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WRITTEN BY LADY ANNY
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SUBTITLE: Tell_Us_What_Happened
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TWO WEEKS LATER, AT AJIMA LAND.
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Kasima has already healed from all the wounds in her body, her mother didn't allowed her to go out or do anything for two weeks.
One Thursday evening after eating, kasima's mother called her and Amaka.
"Mama you called us." Amaka said.
"Yes my children, please sit down." Their mother said while they sat down beside her.
"My children please becareful of king Maduka, especially you kasima, I don't want what happened 15 years ago to repeat itself again." Said their mother.
"Mama, what happened 15 years ago?" Amaka asked.
"I don't want to remember it and I don't want to talk about it, I just want you girls to stay away from king Maduka because that man is very wicked and dangerous." Said their mother.
"But mama, why it's that each time we ask you about what happened 15 years ago, you will always say you don't want to talk about it why?" Amaka asked.
"I have my reasons, there are somethings that are better left untold." Said their mother.
"For how long will you keep this thing untold? Mama how long?" Amaka asked standing from the bench they were sitting.
"Mama, today you is telling us what happened 15 years ago, me is wanting to hear it na na." Kasima who has be quite said as she also stood up the bench. Their mother was completely speachless, she sat mutely not knowing what to say.
("Should I tell them the truth?") She asked herself in thought. ("How long will you keep the cat in the bag? Let the cat out of the bag so they will know who they truly are.") A voice said to her in her thought.
"Mama we are waiting." Amaka said making her to jumped out from her thoughts. She looked at them and smiled.
"Sit down my children, let me tell you the story." She said calmly while they sat down.
"15 years ago, when kasima was four years and you Amaka was just two years old... King Okaka the former king before king Maduka died without a heir to the throne, accord to the tradition..when a king dies without a heir to his throne, the throne will automatically moved to the next family in line and any male child in that family will becomes the king.
So after king Okaka died, the next family in line was our family and your late father was supposed to rule as a king in this kingdom but king Maduka disagree to it, simply because the late Igwe Okaka was his brother so he requested to becomes king. Your father, late onowu Udemba and some elders disagreed with him that your father must be crowned king..... King Maduka paid some boys to murdered your father and onowu Udemba in cold blood. A month later after your father and onowu Udemba were buried, king Maduka was crowned king by the present onowu and Mazi Ejiofor. Then the staff of authority that makes one a king gone missing...
King Maduka gave orders that all the whole house in this village should be searched and the guards found the staffs it in Mr Godwin's who happens to be late onowu udemba's younger brother and was banished from this kingdom for life with his family... That was how your father and onowu Udemba was killed and his brother was banished till today nobody knows where Godwin is, if he and his family are alive or dead. According to the former priest in sanit Martin's Catholic church said that the staff of authority king Maduka is using is fake and that the banishment of Godwin and his family was planned because of some reasons that will be know to the people at the right time...
That was how it all happened, since then we have been living in darkness and fear in this kingdom. ... He requested sleeping with me and I refused so he took your father's lands leaving only the one at umuake road, when I confronted him, he threaten to kill me if I ever talked about the lands.
So my children please stay away from him I don't want anything to happen to the both of you, you two are the only family I have". Their mother said.
"Hmmm, m'ama, how come you kept all this from us your children all this year's?" Amaka asked.
" I am sorry my children, I never wanted to hurt you girls." Their mother said.
"But mama, you should have told us." Amaka said.
"I am sorry my children." Said their mother.
The already angryed kasima stood up from the bench, her eyes were already red, she was breathing heavily.
"King Maduka killing my father." She said under her breathe and turned to her mother and sister.
"I is fighting king Maduka " she said and ran out of the house.
"Kasima! Come back here! Where are you going? Oh God what kind of trouble is this again?" Their mother lamented.
"Mama is okay, kasima will come back." Amaka said.
"Your sister is going to confront King Maduka and you know what that means." Said their mother tearsfully.
"Mama I know but king Maduka will not harm Kasima." Amaka said.
"What are you saying Amaka? Two weeks ago he almost killed her and here you are saying he won't harmed her." Their mother said sadly.
"Mama, u believe that the God Almighty we are serving will not let us down...just calm down okay?" Amaka encouraged her and she nod..
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