12/12/2023
I was walking leisurely along our estate one early morning. The beautiful dry season weather breeze caressed my skin and became my only companion.
As I walked around, with nowhere in mind, but was moving just as the spirit led me, I saw a young woman alighting from a Keke napep with a sack of potatoes and corn. There could be other items in the bag, but I saw only these two.
One interesting thing happened as I wanted to walk past her. We were coming in opposite directions.
However, I didn't see only her. There was a very tall man picking debris along the road and adding to her load. He would quickly pack the dirt, fold them in a bag he removed from his pocket, and run to the girl, only to offload them on her load.
How the sacks of debris were able to stay put should be addressed as the eighth wonder of the world. I could not move further, as I stood there watching her and her companion. I was so sure she didn't see the grey-looking man, wearing I-sway-to-God shoes.
Some people nearby could even think I was admiring the girl, not knowing there was more to what I was seeing. Anyway, I kept moving.
One week later, I took another route out of my estate in the evening, strolling and enjoying the smell of the weather around me. It was my way of trying to cool off after working all day.
Just outside the estate gate, I noticed the same woman roasting corn. On the ground were potatoes and onions shed in small quantities. She was the only one there. No, the grey man I saw with her that day was there, too. He was painting all the corn with mud from a nearby stagnant pool.
It was an awful sight to behold. Immediately the grey man noticed that I was watching him, he disappeared. I smiled at the girl and asked her how market. She said people no longer buy things from her, and that her market does not move anymore. Instead of making gains, she kept losing customers and throwing her rotten items away since people were not buying. In the end, she was incurring debt.
I saw a tear drop from her eyes. This was a young woman in her late 20s. Looking at her closely, you could see some lines of age on her face, making her look forty-something.
Anyway, I paused my own business of the day to sit beside her. Then, I saw the grey man again, peeping from an old face-me-I-face-you house opposite. He was the only one there. Probably, other occupants had gone to work.
I stared at the man a little and asked her if she lived there. She said yes.
"Who is your landlord?" I asked her.
She wiped her face with her left palm and wiped the palm on her wrapper. Then, she said something unrelated to the question. "I think I should stop selling and look for another business. I'm even scared because people I owe could come here and harass me."
"No, you won't," I told her while repeating my initial question.
I don't have a landlord. The man diéd two years ago."
"Interesting! So, whom do you pay your rent to?"
We stopped paying rent since he dîéd."
I asked her why. She started narrating that she was born in that house and her family had lived there for over 25 years. When their landlord diéd, there was no one to pay their rent again to, as no one showed up as his family.
While she was still talking, I cut her short and asked her about the other tenants and how they were faring.
She exhaled and told me how all of them had been experiencing challenges of late. That one of them was currently at the hospital and his left leg was about to be amputated.
She kept telling me about everyone's plight until I asked her to describe the landlord. It was the man opposite she described. Funnily enough, the man hid his face when she described him. It was obvious he could hear us. I obtained permission from her and marched to that house.
The landlord was sitting on the floor when he saw me. He looked at me angrily and I smiled. I asked him why he was tormenting his tenants, he said they were not paying rent. I told him what the woman said.
He gave me the phone number of his brother, living in another city whom they could call and pay rent to. I asked him about his wife and children. He shook his head in pain and said they were dèád.
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"Dèád?" I asked him.
"Yes, dèád. My wife dîéd when she gave birth to my only son. We waited for 20 years to have a child, only for me to lose both of them. So, I could not remarry because of the pain."
I could feel his plight. But he was dèåd and gone.
We even chatted a bit and talked about some things I can't mention here. Finally, I asked him if the tenants paid rent, and if he would stop tormenting them. He answered in the affirmative.
I thanked him and as I turned back, I felt a rush of hot air pass me. He was gone.
I met the woman and told her what happened. She confirmed what the man told me about his family. Then, I gave her the phone number of the man's brother and told her to ensure she and the other tenants did the right thing.
Before I left, I transferred a huge sum of money that could cover her debt and give her something to live on for a few days just as I was led on my spirit.
I was glad to see her sometime back and she said she was able to raise money and packed out of the compound.
Listen,
Anything that is unusual around you is 80% spiritual and if you are not careful and spiritual enough to navigate, you'll pay bitterly with your life and I will still see you disappearing one day.
So, monitor and reevaluate your life frequently so you can easily dictate when the enemy showed up.
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12th December 2023
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