Queen Mother is saying something about giving Iya Monsura time to “think about it.” We’d rather she killed the damned idiot. We that used our whimpering children, are we goats? Iya Monsura woke up one day and came and said she had given her life to you-know-who. We said, okay, no problem. Come and give us all we gave you; the gold, the thriving businesses and that stupid husband. She screamed and began to bind and cast and pour one water like that. We smiled. You see, this life, humans think they’re smart. When she was busy eating our food, she was licking her fingers. When we made her husband’s side chick look like shit in his eyes, she rolled on the floor and called us gods. Now, it’s time to pay her dues, and she suddenly thinks she has sense.

She should go and ask Iya Bukky what we did to her. It is not now that we have calmed down ooo. The foolish woman woke up one day and said darkness and light had nothing in common. The lizard couldn’t even quote it without stuttering. One meeting, Iya Bukky didn’t show up. Two meetings, our coven didn’t feel her feet. We weren’t sure if the averted gaze in church was out of sickness. We didn’t want to conclude that the calls that were never returned were signs of malevolence. The sisterhood decided to pay her a visit. From the first step into their mismatch of a parlour, we knew that our suspicions had become realities. Iya Bukky didn’t even offer us seats. Her little bastard of a son couldn’t even greet. We were incredibly satisfied when he mysteriously died a week later. Nobody told Iya Bukky to re-register.

People think we are wicked people and I blame Nollywood for that. Nobody has ever taken the time to talk about the injustice we too go through. Abi you think we like making people vomit blood just like that? Tell me, what do you do when a dog you picked from the gutters comes for your fingers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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