Wura and
her mother are in the bedroom...Wuras’ tears are almost filling a bowl now. She
sobs on.
Mammi - Wura, these tears would not bring a
solution to whatever it is that is making you cry. No matter what it is...it
has to be spoken in words. Speak my child, open up to me, I am your mother and
I will not kill you. Wura, did your husband catch you with another man? Or does
he have other children out there? Tell me Wura... What is it?
Wura - Mammi, If only it had to do with that, I
would not be worried at all.
Mammi - Then, what is it? Please go straight to
the point before you give me hypertension here.
Wura - Mammi, Dapo has brought trouble to our
home o.
Mammi - How? What has he done this time? Ahh
Dapo, ma pa omo mi fun mi- meaning...Dapo, do not kill my child for me.
Wura - Mammi, this Sunday, after church, we got
home and everyone was tired and needed rest. Dapo got on the bed and slept off
almost immediately.
Mammi - ok?
Wura - Then his phone started ringing. Someone
kept on calling continuously. I don't usually pick his phone so I put it on
silence and proceeded to Tade's room to tell him to iron his school uniforms
now that the light was on and I made sure he started ironing the first shirt
before I left his room. By the time I got upstairs Mammi, my husband's phone
has rung eleven more times by same number. So I decided to call back at least
to tell the person that my husband would call back when he is awake. Before I
could dial, the call came in again from that number and I picked it.
Mammi- Yes, so who is that person that is
calling as if he is being owed money or what kind of wahala is that? Its only
doctors that I know are called like that...abi has Dapo become a doctor?
Wura- Mammi, the person started "Now you don't want to pick my calls right? You think you
can make away with our money just like that?" You son of a bitch
accountant. Now let me warn you...time for warning has passed. You have touched
the tail of the python, so expect its venom" Mammi, at this point, I
Screamed Yeee, Mogbe...Dapo...the man went on and said...’’Madam, I pity you
and your only child’’
Mammi - Yee, mogbe, my only grand child. Ahh!
What has your husband done?
Wura - Mammi, then I woke him and told him what
just happened, he said I should ignore them, they are some of his greedy business
associates and that they can't do anything.
Mammi - Ask him very well, let him confess what he
has done and go and give them their money back immediately. Are you people not
rich enough? Why is he owing somebody money?
Wura - Mammi, just yesterday the security man
brought an envelope and it was addressed to me. So I opened it and guess what I
saw Mammi.
Mammi - What's inside the envelope, tell me...
Wura- Two pictures of Tade...
Mammi- Yeee! Tade? Haaa. Dapo has finished me.
Wura- The first picture shows Tade arriving at
school in the morning and the other one of the him entering the car after
school.
Mammi- They are monitoring my grandchild? For
what? What has he done to them? Give me your phone let me call Dapo right away.
Wura- Mammi, Dapo has switched off his phone
for a while now, so that he cannot be reached. Mammi, they also added a short
note saying "tell your husband to give us our money or say good bye to
your son Olutade Oladapo''
Mammi- Screams...Haaa Dapo..Dapo has finished
me.
Wura- Resumes her tears...
Now the
bowl might just get filled as both mother and child are sobbing.
You have read
it.
What
should Wura do? Tell the police and possibly get the husband sacked and jailed?
Or
keep
quiet and risk their only son's death ?
When couples
discover that their partners are into crimes, what should they do?
1 Timothy 6:9-10
But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a
snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for
it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs -
Bondedhome
Counsellors, please advice Wura, her husband and every other couple who might
be experiencing such.
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