Corruption – Episode 15

Corruption – Episode 15

© Akoto Alexander

Lovia and Cindy’s Room:

Lovia: Girl what you made us do to that youngman was not fair at all?

Cindy: My dear forget that thing. Tell me, in this life what is fair? We being in the house after completing university and doing our National Service and not getting ourselves any proper job, is that one fair? Those old and pot belly men who want to enter in between our legs, is that one also fair? My dear please spare me that sermon you want to preach.

Lovia: Don’t get me wrong girlfriend, all am saying is we took more than the youngman ever imagined. Did you see his face after we were done picking the things?

Cindy: I saw it my dear, he nearly cried and even he started stammering at a point in time.

Lovia: As if that was not enough you requested for him to give you money to buy some other things. Eeeeiiii my sister if you are given a chance to rule Ghana for a day erh, you will milk the state funds dry.

Cindy: Ah but was what he expecting, was he thinking I was coming to take a tin of milk and a loaf of bread only? See erh, opportunity comes in some cases only once so when you get it, you don’t take it ooo but rather you grab it. I intentionally asked you to go with me to the shop because I wanted to do something that will make him run when he sees me coming his way. He has been pestering my life for some time now with love issues and I felt the best way to make him avoid me is to deal with him ruthlessly.

Lovia: Hmmmmm so what is he going to tell his mother now that the shop is almost empty?

Cindy: Ah Lovia paaa, when you push an old lady does where she falls become your problem? My dear let us enjoy the things we used what we have to get. This is Accra where you survive with your head but not your strength. The landlord is my next victim so he should watch out for me because I am coming like kakai as Shatta Wale said in his song.

Lovia: Bae but on a serious note, the things we took will last long for us paa ooo. It would have cost us almost three hundred and fifty cedis if we were to buy it with our own money. I pity that youngman all the same.

Cindy: This is a warning to those guys who have decided not to cut their the coat according to their material. For the landlord, by the time I am through with him all his pension money will be transferred into my accounts. Both father and son want to enjoy something that is expensive than them, they want to enjoy champagne with a palmwine budget. My dear let me start arranging the things into the kitchen cabinet, this evening we will do a very rich tea that bends spoon.

Lovia: Well now that there is sardine, cooking oil, tin tomatoes, spices, rice, sausage, let me rush out and get a few things so I prepare that delicacy I use to prepare in our first year back at the university hostel.

Cindy: I like the sound of that, please take enough money from my purse and get all the ingredients we will need and please make the stew plenty so that we can enjoy for a longer time.

Back at Hon. Nii Nortey’s Office:

Hon. Nii Nortey: (dressing up) Herh Adoma you are a bad girl, if not for the bedmatic experience I havue like you will paralyze me in my own office. Infact you have worked to my satisfaction and for this I will reward you handsomely.

Adoma: (in a saucy voice) Hahahahaha I told you I brought all my arsenals and I was going to fire from all cylinders. Honestly I even didn’t even open all my defense because if I did like by now I would be pouring chilled water on you to revive you from coma. Because this is an office I toned down the tempo.

Hon. Nii Nortey: Mmmm then prepare yourself because this weekend I will be spending it with you in one of the finest resorts outside Accra. This match which just ended goal less must take place again because a winner must be declared at all cost. Adoma I will show you I am a stallion and the leopard doesn’t lose it’s spots when it falls into a river or water. You will see that I am getting old but inside me is a V12 engine.

Adoma: Well we will see who is who when we finally get to the battle grounds. This weekend I am all yours and I would like to caution you to brace yourself well enough because I wouldn’t take any excuses or whatsoever. If you are a stallion I am also the small axe that will chop down your mighty tree. I won’t play the normal 4-4-2 formation again but rather I will play for you the samba and Barcelona formation this time around.

Hon. Nii Nortey: I love it when you talk dirty and saucy sometimes, it pains me that I didn’t see you early so I could make you my wife. My late mother use to say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach but in my case, the way to this man sitting infront of you heart is what you can do in bed. Am yet to meet any woman or lady who can blow my brains with a mindblowing sex, not withstanding that, you are sitting at my number one spot.

Adoma: Eeeeiiii honourable so after all this praises you raining on me, you still want sex from a different source. In the matter of not meeting me early, you can still make me your second wife or your mistress maybe.

Hon. Nii Nortey: My dear my religion kicks aginst polygamy, I can’t just stand up one day and tell my wife that I am taking another wife because she hasn’t faulted in anyway in our marriage. She has given me children and is discharging her duties as a good wife so making you my second wife is a no go area for me. Secondly I am an elder in my church who mounts the pulpit to preach so I must practice what I preach to the church members.

Adoma: So you know all this and you continue to pounce on me as if you own what is in between my legs huh? If you don’t know I don’t want to be a side chick any longer and trust me the semen that you just pumped into me, I will make sure it grows should in case it locks up. You have used your long and heavy thing to drill a hole down there and you are here pretending to be a saint.

Hon. Nii Nortey: Oh Adoma are you now threatening me or this is a blackmail?

Adoma: Call it anything you want, I am tired of chewing postinor 2 and Lydia contraceptives live a chewing gum. I don’t want to seal or destroy my womb whiles you enjoy your life with your wife whole can’t twist her waist but goes round driving in big cars.

Hon. Nii Nortey: Oh so it’s a car you want that is why you are beating about the bush and throwing threats into the air. You I will give you one of the Chevrolet Matiz that an NGO donated to my ministry.

Adoma: Ah honourable, what insult are you trying to dress me with? Check me out very well and tell me if I don’t deserve to be driving Range Rover Verla or a G Wagon Benz? Massa say something reasonable for me to hear and stop pulling my girls. Those small small university girls are even driving Chevrolet Cruze, Honda Civic, Hyundai Sonata and Elantra and you are here mentioning Matiz, I now know you don’t value and have any respect or affection for me.

Hon. Nii Nortey: Hmmmm so is Elantra or Sonata you want? Give me some few months so I buy I from abroad for you. The last time you said your rent is due to expire by the end of this month erh? Take this cheque of twelve thousand cedis, pay your rent and go and do shopping for yourself because you deserve everything good the world has to offer. I will call you so that we plan on our trip to one of the finest resource in the country this weekend.

Adoma: (gives a devilish smile as she walks to the door) I will be waiting for your call and please make sure you are carrying more than enough on you when you call. (closes the door behind her)

Hon. Nii Nortey: (talking to himself) Foolish girl, because I enjoy banging you, you think you can now order me about and tell me what you want and what you don’t want. We shall see if I will allow you come close to me from today. Idiot!!!

Secretary: Madam please are you done with the exclusive interview session with my boss?

Adoma: (smiles shakes her head before replying) Yes we are done with the exclusive interview, thanks for not bothering us during that sensational moment. (walks away)

Secretary: (talking to herself) Eeeiii journalist of today, you are coming to grant an interview and you came alone dressed in a tempting manner with your brea$t heaped like you are going to feed babes in an incubator. Only God knows what went on inside that office.

Ministry of Health:

Hon. Hajia Ramatu’s Office:

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: Oh but this was not the amount we agreed on, why are you bringing this amount before me?

Contractor: Hajia I brought this little amount in cash as the rest has been paid into your account via electronic banking, I am sure the alert will get to your phone anytime soon.

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: (checks her phone) Oh ir is in already but looking at the amount you paid and what I have here in cash, the monies you have given out is more than what we agreed upon.

Contractor: I am very much aware of that Hajia, I was supposed to give money to some of your boys here but since I didn’t know how to go about it, I decided to give it to you so you disburse it for me.

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: You have done well and I am happy you have kept to your word, I must confess that I am pleased with your conduct and I want to assure you that so long as I remain the minister of this sector, we have a deal together.

Contractor: I am happy to hear that honourable, honestly it has been my desire to do a long term business with your ministry and even some other ministries when the opportunity avails itself. I travelled some days back and when coming I decided to buy you this latest version of the iPhone brand. (hands the box over to hajia)

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: (takes a look at it) Ah you are a life saver, it was just yesterday that I was speaking to my driver about this very phone. I wanted one badly and you have blessed me with one. Let me tell you something and put it on record that even if I am reshuffled from this ministry, I will recommend you highly to anyone who takes my place and anywhere I am taken to, you have a business to run with me. I will place a call to the Controller General and the minister on Finance to expedite on your payment. You have really impressed me and I am so happy to do business with you. I believe aside building you do marketing and supplies too?

Contractor: Not yet Hajia, I have been think of venturing into such business but……

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: (cuts in) But what? My friend go and register your company for marketing and supplies purpose because my ministry will get a clearance next two weeks for supplies to be made to all the government hospitals with anti-poison drugs, vaccines for kids, wheel chairs, incubators and a whole lot of things. I will make my secretary print out the things I am talking about so that you start working on the things. The tender process will be observed but I will award the contract to your outfit and I will give you the pricelist you will use when the time comes. Also I will pull some strings which will enable you to clear your things from the harbour without paying the requisite duty charges.

Contractor: Hajia so long as my firm will be awarded the contract and I will get to enjoy some benefits, I don’t have any problem at all.

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: But before we call it a day, I will like to throw this caution to you my son. Whatever we are discussing here and now should remain between the two of us and the four walls of my office, if this information leaks to the public or third party, I will bluntly deny ever knowing you and doing business with you. Not even your wife or your most trusted business associates should hear of our discussions. I believe you are very much aware of how some celebrities have had issues with some of their close friends and how they are disgracing themeselves and the bad things the have done in the dark and past?

Contractor: I have heard you Hajia and I promise to hold every discussion we have had a top class secret. Please let me take leave as you attend to other matters on your desk.

Hon. Hajia Ramatu: Okay but try and register your company as soon as possible, I will text a number to you for you to call the person when you get to the Registrar General. Tell the person who answers the call that I gave the number to you so he should help you out, he will do everything for you within 2hours.

At the Ministry of Education:

Hon. Copson: (taking some bundle of money from a brown envelope) What is this money for Mr Asamoah?

Mr Asamoah: Mmmm honourable this is a little token to show appreciation for the contract you awarded to my company.

Hon. Copson: Oh you needn’t do that my brother, I awarded that contract to you because your company deserved it. All the other companies that came for tender were quoting high prices with their samples below standard, your company brought the best sample that is why I selected your company so I can’t accept this money. If you have settled my boys on the field then I am satisfied.

Mr Asamoah: I have handsomely rewarded your boys and I believe you will hear their testimony soon but this token is coming purely from my heart to you honourable, please accept it.

Hon. Copson: Mmmm Mr Asamoah, does your company run any cooperate projects for the needy or the deprived?

Mr Asamoah: No please, we are now mobilising funds to start such projects next year or the year after that.

Hon. Copson: (looks at the money in his hands and smiles) In my hand is fifteen thousand Ghana cedis, I believe this money can drill about two or three boreholes in some deprived communities. When you embark on such projects and the media covers your donations, it rather opens more doors for you and the name of your company goes viral and far. When individual companies do such things it takes some burden from the government in power and it makes the people happy, use this money as a starting capital since your company is now trying to mobilize funds. One or two years is a long time for the people to wait and you don’t have an idea as to how many lives you will be saving.

Mr Asamoah: Honourable for the first time in my 22years of doing business with a government ministry, you are the very first person to reject my appreciation token. For some minister’s they even phone me later that the token I brought is small and demand for a top up.

Hon. Copson: You see the young man whose picture is above my head, his dream and vision is to make every Ghanaian comfortable and this country a better place to be. That is what some of us have pledged to help him achieve, you can invite me to inaugurate the first project you undertake if you don’t mind.

Mr Asamoah: It will be an honour to have you inaugrate my company’s first social cooperate responsibility. Your commitment and sacrifice to help mother Ghana has sunk deep into my soul and I will use my next 3months salary to do a top up on the money you have instructed me to start a cooperate project with. I will convey your selflessness message to anyone I come in contact with.

*Have you ever come acrossed someone like honourable Copson before?

*What future do you see for Hon. Nii Nortey, Hon. Hajia Ramatu and Hon. Johnson?

*On a scale of 1 to 10, how will you rather this story?

Let’s stay interact as always………..

To be continued

 

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