OKORO AND HIS ZUZU

OKORO: My one and only Zuzu. You know I love you very much.

ZUZU: Love fire! You say you love me but you keep hiding me.

OKORO: That’s not true. I can announce my love for you to the world. I can scream it from the mountains, from the tallest tree, from…

ZUZU: Story! You are all talk and no action. Mstcheew!

OKORO: I’m going to

surprise you. The world will hear of our love.

ZUZU:  You said that the last time.

OKORO: Watch and see. Baby mu.

                                                DAYS  LATER.

ZUZU: Okoro bobo, I just saw the statue you built in my honour.

OKORO: I told you I will announce my love for you to the world. People will keep hearing of our love even after we have died.

ZUZU: I love you.

OKORO: I love you, baby mu.

ZUZU: Ok bobo, what about your people won’t they impeach you that you used hundreds of millions of their money to build me a…

OKORO: Baby, nothing mega. Ewero! They can’t do more than a dead ant. Baby, I am the onyeisi, no one can remove me. They can’t do…

ZUZU:  But they are angry, saying you haven’t paid salaries for months, owing pensioners and…

OKORO: I will pay them when I want to and there is nothing they can do. I am the general, nobody controls me.  It is my money and I can do anything I want with my money. Don’t let all those small small journalists, bloggers and noisemakers bother you. I am untouchable in this Nigeria. It’s only noise they can make. Zuzu! Zuzu baby! Do you like the statue?

ZUZU: Yes, it did my heart Yoriyori.

OKORO: My one and only zuzu.

ZUZU: Ehen, Okoro, the other statues beside mine, who are they?

OKORO: They are not important.

ZUZU: (cries) You are also declaring love to other people okwa ya? You are cheating on me.

OKORO: Baby, don’t be like this na. Those ones, I just want to curry their favor dazall.

ZUZU: (sniffles) Are you sure?

OKORO: Baby don’t you trust your Okoro rochy baby, again? You know what.

ZUZU: What?

OKORO: Building that statue and naming a street after you is not enough to show how much I love you. I will build you a stadium and name my next grandchild after you.

                                                             PRESENT

VENDOR: Haaaaa! Oga paul na wa for this your story o.

SILAS: No mind am. Na how he insult Gov. Okowa when he dash Efenation money.

PAUL: How else do we explain why a sitting governor who has been owing pensioners for years, owing salaries for months and so many more will take hundreds of millions of state money and build a statue of a corrupt south African president who even his own people rejected a statue of him in their country?

SILAS: E fit be Rochas money.

VENDOR: Oga Paul, I hope you know you are outside and walls have ears. Next thing, SSS will come and visit you and invite you for questioning or your room will catch fire or taskforce come and close your company.

PAUL: let them come! I have freedom of speech and I will use my rights to talk about any man or woman, who think they are above the law. We have Nigerians, dead and alive whose statues should have stood there. Aren’t you people tired of these politicians who think they are untouchable?

SILAS: Wetin we fit do? I never even see money chop today?

VENDOR: No dey use style beg for my shop.

SILAS: which one be your own na?

PAUL: If I were in IMO state I would organize youths and in the dead of night we would go and tear down or disfigure all those statues.

VENDOR: Oga paul, na outside you dey o.

PAUL: I wonder why the youths are sleeping and these…

SILAS: Chai! See moto! See moto o! If e fit dash me one, just one, I go…

PAUL: This insensitive ragamuffin childish Dino. Don’t even get me started on him.

VENDOR: Oga Paul, no vex. You know I send my children to school with money I make here. Please go home.

Paul: I will leave. Just know this is exactly why these politicians feel they are above the law. We see what they do and keep quiet, when others speak up, we tell them to keep quiet. The era of suffering and smiling in silence should end now.

                                                         PAUL EXITS.

SILAS: Oga vendor, you go give me money take chop o. Oga Paul for give me but you don pursue am.

VENDOR: Bia Silas, better pursue am. Shishi, I no hold.

                                                       SILAS RUNS OUT.

VENDOR: Hian!

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