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After I put the animal in the booth, we continued our journey.
Oh, a Sallah period time-off from Ibadan couldn't get better than this.
I began to fantasize about the various delicacies we would get from the antelope.
Barbecue or àsun, communited meat a.k.a. suya and pepper soup!
Antelope pepper soup!
One of its kind!
One in a life time!
Oh, I could not wait for us to get to Offa.
The time was far spent and the night was upon us.
Tiamiyu tried to tell me stories about his ancestral home.
He wanted me , apparently,to know about his childhood, his relatively sparse schooling and how he later joined the Nigerian Army.
He did tell me all this - and even more.
For instance he told me of an incident that took place in a county in Liberia during the Civil War there.
Tiamiyu was with the ECOMOG Forces then.
He said the ECOMOG Peace-keeping Forces had secured a particular area from the control of the rebels. This made it possible for the natives to move around and transact lawful business.
The peace keepers , in short, restored some normalcy to life in the area.
After a little while, the soldiers mixed with the locals and friendships were struck.
There was a particular girl that interested the commander in the area.
However, there was a snag - she was the girlfriend of the main rebel leader of the area!
What to do? The officer first went to befriend the rebel leader.
One day , he invited the rebel leader to his base. Once there , he entertained him lavishly with food and drinks. He even gave him some money to make him feel cool.
The officer and the rebel leader drank into the night.
After the merriment, the guest and his 3 body-guards left.
As soon as their car left the camp, the commander gave an order that as soon as they got to the third Road Block from the camp, the soldiers on duty should waste them!
And that was what happened!
I was aghast!
"Siamon, I don go to war before. War no good sah" Tiamiyu said as he shook his head from side to side.
"Yes, war is destructive" I replied as I remembered the story of King David in the Bible who had Uriah, one of his soldiers killed so he could take Bathsheba his wife.
That story , bitter as it was, could however not take away my appetite for the impending antelope barbecue feast!
I shifted my mind to that mouth watering prospect.
Bush meat plus Chamdor !
What a night it would be!
We got to Offa around 10pm.
The town was noticeably in festive mood.
At that hour of the night, it still looked like early evening.
We went straight to the hotel.
I asked Apaokagi to go call the hotel manager.
I wanted the manager to give the necessary instructions to his kitchen manager.
It was going to be one long, enjoyable night.
I opened the booth of the Prado to bring out the antelope.
What I saw confounded me.
I have never been so shocked in my life.
For instead of a dead antelope which I intended to make into suya and peppersoup, I saw...
(To be continued)
Happy weekend, folks!
E maa se jeje o.
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