Episode 3.
Umukoro is an undeveloped village,though it
is the hometown of great personalities and
chiefs,but they never dim it fit to spend their
wealth on development.it has only one
source of water and it is a big stream called
esigede stream.legend had it that the first
king of umukoro cried to the gods when the
village was under siege and people kept
dieing numerously due to lack of water as
their enemy stopped them from drinking
from their former source in the
neighbouring village,it was foretold that the
king offer himself as a sacrificed to the gods
at the exact place were Esigede stream is
currently located.
Ada,uche and ifeoma were going to the
stream that early morning with a jerrycule
visibly seen in their hands as they moved
along the bush part leading to the stream
shaking their body to the rhythm of their
movement.ifeoma suddenly stopped under a
tree and drop her jerrycule on the ground in
the process which kind of startled the other
two girls as they kept on looking stunned at
her.
Ada:ifeoma,what is it again,this is what you
always do when you want to gossip**she
said putting down her own jerrycule too as
she placed her two hands on her waist
standing arm akimbo.
Ifeoma:bia are u now calling me a
gossip?,that is fine then,lets go am not
saying it again.
Uche:ah ah,ifeoma don't mind ada,tell us
what happen this time *she said smiling
sheepishly and she used her hand to touch
ifeoma on her cheeks and she smiled too.
Ada: oya tell us i am sorry for my behavior is
just that you scared me.
Ifeoma:wonder shall never end in this
village,you wont believe what i heard this
morning**she said and clapped her two
hands.
Ada:tell us now,our village two crier,abeg tell
us joor your suspense dey cut my liver.
Ifeoma:i was sweeping the back of our
house this morning when i over heard my
parent discussing,my dad told my mum that
chief hayomidiez is dead and some occult
group claimed that he is their member and
they will be in charge of his burial.
Uche:bia mechunu,why will you say that
kind of a thing what kind of august lie is
this?**she said and dropped the jerrycule
that she kept on her armpit on the ground.
Ifeoma:you see what am talking about?,can i
just seat down this morning and fabricate
this kind of lie?,am saying what i heard and
uche is here beating my words back to my
mouth.
Ada:i also heard about this yesterday too,but
i never believed it.
Uche:you mean chief hayomidiez,the
okanga1 of umukoro is dead?.**she said
surprised.
Ifeoma:that is what i over heard from my
parent o.
Uche:but as a titled chief of umukoro it is an
abomination for him not to be buried
according to our custom and tradition.
Ada:that is not even my problem here,i don't
believe that chief hayomidiez is an occult
group,those people just came to claim his
corpse so that the gods will be mad at us.
Ifeoma:bam!,that is what i thought too,that
man is too good to be in an occult group.
Uche:what if he is,what are we going to do
about it?.
Ada:then we better pray he is not,because if
he do we are in a big mess.
Uche:see lets go and fetch our water before
our parent will be back,i don't want my
mum to come back and meet the drums
empty**she said and picked her jerrycule
from the floor while the others did the same
and they continue their journey,gisting and
laughing on the way as they kept shakin
their ass along the road.
¤umukoro elders were seen sitting in igwe
edimka palace in two role,the palance was
designed and adore with beautiful art work
while the king was sitting on a long
beautiful red throne.two guards stood at
both side of the throne with a spear in their
hand while another stood close to him with
a hand fan in his hand fanning him at
interval.
Mazi chukwu:umukoro elders i greet you,my
king i great you too,may you live longer than
your ancestors*an elder whose hairs are all
plain white stood up and said.
All:isee.
Mazi chukwu:without wasting much time,i
believe we all know why we are gathered
here today,a n abomination is about to be
committed that as never been heard off
what do we do?.**he said and sat down.
Mazi iyere:though the person in question is
my brother,this cannot be allow to
happen,the gods will be angry with us if it
happen.**an elder who sat at the extreme
with his walking stick hold famely on his
hand bluntly said.
Mazi udu:what about the occult group,how
are we going to stop them?.
Mazi okoye:udu seat down and shut up if
you have nothing to say**another elder
stood up and shut him up.
Mazi udu: okoye,i am just stating my point
like every other elder here why are you
against me okoye.
Mazi okoye:your point is useless,if the occult
group are strong,are they stronger than our
gods?,please seat down and stop saying
nonsense.
Igwe edimka:caution okoye and udu
caution,mind your words when you are in
my presence.
Both:igweeee**they said and sat down.
Igwe:the eze dibia will be here soon to tell
us the way forward.
T.B.C