“My guy how you dey?”
“We are managing for obodo Naijer o.”
“Managing, yes in a country where wonders shall never end.”
“Is there another Merican wonder, sorry I mean Naijer wonder?”
“Didn’t you hear about a teenager that hid himself inside the wheel well in a plane from Enin Airport to the one in Eco?”
“Oh, yes o, I heard about it.”
“What do you think?
“But I can’t imagine that a 13-year-old boy could take such a risk. There must be something behind it. And I feel that he must have been aided somehow by people who should know better, or by something else.”
“Meaning?”
“Ah, I am sure ‘insurance cover’ the boy.”
“How would you talk like that? You know insurance companies are not into child’s play.”
“I mean he must have some kind of power.”
“How, please, or do you mean he has a godfather?”
“The boy must be a witch”
“Sorry, I am sure you meant wizard.”
“Na you sabi, Mr grammer. Ok o, he is a wizard.”
“In fact from what I heard the boy was wondering what all the fuss was all about as he has not committed any crime and that his main disappointment was that he landed still in Naijer. They say he thought the plane was going to God’s own country. Imagine yourself if after taking that risk you still find yourself trapped in the same country you planned to escape.”
“Now let us get serious. The point is that we are worried that a serious breach in airport security has occurred. If he was carrying a bomb he could easily have detonated it. And I also gather that the plane was carrying high level officials of the state government. Up till now, the Airport Authority and the airline in question are trading blames.”
“You are talking as if you are a JJC. Is bomb exploding here still news?”
“But you can see the government’s emergency rule and military option are now working. We have not heard any more explosions in a while and there has been relative peace as even people in those states have started going about their normal activities.”
“As they say when one door closes another door opens. The Roko Baram people have known that bombs attract greater attention so they have now become smarter and – more cruel. Even in Iraq and Afghanistan they have not reached this level of wickedness. What they are now doing is to use knives to slit their victims’ throats surreptitiously. A neighbour or even a friend who is unknowingly part of them can come on a normal visitation. After hosting them, and when they are being seen off they can deliberately lag behind, so that they can catch their prey from behind. Their victims are usually those or communities they believe are sympathetic to the government. Scores have died like that, and are still dying. The military have no answer to this.”
“But this is where the local or state police will come in handy.”
“And how would they themselves do it?”
“Any way let us change this heart rending and rankling topic and go back to the one we were discussing before.”
“The main thing for me about that boy is that he has been able to ridicule our so-called airport security. And it means if you are travelling by air you are on your own. Secondly, he has shamed our Nollywood people who say they are celebrating 20 years.”
“You mean he has outdone them in juju?”
“Well, not even that. In all their 20 years of existence have you seen a stunt done?”
“The boy’s mum said he is a movie buff and that he may have decided to practise what he has been watching. And I am dead sure the boy must have been watching serious foreign movies.”
“The boy’s mum also added that he has always loved flying.”
“Maybe he will be a pilot tomorrow.”
“But I am still baffled by how the boy maneuvered into that space. I can imagine him running after the plane like Harnold Swasnigger. It must have been a sight to behold.”
“I don’t think he ran after the plane. The boy must have jumped from a low fence around the airport. I think the plane had probably halted while taxing and while it was about to move the boy sneaked in.”
“I wonder how long this boy must have been standing somewhere with this dream and admiring the planes and hoping for the dream day.
“I still wonder how the boy survived.”
“He was wearing a rosary.”
“But you called him a witch earlier. I mean wizard. Please don’t make my tongue slip.”
“I still maintain what I said. That area the boy is from has the highest number of witches in the world. And yet no one can be more church conscious than them. A friend of mine who is from there if you accidently touch his head he gets angry to paranoid”.
“But we have witchcraft everywhere in the world.”
“Yes, it is everywhere in the world. But while other people try to hide theirs these ones boast about theirs.”
“Another fella I know from there does not know his village because he grew up knowing that he could be bewitched if he set his foot there. His folks have properties in major cities in Naijer but not one block on another there.”
“So don’t be surprised that a boy from there could have been playing also the serial movie “The invisible man” and we are blaming security people.”
“Please I don’t want to argue what I am not well informed about.”
“The boy wanted to check out like Andy who complained in the 80s that he was particularly tired of no light. Today the man is dead and the light issue has not been resolved, with a colossal amount of money wasted.”
“Do you blame the young boy who wanted to go to a country that has a dream? He fears his dreams may never be realized here.”
“Perhaps he is also scared that if he becomes somebody tomorrow he may be kidnapped.”
“At least it is not like a former minister of ours who was kidnapped, drugged and hidden in a crate in a plane in the land of Her Majesty to be repatriated home to face corruption charges or was he dressed like a woman in a plane to evade arrest like an ex-governor who stole his state blind and still “honoured’ with a state pardon.”
“You are right my brother. There are stowaways and there are stowaways.”
Dr Cosmas Odoemena
“My guy how you dey?”
“We are managing for obodo Naijer o.”
“Managing, yes in a country where wonders shall never end.”
“Is there another Merican wonder, sorry I mean Naijer wonder?”
“Didn’t you hear about a teenager that hid himself inside the wheel well in a plane from Enin Airport to the one in Eco?”
“Oh, yes o, I heard about it.”
“What do you think?
“But I can’t imagine that a 13-year-old boy could take such a risk. There must be something behind it. And I feel that he must have been aided somehow by people who should know better, or by something else.”
“Meaning?”
“Ah, I am sure ‘insurance cover’ the boy.”
“How would you talk like that? You know insurance companies are not into child’s play.”
“I mean he must have some kind of power.”
“How, please, or do you mean he has a godfather?”
“The boy must be a witch”
“Sorry, I am sure you meant wizard.”
“Na you sabi, Mr grammer. Ok o, he is a wizard.”
“In fact from what I heard the boy was wondering what all the fuss was all about as he has not committed any crime and that his main disappointment was that he landed still in Naijer. They say he thought the plane was going to God’s own country. Imagine yourself if after taking that risk you still find yourself trapped in the same country you planned to escape.”
“Now let us get serious. The point is that we are worried that a serious breach in airport security has occurred. If he was carrying a bomb he could easily have detonated it. And I also gather that the plane was carrying high level officials of the state government. Up till now, the Airport Authority and the airline in question are trading blames.”
“You are talking as if you are a JJC. Is bomb exploding here still news?”
“But you can see the government’s emergency rule and military option are now working. We have not heard any more explosions in a while and there has been relative peace as even people in those states have started going about their normal activities.”
“As they say when one door closes another door opens. The Roko Baram people have known that bombs attract greater attention so they have now become smarter and – more cruel. Even in Iraq and Afghanistan they have not reached this level of wickedness. What they are now doing is to use knives to slit their victims’ throats surreptitiously. A neighbour or even a friend who is unknowingly part of them can come on a normal visitation. After hosting them, and when they are being seen off they can deliberately lag behind, so that they can catch their prey from behind. Their victims are usually those or communities they believe are sympathetic to the government. Scores have died like that, and are still dying. The military have no answer to this.”
“But this is where the local or state police will come in handy.”
“And how would they themselves do it?”
“Any way let us change this heart rending and rankling topic and go back to the one we were discussing before.”
“The main thing for me about that boy is that he has been able to ridicule our so-called airport security. And it means if you are travelling by air you are on your own. Secondly, he has shamed our Nollywood people who say they are celebrating 20 years.”
“You mean he has outdone them in juju?”
“Well, not even that. In all their 20 years of existence have you seen a stunt done?”
“The boy’s mum said he is a movie buff and that he may have decided to practise what he has been watching. And I am dead sure the boy must have been watching serious foreign movies.”
“The boy’s mum also added that he has always loved flying.”
“Maybe he will be a pilot tomorrow.”
“But I am still baffled by how the boy maneuvered into that space. I can imagine him running after the plane like Harnold Swasnigger. It must have been a sight to behold.”
“I don’t think he ran after the plane. The boy must have jumped from a low fence around the airport. I think the plane had probably halted while taxing and while it was about to move the boy sneaked in.”
“I wonder how long this boy must have been standing somewhere with this dream and admiring the planes and hoping for the dream day.
“I still wonder how the boy survived.”
“He was wearing a rosary.”
“But you called him a witch earlier. I mean wizard. Please don’t make my tongue slip.”
“I still maintain what I said. That area the boy is from has the highest number of witches in the world. And yet no one can be more church conscious than them. A friend of mine who is from there if you accidently touch his head he gets angry to paranoid”.
“But we have witchcraft everywhere in the world.”
“Yes, it is everywhere in the world. But while other people try to hide theirs these ones boast about theirs.”
“Another fella I know from there does not know his village because he grew up knowing that he could be bewitched if he set his foot there. His folks have properties in major cities in Naijer but not one block on another there.”
“So don’t be surprised that a boy from there could have been playing also the serial movie “The invisible man” and we are blaming security people.”
“Please I don’t want to argue what I am not well informed about.”
“The boy wanted to check out like Andy who complained in the 80s that he was particularly tired of no light. Today the man is dead and the light issue has not been resolved, with a colossal amount of money wasted.”
“Do you blame the young boy who wanted to go to a country that has a dream? He fears his dreams may never be realized here.”
“Perhaps he is also scared that if he becomes somebody tomorrow he may be kidnapped.”
“At least it is not like a former minister of ours who was kidnapped, drugged and hidden in a crate in a plane in the land of Her Majesty to be repatriated home to face corruption charges or was he dressed like a woman in a plane to evade arrest like an ex-governor who stole his state blind and still “honoured’ with a state pardon.”
“You are right my brother. There are stowaways and there are stowaways.”
Dr Cosmas Odoemena
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