Kasali woke up that morning angry at his wife, he had come home late the previous night and she refused to give him food. If he hadn’t taken pepper soup and two bottles of beer at the beer palour at the garage, he would have slept with an empty stomach.
He left home without saying anything and he deliberately didn’t drop money for the house upkeep.
“Why would I drop money for a woman that can’t cook for me, always fighting me and can’t even get pregnant?” he said to himself hissing.
He rushed to the garage in his white Toyota Hiace bus. He is on number five on the list of buses to load passengers to Ibadan. Ibadan has always been a busy business spot for bus owners, with its attendant wahala though.
After exchanging pleasantries with his colleagues, he proceeded to the secretariat to greet the chairman as his usual practice every morning.
“My Chair, tuale one million times, ori yin wa n be, chop up! How is the family sir? “
The chairman shook hands with him and asked if has repaired the fault in the engine of the bus, as he won’t allow him to load passengers if he doesn’t fix it. Kasali replied that it was a minor fault and he would fix it himself this morning.
His friend Waliu, popularly called ‘Waliga’ in the garage was waiting for him outside the office, they both went to Mama Binta’s place to drink.
He was drinking and having fun with his friends when he was called it was his turn to load passengers. He rushed towards his bus, even though feeling drunk after taking three bottles of dry gin popularly known as ‘sepe’.
Within fifteen minutes the bus was full because it was a Saturday, always a very busy day, and the journey to Ibadan started.
As he was about driving out of the garage, his wife called him but he refused picking her calls. When she didn’t stop calling and the passengers were shouting his ringtone was disturbing them, he picked and surprisingly his wife started begging him, saying there is something she wants to tell him. He shouted on her and banged the phone.
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