Chapter Twenty

The next morning, and with the help of Boma, Abinla was able to gather the villagers and tell them about her mission and how they should all work hard to make everyone benefit from it all. After they were informed about it, the people all sat back talking and laughing. The children played happily, older ones slapped each other's hands in agreement and smiled excitedly; there was much nodding of heads, and talking of prosperous years ahead.

Meanwhile, Abinla leaned back with her drawing notebook, her eyes beaming with happiness. The day was soon going to be fine, with a clean breeze, and trees flushed with green swaying with the touch of the breeze.

Looking up, Abinla sighed happily at the green and clean future coming up. 

One Saturday morning, everyone set out for the clearing of the trash around them. Abinla was dressed in a faded overall and lace-up boots she had pulled out from her Noodles shoe box.

Everyone was dressed in their work clothes, as they participated in building a clean world, and for several weeks, Abinla and her team as well as other people kept on working. Scientists locked themselves up in their laboratories working on eco-friendly projects. Reporters from several media sources followed in the movement, thereby making it interesting even more. 

The press gave Abinla, specially, a close-up, while a reporter commented on TV.

'Abinla Perelayefa, the SS3 student of Ogbia Comprehensive Secondary School, has for weeks now been leading in the clean, green and just future movement. She wants us to reduce our carbon footprint to help save the world from breaking completely. Miss Abinla looks extremely hardworking, and hopeful that her Dream Paradise would be actualised. It is said that she started having this dream ever since she was admitted into primary school. The big dream for a clean and beautiful world has touched the whole world. Not only does Miss Abinla have great vision, she also has a beautiful loving heart, and is on top of her class. Since her primary school, she has always been a straight A student. What a precious woman! It's rare to see a young, motivating woman like Abinla in this generation. Her mother has taught her well. Her late father would definitely be proud of his adoring daughter.'

When the part was broadcast on TV, the President was watching from his magnificent office in Aso Rock Villa and he beamed with delight. Bola's father had told him about Abinla, so of course he became interested in the clean and green project. Several top government officials in the President's office commented on the news, 'Abinla is so brave, so beautiful and clean. She's a big hero that has saved the world but was unlucky to be born in a poor area.'

 'She is teaching us how to turn trash into treasure. I heard that her next agenda is cyber safety. She was hopeful about going to create a digital vaccine that would fight electronic viruses. I'm not good with computers but the sound of Abinla's new agenda makes me have complete faith in the new world. She might also create a device that might stop us from rigging elections.' 

 'The sweetness of politics is the rigging, not the free and fair election. I might not want her to create that device.' 

 'Does she really want us to reduce our carbon footprint? That would mean flying less or not at all, cutting down on meat consumption or becoming a vegan! I am not King Nebuchadnezzar who in the Book of Daniel was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen…'