visit to Ikeja golf clubs.The fracas at random interval between pastor and the aunt and between siblings and their aunt sometimes derogatory remarks often not called to order.One day this gentleman pastor had remarked"Since you had no child of yours these siblings someday would find you and reward you."

Blackpower 's crushes would not work out due dearth of money and under employment and it crashed as they came and there was so much suspicion about siblings living in the pastorium until another uncle provided funds though derogatorily that was used to secure housing at governor road.Black power and white power during the period had become vendors selling papers from ikotun to iyana ipaja tis Ikeja hawking papers even at Ile zik bus stop to the extent white power hawked papers till mangoro cement from Ile zik hawking PM news . Sometimes got accidents and scattered papers and funds on the road and was able to regained his feet.He was taken to the hospital and got some injection refused to take medication and was taken to his agent Talako.He stopped morning hawking and shifted to evening papers and fake money forced to eventually quit evening sales.One of his fellow vendors died on the spot and there seem to be esoteric powers following every perceived evil doers against the family either died or risk his or her life in the process.He washed clothes do menial jobs for late bada who didn't care whether he survived or not.They seem to have the same spirit as their father and convincingly it was true now they had imbibed the spirit of vengeance from him.Wherever late Moses had worked the spirit of vengeance with the karma of untimely death seem to be the retribution of any of his perpetual or spontaneous offenders especially the remorseless ones .Black power had few friends and most intelligent ones and any thing less a counterfeit and unconvincing.

"White power I Ve always tell you be like me and don't be like others as I be like dad be like dad and I think your brother jony also emulated that too "

"If you don't struggle for yourself you will not eat . Don't you understand.You no ho see money there."

White power disagreed and that was their greatest fight and until the eve of their  status becoming billionaires and trillionaires there seem never be on talking terms though black power won the contest white power provided foundation for the winning the contest.

In the midst of family experience in Ikeja even long after they left Ikeja and moved to abaranje from governor road Blackpower returned to Ikeja from the business routine of hawking papers in ikotun roundabout before fashola came and gave it a facelift to hawking papers at iya ipaja and later Ikeja he learned a great deal about the powers of undiminished passion for prime destination.

He started selling papers in 1999 at the onwards enterprises in ikotun.Onward a native of south south was the first person executive board probably in the whole of alimosho and perhaps never would be his like or sample again now that internet had reduced the propensity to consume physical papers though still have a role for there's a difference in holding physical papers and electronic papers or e paper at the mere click of your touch pad or computers.He was also the second vendor in the area after the unceremonious death of idowu senior brother a kind of bombastic melodrama of the human personel.His sister taiwo sold briefly there and later after pregnancy and child rearing had the better of her she moved on with life and his brother idowu took over who moved the stall from ikotun filling station to the other side of the road stationed before a private hospital facing the road not far from brt bus stop.He sold for many years and perhaps been a later graduate from Lasu opted for better life compared to the agony of slavish vendorship .All of these years they use there in those days at the filling station in those and several acquitances were made.Not a dint of memory and a dint of acquitances had stayed except the destined ones.They comprised of Laide Lasupo,Kayode,Mathew an edo lawyer ,Naths king Cole later studied philosophy at unilag,Dire Asala and another Osun state citizen who studied elect elect at  Uniben formed the cabal of his intellectual base and they debate almost there's to be .Then onward a failed agent debilitated and devasted by agency indebtedness or agency indifference discovered there was so much money in retailing than the wholesale end of agency and turned full scale vendorship.He had subsidiary stalls all over alimosho from governor road,to old police station to ijegun etcetera onward was closer to his customers selling news papers and in 2000 had moved from onwards to talako an iyana ipaja agent and worked with him briefly who moved often papers that remain in his collection after papers were distributed to his vendors down ikotun roundabout for another of sales .He was making more money than onwards from both retailing and wholesaling respectively.

Obviously dearth of entrepreneurship and social safety net seem to make Nigerian youth endangered species the world over.

Political Intolerance In Nigeria.Chapter 7,page 3.

It says in many cities during the period under survey,state governors restricted public facilities from the use of opposition parties not creating a level playing ground and becoming uncomfortable for political space to thrive . Some party leaders and presidential candidates complained..."

"Complained where.. clarify?"

"At separate gatherings including a delegation from international Republican institute based in United States led by Ghanaian president John kuffour.They lamented open hostility by state governors denying them the use of public space for political campaigns and also disallowed them access to state controlled Media houses."

"I think prominent politicians too like Ribadu were there "

"Ribadu cited instances of Benue State government which stopped ACN from holding its presidential rally in the state capital and forced his party to move to Gboko."we cannot even get permits to campaign......We see visible signs of harassment and attempts to prevent us from talking to the populace "Ribadu lamented 

Presidential candidate former president major general Muhammadu Buhari(Rtd),also cited the ruthlessness with which Niger state government and the state police command thwarted party efforts to inaugurate its north central zone presidential rally in Minna.Ebonyi Governor Martins Elechi in a state broadcast placed newspaper advertisment that announced a ban on all Nigeria people's party (ANPP)."

"He even quoted Elechi.Read that part."

"He said "Let ANPP chieftains hold their rally elsewhere"

Opposition were muzzled in other states too.Posters of political candidates were banned in Bauchi in the state capital.Besides President Goodluck Jonathan and State governor's pictures any other poster was banned in the state.There was arrangement in both bayelsa and Rivers state where special task force were appointed for ripping apart posters of candidates of the opposition parties."

"Bombings and killings skyrocketed during the period at bayelsa and other states.At Opokuma labor party rally on February 2011 and party office at ogbia town were attacked."

"Yes you're right.Eight persons murdered.Bomb explosions on March 3 2011, killed ten people in Suleja Niger state.The rally belong to PDP."

"Take for instance the horror of elections in 2003 and 2007 where scores of 100 deaths at least were proven in 2003 from incident related to election violence."

"More than 300 deaths in 2007 were recorded yet the murderous politicians were still in the corridors of power ."

"Government media inclusive "

"They use state owned media institutions state owned radio and television stations were more partisan discriminated in air time allocation in news coverage and analysis.Infact adverts were rejected with no explanation made despite the fact those same media institutions were heavily underfunded by governments."

"This country will never change.In 2011 833 deaths in within four weeks certainly increasing year to year."

"Now let me read the schocking part second to the last paragraph "All these discriminatory acts represent glaring infractions of the electoral act 2010(amended),just as they portend grave dangers for peace and political stability if they are not halted by appropriate authorities particularly INEC the police the  Broad casting organizations of Nigeria and the regulator Nigerian broadcasting commission.The trends in politicking have been distressing so far but Nigerians have reason to believe that INEC under its present leadership means well for the nation and could deliver free fair and credible poll in April."

"You see that has anything in Nigeria changed ever since then?We deceive ourselves a lot .The only thing that saved the day was the best speech delivered when the then president Goodluck Jonathan told his supporters that his ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian and they were told to emulate that behavior.I think you see Goodluck Jonathan vs Muhammad bala for 2027 former president coming back ."

"Equation balanced.See information varies online sources say election violence in 2011 claimed over 800 lives in three days in northern Nigeria presidential voting in April.This is serious not four weeks as reported by punch ."

"See YouTube channel Videos for channels TV entitled Buhari is Responsible for election violence in 2011.Another caption in the same channel entitled Buhari is Responsible For Post election violence in 2011."

"Had the then president Goodluck Jonathan not stepped down T.B.Joshua says he saw 500,000 deaths in its prophecy.The president had said would not shed any blood of Nigerians and calmly stepped down."

"Did you recall the open letter to Buhari from Socioeconomic rights And Accountability Project (Serap)"

"What about the letter?"

"It urged the president in 2019 to refer to International Criminal Court in pursuant to article 13 section of the Rome Statute to which Nigeria is a party , allegations of elections related violence intimidations killings between 1999 to 2019 for purpose of investigation and prosecution.Kolawole Oluwadare SERAP deputy director signed the letter.According to the organization 'The violence , intimidation and killings in some states around the just concluded general elections suggest that the electoral law and criminal law have over the years not been adequately enforced and deterrence through criminal sanctions is failing.Electoral violence a specie of political violence is not only criminal act but crimes under international law given its widespread and systematic nature over the years.'It made referral of electoral violence and killings to ICC as a deterrence and ensure those who were unjustly murdered or suffered violence should be effectively catered for and received justice."

Government is stubborn goat.Did they change their ways?of course they don't take a look at 2023 general election.I trust premium times like Jesus Christ like Sahara reporters two highly investigative sources of journalism or media news.Premium terms reported over 103 electoral deaths for 2023 general elections.We don't hear words government hardly change worldwide."

"Uhhhhhhjmmmmmmm,"

"137 killed according to vanguard news of 5th may of 2023 .In Lagos Oro cult was used to intimidate folks and scare people during election and the cult was turned into tribal embarrassment.It encounter so many incidence of ballot box snatching, violence and disruption of voting activities."

"What can voter education and strengthening of electoral infrastructural, reform , security measures and use of electoral technology do as major solutions in this context?"

"Oga you re blowing grammar, nothing has refused to work in nigeria.i mean literally everything "

"Abi"

"You know we have 90 million voters in the country "

"And so what many of them would not vote because we have 73 percent not 63 of Nigerians living in multidimensional poverty and without voters card may not vote.Many in IDP camps and moved into informal camps who maynot vote due to lack of voters card."

"You re not even talking of comercialisation of votes that determine candidate selection as recorded during last election when the votes were sold to the highest bidders.The popularity of vote selling slogans like Ko so wonko si bo ,or dibo ko se be meaning sell vote cook soup or owo ree ibo ree meaning pay me I will vote for you."

As at march 2023,Dataphyte report estimated out of over 3,959 election petition filed between 2003 to 2023 only 2007 had the highest at 1,290 petition.With multidimension poverty poor  can go not those 93 percent only 24 milion with the 27.42 percent voted  .

An Odyssey Of the Kilometer Radius.Chapter 5.page two.

To get over the dread of unforeseen posterity, a major kernel  for survival was the chronic debates on the Nigerian context.The debates in igando was particularly inferior inference to the golden forays of ikotun newsstand debates and dialogues depending on the unfolding scenario of headlines, editorials and news related prejudice of the day tilted in the battle royale of the meretricious , bombastic and verbose discussants.He made a couple of acquitances and fewer friends and most fiends in the newsstands and the igando newstand was not an exception.The inspiration for instance in the company registered erupted out of envy in one of  the courses of debates.He met a fellow ogbomosho guy popularly called Tunde Ogbomosho and they much related well over time ranging from various discussions.He was involved in oil trade and barely understood the preponderance of registered company.

"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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When in 2009 after his father died in 2005 with siblings he moved into the self contain apartment till January 2012 and then moved again into another a dividend and a row of six times tenancy turn over till they reached the bushy house.

Quite often when a tenant pays his or her rent regularly in the country does not justify the tenant in the good book of the landlord.He paid rents regularly on behalf of siblings in this self contain apartment.Then often times the landlord would come every December and they had arrangement that was later changed to bank transfer to his account at uyo at akwa ibom or Abuja where he had another property and possibly three properties detected.Previously a little escort of the tenant Blackpower to access bank branch in ikotun was enough to withdraw money and pay him cash and it lasted perhaps more than five years or thereafter to resort to bank transfer and later in the last two or several years before his demise the tenant made transfers through ATM machine and POS itself not well developed device as at the time.

However most memorable experience was the friendly attempt to betroth landlord daughter.He had a rapport with the landlord and they seemed discuss Nigerian politics,soccer and hardly personal and a bit of socially exclusive matter.Anyway had a jovial relationship with the landlord.Why?Because he paid his rent regularly and at least every February and in most cases every January and had commemorated him several times.

"Black power you pay me regularly and am impressed about that .The other tenant in the middle one pastor something hasn't paid me .Why am I even telling you sef.So keep it up."

"My landlord the landlord the only landlord in the whole world"

"Black power you re funny"

And they zoomed into politics and discuss extensively and was fond of zik of Africa.Aparently often times at December times,he was fond of drinking before conversation.

"See my tenant before we start our discussion go and buy two minerals from mama akin ."dipped hands in his rear pocket and handed over little quid to Blackpower to buy cold drinks.Then banged out and banged in with the drinks with the next door neighbors and immediately commenced the conversation.He started to suspect Blackpower the moment he belittled Zik was somehow indignant as an indigene of south south part of Nigeria a move undertaken by black power which was deemed as a rude gesture to the integrity of the region that was carved out of eastern and western region in those days say 1967 or thereabouts especially Midwestern region.

"You seem to be found of zik and I don't know why?"

"Habba, don't you get it Zik of Africa is the only hero in Nigeria."

"Where did you get your history from?"

"I should be telling you.I m educated person .I went to unilag and I moved with high and mighty and am a banker and I made my home in Lagos.I should be telling you."

"Like seriously, what!And so what does that have to indicate with the issues on ground,that zik is the only hero in Nigeria?"

"Listen to me..."black power interrupted as dropped his bottle of coca-cola and cleared his throat  a bit.

"See my landlord make I no offend you or let me offend for the first time.i will not aggregate your comment for once as honest remarks."

"Do you know what Zik did for Nigeria?"

"What did he do?"

"You don't know what he did!"

"What did he do that others or other founding fathers didn't do?"

"He gave Nigeria independence single handedly of course ".

"Landlord you re a pathological liar.

We discussed it the other times you re so fond of zik.Jise people.If I may ask which independence?"

"He was the main force"

"No single person gave independence to Nigeria.Is he greater than awolowos,akintolas,enahoros,okotie ebohs, Herbert Macaulays etcetera in the fight for independence?"

"All those ones are subordinates ?"

"Subordinates how?In the London constitutional conference of 1954 who was the most dominating force? Was it not awolowo who singlehandedly provided the philosophy for the nation's independence?What is not his argument on federalism that provided the building block of independence that another yoruba man funded?"

" Which Yoruba funded the independence?"

"It was funded by the first millionaire in black Africa Papa D'a Rocha.You mean you don't know papa da Rocha?He died in 1959 and could not witnessed the independence day celebration and Soyinka wrote the independence play dance of the forest.Awolowo made the independence possible and akintola motion failed where enahoros motion succeeded.

The only contribution was he was the first ceremonial president in Nigeria at independence.He started at senate president from being the last governor general of Nigeria at least you know that.Senator Nwafor Orizu took over the senate presidency after him."

"He was a journalist probably the first journalist and had the biggest brands of papers and biggest printing press in the country in Lagos in those days."

"You re wrong but the biggest printing press and highest brands of newspapers such as the west African pilot and observer etc you maybe right.But he was not the first journalist.Infact the Yoruba people that introduced all skills and education into black Africa mentored him in journalism after he graduated from American university.He was an editor at African morning post in Ghana a paper owned by a Yoruba man O.A.Fashanu."

"Where do you get your information from"

"I think you know my work?"

"You said you were a journalist?Just show me one of your publication "as they stood up and stand Infront of his bungalow that was later willed to her daughter optimistic she would marry Blackpower a prospect that later failed.Then suddenly the beligerent tenant zoomed into his adjoining apartment and brought out his publication just one of his  vanguard newspaper publications in an interview of a thespian professor Sola fosudo a Don at the Lagos state university "with his name pasted beneath story.

"Oh alright is on your business card too.I saw it .Thump up too.keep it up".Then he stopped the argument.

At other time when he returned back to Lagos for the usual collection times they bickered over unpaid rents a remainder of ten thousand.

"Where is my remaining ten k."

"Landlord I don't have money now"

"Okay bring 5k I write off the remainder "

"See I use to borrow money to pay your rent sometimes something you don't know.If I collect cash from tenants in Ogbomosho,I use it to pay you or borrow It to pay you quickly and that was why I was able to pay you quickly never failed for once every January"

"Okay at least thumb up for that too."

"Landlord I wanted to tell you something o"quickly immersed in a flash back and he called him back as he bade to leave.

"What is it? tell me"

"As you can see we never marry me and my siblings we need wives."

"Get on the streets and go find wife.What is my concern with that?"

"Oh no landlord listen give me your daughter for marriage at least make she born for me"He was shocked 

"You my darling daughter Maggie?"

"Yes"

"Let me think about it"as he departed and a year after he came back for the usual collection period and was surprised the story was all out.The daughter in question had visited several times from Abuja staying in the front apartment like his father and we got a good rapport.Then he confronted him and said

"What did you tell my father?"

"What did I tell your father ?"

"Do you want to deny?"

"Oh I could recall that incident now.The last time he came I said he should give you to me for marriage.

And at other time in one of our discussions he said can you handle her a well educated woman?She has second degree at least you know that."

"Pretty well.i can handle her."

"He embarrassed me in Abuja and said three men in my house in Lagos they never marry and one of them he will marry you.Go to Lagos go find husband."Maggie remarked .

"I said I like you"then they joked it off and for some time was fond of me and the man ceased coming to Lagos untill his death.During the latter part of his life they send him money either through POS or ATM machine.In the last year of his life black power failed to pay quickly in January and when he paid he had a remainder which was delayed.

"Black power where is my remainder of 20k ?"

"I don't have money now "

"So when are you going to pay ?"

" I don't know yet o"

"You re becoming stubborn now.I will tell my daughter to take action on you."

"Landlord this is Lagos not akwa ibom tenant who can defend himself well in court even has right more than landlord "then he barked off the call and not long after when the payment was made he died shortly and the daughter became landlady.Then she turned out to be repressive landlady against Blackpower for not pestering her with love gifts, romantic gestures consummate much earlier toastings and she increased rents and pestered him with outrageous NEPA bills unlike the method applied by late father.

To add salt to injustry the following year black power delayed rent payment full six months and was still adamant to pay and she threatened fire and brimstones.She also added pressure to the rent increase filed case with the lawyer and rent increased to one hundred and fifty thousand naira.The day she forcefully gained entrance into their apartment an attitude which was against the law he accused the siblings of damaging the property.

"Blackpower let me see the property"

"Don't you ever enter into the apartment behind my back okay" he gave her stern warnings after the first malicious entry and finding him stubborn perpetrated the acts in his absence seduced his brother to submission a too flexible white power 

"Let me enter the apartment to repair the property"

White power unaware of the warnings permited her to enter under duress.Then he came back home and white power complained.

"See landlady badged into the house to repair something.She accused us of spoiling her father's property and did some repair on  the parlor wall."

"And you allowed her to enter after I warned and also you never to allow anybody gain illegal entry into the apartment.Dont you get it? Forced  entry is a criminal offense a misdemeanor a treasonable felony"

" I don't know but she forced me under duress."

"And you allowed her?"Then black power either on promenade to new stand or visit to clients for interview sessions or media houses searching for gigs white power felt irritated and damaged the repairs she made and at another loose times by white power was able to badge in and took snapshots for evidence at the police station and so police came one morning.

"Who is black power"police corporal from igando police station 

"You re invited to the station for causing damage to the property.'

Then he called his lawyer and the phone rang ",sir I was arrested by the police.""oh don't struggle with them o just go to the police station and write your statement.I ll be there shortly."They entered into Keke napep and was taken to the police station in a jiffy as jealous onlookers and connivers and scorners mocked at a distant.

"Come and see they have arrested him.

Shame on him.he want marry landlady.He s now owing rent too.Stupid idiot.He toasted my daughter too."iya Rita mocked.

Then he followed the police and subservient wishes.

As they enter into the station with landlady at the back who later joined them,Blackpower sat down awaiting trial another police woman and also a prophetess called him.

"Young man come over here."as he moved closer and sat Infront of him closer to the Landlady who took the seat nearby passionate for everybit.This was after he had written a full page higher education narrative on the whole messy subject.

"Young man what is your problem?"

"I was accused of badly vandalized the landlady's property and not for owing rent six months into  the year."white power standing outside the same day unawared he might have been arrested for the property damage offence and when the damaged subject was invoked and suspect unveiled as white power the police woman says

"Bring him the offender lock him up"

"No officer I will take his place and cover my brother"

"No problem then enter sell on his behalf "

then black power was locked up in sell for a day and from the rent landlady just collected from Blackpower subject to intervention of pastor alab of African mission he was bailed the following day with 20k.The caretaker pastor was there and negotiated for his release.

While behind bars the mockery of his entry was particularly humbling based on the written statement against that he was owing landlady a huge sum of money.It became history when the clergy man intervened although Blackpower had suspected he was too light with the Landlady or might have been behind the incarceration subject allegedly that it had instigated the threat that landlord would increase rent perhaps to force them out and in one of their altercations the landlady was annoyed.

"How many years in my apartment now?"

"Close to ten years"

"A full decade?oh my god and you achieve nothing"and the next moment they were gone.The clergy was relieved to offer service for his release as being his Ogbomosho indigenes.

"You offer a good service for this young man"officer applauded

"Any little effort in the service of humanity I can offer for my nation I will gladly do it".

He had waited for an hour until several hours of extant trials and interrogations and hearings were concluded.Then he moved closer and sat close to the landlady.Then black power defended himself.

"Officer I was wrongly cheated in this relationship and the unfair treatment meted out to me by the landlord .She made forceful entry twice a criminal offense and the police came to my abode without any warrant of arrest.See the guys behind bars most of them thirty three there were innocent folks in there "

"See young man I saw a vision about you.If they say you have two or three houses in Lagos by now I will not be mistaken."her prophetic eyesight zoomed to high heavens and he pour more eulogy on his stars to the indignant remarks of jealousy landlady that implicated him.Then officer blessing as she was fondly called

"I see stars in your life and glory on your head.You re suppose to have many houses in Lagos now I repeat."she remarked once again.

"Why are you talking about him.Am the landlady here talk about me not him "

"Keep quiet please otherwise I'll locked you up like him.Your mumu  don do."

"Then black power threw the bombshell.

"See officer I toasted her and that was the original of my woe."

"You never can tell whether you would marry her at last"

"God forbid !Olohun ma je"Blackpower third sibling elder Sunday.

Sunny quickly went out after he was arrested and locked behind bars to buy 🍊 orange soft drink to the repugnant remarks of black power indignant about his attitude for the purchase as if he expected him to die or waste behind bars but he seemingly nevertheless understood the situation of justice in the country which was often been denied before being granted.

The stinky smell and rancid odour in the prison of twenty by twenty foot room with overcrowded inmates was particularly humbling to feel pity for the Nigerian situation.The police officer that was assigned to the prison took the register of inmates and reeled out names every morning and sometimes acquaintances and relations of the inmates brought food and resort to favouritism do occur and when an inmate is surrounded by loved ones and regular visits bribing the officer or DPO in charge such inmate could be released too quickly or fortunate with the moment of release.

A tragic incident happened one day behind bars a heavily frustrated woman in a counter blast grimaced his little boy.

"Pls help beat him is my boy too lazy he doesn't want to work"she sounded harshly and shouted over the counter as the officer pounded his head with police stick,as he struggled and resisted entry into the cell.Eventually compelled into the cell beaten mercilessly and he fell into coma.He woke up the next day.

More worrisome in a stinkpot a stinking situation of a woman in menstruation and so cumbersome with unkempt smell rent apart the air,putrid irresistible as the toilet stench.Two robbers of okada were caught and escaped and the other that struggled with the Police was brought in dead in the night with stolen okada.Black power had relayed the story to his sibling afterwards.

"You that is so stubborn and I knew you would struggle with the police you should they arrest you and lock you up for the house damage incidence."

"Uhmmmmm.thank you brother.Am sorry."

"I knew it anything could happen and I decided to cover you.Still you don't remember what mummy said,'your brother loved you '.You need to see how the police beat the indolent and insolent boy to a coma .oh my gosh .They beat him mercilessly and he was in coma lying down almost dead at evening time and he could not wake up till the next morning."

"You save me brother."

"Anybody playing strong head don't go to station and you do that o.They will beat the person to a coma with police sticks."

"Apeja" meaning fisherman"you saved me brother "

Not unaware of the damage caused at the property had chastised sibling for that petty action.

"I damaged that repair bro"

"You mean you damaged what?two wrongs do not make a right and he who goes to equity must go with clean hands?"

"She forced herself on us ."

"No matter what what you did was wrong."

"Don't you know I was arrested on your behalf and locked up instead for your offence.I can't go to court again.When the police interrogated who did the damage to the repairs and I said it was my brother and the interrogating Poli ce woman said bring the guy he should be arrested and I said no he s my brother and I will cover him and they locked me up on your behalf.Dont you get it!"

"Am sorry i didn't know."this was the conversation they had after police released Blackpower from detention a day behind bar returned to his senses covered his brother from being locked up.

With return from prison his uncle had heard the incidence of unpaid rent and was ashamed of his lineage and the family good name being dragged into the mud and called black power due to his sister's briefings from Abuja and the pressure piled on them to leave the landlady apartment.

"Leave that apartment with immediate effect"eldest brother from London called 

"I Ve sent money to your account leave that place the landlady is an evil woman.She s a devil's workshop arrant devil a devil's incarnate and if he could arrest you with so much bitterness he could do anything to kill you."

" Uhmmmmm"

"Leave the premise okay."

"Then the sister sensitized uncle jony a university lecturer who later passed on due to another incident was related to  health issues.What unfortunate incident to an uncle who was shortly after his death awarded professorship at the university of ife.Then uncle says 

"Black power why didn't you pay your rent.I was told you did not pay rent ten years rent.You disgrace my sister.What is your wrong with you?"

"It was a lie just a smearing campaign.Before I was arrested I had paid my rent and I paid rent every year."

"Are you saying educated woman don't know what she was saying?"

"Did my sister says that?Mind you educated what?"

"She has masters and you didn't have varsity education."

"You know why all this trouble uncle?"

"What?"

"I roasted I toasted her"

"Shut up.You didn't have university education and she might even be the angel at last."

"Which angel? She's an evil lady.Educated illiterate".

"You mean somebody that has second degree doesn't know a thing.You re too arrogant."

"Ask her anything about economics she doesn't know.We debate on Philip curves,we talk on econometrics,linear programming,stage theories,Marxian theory of surplus,who says demand create it's own supply and vice versa, neoclassicals and classicals . monetary management,great economists and their theories at least mention the prominent ones she doesn't know.What else can you know in your life if in these basics in economics and economic history you don't know. I find out later that she was buying lecturers like her ilks"he blasted her

"That is not my point.You have to be serious.My sister and her husband didn't end up well and I don't want you to repeat the mistake and I pray for you you shall live a glorious lifetime with happy endings.They left tons of properties at home and you should go back home and look after them.You shall end well .okay."

"Amen"

Shortly after they moved into the bushy area his uncle jony died and a year or two thereafter the last but senior uncle crown also passed one.He was fond of his tautology.

"You re only eating in Lagos."This means Im Yoruba parlance "onje nikan Le nje leko"and his upbeat and moral concern to revive family silver was his major concern until his demise.

"When re you going to revive fruito?"indirectly grumbled this axiom till his death.Black power had wonderful family like almost every Nigerian house hold proud of their genealogies regardless of their internal wranglings.

The ordeal of tenant challenges gripping the simply average Nigerians was a full account of public sympathy and public empathy for any citizen in the country.Shortly after a decade in the yemisi okelola street,they moved into the unity street often crossed in into the enclosure from African mission street a short cut to unity street.The dilapidated and abandoned property after the demise of the owner took several years of desertion and desolation where thorny bush ravaged the environment of the shabby building with leaky roofs and grotesque voices of the crickets and nocturnal horror sounding creatures in the thicky bush.Then afterwards of the erstwhile threat and departure from the compounds of former landlady who took over the property after his own father died,they moved into the abandoned areas.The first immediate surrounding not far from the thorny bush was cleared by black power in the lonely period when his siblings were away at work places.

The thorny bush in the most egregious inclemency stood impenitently like a rock of Gibraltar as it were when the black power family moved into the bushy enclave enclosed with thorns and thistles .

None a machismo daring enough to wield the purgatory intense badly needed by the environment to make it clean.Therefore it became a thorn in the flesh and sometimes at night the childish elements cavort around and shriek at the evening times making love in the enclosed bush with such shrieks and epicurean moan to suggest the intricate happenstance of the unholy hours.Sometimes marauders took infraction to raid the bushy terrain with shouts of thieves rampaging the mini forest.

"Ole! Ole!! Ole !!!"a bullied passerby raved in the broad daylight combing the vicinage in search and chase of suspected thieves plowing the areas.

"Landlord is coming if you don't cut the bush. if you cut off those mess we ll have peace."another passer cajoled

"This is Lagos a civilised metropolis.Goddamn it"a local gin seller boasted

"I saw snakes and reptiles yesterday.Dont you get it"caretaker pastor noted

"Black power go and cut am angry with you"

The rage had enforced him to cut the bush in record but half completed.Although they had cut it off completely when they first moved in and kayode kola sibling had cleared the thicky bush two years ago and it grew rapidly with the rain fall to current position.Then one day the caretaker had summoned courage to brief the landlord of the unholy activities and the insensitivity of his tenants and he came one day banging the door and only black power was around with siblings scampered off to work.

"Who is in the house"

"Who is around,your landlord is around come out"

"I tell you they re not critically responsible to the situation around.i will take the house from thm and give it to church."landlady raged

"Oh madam from frying pan to fire.To give it to them is that easy you mean for the church people but to get it back is the problem."

"They won't leave"the civil servant from the council retorted"

"Why re you my tenant ? Won't you come out?"as black power eased hurriedly in the toilet came out with dread and escorted them to raging scene and furiously rage in their goofs of pointificates.

"What re you doing in this place that you can't cut this thicky bush?"

"So lazy so useless.You can't clean your environment."Landlord stood adjoining the landlady who now sat on the cemetery where they buried the late landlord shouted on top of his voice.They cited the instances of old widow around or near the building.

"You re so lazy you can't even clear the bush and see the old widow her surrounding was cleared ,safe and sound.Haba."

Your mumu don do okay.If I come back next time and I don't see you clear this thicky bush I will get you expelled from the house.okay.Is that's clear"landlady stood up from the grave yard.

"Am all ear sir.We will clear it."

"Why don't you clear it before?"

"We did but it grew up so quickly."

"Am warning you for the upteempth time I must not see it next time if I come around.Is that clear.Cant you speak?"

"Yes sir"Then they cooled down and moved around the uncovered well.

"Absolutely you re not responsible when you move in here you saw the well water opened and you can't even close it haba!"

"Am exhausted landlady.See go find an improvised cover to lid it if you cannot afford to pay welder.Did you hear me?"

"Yes sir"black power retorted in dread.Then as they heaped traduce on black power they heaped eulogy on the caretaker of the property and his altruism for managing the property while away.The alaka family moved from the property after the demise of their late family and some traveled overseas and they buried the decease in the same property.

"We re lucky the pastor is managing the property for us.Thank you pastor"as the landlady turned back to greet him once again warmly."

"No mention "

"I once chased away a tenant here.A lazy woman who would not clean the bush."

The pathetic civil servant a stone throw away from their discussion overseeing sanitation services at the council who was beckoned to intervene in the matter alongside the caretaker began to interrogate the matter facing black power.

"Hello young man as tenant here you re suppose to cater for the sanitation of the around.Wait a minute what is your avocation?"council man said 

"Oh am a journalist by profession"

"Jesus a respectable journalist for that matter.Venerable men of the fourth estate.And they re yabbing you like this?"

"We use to cut and it often times quickly grows up."

"Anyway try okay.I will live you now because of your profession and council will not be notified of the sanitation offence.Take care."

"Much thanks sir"as the threatening entourage with the enthralled sanitation officer winced away in the enclosed passage into the next street of African mission from unity street heaping praises on the caretaker and incidentally also the pastor of the African mission a ministry with two or three acres of land in the street adjoining taiwo street and the yemisi okelola street in which the black power and two siblings once lived for a decade prior to exit into the alaka house.

Alaka prior to his demise according to story from the hag or harridan or the next door neighbor to black power siblings a virago at one point in her low senses belched the anecdotes.Alaka hailed from Oyo state same with black power and siblings built the now leaky bungalow of four bedrooms and settled down in the place and lived there until his demise as evidence by the graveyard.The well water in the region was a beehive of free citizens in the area fetching free water for daily survival.

They drove into the African mission street with mordern jeep Wrangler and the sanitation officer was caught in the excitement when the clergy man interrogated the landlord the son of the Landlady wore a designer T.shirt and poshy jeans.

"So where re you now?"pastor inquired

"I just came back from the states."switched to a video call with her sister in the state unleashed the camera on himself and black power standing nearby "

See the old men living in your house."laughing mockingly and it latter dawned on black power the critique sense of the intimidating mockery looking down ignominiously like a criminal.

At a few paces away at somewhat agonizing diameter a hag,an harridan a tempest of virago a dejected old widow stood obstinately moved into many years from rented apartment after her late husband bought the land and built a ramshackled hit like building in the place not plastered thatched window and old Salanga toilet of those days.She took over the house hold after the demise of het his and.This plank of endangered enfanteribble widow somehow made life a hell for black power in the bloody radius.The first time they moved into the bushy vicinage,left to him,he had no qualm nor misgivings whatsoever but his siblings sunny ran away from the much dreaded spot since Alaska's death the family fled the place . 

Likewise an agent friend of him laude lasupo could not get them a house even though he did was not comparative to this befitting duplex fitted perfectly for a family in the jettisoned distance.Sunny a former prayer warrior and learning or more or less an apprentice Pastor and a loyal member of Sword of the spirit ministry in Ibadan owned by Francis Wale Oke a supposed father in the lord who joined the siblings in Lagos from Ibadan where he hibernated after school. There the full family moved from ijegun still prayer warrior as usual but couldn't sustain the rigor of Christian faith resort to factory work to support himself They were together until they moved into the bushy enclave.

"Why did you run away?"agent laude lasupo two decade old friend and sometimes a fiend with black power interrogated after his visit to the agent office much unknown to black power untill thereafter.

"We can't live in the place.I saw snakes, reptiles and horror sounding creatures in the place ."

"What do you mean?"

"Evil spirits Spurs from the spirit of the dead surrounded the place and the graveyard.Daemons making grievous sounds and hideous noises at night.Find another house for us.We cant live there.Please do."shivering with dread as the agent thereafter met his friend when the situation normalized to brief him the comedy the tragically tales of his brother whom he regarded as lounge lizard a sort of cartooned character emitted heavy laughter in the sitting room and library corner of black power.

The first and the only day laude visited us as the august visitor barred the story to his friend making a mockery and laughing stock of once audacious prayer warrior gone sour and stale over time and weather beaten by stress and distress of wilderness trials.

"He said panting find us another house .Person could die in that place .I saw big snakes and full of daemons"laide laughed hysterically to knock his head .

Although black power was still reluctant to relinquish the old apartment of the nefarious landlady held to the wobbling proof that the rent paid would soon lapse till December before they moved in January as the case maybe,but the caretaker had forewarned black power of stupendous pertinacity to run counter to his self esteem and family dignity to leave the landlady.

"I Ve warned you to leave the place .I will find you another house and you move in.Be at peace with your self.Do you understand?"

But black power still reluctantly went ahead to pay the rent of 120k to the landlady and she almost denied the sum and it was heavily drummed into her ears.

"Who paid the money into my account?Are you the payer?"affront from dirty tongue 

"Can't you see it? What's your problem?"

"You paid money into the account.We could not even see the source no head no source from which bank!"affront again

. Black power decided not reply whereas through corporate account that had the company name but nevertheless the fund sent .An incident that happened prior to the arrest . Meanwhile sunny had started packing their warped belongings into bushy bungalow regardless of the evil spirit assumed to be tormenting the alaka house but the threat of prior threat that menaced him to flee into the bush was not better than the subsequent threat of evil spirit in the alaka house and certainly not from frying pan into fire.The scoldings from eldest sibling in London was the last straw for black power to join his brother into the supposedly evil bush.One morning he went to confirm his brothers suspicion who after packed almost all the belongings remaining the biggest items still fled back to complain.Then black power being a curious adventure was laughing at his siblings sunny spread the bug of dread to white power and it was as if they had peddled the dread to think it would bugg black power and it was all noises and nothing but sacrosanct noises.He was used to evil spirit at night and was find of relaying demonic dreams to his siblings for years .He was find of fetish and diabolic IFA cults and what the christianized Yorubaland advocated against .He hoped to write novels with it someday emulating while Soyinka who was Ogun worshipper and such style could sell the writer's work championing the culture and traditions of their spirit.He wanted to explore all of sudden the alaka spirit of the dead .

"Let us go there to see it"

"No no no go there yourself.Who don't know you before Na bad bad things like you dey like.I will not follow you"

"Keep quiet you re going to live with evil spirit.Snakes are there"dread crept a stratosphere.

He kept up wondering about the place though he succumbed to his fate packing remaining belongings and after he was informed the rent for the bushy house was paid from overseas he jumped in but wine caveat:

"Pastor you be our godfather in this place.Do we have any agreement in place to avoid the same condition we experienced here?"

"What do you want stubborn man?They have paid already.Move your belongings and the remaining items.okay."

"I know but in case a episode come up again we can avoid it now "

"What are you saying?"

"What if they accuse us of damaging the new house like the landlady here did to us?"

"No worry just move and trust me" he slowed his breathing rate on the open street where he bared his minds of three landlords including pastor hearing the matter.Now he was elated the rent was paid though unhappy the money that waa badly needed to register private limited liability was wasted and unhappy not to live by December whereas the landlady fought hard to push them out not to spend a decade in the place especially since they were no more on speaking terms.He moved into the bushy environment with anger and desperation after second visit carried shovel and weeded the immediate environment leaving the bush few paces away and he saw the plumbing works was badly dilapidated and no functioning toilets and everything in the state of remarkable disrepair "

White power where are you ?"

"Am in the house"

What are you doing?"

"I just came back from bakery.See black power has gone to the evil spirit place."

"Ah God forbid we will not stay there.Snakes plenty in there."

"But they have paid already "

"Let me check it! Nothing will happen to you my brother "he went towards the unity street taking the short cut passes and when he got there black power was weeding the thickest environment ever seen in their tenancy years of over twenty five years in Lagos and not yet near their dream of reviving the family silver.Then panting again he went back to white power.

"White power come "

"Don't disturb me am eating"a great lover of barleys packed almost a full sack of breads commonly known as factory reject partially burnt or not fit for the market eating sumptuously and gluttonously"

He weeded the old place"his jaw dropped

"They called Abraham father of faith.You don't have faith.You re no more prayer warrior.You Ve lost it."

"Nothing like that."

A couple of days thereafter both white power and black power moved with in with upholstery and pots and pans and terrifying tons and stocks of Ghana must and old rice bags full of old newspapers and books to fill the rooms .This was after the washings and cleanings were completed at least to satisfactory level.White power now had confidence in his brother who was making fun of the comedy his brother sunny spread everywhere from laide ,nurse to the caretaker .

During the weeding exercise the virago from the adjoining compound with ramshackled building met  black power and saluted his cleaning effort and he quickly weeded the whole environment leaving the thorny bush and says.

"Young man you try the weeding exercise"black power looking peculiar.

"Yeah"

"You mean only three of you will stay in this compound this Bungalow the entire building"she added jealously black power muted not a word.

"You will clean it properly as if you sweep it clean with a broom".Then he briefed him

"The owner of the building like was from Oyo state"looking perplexed and jealous at an envious distance.

Black power was agog in the cleaning exercise for two or three day of almost half a plot radius.No money to pay labourer and later brought other belongings.He refused to bombard the heavy bush the moment he realised there was no functioning toilets out of the two toilets.While his brothers temporarily resorted to tidy up in the caretaker 's sprawling mansion that had visitor's toilets including bathing he also temporarily used the bush for unholy activities.Then he summoned courage to repair the toilet went to plumb shop in front of igando and bought badly needed plumbing materials and fix it himself He had met a plumber in the shop who was buying materials for his client 

"Good morning how are you doing sir"

"Am fine and you?"

"Am okay too.See can help me fix our broken toilets?"

"How many two or three?"

"Two"

"Okay 60k.Do you agree?We have a deal?"

"Ahhh" he could not reply and it was too expensive and left the plumbing shop having already bought the equipments and materials although the same plumber had graphically exposed to him to use fire to melt the pipes into shapes of needed size and then fix the pipe.Finally he returned back home and fix only one toilet and saved thirty thousand naira.He had spent less than three thousand and raised funds from one tenant at home both used for feeding and plumbing works.They lived in a bit better position and ejection and debris from the toilet stopped indefinitely.Prior to the repairs,the one of the toilet worked partially being managed until he suspected fresh damage on the pipe and accused the grand kids of the virago as offenders.Then he vent his anger on the woman.

"Your children destroyed this and nobody play around the basin beyond this kids"curiously inquired for a simple explanation in the presence of fast approaching daughter who winced speedily from her stall selling liquor and ratchet alcohols in the wee of the night and thus Black power faced the worst night mare of his life resulting in the rain of imprecation from their venomous tonguesLike daughter and mother mudslingered

 "E no go better for you and you and your generation.Stupid or oni sori re isi ati aeon idile e ni. "

"Never you curse me again something dey worry you"

"E no go better for you your generation your family will not gain you or oni so fire,o ma so ri bulu fun awa idile e ni.Won oni jere e rara."

"So you can't make simple analysis to defend your position " as they persist two daughters in the presence of mother teaching them to lay a curse in the presence of white power at evening who black power had warned not to utter a word though he did occasionally and he intermittently calmed giving that he knew him a terrible spate of anger.

A nother neighbor had intervened a little explanation was and he believed the kids damaged the pipes.

They kept quiet when he nailed them with grammar as if he was a Londoner born with the sound of the bowbells.

"I said keep quiet.You disgruntled elements you blockhead,dunderhead, wheezing like a grampus clung like a limpet hung at inverse proportion  to your own arboreal eyesore."

The interveing middle aged woman shocked backward and a little calm and it was over and yabbed them as scampered for breath inside

"You unscrupulous cocoons and Mongolian neanderthals " as uncouth tongue dispersed and held them on rampage.The incidence ever since had shown her character as a virago and a gutter harridan.

The ordeal of landlord tenant was certainly not juicy one a trouble some spots in the country and require egalitarian approach from regulatory authority to redress the ugly situation.

Political Intolerance In Nigeria.Chapter 7.page 4.

"Now we moved online and we can see the x-ray of the nation's election and post election related violence and we can see nothing has changed since 1999."

"Uhhhjmmmm.Embarasing !"

"Indeed little has changed.Ever since over 100years of political independence Nigeria's electoral engagement has not been short of crisis and violence.Aba women riots excluded election violence quite a turbulent matter as over 200 lives were lost in the 1964 /65 election period,the census riots Operation wetie of the period though not related.There was massive post election violence crisis following the 1983 election in which several lives and properties were lost and destroyed.The 1993 election was not however clean as they claimed it to be and many lives were lost too according to Beko Kutti head of campaigns for democracy over hundred peaceful demonstrators were gunned down by security agents as they were trying to curtail the violence offshoot of the July protests.The election of 1999 led to over hundred Nigerians badly injured and about 80 people were reportedly dead.The 2011 election violence with over 700 deaths spread across twelve states was worst case scenario unprecedented in the nation's history."

"Quite unfortunate .In 2015 and 2019 about 100 and 150 respectively were killed in the election related violence.

Lagos followed by Rivers state had the highest number of election related violence."

"You said Buhari was responsible for the election related deaths of 2011 right?"

"Yeah channels report check online their YouTube channel for the source .But he was alone"

"Like what are you driving at?"

"His deputy too was involved They made unguarded utterances "

"You mean our dear pastor bakare deputy president at congress for progressive change (CPC) in the south here?"

"Exactly."

"Do you have evidence?"

"Turn page 15 of the same papers."

"You mean this same paper I have read twenty times?"

"Are you kidding me?You don't even know people that buy papers on a daily basis barely read those papers?"

"What do you mean?"as he hurriedly turned to page 15 which reads.

"You mean this ?oh page 15 I saw it it reads "There will be wild wild North if PDP rigs-Bakare"

"So you see a man of God with terrifying prophetic power just because they were searching for power.That seem to have gone too far"

"That is terrible.So the journalist behind interview Mudiaga Affect quoted bakare that " the party will win the fourth coming elections but warn against rigging".Iet me read some:

'Many people have said you and the CPC presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari retd are the hardliners.Dont you think the two of you will be too hard for the polity?"

" That's a good thing for those who are mathematically inclined.Two negatives will produce a positive.If you think we will be too hard for polity give me the alternative.If you say we should maintain the status quo Nigeria will never come out of the woods .Let me tell you a story.In Niger state we went through four Emirates.Our last port of call was Etsu Nupe 's palace.When we finished the rally in Minna ,we could nt even get to the podium.I am not sure you know what is happening in the North.This man Buhari does not give money to anybody.Do you know what he pays for?He pays Hausa BBC Radio to announce venues of rallies.He pays for venues podiums and public address system.They don't (people) come here to eat.They bring their own water .This time of any election is rigged there will be wild wild North ;not wild wild west this time" around.I have told you to let you see the humanity of this balance that people don't know.I sat him down and ask him a direct question "Are you a shariah fundamelists ?

Let me know. because am not going to change 

The Sky Is Not the limit.

We have reached the point of no return and the contraption of the past and the present might not be overturned as humus and fossils and fauna and flora and fungis

And manure and dungs for greater heights 

And to those who still think it downright impossible they better think again given the fact that they find it pretty impossible 

To get a good role model 

When you re looking for a role model it can be daunting and very much easy depending on what you re looking for and we can be so petty especially the use of human art when no stressed and stretched to the limit to bring out the best quality of art from the pantheons of human reservoirs.The evolution of arts on the side of the artist looking for a role model certainly important on its own.

As they say iron sharpens and he seeks to be sharpened by greater iron too risk sharpening his own stone or iron of himself first and foremost prior to search of a greater iron to sharpen it

As you lay your bed you lay your head and as you lay your head you lay your bed.

Great minds with great target and great vision can compare and compete anywhere 

And it is they this metals of sweet roses that can identify the true target and be inspired by the rue model once they identify one and seems to me the most difficult task of a becoming .

Depending on the human artist it has and when not blessed with good direction,he might not be able to pull it through where a good role model can aid the lessening of the huge burden involved in getting to your own destination.

When you re not bleeding but blessed with good direction good vision might pen and oratory the sky is not the limit.

Thorns And Thistles.part one

When in 2009 after his father died in 2005 with siblings he moved into the self contain apartment till January 2012 and then moved again into another a dividend and a row of six times tenancy turn over till they reached the bushy house.

Quite often when a tenant pays his or her rent regularly in the country does not justify the tenant in the good book of the landlord.He paid rents regularly on behalf of siblings in this self contain apartment.Then often times the landlord would come every December and they had arrangement that was later changed to bank transfer to his account at uyo at akwa ibom or Abuja where he had another property and possibly three properties detected.Previously a little escort of the tenant Blackpower to access bank branch in ikotun was enough to withdraw money and pay him cash and it lasted perhaps more than five years or thereafter to resort to bank transfer and later in the last two or several years before his demise the tenant made transfers through ATM machine and POS itself not well developed device as at the time.

However most memorable experience was the friendly attempt to betroth landlord daughter.He had a rapport with the landlord and they seemed discuss Nigerian politics,soccer and hardly personal and a bit of socially exclusive matter.Anyway had a jovial relationship with the landlord.Why?Because he paid his rent regularly and at least every February and in most cases every January and had commemorated him several times.

"Black power you pay me regularly and am impressed about that .The other tenant in the middle one pastor something hasn't paid me .Why am I even telling you sef.So keep it up."

"My landlord the landlord the only landlord in the whole world"

"Black power you re funny"

And they zoomed into politics and discuss extensively and was fond of zik of Africa.Aparently often times at December times,he was fond of drinking before conversation.

"See my tenant before we start our discussion go and buy two minerals from mama akin ."dipped hands in his rear pocket and handed over little quid to Blackpower to buy cold drinks.Then banged out and banged in with the drinks with the next door neighbors and immediately commenced the conversation.He started to suspect Blackpower the moment he belittled Zik was somehow indignant as an indigene of south south part of Nigeria a move undertaken by black power which was deemed as a rude gesture to the integrity of the region that was carved out of eastern and western region in those days say 1967 or thereabouts especially Midwestern region.

"You seem to be found of zik and I don't know why?"

"Habba, don't you get it Zik of Africa is the only hero in Nigeria."

"Where did you get your history from?"

"I should be telling you.I m educated person .I went to unilag and I moved with high and mighty and am a banker and I made my home in Lagos.I should be telling you."

"Like seriously, what!And so what does that have to indicate with the issues on ground,that zik is the only hero in Nigeria?"

"Listen to me..."black power interrupted as dropped his bottle of coca-cola and cleared his throat  a bit.

"See my landlord make I no offend you or let me offend for the first time.i will not aggregate your comment for once as honest remarks."

"Do you know what Zik did for Nigeria?"

"What did he do?"

"You don't know what he did!"

"What did he do that others or other founding fathers didn't do?"

"He gave Nigeria independence single handedly of course ".

"Landlord you re a pathological liar.

We discussed it the other times you re so fond of zik.Jise people.If I may ask which independence?"

"He was the main force"

"No single person gave independence to Nigeria.Is he greater than awolowos,akintolas,enahoros,okotie ebohs, Herbert Macaulays etcetera in the fight for independence?"

"All those ones are subordinates ?"

"Subordinates how?In the London constitutional conference of 1954 who was the most dominating force? Was it not awolowo who singlehandedly provided the philosophy for the nation's independence?What is not his argument on federalism that provided the building block of independence that another yoruba man funded?"

" Which Yoruba funded the independence?"

"It was funded by the first millionaire in black Africa Papa D'a Rocha.You mean you don't know papa da Rocha?He died in 1959 and could not witnessed the independence day celebration and Soyinka wrote the independence play dance of the forest.Awolowo made the independence possible and akintola motion failed where enahoros motion succeeded.

The only contribution was he was the first ceremonial president in Nigeria at independence.He started at senate president from being the last governor general of Nigeria at least you know that.Senator Nwafor Orizu took over the senate presidency after him."

"He was a journalist probably the first journalist and had the biggest brands of papers and biggest printing press in the country in Lagos in those days."

"You re wrong but the biggest printing press and highest brands of newspapers such as the west African pilot and observer etc you maybe right.But he was not the first journalist.Infact the Yoruba people that introduced all skills and education into black Africa mentored him in journalism after he graduated from American university.He was an editor at African morning post in Ghana a paper owned by a Yoruba man O.A.Fashanu."

"Where do you get your information from"

"I think you know my work?"

"You said you were a journalist?Just show me one of your publication "as they stood up and stand Infront of his bungalow that was later willed to her daughter optimistic she would marry Blackpower a prospect that later failed.Then suddenly the beligerent tenant zoomed into his adjoining apartment and brought out his publication just one of his  vanguard newspaper publications in an interview of a thespian professor Sola fosudo a Don at the Lagos state university "with his name pasted beneath story.

"Oh alright is on your business card too.I saw it .Thump up too.keep it up".Then he stopped the argument.

At other time when he returned back to Lagos for the usual collection times they bickered over unpaid rents a remainder of ten thousand.

"Where is my remaining ten k."

"Landlord I don't have money now"

"Okay bring 5k I write off the remainder "

"See I use to borrow money to pay your rent sometimes something you don't know.If I collect cash from tenants in Ogbomosho,I use it to pay you or borrow It to pay you quickly and that was why I was able to pay you quickly never failed for once every January"

"Okay at least thumb up for that too."

"Landlord I wanted to tell you something o"quickly immersed in a flash back and he called him back as he bade to leave.

"What is it? tell me"

"As you can see we never marry me and my siblings we need wives."

"Get on the streets and go find wife.What is my concern with that?"

"Oh no landlord listen give me your daughter for marriage at least make she born for me"He was shocked 

"You my darling daughter Maggie?"

"Yes"

"Let me think about it"as he departed and a year after he came back for the usual collection period and was surprised the story was all out.The daughter in question had visited several times from Abuja staying in the front apartment like his father and we got a good rapport.Then he confronted him and said

"What did you tell my father?"

"What did I tell your father ?"

"Do you want to deny?"

"Oh I could recall that incident now.The last time he came I said he should give you to me for marriage.

And at other time in one of our discussions he said can you handle her a well educated woman?She has second degree at least you know that."

"Pretty well.i can handle her."

"He embarrassed me in Abuja and said three men in my house in Lagos they never marry and one of them he will marry you.Go to Lagos go find husband."Maggie remarked .

"I said I like you"then they joked it off and for some time was fond of me and the man ceased coming to Lagos untill his death.During the latter part of his life they send him money either through POS or ATM machine.In the last year of his life black power failed to pay quickly in January and when he paid he had a remainder which was delayed.

"Black power where is my remainder of 20k ?"

"I don't have money now "

"So when are you going to pay ?"

" I don't know yet o"

"You re becoming stubborn now.I will tell my daughter to take action on you."

"Landlord this is Lagos not akwa ibom tenant who can defend himself well in court even has right more than landlord "then he barked off the call and not long after when the payment was made he died shortly and the daughter became landlady.Then she turned out to be repressive landlady against Blackpower for not pestering her with love gifts, romantic gestures consummate much earlier toastings and she increased rents and pestered him with outrageous NEPA bills unlike the method applied by late father.

To add salt to injustry the following year black power delayed rent payment full six months and was still adamant to pay and she threatened fire and brimstones.She also added pressure to the rent increase filed case with the lawyer and rent increased to one hundred and fifty thousand naira.The day she forcefully gained entrance into their apartment an attitude which was against the law he accused the siblings of damaging the property.

"Blackpower let me see the property"

"Don't you ever enter into the apartment behind my back okay" he gave her stern warnings after the first malicious entry and finding him stubborn perpetrated the acts in his absence seduced his brother to submission a too flexible white power 

"Let me enter the apartment to repair the property"

White power unaware of the warnings permited her to enter under duress.Then he came back home and white power complained.

"See landlady badged into the house to repair something.She accused us of spoiling her father's property and did some repair on  the parlor wall."

"And you allowed her to enter after I warned and also you never to allow anybody gain illegal entry into the apartment.Dont you get it? Forced  entry is a criminal offense a misdemeanor a treasonable felony"

" I don't know but she forced me under duress."

"And you allowed her?"Then black power either on promenade to new stand or visit to clients for interview sessions or media houses searching for gigs white power felt irritated and damaged the repairs she made and at another loose times by white power was able to badge in and took snapshots for evidence at the police station and so police came one morning.

"Who is black power"police corporal from igando police station 

"You re invited to the station for causing damage to the property.'

Then he called his lawyer and the phone rang ",sir I was arrested by the police.""oh don't struggle with them o just go to the police station and write your statement.I ll be there shortly."They entered into Keke napep and was taken to the police station in a jiffy as jealous onlookers and connivers and scorners mocked at a distant.

"Come and see they have arrested him.

Shame on him.he want marry landlady.He s now owing rent too.Stupid idiot.He toasted my daughter too."iya Rita mocked.

Then he followed the police and subservient wishes.

As they enter into the station with landlady at the back who later joined them,Blackpower sat down awaiting trial another police woman and also a prophetess called him.

"Young man come over here."as he moved closer and sat Infront of him closer to the Landlady who took the seat nearby passionate for everybit.This was after he had written a full page higher education narrative on the whole messy subject.

"Young man what is your problem?"

"I was accused of badly vandalized the landlady's property and not for owing rent six months into  the year."white power standing outside the same day unawared he might have been arrested for the property damage offence and when the damaged subject was invoked and suspect unveiled as white power the police woman says

"Bring him the offender lock him up"

"No officer I will take his place and cover my brother"

"No problem then enter sell on his behalf "

then black power was locked up in sell for a day and from the rent landlady just collected from Blackpower subject to intervention of pastor alab of African mission he was bailed the following day with 20k.The caretaker pastor was there and negotiated for his release.

While behind bars the mockery of his entry was particularly humbling based on the written statement against that he was owing landlady a huge sum of money.It became history when the clergy man intervened although Blackpower had suspected he was too light with the Landlady or might have been behind the incarceration subject allegedly that it had instigated the threat that landlord would increase rent perhaps to force them out and in one of their altercations the landlady was annoyed.

"How many years in my apartment now?"

"Close to ten years"

"A full decade?oh my god and you achieve nothing"and the next moment they were gone.The clergy was relieved to offer service for his release as being his Ogbomosho indigenes.

"You offer a good service for this young man"officer applauded

"Any little effort in the service of humanity I can offer for my nation I will gladly do it".

He had waited for an hour until several hours of extant trials and interrogations and hearings were concluded.Then he moved closer and sat close to the landlady.Then black power defended himself.

"Officer I was wrongly cheated in this relationship and the unfair treatment meted out to me by the landlord .She made forceful entry twice a criminal offense and the police came to my abode without any warrant of arrest.See the guys behind bars most of them thirty three there were innocent folks in there "

"See young man I saw a vision about you.If they say you have two or three houses in Lagos by now I will not be mistaken."her prophetic eyesight zoomed to high heavens and he pour more eulogy on his stars to the indignant remarks of jealousy landlady that implicated him.Then officer blessing as she was fondly called

"I see stars in your life and glory on your head.You re suppose to have many houses in Lagos now I repeat."she remarked once again.

"Why are you talking about him.Am the landlady here talk about me not him "

"Keep quiet please otherwise I'll locked you up like him.Your mumu  don do."

"Then black power threw the bombshell.

"See officer I toasted her and that was the original of my woe."

"You never can tell whether you would marry her at last"

"God forbid !Olohun ma je"Blackpower third sibling elder Sunday.

Sunny quickly went out after he was arrested and locked behind bars to buy 🍊 orange soft drink to the repugnant remarks of black power indignant about his attitude for the purchase as if he expected him to die or waste behind bars but he seemingly nevertheless understood the situation of justice in the country which was often been denied before being granted.

The stinky smell and rancid odour in the prison of twenty by twenty foot room with overcrowded inmates was particularly humbling to feel pity for the Nigerian situation.The police officer that was assigned to the prison took the register of inmates and reeled out names every morning and sometimes acquaintances and relations of the inmates brought food and resort to favouritism do occur and when an inmate is surrounded by loved ones and regular visits bribing the officer or DPO in charge such inmate could be released too quickly or fortunate with the moment of release.

A tragic incident happened one day behind bars a heavily frustrated woman in a counter blast grimaced his little boy.

"Pls help beat him is my boy too lazy he doesn't want to work"she sounded harshly and shouted over the counter as the officer pounded his head with police stick,as he struggled and resisted entry into the cell.Eventually compelled into the cell beaten mercilessly and he fell into coma.He woke up the next day.

More worrisome in a stinkpot a stinking situation of a woman in menstruation and so cumbersome with unkempt smell rent apart the air,putrid irresistible as the toilet stench.Two robbers of okada were caught and escaped and the other that struggled with the Police was brought in dead in the night with stolen okada.Black power had relayed the story to his sibling afterwards.

"You that is so stubborn and I knew you would struggle with the police you should they arrest you and lock you up for the house damage incidence."

"Uhmmmmm.thank you brother.Am sorry."

"I knew it anything could happen and I decided to cover you.Still you don't remember what mummy said,'your brother loved you '.You need to see how the police beat the indolent and insolent boy to a coma .oh my gosh .They beat him mercilessly and he was in coma lying down almost dead at evening time and he could not wake up till the next morning."

"You save me brother."

"Anybody playing strong head don't go to station and you do that o.They will beat the person to a coma with police sticks."

"Apeja" meaning fisherman"you saved me brother "

Not unaware of the damage caused at the property had chastised sibling for that petty action.

"I damaged that repair bro"

"You mean you damaged what?two wrongs do not make a right and he who goes to equity must go with clean hands?"

"She forced herself on us ."

"No matter what what you did was wrong."

"Don't you know I was arrested on your behalf and locked up instead for your offence.I can't go to court again.When the police interrogated who did the damage to the repairs and I said it was my brother and the interrogating Poli ce woman said bring the guy he should be arrested and I said no he s my brother and I will cover him and they locked me up on your behalf.Dont you get it!"

"Am sorry i didn't know."this was the conversation they had after police released Blackpower from detention a day behind bar returned to his senses covered his brother from being locked up.

With return from prison his uncle had heard the incidence of unpaid rent and was ashamed of his lineage and the family good name being dragged into the mud and called black power due to his sister's briefings from Abuja and the pressure piled on them to leave the landlady apartment.

"Leave that apartment with immediate effect"eldest brother from London called 

"I Ve sent money to your account leave that place the landlady is an evil woman.She s a devil's workshop arrant devil a devil's incarnate and if he could arrest you with so much bitterness he could do anything to kill you."

" Uhmmmmm"

"Leave the premise okay."

"Then the sister sensitized uncle jony a university lecturer who later passed on due to another incident was related to  health issues.What unfortunate incident to an uncle who was shortly after his death awarded professorship at the university of ife.Then uncle says 

"Black power why didn't you pay your rent.I was told you did not pay rent ten years rent.You disgrace my sister.What is your wrong with you?"

"It was a lie just a smearing campaign.Before I was arrested I had paid my rent and I paid rent every year."

"Are you saying educated woman don't know what she was saying?"

"Did my sister says that?Mind you educated what?"

"She has masters and you didn't have varsity education."

"You know why all this trouble uncle?"

"What?"

"I roasted I toasted her"

"Shut up.You didn't have university education and she might even be the angel at last."

"Which angel? She's an evil lady.Educated illiterate".

"You mean somebody that has second degree doesn't know a thing.You re too arrogant."

"Ask her anything about economics she doesn't know.We debate on Philip curves,we talk on econometrics,linear programming,stage theories,Marxian theory of surplus,who says demand create it's own supply and vice versa, neoclassicals and classicals . monetary management,great economists and their theories at least mention the prominent ones she doesn't know.What else can you know in your life if in these basics in economics and economic history you don't know. I find out later that she was buying lecturers like her ilks"he blasted her

"That is not my point.You have to be serious.My sister and her husband didn't end up well and I don't want you to repeat the mistake and I pray for you you shall live a glorious lifetime with happy endings.They left tons of properties at home and you should go back home and look after them.You shall end well .okay."

"Amen"

Shortly after they moved into the bushy area his uncle jony died and a year or two thereafter the last but senior uncle crown also passed one.He was fond of his tautology.

"You re only eating in Lagos."This means Im Yoruba parlance "onje nikan Le nje leko"and his upbeat and moral concern to revive family silver was his major concern until his demise.

"When re you going to revive fruito?"indirectly grumbled this axiom till his death.Black power had wonderful family like almost every Nigerian house hold proud of their genealogies regardless of their internal wranglings.

The ordeal of tenant challenges gripping the simply average Nigerians was a full account of public sympathy and public empathy for any citizen in the country.Shortly after a decade in the yemisi okelola street,they moved into the unity street often crossed in into the enclosure from African mission street a short cut to unity street.The dilapidated and abandoned property after the demise of the owner took several years of desertion and desolation where thorny bush ravaged the environment of the shabby building with leaky roofs and grotesque voices of the crickets and nocturnal horror sounding creatures in the thicky bush.Then afterwards of the erstwhile threat and departure from the compounds of former landlady who took over the property after his own father died,they moved into the abandoned areas.The first immediate surrounding not far from the thorny bush was cleared by black power in the lonely period when his siblings were away at work places.

The thorny bush in the most egregious inclemency stood impenitently like a rock of Gibraltar as it were when the black power family moved into the bushy enclave enclosed with thorns and thistles .

None a machismo daring enough to wield the purgatory intense badly needed by the environment to make it clean.Therefore it became a thorn in the flesh and sometimes at night the childish elements cavort around and shriek at the evening times making love in the enclosed bush with such shrieks and epicurean moan to suggest the intricate happenstance of the unholy hours.Sometimes marauders took infraction to raid the bushy terrain with shouts of thieves rampaging the mini forest.

"Ole! Ole!! Ole !!!"a bullied passerby raved in the broad daylight combing the vicinage in search and chase of suspected thieves plowing the areas.

"Landlord is coming if you don't cut the bush. if you cut off those mess we ll have peace."another passer cajoled

"This is Lagos a civilised metropolis.Goddamn it"a local gin seller boasted

"I saw snakes and reptiles yesterday.Dont you get it"caretaker pastor noted

"Black power go and cut am angry with you"

The rage had enforced him to cut the bush in record but half completed.Although they had cut it off completely when they first moved in and kayode kola sibling had cleared the thicky bush two years ago and it grew rapidly with the rain fall to current position.Then one day the caretaker had summoned courage to brief the landlord of the unholy activities and the insensitivity of his tenants and he came one day banging the door and only black power was around with siblings scampered off to work.

"Who is in the house"

"Who is around,your landlord is around come out"

"I tell you they re not critically responsible to the situation around.i will take the house from thm and give it to church."landlady raged

"Oh madam from frying pan to fire.To give it to them is that easy you mean for the church people but to get it back is the problem."

"They won't leave"the civil servant from the council retorted"

"Why re you my tenant ? Won't you come out?"as black power eased hurriedly in the toilet came out with dread and escorted them to raging scene and furiously rage in their goofs of pointificates.

"What re you doing in this place that you can't cut this thicky bush?"

"So lazy so useless.You can't clean your environment."Landlord stood adjoining the landlady who now sat on the cemetery where they buried the late landlord shouted on top of his voice.They cited the instances of old widow around or near the building.

"You re so lazy you can't even clear the bush and see the old widow her surrounding was cleared ,safe and sound.Haba."

Your mumu don do okay.If I come back next time and I don't see you clear this thicky bush I will get you expelled from the house.okay.Is that's clear"landlady stood up from the grave yard.

"Am all ear sir.We will clear it."

"Why don't you clear it before?"

"We did but it grew up so quickly."

"Am warning you for the upteempth time I must not see it next time if I come around.Is that clear.Cant you speak?"

"Yes sir"Then they cooled down and moved around the uncovered well.

"Absolutely you re not responsible when you move in here you saw the well water opened and you can't even close it haba!"

"Am exhausted landlady.See go find an improvised cover to lid it if you cannot afford to pay welder.Did you hear me?"

"Yes sir"black power retorted in dread.Then as they heaped traduce on black power they heaped eulogy on the caretaker of the property and his altruism for managing the property while away.The alaka family moved from the property after the demise of their late family and some traveled overseas and they buried the decease in the same property.

"We re lucky the pastor is managing the property for us.Thank you pastor"as the landlady turned back to greet him once again warmly."

"No mention "

"I once chased away a tenant here.A lazy woman who would not clean the bush."

The pathetic civil servant a stone throw away from their discussion overseeing sanitation services at the council who was beckoned to intervene in the matter alongside the caretaker began to interrogate the matter facing black power.

"Hello young man as tenant here you re suppose to cater for the sanitation of the around.Wait a minute what is your avocation?"council man said 

"Oh am a journalist by profession"

"Jesus a respectable journalist for that matter.Venerable men of the fourth estate.And they re yabbing you like this?"

"We use to cut and it often times quickly grows up."

"Anyway try okay.I will live you now because of your profession and council will not be notified of the sanitation offence.Take care."

"Much thanks sir"as the threatening entourage with the enthralled sanitation officer winced away in the enclosed passage into the next street of African mission from unity street heaping praises on the caretaker and incidentally also the pastor of the African mission a ministry with two or three acres of land in the street adjoining taiwo street and the yemisi okelola street in which the black power and two siblings once lived for a decade prior to exit into the alaka house.

Alaka prior to his demise according to story from the hag or harridan or the next door neighbor to black power siblings a virago at one point in her low senses belched the anecdotes.Alaka hailed from Oyo state same with black power and siblings built the now leaky bungalow of four bedrooms and settled down in the place and lived there until his demise as evidence by the graveyard.The well water in the region was a beehive of free citizens in the area fetching free water for daily survival.

They drove into the African mission street with mordern jeep Wrangler and the sanitation officer was caught in the excitement when the clergy man interrogated the landlord the son of the Landlady wore a designer T.shirt and poshy jeans.

"So where re you now?"pastor inquired

"I just came back from the states."switched to a video call with her sister in the state unleashed the camera on himself and black power standing nearby "

See the old men living in your house."laughing mockingly and it latter dawned on black power the critique sense of the intimidating mockery looking down ignominiously like a criminal.The ordeal of landlord tenant was certainly not juicy one a trouble some spots in the country and require egalitarian approach from regulatory authority to redress the ugly situation.