Jibade is a king
We’ve got a king in our town.
(Suspense)
We’ve got a king in our town.
We have lost control.
We are in a dive.
(Palpitations)
Parrot hatches its eggs domestically without disturbances, because of its appeasement,
while, dove hatches its own in the wilderness
because of its inability to make the necessary appeasement.
My children, I am your mother,
so it becomes mandatory for you to listen to me.
Mummy,
I am listening to you.
Mummy, stop talking proverbially.
My wife and I will be coming to visit you over the weekend.
Hope you heard; mummy.
Children, you are not serious.
Bisade, you are also there.
You are also a culprit.
(|Laughter)
Mummy!
What are you talking about?
Where else will I be if I’m not here.
(Laughter)
Alright, I will show you who I am.
I shall be here waiting for you.
Come and meet me at home.
I will do more than your requests.
Mother.
Hypocrite.
You don’t know life is “turn by turn”
In life, once you outgrow a thing, you hand it over to your children.
(Exclamation)
Alright!
I will talk to you guys later.
No qualms.
Guys, when will you land?
We will land in 37 minutes.
Okay,
cheers guys!
Mum and her troubles.
Have you delivered our message to Olabosipo
as regards the chieftaincy title of Agbaakin that the town wants to confer on him?
Your Royal Highness,
may you reign for a long time!
So shall it be.
The elderly ones, like you, do say
“a delicate assignment is given to the mature not the immature”.
The chieftaincy title you want this boy to take is too much for him.
My son can’t accept it. It is more than him.
Damn it!
Your Royal Highness.
Laboopo is not a child.
Your Royal Highness,
I now understand your words.
You want to honour me in my house.
I am grateful.
Notwithstanding,
I will be nominating Bisade.
Yes, it is, Your Royal Highness.
He is my son-in-law,
but he has become my son.
Besides, Bisade precedes Olabosipo.
He precedes.
Alright.
If that’s your wish, then the town obliges.
Meanwhile, it is approved.
Thank you.
It is approved.
Mayodele, get up!
What hell is the matter?
What did I buy from you that you demand for money every day?
Truly, we grew together,
but I have been destined to marry Bisade; and I’m married to him.
Why can’t you just leave me alone
and go somewhere else to get your own wife.
What is the matter?
Olapeju, please, don’t do this to me.
and you will definitely soon be free from the effects of his charms.
Olapeju,
I got this platinum ring for you and it’s very expensive.
Because gold is sold to the one who knows its worth.
Please, collect it from me; I love you.
You are stupid.
You are brainless.
You got a platinum ring for a married woman!
Also, having the gut to bring it to her matrimonial home.
Can you see that you are shameless?
Let me ask you a question.
Why do you still try to board a ship that has sailed?
Look at me very well and read my lips; this ship has sailed.
(Fright)
from asking you what you have come here to do.
Because any dog that backwardly
enters into a leopard’s den
will surely be bathed in blood.
It becomes unavoidable for it to say goodbye to the world.
(Hysteric laughter)
Who is the leopard?
You!
Let me tell you.
If a calabash does not fall into river,
water is not stirred.
I have just come to recover my calabash that fell into your river.
This, I must reclaim.
Stupid!
Go ahead to reclaim it!
A mature man taking the ring of sorrow home.
A married man!
Get out of my house.
(Hysteric laughter)
I should get out of your house!
Do you think we don’t know about how things go?
Whose house is it?
Shameless man!
You moved into your wife’s house,
and now regard it as your house.
So, let the husband talk to me.
Are you mad?
See how you talk to my husband?
Get out of my house.
Meanwhile, I’ll report you to J,D
You must stop all this nonsense of yours.
Kindly, get out of my house
I will get out;
but look at me very well.
I will show you in this land.
Get out!
Dear, please!
Don’t!
Olapeju, don’t.
But you are friends!
Your childhood friend.
Babe!
God!
It is the stick thrust into a rat that knows what the internal structure of a rat looks like.
You are welcome
so shall you present it to him.
Madam,
that’s the package.
The only way not to get rid of a luggage is abandonment.
Whosever carries it shall feel the weight.
The young man will die once he collects it from you and wears it.
How possible it to receive death for another?
It is true.
The banana to be eaten is always covered with peels.
The necklace is the major thing.
The coffin is just a covering.
That’s it: the charm!
You can now ride on the horse to the throne to be crowned.
(Screams)
(Palpitations)
(Screams)
Babe!!!
Are you okay?
What’s wrong?
Babe!
Hello, mummy.
Hello dear!
Good morning.
Happy wedding anniversary.
You shall make the coming anniversary with a set of twins
Amen
You shall not be found wanting.
I shall also not be found wanting.
Amen
What about your husband?
He is here.
Kindly give the phone to him; I want to talk to him.
(Sighs)
Ma
how did is your hand get dusty?
Bisade, good morning, and happy wedding anniversary.
Thank you, ma.
I had a terrible dream.
I reject it.
A terrible dream my foot!
No evil dream shall come to pass over your life.
Amen
Listen;
just go in there and have your bath.
Go and get dressed quickly.
Make sure you don’t get there late.
It is your day of celebration.
You shall not be found wanting.
I shall see you later
Bye
Alright, ma.
See you soon.
The dream was scary.
Happy wedding anniversary, dear.
Take care.
Ajoke has tied her headgear.
Let those who reproach lose their sanity.
Madam Fanandez, this is your season; enjoy it
Ehhhh
She is our fan.
Ehhhh
She is our fan.
Ehhhh
She is our fan.
Madam Fanandez
She is our fan.
Ajoke, take your steps one after another.
Madam has tied her headgear
Let those who reproach lose their sanity.
Madam has tied her headgear
Let those who reproach lose their sanity.
Madam, what are you up to?
Anyone you see frowning.
Madam, anyone you see frowning
Sing Ayefele’s song to cheer up.
Madam, sing Ayefele’s song to cheer up.
Let my song change your mind.
Ayefele’s song is more refreshing than honey.
Ayefele\s song is so refreshing
Fisade, I see you….
Ayefele’s song is more refreshing than honey.
My head, support me and don’t permit me to suffer.
It’s the head that brings one in contact with goodness.
The head is a faithful companion and an advocate.
It’s the head that brings one in contact with goodness.
The head is a faithful companion and an advocate.
My head, do not forsake me.
Do not forsake me; please, support me.
The head is the secret behind kingship.
The head is the secret behind chieftaincy
My head, please do not desist from supporting me.
Support me and do not let me suffer in life.
(Background music)
Fisade, your head:
your destiny
is such that you will be wealthy and have children
You shall labour successfully.
Fisade, your head:
your destiny
is such that you will be wealthy and have children
You shall prosper in your work.
Your Creator has favoured you.
I invited you to sing danceable songs.
I want you to sing danceable songs that will get me inspired.
Do you understand me?
I want to hear danceable songs,
Let the drums begin to roll.
(Uproar)
Ayefele has started once again.
So, bend down and dance.
It’s a contemporary song for a contemporary audience.
Contemporary beats and songs for our fans.
We have arrived, so get on to dance
Kindly send regards to Madam Fernandez
You are welcome
I welcome to all the chiefs. So, get on to dance.
Contemporary beats and songs for our fans.
We have arrived, so get on to dance
I heard that many people.
Many people.
Said Ayefele could not rise anymore.
Use danceable beats to bring me forth.
(Incantations)
Your phone is ringing.
Where is this child?
What is going on?
Bisade!
Bisade, pick up.
Beads don’t break and you still find it complete.
I say pick up the phone.
What is the matter?
What is going on?
What kind of prank is this?
What’s happening?
Phone, kindly respond.
Hello!
The one we want to charm is unreachable.
(Exclamation)
That’s a taboo.
It is very dangerous,
We have done all that’s necessary.
We are already performing the final rites.
Alright! I have heard.
I’ll call back.
Hope there is no trouble now?
What is it that is about to befall me.
Hello, mummy.
Olapeju, what about your husband?
He is not at home.
He has gone out with Olabosipo for an after-party.
An after-party!
Where is the after-party holding?
Mummy, I don’t know the venue,
but all I know is that they have gone for an after- party.
Hope no problems!
No problems!
I’ll call back.
An after-party!
Where has he gone for an after-party?
What do I do?
Hello
Madam,
while would you allow us to ignite fire when there is no available game?
We have given you three options because of Bisade.
One is given to vulture.
Yes
Another is given to Carmine bee eater
The third is given to Blue turaco
Meanwhile, the Blue turaco has gone ahead to bring his death.
It becomes compulsory that we see Bisade.
You know we can’t predict anyone until we hear from him.
Alright.
In a moment!
Hello
Mummy, I just checked the text message Bisade sent to me.
How is it now?
He has gone to Abuja for the after-party.
It seems he is lodged at Yeye Castle.
Where?
The after-party is at Abuja
Abuja!
Alright
Thanks, my daughter.
It’s getting solved gradually.
You had better find a solution.
This is a no going back adventure.
Blood must surely be shed.
Yes
No!!!
Tell him not to bother.
I am just going to pick you up.
I’ll pick you up,
Give the phone to Bisade.
The one who uses his hand to ignite fire doesn’t have time to play.
The one who walks in the dark does not have peace of mind.
Do you want to kill me?
How do you mean?
I don’t understand.
What is it that which you don’t understand?
Bisade, what is it that you don’t understand?
You were the one who said you had a terrible dream,
and here I am doing everything best possible to forestall it.
Somebody else is fasting on your behalf, but there you are, eating.
You said you had no child
and here I am doing all to make sure you have a child.
So, is your kind that should go clubbing?
Come and meet me at home now.
Ladunwo and Bosipo are also here.
The day a placenta is brought out of a pregnant woman is the day it is buried.
Bisade, meet me at home now!
Now!
Okay, ma.
Kindly begin the rites, he is on his way.
(Incantations)
Hold on!
Let me call him so I can know where he is.
Let me put a call through.
Hold on!
Bisade, how long will it take you to get here?
We are on our way.
I know you are, but where are you, exactly?
How many minutes can it still take you?
Kindly take it easy.
Sir, get to your seat and fasten your seatbelt.
Bisade,
what’s the matter?
What’s the matter with you?
Talk with me!
What’s the matter?
We have lost control.
Brace for impact!
(Screams)
What’s the matter?
It seems his plane has crashed
(Screams)
I’m finished.
Madam!
This is breaking news.
A private jet has just crashed near Olokun River,
and the aviation community is still in great shock.
It’s learnt that two pilots and a passenger were on board.
We learnt that the plane developed some mechanical faults
in the air before it crash-landed.
The plane was on route from Abuja
to Ibadan when it crashed.
Mummy,
how did it happen?
I don’t know how it happened.
This is trouble
Hope Olapeju has not been informed
She is yet to be informed.
Calm down!
Let me call Olamiju and Oladunwo
and inform them not to tell her for now.
Kindly put a call through to them.
Just calm down!
I have heard
Tragic plane crash near Olokun River.
Two pilots survied; passenger missing.
Crash occurred just hours ago;
emergency team still searching for missing passenger.
Tragic plane crash near Olokun River.
Two pilots survied;
while they cannot really say anything about the missing passenger.
...Our heart is with the ones affected by this tragic event.
Just stay tuned.
...the team is still investigating the cause of the crash.
Olokun River plane disaster, pilots found alive;
search for missing passenger continues.
Witnesses report explosions before the crash
Investigation underway.
What do you think we can do?
We will choose from the alternatives left.
We have all agreed to change the order quickly.
Never!
That’s impossible!
Nothing can come in as a replacement.
The results you see today are a product of my past activities.
We are all here;
after having seen all my efforts over this matter,
you still asked me to calm down even after three years.
I did.
After that,
you asked me to collect the water my children bathed with,
which I did.
You instructed me to use it to prepare stew for him,
which I did.
You instructed that he must eat it,
that which I made sure he did.
After I have made the prescribed sacrifices,
you are now saying you want to change the order.
No,
it is not done.
It is impossible.
Don’t do that.
If you make sure we are still able to use Bisade,
I promise to give you 10 million naira each and an exotic car each.
Madam,
we are at the point we discussed,
and I am so sure that there shall be response to your decrees.
Once we call Bisade and he responds,
don’t delay to put the necklace on him.
Bisade!
Bisade, the son of Abebi,
even if you are at the end of the sea,
come and respond to me.
Even if you are at the end of the lagoon, come and respond to me.
Bisade, the son of Abebi.
(Exclamation)
Madam,
what has just happened had never happened.
It means the person we are calling is still alive.
How do you mean?
Was it a different name that you gave us?
How could that be!
The mother’s name is Abebi.
He does not bear any other name.
If truly you had given us his mother’s name,
he would have responded when he was called.
He should have appeared if truly he is dead.
That’s it.
So what do we do now?
It means you will have to wait for another ten years
before there can be any rewards.
Where?
Here
I can’t wait a minute, talk less of 10 years.
Please, just do it for me.
Do it for me, that he will die.
Make him dead.
Don’t just look at me like this.
Kindly do it for me.
Ankara is the choicest of all clothing materials.
A child is the choicest of all that anyone can ever possess.
May our head give us a good child!
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
A glutton will eat little like a rat.
Anyone who lacks contentment.
Shall end up losing everything.
Contentment is the most important.
Good day, father.
Take care, and how was school?
We did a little.
We thank God.
My mother!
My child!
My mother!
My child!
Good day, mother.
Get up.
How was school?
What about your teachers?
They are fine.
Hope you weren’t mischievous?
I wasn’t.
You were a little.
I wasn’t mischievous.
Kindly go inside, it’s your food that I am preparing.
I am already hungry.
Sorry
He is hungry.
That’s his person.
My father.
Take care.
Daddy
You may continue with that which you are doing, the learned man.
I just rushed home to come and pick my trap.
I want to visit my cassava farm beside the kolanut tree.
Is it because of antelopes.
They have destroyed my cassava farm.
That’s what they do.
They are too terrible.
It means they are condemned to death this time.
On the day head was to be crowned king,
I was there with my oracle.
On the day head was to be conferred with chieftaincy title,
I was there with my oracle.
It is head that attracts goodness.
It is head that attracts people’s submission.
Kindly have mercy on me.
Show me mercy.
I am not requesting for money and neither am I requesting for food.
Just pardon me.
It’s forgiveness that I want.
I am only seeking what to eat.
Wait a moment.
Please, do it now before it is too late.
Just say, “I forgive you”.
Please, show me mercy.
Just say it.
I don’t understand what you are saying.
You aren’t saying it!
(Incoherent singing)
You alone understand what you are saying.
Blow it very well
(Coughs)
Blow it
(Coughs)
Blow it
I am blowing it.
Blow it very well.
It’s coming out.
I am blowing it.
It’s coming out.
It’s going back.
Blow it,
I am blowing it.
It’s coming out.
I’ve caught it.
Bring it.
Give it to me; it’s mine.
Bring it.
It’s mine.
I was the one who caught it. Give it to me.
It’s mine.
Abiona
Eniafe, what’s the matter?
Eniafe wants to cheat me by claiming seniority.
Is it that I want to use seniority or you want to cheat me?
I was the one who caught the grasscutter.
Was that so?
How did it happen?
Dad, don’t mind him.
I was the one who set the trap.
He only gave a helping hand.
It’s not something you can take full ownership.
Whether it is for one person or both, it will be resolved.
This is what I will do.
I will take it home for you,
toast and prepare it and thereafter share it equally between you.
(Humming)
Eniafe,
Come,
did you think I was going to support you?
Don’t you know it’s a bad thing if I support you?
People would say it’s because you are my child.
Besides, the better option is for both of you to have an equal share.
It’s not good for a person to take full possession.
Smile
I already know what I will do.
Let me make a promise to you.
Grandpa will go hunting for you and help you to bring a surprise.
The surprise will be so big that you will have to give a portion out.
Drop this.
You, bring it.
Pick your cutlass.
Go ahead of me, and stop fighting.
Hope you’ve heard.
Abiona, it’s not good to fight.
I would not have instructed that you should be invited if you had fought the other day.
(Screams)
This is not about money.
You must pay with a whole human being.
Each time evil looms over your children,
the White-crested Helmet shrike will make chattering calls.
Meanwhile, it will not keep quiet.
Whenever evil looms over your children,
theWhite-crested Helmet will make chattering calls, and won’t keep quiet.
Yeah
I don’t understand.
No!!!
The same place.
Yes, I’m on that land, but I can’t see any entrance.
I am beside the fence.
The land is stretched.
(Honk honk)
Oh Lord!!!
Olamiju, sorry.
How many time have I warned you against late night movement?
You are not obedient. I don’t like it.
Is there anything wrong in going to club?
Rather, we should be thanking God that it is this minor.
I had to go back to the police station where I reported.
How come would the club guards allow people to bring gun into the club?
They have to explain.
Ajoke,
(Screams)
you are not suspicious.
I was not suspicious.
It is the stick thrust into a rat that knows what the internal structure of a rat looks like.
It is the stick thrust into a fish that knows the internal structure of the fish looks like.
Are you here because of my world that is about to fall apart?
That makes you know that the rain that is about to fall wants to fall on my home?
Yes
That is the reason we are here.
The drizzling of rain does not solve the problems of those experiencing drought.
We already know that we shall also be the one to solve any riddle we bring.
Yes
Madam,
it is a must, at this juncture, that you bury Bisade.
Wherever he may be,
all he needs to do is to collect ekuru from the mystical being.
How is that possible?
You are instructing me to go and bury the one I have not seen.
Madam
Yes
Truly, you may not see him,
but there’s something our fathers do in such a situation as this.
My mother
Yes
What kind of meat is this?
It is African giant rat.
There are two species of it.
Grasscutter and cane rat
What is grasscutter?
Grasscutter is the species that runs out of its run way
when hunted in its burrow.
Sometimes, when it hears the footsteps of cows,
it will run out of its burrow.
The burrow?
Eniafe,
it’s bad table manner to talk while eating.
Why?
It is because one can aspirate pepper.
I have always told you that talking while eating is a bad habit.
My father.
You are welcome, grandpa.
You are welcome.
Come join us.
Thank you.
Is that not pounded yam?
Yes, it is.
Eniafe
This is an antelope; your favourite.
I brought it from farm.
Thank you, grandpa.
You shall live long, sir.
See!
Let me go and hang it above the local stove so it can be smoked.
What did I say?
So it could be smoked.
Get it thoroughly smoked.
Eniafe
Thank you. May you live long for us!
Thanks
Continue with your food.
Are you now happy?
You know I promised you that you would eat enough bushmeat till you won’t feel like eating anymore.
You should henceforth not wrestle game with anyone.
Hope you heard me.
Help me to cut this meat.
Mummy,
with all due respect, ma;
you’ll have to give me a cogent reason
why you want to celebrate Bisade’s burial.
Olapeju
Ma
Which one comes first between a cart and a horse?
No matter how long a still born may live
that his age will ever be able to match his parents’ age.
Look here! I am your mother.
Mummy,
this is not a matter of argument whether you are my mother or not.
Truly, you are my mother.
You are my mother,
but Bisade is my husband.
He is not your child.
Meanwhile, I know my husband is not dead.
Even, at that;
if anything will happen, the decision is mine to make, not yours.
It is a pity.
Meanwhile, my effort has been towards good.
My effort is to ensure things become good.
Okay Mummy
Look here; don’t leave.
The mother who doesn’t pray to lose her pregnancy
won’t pray to lose her child.
All I am after is for things to be good.
Mummy, obviously, you have got no cogent reason to tell me.
If you decide to go ahead with this burial,
I’m not going to be a party to it.
You want to bury Bisade, the one whom you don’t know if he is still alive or dead.
(Screams)
My sister.
Was I the one she walked out on?
Thank you; I’ve heard you.
It’s alright.
Mummy, please keep calm.
It’s alright; what would I do?
But, I want us to...
Kindly do not feel offended.
I want us to think about this matter very well.
Olapeju has got her point;
just that she might not have presented it properly.
I want us to examine this matter critically.
Mummy,
let’s think of what people will say if we celebrate it.
I mean...
All of you slept and faced the same direction.
Are you much concerned about what people will say
or what is about to happen.
It’s a pity that you don’t see.
If you see, you won’t be talking this way.
It is a dog that can see mystical things that barks in the night.
It is he who sees mystically that gets scared.
You are not suspicious,
and you don’t sense any suspicion.
The race is for a dam and her foal.
You are not suspicious.
You! What happened on your way home?
You are not suspicious, and you don’t sense any suspicion.
Olamiju,
you would have been buried
if not for prayers and your deceased father.
Meanwhile, you are not suspicious, and you do not sense any suspicion.
Storm is thereby raging;
sweeping rivers away.
Wind is blowing, and it’s about blasting coconut.
You are not suspicious, and you don’t sense any suspicion.
The White-crested Helmet shrike is chattering.
It’s chattering!!!
Yet you are not suspicious and do not sense any suspicion.
This is death.
My son, this is death.
The sword of death is swinging.
You are not suspicious and do not sense any suspicion.
You are letting me to suffer.
Mummy
You are letting me to suffer.
Mummy
You are letting me to suffer.
Mummy
please because of God.
We can’t let you to suffer.
We can’t.
My head!
A world of suffering.
You can’t suffer.
A world of shame.
You can’t suffer.
You can’t suffer shame.
You don’t understand.
You can’t suffer.
Mummy, okay.
(Screams)
May God not allow me walk a wrong path.
This suffering is much.
Pains!
Mum
Don’t let me experience death.
As the matter is, we are at a crossroad
How can that affect us?
I am confused.
How should such a matter have something to do with us?
What’s the connection between Bisade and our family?
I just want to know.
Mummy!
Please, tell us.
Mummy, please tell us
how Bisade’s burial is connected to our lack of suspicion.
Let us know;
we don’t understand and we are confused.
The happenings around are responsible for the steps I took.
Meanwhile, you are not suspicious.
Woman,
Well done, on the endurance of your demise husband.
Thank you.
The Almighty God shall take care of your child.
Amen
The Almighty God shall help you to take care of the children
Amen.
Saying amen is not enough.
You will be the one to take preventive measures
so that you will not be burying your children one after another.
Why?
Why did you say that, sir?
I don’t understand.
Did your husband not tell you he was a member of a cult?
Cult my foot?
(Exclamation)
My husband never told me he was a member of any cult.
He was only a member of social clubs.
(Exclamation)
There’s no other thing.
A child who knows how to wash his hands
will dine with elders.
Your husband did and dined with the elders.
He enjoyed generational and trangenerational riches.
Please, I don’t understand all that you are saying.
What does it mean?
Kindly explain to me.
We were meant to conduct your husband’s burial,
but we learnt the family refused.
He was my husband,
so why would you be the ones to conduct his burial?
How do you mean?
It implies you will need to sacrifice a child.
(Screams)
Please!!!
Please, I beg you;
if it’s about the corpse,
I have got nothing to do with it.
it’s over there for you to exhume.
Taboo!
he has already been buried.
It is no more useful for us.
Please, sir; look at me.
You’ve got children of my age.
Please
You will lose children till the world will pity you.
Please, here I am prostrating before you,
kindly name your price and I will pay.
It was your father.
It was your father who made a covenant.
You are to be used for redemption.
Nobody delights in losing anything precious.
Nobody wants his home to become desolate.
The one who has got two hundred children
does not pray to lose any.
Talk less of me just having a few.
I want Bisade to pay for your redemption.
Bisade is the item for atonement.
Bisade is the item for the sacrifice.
I want to use Bisade to atone for all of you.
Yes, it is.
If somebody does not pay, others will not live.
Meanwhile, you are not suspicious, and you don’t sense suspicion.
Your father has implicated me.
He caused it and left me.
I know nothing about this.
and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
Our brother, Bisade,
we loved you, but Jesus loves you more.
Sleep on, on your savior’s bosom.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen
Please, let me see my husband’s face.
(Sobbing)
Ahhhh!
I didn’t suspect on time and I was not suspicious.
That which he refuses to do, he will do by force.
He will enter into that ground by force, sleep therein and snore.
Over to you.
Goodnight
He will enter into that ground by force, sleep therein and snore.
When you get home, give him this to drink.
By the time he would have drunk it for three days, he will be well.
I understand.
for three days, he will be well.
Thank you, sir.
You are welcome.
You shall always be there for us.
Here we are.
We are the ones that do exploits.
Here we are.
We are the ones that do exploits.
We are the ones giving the world,
contemporary beats.
(Incoherent speech)
Here we are.
We are the ones that do exploits.
Here we are.
We are the ones that do exploits.
We are the ones giving the world,
contemporary beats.
Good day, sir
Good evening
You are welcome.
Please
don’t give me money
In fact
don’t build a house for me.
Just show me mercy and forgive me.
It’s your pardon that I request.
It is not a good thing to run mad for twenty years
Kindly show me mercy.
Please, I beg you.
Larinka, you have started causing troubles again.
You’ve started.
Please say it this moment before my insanity comes again.
Please just say “I forgive you”
Please be fast about it.
(Incoherent utterance)
He will get well at the appropriate time.
Sir
(Incoherent singing)
Sir
for all your efforts at all times
and present you this little gift.
All thanks to God.
Amen
Let’s go.
Thanks
The wanderer is full of troubles.
Sir
I need to salute you for all your efforts.
Thank you.
Be careful over there.
Black witches
the matter now concerns you.
It is not every matter that doesn’t directly affect you
that you will not interfere.
You need to rescue me.
Madam,
you have come to the right source
and you are bound to be rescued.
I guess his name is Bisade.
Two hundred people call him
and yet pretends as if he does not hear.
Have those people calling him stopped
He will answer us
The day a small rat pays visit to a big bird,
is the day it will die.
Bisade
(Screams)
Help me
(Screams)
My husband
I’m in trouble.
Taboo
(Exclamation)
This is Bisade’s spirit.
What else?
Who can’t we send on errands?
Even if he had appeared in his creation,
we will still send him on errands.
It is the same spirit of his that has appeared
that we will send back to him to go and ruin his life.
Help me to ruin him.
Place it around his neck.
Stop it!
(Incantations)
I am not ready to die
and I will not die.
(Incantations)
You have just lied.
(Incantations)
Oriyomi
My husband.
Your head will not habour evils.
(Incantations)
She has arrived.
Mum,
what is Bayodele doing here?
Olapeju
How dare you?
Is that how to greet one’s mother.
Don’t be annoyed, ma.
Good afternoon.
What is going on with you?
Olapeju
I am not happy at all.
If I say I am,
then I will be deceiving you.
What’s the matter?
It is often said if a man divorces a woman,
she gets married to another man.
When a husband dies
it is another that one marries.
Don’t put me to shame.
Do not allow the wicked to get at me through you
or mock me through you.
Is it good
for you to live as a single parent?
You are no longer a child.
We all grow.
This was not the way you were last year.
Mayodele,
thank you.
You shall not be put to shame.
I really appreciate you.
Because if you don’t love my daughter,
you would have abandoned us.
Thank you!
Peju
I am your mother.
I can’t lead you in a wrong direction.
I can’t instruct you to enter a ditch.
Please, this is the reason I have invited you.
Both of you should marry each other,
and start a new life.
Hope you have heard me.
Mummy,
Yes Love.
that won’t be possible.
Why?
At least, you were not the one who got Bisade for me.
I saw him and I got married to him.
When it is time for me to re-marry,
God will give me my rightful husband,
but it can never be Bayodele.
Calm down now!
Olapeju
Mummy, have you seen what I was talking about?
Bayodele, go home.
She is my daughter.
I gave birth to her.
She sucked my breast.
She will go in the direction that I instruct
Kindly go home.
You will hear from me before the sun sets today.
I will be on my way.
You shall grow old.
You shall not be put to shame.
Thank you, very much.
(Exclamation)
This lady doesn’t know what is at stake.
It is the stick thrust into a fish
that knows what the internal organs look like.
Yes
I have done it.
I have taken steps.
I have taken steps that I might get a solution.
But, it’s this girl.
Olapeju
She is the one that wants to disrupt everything.
She wants to scatter everything.
And I’m afraid.
Well-done!
Thank you.
The learned man.
My husband
Oriyomi
Thanks to my Creator.
You are now well.
Please, how did I get here?
Daddy; come over.
Mum
Dad
Thanks to God
Take it easy.
My father.
We thank God
The learned man!!
The battle won shall never rise again.
My father
(Riddles)
Sir, you are elderly;
how did I get here and who are you?
Good day
Hold on, let me explain to you.
No!!!
Temidun, I understand.
A young witch who eats elephants
Should I knock?
Knock
Oriyomi
(Riddles)
My husband.
My father
My husband.
Have mercy on me.
Kindly open the door.
My father;
open the door.
It’s I, Eniafe.
Oriyomi, open the door.
Open the door.
The learned man
It’s I, the one whom you said was elderly.
(Exclamation)
If you come closer!
Oriyomi
Please
I will kill myself
We won’t come closer.
Get me a phone.
(Screams)
My father, go and get a payphone operator.
Please, learn to retreat each time you approach.
I am already retreating.
Ajadi
Take
What was the duration?
It was just a little.
Funbi’s mother
What’s the matter?
Please, quickly give us your phone,
we want to quickly use it in the learned man’s house.
So, you expect me to leave my kiosk.
You don’t even know what is going on.
Make it snappy; else things will scatter.
Will you triple your bill?
I wouldn’t mind even if it is quadrupled.
Close your kiosk and let’s go.
I don’t have any child.
Oriyomi; have mercy on me.
We agreed on triple payment.
What’s this nonsense about?
I say bring the phone.
Have it.
Oriyomi
(Screams)
Don’t say anything further.
Oriyomi, look into my eyes.
Move away.
Madam, it’s Bisade.
Bisade
(Screams)
Bisade!
My Bisade!
Bisade, it’s the law enforcement agents that have come to rescue you.
Come out.
My husband
Police officer.
You see…
Hold it!
Let’s first get the one we have come to rescue
Temidun
Oriyomi
My father
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
The law enforcement agents are here to rescue you.
Come out! Come!
Please!
I don’t know them.
My father
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
Oriyomi, why not take your child.
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
I don’t know them.
Oriyomi
My father
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
(Screams)
My father
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
My father
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
Please, don’t let them kill my daughter.
Please!
Please, do not allow them take my father away.
Let’s give thanks to God,
but how did you get to the village?
Meanwhile, we were everywhere searching for you.
I don’t also understand.
What’s all this about?
I feel we should take this man back to the hospital to see the doctor,
because he sounds incoherent.
What do you mean by that?
What are you insinuating.
What do you mean,what am I trying to insinuate? Can’t you see?
No, make it make sense to me!
Does he make sense to you?
(Uproar)
Quiet
What is happening to you is not what is happening to me.
We are not in alignment.
Is this the next thing?
When mummy comes back, we’ll go to our house.
Which house?
Won’t we go to our house?
Are you alright?
(Argument)
There is a critical condition.
The one we were looking for is now back.
So, begin to perform the necessary rites.
Start now.
(Palpitation)
My father.
Yes
My father.
Yes
Why not let the day break before you embark on the journey?
My father, it’s good we go at this time.
You know we don’t know the exact place we are going,
and we have never been to Ibadan,
but if we can set out on time, we may likely get someone that will lead us.
It’s alright.
My Creator shall accompany you, and you shall meet with benefactors.
Amen
Please, I just thought about something.
You stay, while I go.
Let me go by myself.
I know the matter with you. Don’t bother.
I will always call you on Oyafunbi’s phone.
It’s okay.
Are you now at peace?
Yes, I am.
I will also go to her once the day breaks.
You don’t need to do that.
Anytime I call her, I will instruct her to come and give the phone to you.
It’s alright.
My spirit shall go with you.
Grandpa, goodbye.
It’s alright.
You don’t also want to stay with me.
Don’t make me shed tears.
I am not weeping.
Hope you are not weeping too?
Don’t weep.
Meanwhile, I don’t want a situation where you will begin to weep when we are gone.
I am not a kid.
I have heard you.
I am not weeping.
I have heard.
You’ll also need to take care.
Each time you need to get anything done,
I’ll call Silifa to come and do it for you.
-You keep waving your hands like an unfortunate person-
-It shall be well with you for coming through that direction-
You are welcome.
All thanks to God.
Thanks
How should I sell?
Sell N100 worth of rice.
How many pieces of meat?
He doesn’t eat meat.
Permit him to eat me.
He doesn’t eat meat because of his teeth.
Do you have fish?
There is no fish.
Thanks.
Should I serve you sachet water or table water?
Serve me sachet water.
How should I sell to you?
My mother, come and eat.
I am not hungry yet; just continue to eat your food.
Please, do you know Yeye?
The one who sells cloths or the one who sells alcohol?
How many are they?
We’ve got up to 50 here in Ibadan.
You will need to identify the one you are looking for.
The one I’m talking about is very rich.
None of them is poor. They are all persons of influence.
In fact, if God blesses me today, I will name myself “Yeye”
Hope you are not talking about Yeye Fernandez?
Because she is the most influential of them all in Ibadan.
The one I’m talking about has got nothing to do with fan.
Kindly give me my balance.
Who is the person that is cheating you and at the same time oppressing you?
Bring such mater to “Equality” tonight.
You are welcome, ma.
Thank you, sir.
You are welcome.
I want you to narrate the whole events to the listeners just as you narrated it to me.
Please, show me mercy.
Meanwhile, I have heard that the citizens of Ibadan are very good.
Thank you.
Do have mercy on me.
It was Madam
She brought the law enforcements agents to take my husband away.
What was your husband’s offence?
I don’t know.
This is my child.
This is our matrimonial child.
Do not allow anyone to cheat me.
This is another pregnancy for which my husband is responsible.
That which we heard about Madam recently
is different from that which you are saying.
We only heard about her missing son-in law who was found.
Can you defend this if you see her face to face?
If she promises not to assault me.
He is my husband.
Kindly do not allow her to oppress me.
We shall invite Madam Fernandez.
So she can come and confront this woman.
Let her come so we can resolve this amicably.
What is your husband’s name?
Oriyomi
I sometimes call him Eniafe’s father.
What’s your own mane?
My own name is Temidun. Inaolaji.
From which town have you come?
Ajebamigbe, beside Osun State.
Yes
So, you will return to Osun tonight?
(Sobbing)
Kindly restore my husband to me.
(Sobbing)
Hold it; nobody is allowed to sob here.
She wants to oppress us.
It’s alright.
She is oppressing us.
You can take your leave.
(Sobbing)
Get up.
Who is she?
Who is that person?
What nonsense?
That’s rubbish.
You need to hear what she said on the radio,
that which everybody is posting on the social media.
She said terrible things.
Meanwhile, people are beginning to believe what she said.
They want to stylishly lead you into a deserted land.
You will now be the one to lead them there.
You! You have got no madness.
It is the stick that is thrust into a fish
that knows what the internal organs look like.
Cult members, I have come to enjoin and beg you.
Let’s take things easy.
Let’s be patient because of this lady that is uttering nonsense,
because nothing must happen to Bisade.
We will be suspected and everything we have covered shall be unveiled.
Let’s exercise patience.
Let’s take things easy.
Thanks
I’m very grateful.
Hello, SAN
Appearances
With the kind permission of our lordship,
I have the permission of the Attorney General,
to prosecute this matter before this honourable court.
I am Professor Olayinka Ainlabi,
a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, representing the state,
With me are Richard Akinola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria;
Samuel Akinjide Olaiya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.,
Saheed Animasaun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria;
David Akintunde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria;
Joseph Olafore, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria;
and Thomas Coker, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
My lord.
Before we proceed,
I want to recognize the presence of a Legal Luminary in our midst;
in a person of Professor Olayinka Akinlabi.
My professor, you are welcome.
Thank you, My lord and I am highly honoured, thank you.
Let’s proceed.
My lord, I am Olojede Felix Abegunde from Legal Aid Council.
I am appearing for the accused persons.
Thank you, my lord.
Yes.
My lord, the case is for hearing and we are ready.
My lord, we are ready as well, and we have two witnesses.
Yes.
Mrs. Temidun
Don’t weep before the judge.
Just explain everything intricately that you know
about this matter to this court.
Thank you.
Look here; Oriyomi is my husband, and this is his first child.
Eniafe, is this not your father?
He is my father.
Likewise, he is the one responsible for this pregnancy.
He wants to cheat me.
Oriyomi is my husband.
Oriyomi, why don’t you say something?
Oriyomi, my husband.
He is my husband.
Please; have mercy on me.
Thank you.
Any cross examination?
Yes, my lord.
Woman
In the Yoruba land, whenever you meet somebody for the first time,
it is expected you ask of the person’s name.
Did you ask of his name the first time you met him?
Ask him!
I could not even explain what the matter with him was;
possibly he was attacked or was involved in an accident.
All I knew was that he was in a pool of blood.
So, I was there to assist him;
but he was unconscious as at the time I asked of his name.
Oriyomi, why can’t you talk?
Look at the way you are subjecting me to mockery.
Woman;
which implies you took advantage of his condition
to have sex with him.
(Exclamation)
Yes, it was.
Oriyomi, this is much.
Me!
He was the one who proposed to me.
In fact, I initially didn’t want to accept his proposal.
Kindly ask him.
So you accepted the proposal
without knowing where he was coming and the kind of person he was.
You accepted his proposal when you could not even identify him with anybody.
But, he knows my family members.
Don’t you know my father?
That will be all for now.
(Sobbing)
Yes
My lord, permit me to call on Inaolaji, who is a witness.
That’s my father.
My father.
Go on
Mr. Inaolaji
Dad, it’s here. Come over.
No
It’s not there.
He said it not there.
Mr. Inaolaji.
What is your relationship with this woman?
Thank you.
You see, that woman you are seeing is my daughter.
I am her father.
My lord, I have got no other thing to say.
Thank you.
Yes, my lord.
Man
As elderly as you are,
why didn’t you discourage your daughter from taking advantage?
You know, just as I said earlier, she is my daughter and she cannot lie.
She didn’t take advantage of the learned man.
Hope you can hear me.
She didn’t take advantage of the learned man.
He is her husband.
Can a woman take advantage of her husband?
Truly, we didn’t know anything about him
nor did we know any of his relatives.
But all we knew was one day shall be one day….
This day is now the day.
Meanwhile, you know you are elderly.
Yes
Sir, why didn’t you inform the law enforcement agents about this;
that you accepted him without knowing his origin?
Thanks
Our village is far from town.
Meanwhile, commercial vehicles only come from our village to town once in a week.
Once a week?
Yes
Is it because vehicles come to your village once in a week
that you held a whole human being captive for many years?
We didn’t hold him captive.
My lord, we didn’t hold him captive.
My lord.
that will be all.
I believe this is just a case of the rich oppressing the poor.
The witness may step down.
What did she say?
She said you could go back to your seat.
Dad, take care.
This is where you will kill me.
Madam Temidun
Yes, ma’am.
Do you have a word to add or subtract?
Thank you ma’am.
Please, I just want to plead with you.
Do not allow my kind gesture towards Oriyomi to boomerang.
If this turns out to boomerang, our citizens will no longer show kindness.
Kindly inquire; he is my husband.
Oriyomi, my husband; you shall not be bewitched.
This case is hereby adjourned to the 20th of October, that is, next month.
As your lordship pleases.
My lord, this is the result from the psychiatrist
that shows that Bisade had retrograde amnesia
That’s the reason he could not recollect what happened in the past.
Therefore, I will like to present this to the psychiatrist
so he could verify what I tender before you is genuine.
Thank you my lord.
This is the right report, my lord.
No objection my lord.
So this is marked “Exhibit Two”.
As your lordship pleases.
Thank you my lord.
Yes
My lord, this is the DNA report from the Doctor
that conducted it for Eniafe and Bisade.
It reveals that it is 99.9% positive.
My lord, I want the Doctor to examine it so he can verify that result
I am presenting is the same as the one generated.
Please, go on.
I confirm this to be the result I brought before my lord.
No objection my lord.
This is marked “Exhibit Three”.
As your lordship pleases.
Thank you my lord.
From the submission of both the Prosecuting Council and the Accused Council.
And also based on the available facts before me, this is my judgment.
We have the evidence that Bisade Awofe
is truly the father of Eniafe, especially with the evidence marked “Exhibit three”,
which is the DNA result that is before this court.
Because of this, this court orders that you,
Bisade Awofe, should take full responsibility for Eniafe.
However, the accused person, Temidun Inaolaji,
must keep distance from Bisade Awofe,
and must henceforth have nothing to do with him anymore.
As your lordship pleases.
I rise!
Court!
You
Dad
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
Oriyomi!
He is my husband.
Temidun, look here!
Leave my house is not the same as leave the earth.
Leave my house, can never be same as leave the earth.
Oriyomi!
Dad
Oriyomi!
(Sobs)
Oriyomi, this is not good.
The Yorubas will say,
“If an evil man explains a matter, it will not be judged by an evil man”.
Babe, I want you and me
to think about this matter deeply and psychologically.
Do you know that all that the elderly man said
was in no way different from all that the lady said?
Alright, let’s leave that aside.
Babe, whether you like it or not,
that boy is your carbon copy.
Babe, calm down.
You see; apart from that,
it is worth pondering over everything the little Eniafe said.
Even, if the elders were deceptive,
that little child couldn’t have had such a spirit.
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
(Palpitations)
Darling!
Yes!
I have also been thinking about it, but…
Damn it!
Please, don’t “but” me.
Don’t let me lose my sanity.
I have lived with you for a very long time.
There is hardly anything I don’t know about you.
Babe,
if there is no insider, no stranger can know the sepulcher of a blind man.
Babe,
think deep.
Calm down!
Look at me!!! I’m right here.
Okay.
It’s okay.
Look;
there is no time wasting.
No time to bend for a man who has just swallowed a mortar.
So, what do we do now?
Madam, Bisade is no longer useable.
Why?
Because he’s already got a child.
So, why should we stand here to keep wasting efforts?
If that be the case,
then you can kill his child, so he can be made childless once again.
I am grateful! I am grateful!! I am grateful!!!
Whatever is covered will surely be exposed someday.
Has our deed not been exposed now?
I am ridiculed and put to shame.
A man who doesn’t do a shameful thing will never be put to shame.
We have done a shameful thing and we are now put to shame.
I have accepted my fate.
Instead of bringing good tidings into this town, it was evil that we brought.
We shall soon be relocating from this town.
The Village Head has instructed that we vacate.
(Exclamation)
Why the exclamation?
Yes, it is.
He is the Authority over the land and can do as he pleases.
(Exclamation)
The only thing we can do now is to begin to pack gradually.
Ah!
Look at where my life has just ended.
The very town I was born.
This is how far you have brought me.
I have accepted my fate.
(Sobs)
Bisade; foremost, I want you to help me to appreciate your wife.
I know if not for her, Madam wouldn’t have let go.
Hold it!
If she had wanted to follow my thoughts,
that lady should have been left imprisoned;
but leave that aside
Why are you here?
From where have you come?
My name is Awolowo.
Temidun and I were the ones who took care of you till you got well.
In fact, her efforts were much.
Do we talk about prayers?
Praying naked or all the efforts?
If not for her efforts,
you would have been made a ransom.
Made a ransom!
Yes!
The same person that helps you
is the same person that wants to use you as ransom.
Madam would have used you as a redemptive sacrifice.
Madam!
What nonsense are you talking about?
How would Madam do that?
The same person that takes care of me!
How could that be?
She’s got power and authority.
Her power is responsible for your wife’s serial stillbirths.
I know this is aimed at fulfilling prophecy,
because it had been foretold that destiny would bring you to our town.
I am here because of my son who offended you about twenty years ago,
who wanted to use you for rituals,
but your Creator made him to lose his sanity.
Let’s just thank the Creator.
Amen.
Thank you.
This trouble is much.
My destiny, why do you give me much trouble?
Kindly recollect all that is being said.
(Exclamation)
You will need to give me a cogent reason
why you want to celebrate Bisade’s burial.
It’s a pity.
Meanwhile, I am only doing this for good.
I don’t understand all these.
You have just been talking about destiny
which has brought me much trouble. It’s just been troubling me.
Don’t injure yourself.
We have just brought this token.
Let us give all thanks to God.
Brother!
Neighbours!
Brother!
Neighbours!
Father!
Brother!
Neighbours!
(Exclamation)
Thank you.
Temidun, thank you.
I can recollect; thank you.
Eniafe, don’t be offended.
I didn’t know; don’t be offended.
Eniafe, there are three lessons in the poem I taught you.
Firstly, you must not be gluttonous.
It is not good not to have savings.
The second lesson is like the first which is contentment.
So it is, my father.
Repeat it so I can know if you’ll recollect.
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
A glutton will eat little like a rat.
Anyone who lacks contentment.
Shall end up losing everything.
Contentment is very important.
Thank you, Eniafe.
Don’t be annoyed; I will make amends.
Don’t be annoyed with me.
(Sobs)
Oriyomi!!!
(Incantation)
May you get well!
So shall it be.
May your health be restored!
May you get well!
So shall it be.
May your spirit get you restored!
So shall it be.
(Sighs)
Sir,
Yes
this young man isn’t opening his eyes.
But he still breathes. It’s gradual!
Is he breathing?
Yes, daddy!
He is breathing.
All he needs now is for him to regain consciousness.
He is breathing very well.
Father!!!
Temidun.
My father, come!!!
What’s the matter?
He has opened his eyes.
(Exclamation)
He survived it.
He has survived.
Take care.
Please, what is your name?
What is the name?
Name!
Yes! He’s asking you your name.
Your name and your citizenship.
Where is your home town?
Your name!
(Exclamation)
This is the one we should be calling “Oriyomi (Destiny delivered me).”
Oriyomi!
His experience was terrible.
It was indeed terrible.
It was terrible.
(Sobs)
Sir, you have just been talking about my destiny.
What kind of destiny is that?
Should my destiny implicate Madam?
The one who has been taking care of me.
She picked me up and made me a person of influence.
To the extent that an expensive airplane crashed because of me.
You are now saying it is my destiny.
What type of destiny is that?
You don’t understand.
Anyone who wants to use another for ransom
should not be pitied no matter what he loses.
Where are we really heading?
Where?
How long will it take you to do nonsense?
When will you show action?
It’s today.
It will be good that you take things easy.
We shall terminate them today.
We shall bewitch and hyptotise them.
Both bewitchment and hypnotism carry out the same function.
I invoke the two today.
I invoke you because of Temidun Inaolaji and Eniafe, Bisade’s son.
I invoke you because of these two.
Let them get bewitched and hypnotised wherever they are.
My mother.
My mother, what are you doing?
My son,
that which is what will aid my death.
It does not please me to leave you,
but my father is aged and I want you to be his companion.
There is no idol like mother.
Mother is a child’s second god.
Wherever you go,
I will follow.
Oriyomi.
(Incantation)
(Sobs)
Oh you land, rise and swallow them quickly.
The day destiny favours
What’s idol doing?
What’s idol doing on the day destiny favours?
I know it’s for destiny not to fail,
because I had been told that destiny would bring you to our town
so you could be able to forgive my son, Larinka, who offended your Creator.
Larinka,
I have forgiven you.
I have forgiven you all you ever did to me from the bottom of my heart,
and I believe my Creator has also forgiven you.
You forgave me from the bottom of your heart!
Lord, thank you.
(Uproar)
Which Inaolaji?
(Uproar)
Give me water.
Don’t enter, sir.
Where is my wife?
Your wife and your child are inside the fire.
The one who tries his best possible should know it takes destiny to succeed.
There is no idol that can bring success without destiny.
It’s only one’s destiny that assures success.
It takes destiny to be able to ride on horseback.
It takes destiny to become a person of influence in the society.
It’s destiny that ensures success before any support from any idol.
Is her number still not going through?
Calls have just been dropping.
Is this where you are?
I have been trying Madam’s number, but she has not been picking.
Her number has not been going through.
Have you also seen the bird?
What bird? What concerns me with a bird?
Was that which she did right?
(Screams)
The evil bird has arrived.
(Incantation)
(Screams)
My enemies do not want to take it anymore.
(Screams)
My leg!!!
(Screams)
What is this?
Somebody help!
One is survived by his children.
A child is more valuable than money.
I am grateful.
(Eulogy)
The one who is content will eat like an elephant.
Your Royal Highness, that’s a taboo.
Bats don’t walk but fly.
You are a king,
and should no longer be walking barefoot like ordinary men
You can now ride on the horse to the throne to be crowned.
Yeye wanted to kill me by all means.
She dug a big ditch that I might fall in.
The artiste warned me,
but I wasn’t suspicious.
My destiny crashed an aeroplane and hid my sanity
so I won’t become prey of the three evil men.
My destiny hid me because of the evil day.
My destiny, thank you for not habouring evils.
A glutton will eat little like a rat.
Anyone who lacks contentment.
Shall end up losing everything.
Contentment is very important.
(Laughter)
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