What Is The Occasion?

It was a beautiful morning. Lanre woke up, took her bath, had her meal and left for work. The first person to greet her was Muyiwa. It seems she was just coming to work as well. Lanre smiled at her. She asked her how she was faring. Muyiwa told her she was fine. And went inside.

“Ma! You forgot your phone”. Tega calked out with Lanre’s phone in his hand. He went and hand over the phone to Lanre. Lanre thanked him and walked inside. She heaved a sigh of relief when she finally got to her office and sat down. A smile crept into her lips. Tega had informed her this morning that Greatness was now turning a new leaf and was taking his work serious. He said he wanted to be a fashion designer and she had made Tega register the young man in a fashion designing shop.

Greatness is the young teenage boy who had stolen Lanre’s purse but was caught by Tega that night. Lanre told herself she was happy she did not let those men beat up the young boy. She believed he will do great. Just then a call came in. Lanre took her phone to pick the call. It was senator OJo who was calling.

She picked up the call and they both exchanged pleasantries. He told her job well done. Lanre asked him why he was telling her that. He laughed and asked her of she was not the one that had released those videos. He told her he was sure she’s the one since that was her specialty. Lanre clicked her tongue.

“I would say you have a retentive memory, but I was not the one that recorded those videos. Even if I did, I must have done Lagos some good”. Lanre said. The senator laughed in response. She asked him why he called.

“What is the occasion, since you are calling this early in the morning?” Lanre asked.

“Go to Alhaja Fatima’s place, she will give you some documents. It’s for your friend. It took me a lot of stress to get that”. Senator Ojo said to Lanre. She told him thanks and ended the call. Lanre immediately jumped for joy. Ebube’s special permit was the reason Senator Ojo called. It’s ready and she was going to Alhaja to collect it. He should have given it to her himself, why did he have to pass it through that lady? She didn’t want to go. But for the sake of keeping her word, Lanre called for her driver and left for Alhaja Fatima’s house.

On getting there, Lanre saw a young girl seated where she was told Alhaja was. She indirectly asked the young girl where Alhaja Fatima was and was showed the direction. She thought the young girl looked pitiable, bit didn’t bother to ponder as to why the kid was there. She got to where Alhaja Fatima was. Turns out she had a visitor. Lanre did not want to disturb and decided to walk away, but stopped in her track when something Alhaja said filtered it’s way into her ears.