Naija Thug Life… Part 3

I was licking the pap with my hand when I felt a
tap on my shoulder, it was a little bit rough so I
reacted almost immediately.
"Na who be that wey dey look for my trouble this
morning?"
A slap answered me.
I sprang on my feet, spinning round almost
immediately with a punch aimed at whoever had
slapped me, GBOSA!!!
"Yehhhh… This pikin don kill me ooo"
It was the voice of my father, my blow had
caught him squarely on his left eye.
He held onto that place as a mini-crowd gathered to witness
what had just happened. I was dumb-struck as
my tongue seemed to have ran away from my
mouth that moment.
"See as you stand dey look like mumu, you no go
tell the old man sorry?" Someone from the crowd said.
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I looked at the old man, he was not old in age,
but he was really old as ogogoro and igbo had
made his life bender than it had been when I first
touched the earth.
"Papa, na so you wan carry disgrace me this morning?"
I asked my father whose left eye had swollen and
looked like an "okpolo".
Okpolo is not the soup
Flow likes very well, it is a slang indicating that
one's eyes is as big as a frog.
"Eh… Na because you comot from house you no tell me na"
My father answered looking at me with his one
good eye.
"When I begin tell you say I wan comot na?"
I asked my father a foolish question.
"Since when I born you, I been even ask you say make you gimme money make I buy 1 shot of
monkey tail"
I laughed at the old man.
"Papa, so you wan carry drink break fast this
morning abi. Oya make we go joint make I buy
you beer."
My father's eye brightened like he had just won
jackpot and he said something I would for long
remember.
"You know you be my pikin and I like you, I go
always be good father to you"
Well, beer can make an alcoholic change when he sees a chance to indulge in it. I knew my father
just spoke since he had never been a good father
to me since I was born. My mind went down
memory lane.
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"Take this money eh, go buy me kain-kain and one stick of rothmas"
I was barely 6 years.
"papa, pastor say you go go hell fire if you dey
drink o and us wey dey buy am for una go follow
go hell fire"
I said innocently refusing to collect the money from his hand.
"Make thunder fire you big head there. If you no
carry that your ugly face comot from here go buy
wetin I send you eh, your mother go only use
your head recognize you when she come back
because I go scatter your face."
I quickly ran as fast as my legs could carry me to
the kain-kain joint where I bought the drink for
him with a stick of cigarette. when I returned, my
father tapped my head and said:
"Good boy, you are the son of your father."
At the age of 6 I had already started buying drinks and cigarette, chei, Papa, na wetin I do
you na?
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I was on my second bottle of Udeme when i felt a
tap on my should, I thought it was my father who
had already gone away with the drink I bought for him.
Before I could respond as usual, I
received a nice blow to the side of my face which
made me topple the table I was drinking on.
I turned on the ground to see 2 policemen with a
third man who was pointing at me.
"Officers arrest him. He was the one who stole my wallet"
I was shocked, how did the man trace me?
"You no know wetin you dey talk, how I carry
steal your wallet? You see me?"
I had stood up and was acting defiantly.
"Officers, na this boy, I no fit forget him big head even for my dream"
The man said.
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This prompted the men of the
police force to grab me and quickly searched me.
Inside my pocket were 5 other wallets, I had been
caught red handed.
"Mr. Man, you are under arrest for stealing, anything you say or do will be used against you in
the court of law."
I knew the game was up, I just waited patiently
for them to finish emptying the wallet of the man
before handing over the empty wallet to the man.
"This will be used as evidence in court, you may go"
They said as they dragged me out. The man was
more shocked than I was but then, he had
caught me.
I was dragged and dumped in a cell with other
inmates who were too scared to touch me because of my head.
I was kept there for 3 days
before being judged and jailed for 3 years in
Goron-Dutse maximum prison.
It was there I met
FLOW, a guy of like mind and character.

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