My People for this
Community! How una dey? Last week we started a story on Everyday People and we
promised to finish the story this week. If you are yet to read WHEN WAHALA JAM GBESE Episode One then you need to CLICK HERE to read.
In continuation of the
story, below are the extracts from episode one:
“I am saying WHEN WAHALA
JAM GBESE NA PALAVA E GO GET! The problem became so much that even the
neighbours became so uncomfortable with the whole arrangements. This trouble is
worst anytime the Man and his wife made love in the night. Our aunty R will
always pick quarrel with the wife of the house. The most painful part is that
this man will just disappear leaving the two women to dig it out with
themselves.
If you were in the shoes
of this wife what would you do?
Will you allow aunty R to
squat with your family in the first instance?
Will you ask your husband
to drive his sister away?
Will you fight your
sister-in-law out of the house?
Will you start a prayer
program for aunty R?
Will you just allow
everything to pass and hope for #BetterDaysAhead?”
So, one day the wife of
this man travelled leaving her children with aunty R. As usual the Husband and
Man of the house will be on duty at work so the children were left in the care
of aunty R. What do you think she did to the children in the few days her
sister-in-law travelled and her brother was on outside work? Nothing happened
oo! Aunty R took proper care of the children.
The worst part of this
story was that this wife did not know about this sister in-law before she got
married to her husband. What I am saying is that all through their engagement
(if any), courtship (who court who?), introduction, traditional marriage and
church marriage (I doubt they did this), there was no aunty R in any of these
scenes. Then all of a sudden there appeared an aunty R!
Did I tell you that it
was this man’s full responsibility to take care of aunty R? Yes ooo! Even
before she moved into his house, he made sure she didn’t lack anything that she
needs ranging from transport to dresses to pocket money. Which kind mature
sister be this one?
One will want to ask some few questions here ooo!
If the elder brother of
this man had a school, then it means he had some money and it also means that
he will be living in at least two bedrooms flat.
Why didn’t aunty R put up
with this elder brother?
Why did she choose to
stay in this one room apartment with this other brother?
Is she really this man’s
sister?
The story had it that
some concerned neighbours approached the wife to express their displeasure
towards aunty R and her attitude towards her. The wife even quarreled with her
neighbours accusing them of trying to break her marriage. One of the neighbors
even asked her if she was sure that aunty R was her husband’s sister that they
don’t understand her movement and actions especially towards the husband.
So, our wife came back
from her journey and began asking the same questions that her neighbours had
been asking her all along. Who is aunty
R? How come she didn’t come across aunty R from day one of her engagement to
this man?
They say that it’s only
in asking questions that you begin to find answers! Don’t ask me who said it. I
just did! So, you can start quoting it! “It is only in asking questions that
you begin to find answers” Ota Uma Ben. Hohohohohohoho!
When the questions began
to pour out, the man had no options than to rent a house for aunty R somewhere
up the street. The man’s elder brother who owned a school discovered this and
became very angry. His anger that his younger brother’s children are enjoying
free education in his school and his brother had money to rent a house for
another woman. Did you just read another woman? Yes o! Another woman. Aunty R
is nowhere related to this man! This foolish man brought his mistress abi na
girl friend to live in the same one room with his whole family. They even
discovered that he was owing the ever smiling and humble landlord some house
rent. And he had the mind to pay for a house for aunty R. No wonder aunty R was
always coughing and clearing her throat whenever the man and his wife were
hanging out on their bed. Choi! See people oo! Nothing wey man no go see for
this Nigeria!
The elder brother got
angry and demanded that his younger brother’s children start paying school fees
or leave his school.
The Landlord got angry
and evicted them from his house.
The man got confused and
shared his properties and children among friends and neighbours. He dropped his
bed at Okumagba and dropped his chairs at Jakpa. He dropped some children for
Hausa quarters and some children for Effurun! See as this man take hand scatter
him family! Aunty R was nothing but a home breaker. How can a man bring his
woman-friend to squat in his one room apartment that is not even enough for his
wife and five children? Aunty R even claimed that she was pregnant for this man
but nobody heard anything again from them.
The end of this man was a
tale of misery and disgrace. The Children dropped out of school. His children became street children. Kids that
were smart and intelligent in school could no longer attend schools because of
their Father’s foolish act. What a shame. I even heard that one of the children
became a real street boy. I wonder where T is now. I pray that T doesn’t join
the bad girls in the society because she was very beautiful and smart.
Fast-forward to fifteen
years after, we heard that this man is recovering in his flesh because when
this incident happened, the man began to dry up! Better suffer enter this man
body so tey to see food chop was a problem. He was dismissed from his work and
life became tough. Because of all these he avoided his former neighbourhood up
till this moment when people began to see him around again.
We shall stop this story here and hope that
things will turn around for this man and his lovely children. What about his
wife? Do you think she will still be with him till now?
The questions for this
week are;
1. What would you had
advised the wife to do when she discovered that aunty R was her husband’s
mistress and girlfriend?
2. Do you think that aunty R
was actually pregnant or was she trying to cage the man down?
3. If you were to advise
this man after he was exposed, what would you had said to him?
4. Do you think the elder
brother’s decision to demand for school fees was fair and the right thing to
do?
5. If you were the Landlord,
what would you had done?
6. What will you advise men
who cannot stick with their wives?
We wanna wish you a happy and fruitful week ahead but remember "WHEN WAHALA JAM GBESE NA PALAVA E GO GET!"
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This na real wahala jam gbese. Foolishness is always bound in the heart.
ReplyDeleteReal Foolishness! The man deserves real Punishment
ReplyDeleteReal Foolishness! The man deserves real Punishment
ReplyDeleteThe man's brother won't have sent the children out of school because of those children's future. Although, the man no try. I also blamed the wife for not finding out where the husband's money has been going to, if Aunty R is real sister of the husband from the husband's senior brother the first day she met her not alone parking into her house
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Elder brother should have left the children but would that not make the man relax thinking that all is well?
ReplyDeleteIt serves the man right. It just a pity that the wife and kids are suffering because of him. May God help them
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Elder brother should have left the children but would that not make the man relax thinking that all is well?
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