I woke up with a headache and a back pain. I scratched away wild weeds from my face and tried to stand up. Everywhere was as dark as the inside of a tunnel at night.The pain in my back grew worse as I tried to get up, and I fell back to the ground and grimaced.The sound of crickets cried all around me, and then one nasty one was at the right-hand side of my right ear, croaking like a frog.I looked toward the east, and I could see that it wasn’t completely dark. The sun had not gone to sleep for a long time.I looked around me, seeing nothing but rocks edges looking strangely back at me. I felt the bag still on my back and noticed that I was part of the weight making my back to ache. I stretched my hand and found the zipper by the side. I pulled it gently downward, and then I pulled a torchlight from inside the bag.I turned it on and saw that the strange figures of the rocks weren’t so strange after all. I saw the root of a plant hanging freely from the side of a rock and I held i

I got to my G-Wagon and saw half of the villagers standing there. They were looking at me as I approached, as if I was some alien from a planet far way.The medicine man was there too, and he was so surprised at seeing me that his mouth was left hanging opened.I walked to the car and unlocked it, hearing their whispers and the amazements in their voices.“That’s impossible,” said the medicine man. “It’s impossible for you to come back this soon.”I nodded. “You are right,” I said. “You only need to know what to do and then the impossible becomes possible.”“What did you do?” he asked.I thought about the baby I saw in the rivers.Should I tell them what the secret was? I thought. Would it help more people or harm them if they knew the secret?I turned and look at all the people looking anxiously at me, waiting to hear what I did to overcome Pan Tumut.“You have to go there to discover the secret,” I said.The medicine man frowned at me.“You don’t want to tell us the secret?” he aske

I asked Isaac, my bodyguard, to get a travelling agent to take care of my travelling details and schedules. This was two weeks after Esther left the hospital. She was fully on her feet now, haven’t recovered completely.She now looked taller, probably because she shaded some weight. I liked her new looks, and she looked as beautiful as a Vogue cover girl.Talatu had not gotten in touch with me, and I was as happy as a kite flying on a gentle wind.Isaac came back after an hour.“Found a travelling agency in Joseph Gom House. I think they are very good.” He looked at me. “Are you travelling?”I nodded.“Where, boss?” he asked.I turned to him, curious at his questions.“Why do you ask?”He looked away.“What?” I asked, bemused at his uneasiness.He looked at the floor and then he looked into my eyes.“All my life, I have never left the shores of this country,” he said.I looked at him again, really, really bemused now.“So?” I asked.“What do you mean, ‘so?’ I have never been out of th

Jasper and Isaac came in the evening of the following day to see me. They found me in an empty room, with a table and a long benched, a room used for questioning.They brought food, but were asked to eat a portion of it before they could give it to me. The officers had asked me questions throughout that afternoon, and did not give me any food or water to drink.They asked about the messages between Mr. Potter and I. They went through all my details, both on the phone and on the laptop.I wondered what they were looking for that they had not found, and why they had not charged me and taken me to court with any crime.I thought about hiring a lawyer but Officer Michael laughed and asked how I was going to hire a lawyer when I had no money to pay for one.Isaac came to the room in the hotel in the morning before he discovered what happened. He had contacted Jasper, and they had searched for me without knowing where I was taken to.It was this evening that they got the information about m

I got bail that evening, and I had to admit that the Barrister Edet was probably worth his pay. Of course, I had to bring two highly placed people in the society as my sureties, and they had my passport in case I had to make a bolt for Dubai.Fortunately, my lawyer brought the people to stand as my sureties and they stood in for me.But EFCC held unto my bank account, my cars and the house and my phone.I got to the hotel after leaving the EFFC facility but was told the penthouse wasn’t available for me anymore.“Can I see the manager?” I asked the receptionist.“He is busy,” she said. “Maybe you can come in the morning when he will be less busy.”I smiled.Within two days I had been turned into a liability, into a bad business. It’s the norm that no respectable hotel will want to do business with a man accused of scamming others.“Okay,” I said. “But where is his office so I can see him when I come.”She looked at me with eyes that were unsure.I waited.“It’s the first room by the c