Opana – Episode 78

Opana – Episode 78
© Akoto Alexander
Later in the Day:

At the Boss Masion:

Sheikh Nazir: (walks in screaming as the bodyguards tried to stop him and tame him down) I have had enough of this nonsense and I won’t take anymore excuses from you or anyone in this damn house.

The Boss: Trouble you can leave both of us now, I will handle it from here.

Trouble: Okay boss, I will be outside so please if you need anything you can call on me.

The Boss: That’s okay.

Sheikh Nazir: (still screaming) I have had enough of your gimmicks and child’s play Mr man. I spend outrageous amount of money at the hotel am lodging waiting to receive the goods I ordered, those things are not forth coming and my freaking money isn’t also coming. There is a limit to what every rational human being can take and I have had it up to here, I can’t take this nonsense any longer and if……

The Boss: (cuts in) Will you please shut your smelling mouth, you can’t walk into my house and be screaming my roof down with your unpolished English, Karl has made it clear to you that we are all involved in this mess together. The money we invested into this deal is thrice the amount you injected into the deal, I have in several occasions explained to you that you take your time as I try to solve this problem amicably. Shouting and barking like a dog won’t change anything and one thing that I hate so much is for people to walk into my mansion and scream like they are living in the jungle.

Sheikh Nazir: What nonsense, how dare you call me a dog? You have the efontry to insult me and call me names after you duped me of my hard earned money. I am giving you three days, if I don’t get my money or consignment, hahaha Allah walahe, I will show you that am not as soft and sober as you think of me. Infact I will make heads row in this house and I will drink from your skull.

The Boss: (slams his fist on the dining table as he stands up from his seat) Enough of this nonsense you smelling pig, what I won’t take from you is for you to walk into my expensive mansion, insult and threating me infront of my son and maids. For this gross misconduct and disrespect, I will grant you a free visa and ticket to hell (pulls a side arm out and fires three times into the chest of sheikh Nazir)

Trouble: (rushs in) Boss are you okay? I heard the sound of a gunshot in here.

The Boss: I am very okay, clear the mess here and if he came with his bodyguards, make sure none of them walks out of this compound alive. Also make sure you dump them at a place where no one will see you, I mean do a clean job and leave no traces behind. Now get going and do as I have instructed you to do.

Trouble: Consider it done boss.

Back at the Restaurant:

Maabena Boaduwaa: Sorry am late sir, I was stuck in a traffic coming here and also you know the stress you pass through when using a public transport?

Ginola: Its okay my dear, the important thing is that you are here now and we can transact business from here. I have brought the money you charged in cash and in fifty cedis notes. Here you are so can I also get the address and information I need?

Maabena Boaduwaa: (takes the brown envelope and checks through) I hope this money is intact and not fake because am going to give you a genuine information over here.

Ginola: My dear I don’t do fraudulent business and if you check the money, you will realise I even added extra one thousand cedis to it. Where is the waiter even? Am starving he should come and take our order so we eat and talk business at the same time.

Maabena Boaduwaa: (smiling) I love your style of doing business sir. You know what to say and when to say it, I like you for that. Here on this paper is the address of my boyfriend, that idiot is squatting at my boyfriend’s place and he has not made up his mind to move today or tomorrow but I hope you won’t ki*ll him because I don’t want to be part of anything that leads to death?

Ginola: (smiles whiles he speaks in his head) See mumu, you greedy b***h, if you push an old woman where she falls, does it concern you?

Maabena Boaduwaa: Hello! Hellooooo!! Helloooooooo!!! Hey is everything okay with you? You look missing here?

Ginola: Oh forgive me my dear, my mind just took a short trip on a journey where we went through hell trying to get this dude but look at how God has brought him to me through an angel like you. Ah the food is in finally, my dear enjoy your supper so I drop you after we are done eating. You are carrying a huge sum of money on you this evening and you can use part of this money to buy a small car so your movement becomes very easy and smooth.

Maabena Boaduwaa: As if you are in my mind and you know what I intend to do. Ah my boyfriend just sent me a text to come over to his place right now.

Ginola: Not to worry, I will drive you anywhere you want to go this evening just to keep your money safe. I don’t want anything to happen to this money for you to think I doublecrossed you or tricked you.

Maabena Boaduwaa: Of course I will think that way should anything negative happen to me or my money but I believe you are a gentleman and won’t do anything mischievous.

Meanwhile Henrietta Barnor had gone in for the apartment keys he promised Mike of and took him to see the place.

Henrietta Barnor: Sweetheart, this is the place I spoke to you about. Daddy said we can keep it until we decide to move elsewhere or build our own.

Michael Ansah: Bae this place is really nice and cool, I love the serenity of the environment and it’s located at a very vantage place of the city. I promise I won’t let you and your family down because to whom much is given, much is always expected from you. Baby girl, give me six months from now and I will walk you down the aisle and change your name because you have stolen my heart.

Henrietta Barnor: Mike I have a confession to do over here and I pray you don’t get mad at me.

Michael Ansah: Please don’t tell me you don’t want to settle down with me?

Henrietta Barnor: Far from that dear, hmmmm see erh please don’t get mad at me when I open up to you on my past.

Michael Ansah: If only it’s your past and you are no longer living there, I don’t have a problem with that. Everyone has an ugly past and a scare in his or her heart that they are not proud of. I believe what you are about to say is something that happen before you met me right?

Henrietta Barnor: (nods her head in an affirmative way) Mike don’t be scared with what am about to tell you because I trust you that’s why am letting you in on this one because love without trust is meaningless.

Michael Ansah: Now you are really scaring me, do you have any medical record that is making you think I will turn my back on you later in the future? Hell no my darling, I am stuck on you like a super glue.

Henrietta Barnor: Hahahaha I love your assurance baby boy, well to hit the hammer on the nail. I am an undercover agent who works with the Interpol and I was brought back home to help investigate and apprend a notorious drug mogule called Albert Selassie aka The Boss and his partner Karl Simpson who is a Whiteman after he gruesomely murdered my cousin who was an informant to the Interpol. The only way I could penetrate through to him was through his son Albert Selassie Junior, unfortunately I had to lose my virginity to him so that he could open up to me more and lead me to his father but my plans never worked out. I started mounting pressure on him to introduce me to his father as his fiancee but he always had an excuse to give and my superiors were also going hard on me because I had elapsed the time that was given to me to bring them down. Albert thought and believed my story when I told him I was from a very poor family, he really supported me financially but he was so arrogant and full of himself. He didn’t want to introduce me to his father thinking his father will not approve of our relationship and that I was a gold digger.

Michael Ansah: Bae please tell me you are joking with the things you just said? You Henrietta Barnor an undercover agent from the Interpol? Am I safe with you?

Henrietta Barnor: You are very safe my king so don’t be scared.

Michael Ansah: Hmmmmm if you say so I have heard you my expensive jewel, so what else do you have to add to your story that was making you scared of me leaving you or walking away from you?

Henrietta Barnor: That is all my dear, when I was applying for this job my mother was worried and scared because she said Ghanaian men and African men feared women who were in uniform or working with any recognised security service so if you were observant when you came to the house, she was giving you great attention and pampering so that you feel welcomed in our family.

Michael Ansah: Hahahaha then tell her, her tactics has worked out perfectly for her good because am in to stay. (Herty plants a quick kiss on Mike’s lips as they get down to business in the room)

Meanwhile Maabena and Ginola were done with their meal and Ginola paid for it as they left the resturant. He opened the door for Maabena as he drove her to Quincy place, in no time they got there and Maabena ignorantly pointed out the room of her boyfriend to her new found friend. Ginola nodded his head and smiled as he bid Maabena goodnight and drove off, when he was out of sight he parked the car by the roadside to call his boss.

On Phone:

Ginola: Good evening boss.

The Boss: Hello Ginola, how did your meeting go with that lady?

Ginola: Boss it went very well and smooth, I just dropped that greedy b***h at her boyfriend’s place and I mean the very place where we will get those two fools who have been a pain in the neck.

The Boss: Very good my boy, this is the best news I have heard in recent time. After we are done with them, I will reward you handsomely for the good work you have done and I must say am proud of you, hurry up and get home so we map up out our strategy to show those fools the way to hell if only that place is not filled up.

Meanwhile as Trouble and his other colleagues had been stopped by a police patrol team that had mounted a snap check.

Trouble: Guys stay calm and don’t do anything funny that will make this stupid people to suspect us of anything. (rolls he window glass down)

Chief Inspector: Good evening youngman, kindly put your inside light on.

Trouble: (puts the inside light on)No problem officer, please how is your evening going?

Chief Inspector: Ah what can I say, this criminals in this country have decided not to let us rest or possibly spend our evenings with our wives so we serving the country with integrity. If I may ask where are you guys dressed in black suits and white shirts going at this time of the night?

Trouble: Oh officer we are from a church programme, our church is having a very powerful revival inside the Legon university campus. We are junior pastors and this is the dress code for us.

Chief Inspector: Oh that is good, I love it when I see young people serving God diligently. All the same can I see the trunk of your car?

Trouble: (sees Mafia putting his hand in his jacket and immediately he signals him with his eye to stay calm) Oh officer just yesterday morning I had a problem with my trunk lock so opening it has become a problem and because of the revival I have not got time to go and fix it at the service centre.

Chief Inspector: Well since you are men of God, I won’t bother you much but please try and fix it.

Trouble: I will do that tomorrow sir.

Chief Inspector: That is okay, you can go and don’t forget to say a prayer for we the police officers.

Trouble: Certainly sir you know without you gallant men, we can’t sleep at night with our eyes closed.

Chief Inspector: (stops the car as it moves forward a bit) Mmmm man of God, your colleague sitting next to you has not strapped his seatbelt.

Mafia: Oh thank you officer, I forgot to strap the seatbelt on again when I took my phone out of my suit when my wife called to check if am back at the hotel we were lodging. Thank you once again and may the good Lord protect you officers as you continue to protect us.

Constable: (sees blood drops as the car moved forward and raises an alarm) Chief please what did those in the car say they have in the trunk of the car? There is blood drop where the car was first parked.

Chief Inspector: Whaaat? Now everyone should come out of the car and no one should try anything funny.

Mafia unstrap the seatbelt and brings out his side arm to fire at the chief inspector but misses his target. An army officer who was with the patrol team starts to sh00t back with his assault automatic rifle. Unfortunately all the men in the car were gunned down with the exception of Trouble who surrendered earlier on to avoid being shot, he was handcuffed and pushed into the patrol team car for further interrogation and investigations to commence.

Mike’s phone kept ringing over and over but he adamantly refused to answer the call but after a while Henrietta pleaded with him to answer the call.

Henrietta Barnor: Honey please answer the phone for the noise is distracting my attention and mood here, secondly you dont know the reason why the caller is calling continuously and am even tired, you have really been on fire for the past 25minutes and it doesn’t look like you are drawing the curtains down any time soon.

Michael Ansah: Which man in his right senses will get tired servicing this American tundra body? See erh if am given just 2minutes of your time, I will do something memorable to you that will take eternity to forget. Excuse me my dear, Quincy is calling me.

Henrietta Barnor: Okay my regards to him (enters the bathroom to freshen up after that great encounter with Mike).

Quincy: (on phone) Yoo guy where the hell have you been? I have been calling your line since but you have not been answering my calls.

Michael Ansah: Charlie forgive me but you called at the wrong time. Your call has prevented me from ejaculation this evening.

Quincy: See mumu, I have been worried sick over here thinking you were in any kind of trouble or discomfort not knowing you were rather enjoying the pleasure of this earth. Now tell me the name of the lady whom you have decided to paralyze this evening.

Michael Ansah: Massa! Massa!! Massa!!! I dey take God beg you, please dey your track inside quitely.

Quincy: Judging from your statement, I don’t think you will be coming home tonight?

Michael Ansah: You are very right with your statement, I will see you tomorrow God willing and please in the name of God, don’t call me again tonight because I have got some important minerals to drill all throughout the night.

Quincy: Ashawo!!! You, don’t take after me and see if you will get a chance in heaven when the judgement day comes.

Michael Ansah: Apuuuu if I don’t know the northern part of Ghana, then I will take a trip to Zongo to have a fair idea of how the north is. See erh I am busy here so delete yourself from my line and find something useful to do with your life. (cuts the call)

Quincy: (laughs and speaks to himself) What a crazy guy I have as a friend, but hey am proud of the man he is turning into. He must bang all the ladies who comes his way after all life is too short and you only live once. (hears a knock on the door and goes to check)

Maabena Boaduwaa: (with a straight face) You called me to come over, is anything the problem?

Quincy: Ah are you going to stand there and be asking questions? When did it become a crime for me to call my empress so we spend the night together.

Maabena Boaduwaa: Spend the night together? What happens to Mike and where will he sleep this evening knowing you are staying in a single room apartment?

Quincy: (plays smart and tells a lie) You see I told you Mike will move out soon, he is at the verge of doing that and tonight he is spending the night at his new place and putting things together over there.

Maabena Boaduwaa: (hearing that news, pushes Quincy aside, throws his hand bag and the brown envelope which contained the money in one of the sofa’s and starts to undress herself) Follow me to the bathroom Mr man, tonight I will blow your mind with a high voltage that by the time am through with you, you will forget your name and when you were born.

Quincy: (starts to also undress) I love it when you talk silly and saucy, equally that pump you have in between you legs, tonight I will also unscrew it and refix it again for you. You know how I do my thing when you try to be stubborn.

Maabena Boaduwaa: The end will justify who is the king of the bedmatics in this room. It’s going to be a long night and tomorrow is also my off day, hope you have food in this house?

Quincy: No need to worry because you have been covered by insurance, I did some grocery shopping this evening when coming home.

Maabena Boaduwaa: What a reunion it is going to be, play me “KUPE by the late dancehall diva EBONY REIGNS” because tonight you will feel the electricity in me.

Back at Dufie’s House:

Julia: (screams) Oh leave me alone you wicked man, haven’t I delivered your consignment to you? What do you want from me again?

Maame Dufie: (rushes to Julia’s room holding a baseball stick in her hand and puts the light on to help her sister who was screaming for help) Hey leave my sister before I crush your head with this baseball stick. (realises there is no one in the room apart from her sister)

Julia: (wakes up upon the light reflection in the room) Hey what are you doing in my room with a baseball stick in your hand?

Maame Dufie: You were screaming for help so I thought someone was attacking you. Now can you open up to me because you have been acting weird lately?

Julia: Hey I am very okay, it’s just that sometimes the death of my mom gets to me and it brings memories to me. You know I feel bad that I couldn’t give her a grandchild as her only child before she died.

Maame Dufie: That I understand but look at me and tell me if I look like a kindergarten student, when on this earth did giving birth become your greatest priority? See am the only family you have now whether you like it or not, I know you when you are hiding something so you better speak up. Which consignment were you talking about delivering in your sleep talking?

Julia: (gives a surprise face) Did I say such thing?

Maame Dufie: No my late aunty said that, a problem shared is a problem half solved, if you don’t want to confide in the only family member you have then carry your cross alone. When you feel like opening up to me, you know where to find me. (walks out of the room leaving Julia to think)

Julia: (talks to herself) Dufie is not like am self centered but am only taking you out from harms way. You are the only family I have and I can’t risk gambling with your life. The moment I let you in on this secret your life will be in danger, the better you don’t know, the greater you chances of living long. As you said, it’s my cross so I will carry it alone.

Maame Dufie: Please yourself then but I won’t be held accountable to anything negative that happens to you. Sleep well and please in the name of God, don’t repeat your sleep talking again because the things you say scares me. (walks out of the room)

Julia: (talking to herself) Or should I inform Dufie on the thing bothering my mind? No!!! Women can’t be trusted with such classified information, what if she goes around to blackmail me or snitch on me? Women can be jealous for some stupid reasons and do the unthinkable, whatever the matter is, I will keep things to myself and die alone if the need be afterall, my mother who gave birth to me is even dead.

Back at the New Apartment:

On Phone:

Akua Yankey: Kwaku Mike so why are you not answering my calls all this while?

Michael Ansah: Am very sorry mum, I didn’t know you were the caller?

Akua Yankey: Are you listening to yourself? Do you have to know the caller before you answer the phone? Damn!!! This ain’t cool at all son.

Michael Ansah: Hehehe mum are you now slanging on me? Hey my mum has got her swag on. What’s up mum?

Akua Yankey: Am coming down on Saturday with your sister and I don’t want your father to know about it, we want to surprise him and any other person who is aware that we are out of the country so I want you to meet us at the airport so we go to the village together.

Michael Ansah: Oh that is cool but how is my sister doing?

Akua Yankey: She is awesomely well and better than ever. Infact our coming here has yielded positive results and am so happy we travelled to this place. I have a lot of surprises for you my son.

Michael Ansah: Talking about surprises, I have a very big surprise for you and I will come to the airport with that surprise.

Akua Yankey: Mmmm my son am suspecting you ooo, which lady are you coming to meet us with?

Michael Ansah: Eeeeiiii mom, how did you get to know I was coming to the airport with a lady?

Akua Yankey: Have you forgotten I was once like you? I hope she has a good character and from a decent family?

Michael Ansah: Mom she is one in a million, I haven’t met her kind before and she is from a very well respected family. Mom you will fall in love with her the moment you set your eyes on her, I will leave you to pass your judgement when you see her personally.

Akua Yankey: Hmmmm my son is truly in love listening to how you are choosing your words. Am proud of the man you are turning into, I know you have eyes for good things and that you won’t disappoint me. The flight will touch down by 9am Ghana time so please be there on time and if possible, go and rent a car that will convey us to the village.

Michael Ansah: Don’t worry about that mom, I will do as you have said and I can’t wait to see you and my pretty sister at the Terminal 3 Arrival Hall.

Akua Yankey: Okay my son, I have to go now because I have a train to catch. There are some last minute shopping I must do and don’t forget to come over with my prospective daughter-in-law to meet us at the airport. Bye for now (call ends)

To be continued

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