Auntie!
Auntie! Armaah and Yaw Adjei have been arrested! And that was voice of Anita
calling Mrs. Yeboah at 5:48am. “They were taken to Labadi Police Station” Anita
continued. “What happened?” Mrs. Yeboah
demanded. “Auntie, they were busted by the community vigilante when they were
emptying their bowels at the big gutter across the street.” And that was Anita’s
response. At 3:27pm, Mrs. Yeboah went to the police station to visit his kente
weavers who were behind bars. The Police Officer in charge of the station asked
Mrs. Yeboah to pay some amount of money before her employees could be granted a
bail but she declined. She told her workers that she doesn’t have money, so she
can only bail them the following day. Mrs. Yeboah was insincere. As a well to
do businesswoman, she could afford to bail them but she wanted her kente
weavers to be behind bars to learn a lesson.
Growing
up in my village, children were oriented not to empty the bowels anywhere in
the village. A timeless belief that, if you defecate at the back of somebody’s
house or farm and the owner burns it with pepper, tomatoes or garden eggs, the
intestines of the guilty party will burn and he or she will eventually die. It
was and still rare in some villages to see inhabitants to misbehave like that. And what do we see in our cities and towns? Dirt,
choked gutters, stagnant water and people disposing refuse everywhere and
anyhow. I thought city dwellers are assumed to be enlightened, educated, cultured
and urbane?
Armaah
and Yaw Adjei are not the only public - excreting -loving - inhabitants of the
land. Taxi drivers and able men and women are part. As for the taxi drivers,
they just park their cars and head straight to any nearby bush to ease
themselves. If you doubt me, anytime you ply the Accra - Tema Motorway,
Accra-Winneba road or even Achimota forest, just be on the lookout for able men
and women who are freely bombing our motherland with their excretes.
And what is wrong with brothers these days? It
is a sour - sore to see sons of Adam drawing out their one-eyed ebony monsters
to urinate on the streets in day light. Sons of Adam in this day and age just
urinate anyhow and anywhere. My mouth was widely opened when a fine brother in
three piece suit pulled out his coffee coloured nine- millimeter gun and
urinated in front of an office at Circle. Like seriously? So when are these
traders in our various markets going to stop disposing urine in the gutters right
in front of where they sell? Where is
this country heading towards? Gross unruliness!
Please,
let me give you an assignment. Anytime you see a bald-faced son of Adam with
his one- eyed monster urinating at a public place, kindly tell him that his one-eyed
monster belongs to a mother, sister, aunty, fiancée, girlfriend or wife and it
must be kept sacrosanct. Tell him again that, he cannot do this in Germany.
One-eyed monster is not for public viewing! Zip it up Brother!!
Deli.ciouzly Yours,
Akosua
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