chapter 26 Something happened today

Something happened today and I don't know what to call it exactly, wether it's a tragedy or a comedy but whichever way let me narrate what actually happened, it was after I've had a very long and hectic day.

It was around 9'0clock, I have finished everything that I was supposed to do that night it was just remaining taking my bath and then go to bed and sleep.

I went to the bathroom to take my bath, after I finished bathing I was coming out of the bathroom and I saw one of my neighbors Standing Infront of her room and giving me hand signs to go back that the police is in my room searching for me, I didn't waste time to even allow her finish the statement I quickly rushed back to the toilet because it's a public compound, I locked myself inside the toilet and stood there for 30 minutes until someone came and called me that they have left, then I now came out.

Truely I did not commit any offense outside during the day or even that night before coming inside, so my conscience wasn't bitting me, at first it was funny to me but after hearing the illustrations and what they said they would do to me if they had seen me i became so mad.

While I came out from toilet, I was still on my towel but I was wearing a short boxer inside, I began to ask what happened and one of my neighbors who was there when everything happened began to illustrate everything to me.

He said they were four guys standing along the street around that 9'0clock smoking as usual and one boy was coming back from wherever he is coming back from and of one guy among the four guys approached him just to scare him but it went wrong at the end.

The guy they wanted to scare fearfully ran away and ran to the police that night and complained to them that some group of cult boys wanted to rob him while he was going home and he managed to escape.

Then they followed him to our street and the four guys who had committed this offence saw them on time and ran away then the guy led them to my room because he says he knows that I know those guys, he told them my name so they came and said they were looking for wisdom the guy that refills cooking gas meanwhile wisdom was not there when it happened, and Wisdom does not even know what happened.

I am a very popular person in my street, every living things in that street knows me either for good or for bad however, I have businesses that I'm doing around that neighborhood and I am still living my life around that neighborhood but I respect myself just as much as I respect everyone else.

I don't really have any problems with any one in the neighborhood, even though I don't laugh or greet with 90% of the people that lives in the neighborhood but I'm just living my peaceful life on my own with my God.

So while they came and said they were looking for wisdom the gas guy, every one was either afraid to say I know him or never they knew what to say and most of them collected a hot slap for not saying they knew me, that's normal Nigeria Police.

They searched the compound up and down but they never came close to the toilet where I was hiding, they searched every where and they couldn't see me, and they were furiously angry and they began saying what they would do to me if they mistakenly finds me that night and they left with they guy that called them.

After hearing the story I became annoyed, I wasn't afraid because I knew I never committed any offense at all, later that night around 11:00 PM a loud shouting was coming from the lodge where the guy that called the police stays, it was late night already so every where was calm and you can hear from a far distance.

what we were hearing from the shouting is that the guy told the police to arrest their security man that he knows me and I know those people that attacked him, so the police officers arrested the security man that night so the wife of the security man was shouting and telling him to go and bring her husband back for her, that he knows nothing about what happened to him.

Some matured men living in that lodge came out to address the issues for them that night but the guy was insistent in his actions until the next day.

I couldn't sleep in my room that night considering the kind of people the Nigeria Police are, they could come back at any time so it's better I take precautionary measures on time.

So we decided to sleep outside, truthfully the four guys that was standing there were my friends and I would have stood there with them if not God's grace that led me out before the event.

We all live around the same area where they were standing including the guy that was coming back, and normally if you're walking around that kind of time you seriously need to be careful but that particular guy is a clown, he behaves as if he's naught.

It was just to caution him, no one wanted to rob him or beat him, but what all of them didn't know was that I was seating somewhere far from them when it was happening but I was seeing them from where I was seating.