AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN
PASSWORD SEASON 2
Season 2 Episode 11
She spoke gently.
“You were approaching the whole situation wrongly, you know,” she said. “That Indian girl was evidently well-versed in the dark arts, and yet you went to a man of the dark arts to deal with it. Both powers are from the devil, you know, so how can the devil fight against himself?”
Kofi took one of his hands from hers and slowly cleaned the tears from his face. His lips trembled with acute distress.
“What are you talking about, Abena?” he asked softly.
“You can’t fight evil with evil, Kofi,” she said gently. “It’s just like fighting fire with fire. You need a stronger force, the strongest of all powers, actually. You need Christ in your life. If only you’ll accept to be a Christian, the Holy Spirit will descend on you, and it would come with the full powers of God, and it would cancel out any evil spells on your body and in your spirit, and you’ll become whole.”
He looked at her intently, his face both hopeful and scared.
“I’ve never believed in God, Maa Abena,” he said slowly. “I was raised up in a foster home, you know, by a couple who were being paid by an agency to take care of homeless children. The story is that my folks died in an accident. So I was raised up without love, and had to fight for every morsel of food. I grew up hating God. How could I believe in something I have hated all my life?”
She went back to the desk and rummaged through a drawer for some time, and then she came back to him holding a Bible and a sheet of printed paper.
“Have you ever read the Bible, Kofi?”
He shook his head slowly.
“Believed it was filled with foolish fantasies,” he said, his expression tortured. “Maa Abena, you’re a good girl. I’ve never been a good boy, okay? I’ve slept with tens of women. I’ve cheated, I’ve stolen, I’ve taken drugs, I’ve smoked weed! I’m rotten to the core! I don’t think the God you believe wants anything to do with a sinner like me.”
“And those are the reasons why Jesus came down to earth, Kofi,” she said, and smiled, and it was such a beautiful smile that it transformed her whole face, making it even more beautiful. “Here’s a Bible, and on this sheet you’ll find a list of quotations. These quotations have carefully been selected to help unbelievers discover the golden love in the Bible, and in God. You’ll read two verses a day. Here, let me show you.”
And so the beautiful sweet girl sat down beside the confused shattered boy, and began to show him how to navigate through the Bible.
Two weeks later, Maa Abena Nyantie entered Miss Elsie Ansah’s office.
The senior nurse was in her beautiful white uniform; white shirt, skirt, socks and flat-heeled soft-soled white canvas. Her white cap was fixed on her hair, and she was sitting behind her desk filling out excel worksheets.
She looked up and smiled warmly.
“Abena, good to see you, come in, come in and take a seat,” she said and minimised the worksheet she was working on.
Maa Abena sat down with a smile of her own. She was also in uniform, and she looked very beautiful indeed.
“How’re you, my dear?” Miss Ansah asked.
“I’m doing well, madam,” Maa Abena answered.
“I suppose there’s something you want to tell me about our new patient,” she said kindly.
Maa Abena licked her lips nervously, and she took a deep breath. It was quite evident that she was in a great quandary. She was new at the Adada Asylum, and she did not know how far she could trust the older woman, although Nii Lin had assured her that Miss Ansah was a good Christian who could be trusted.
“Listen, my dear, I understand whatever you want to tell me has shocked you, and you’re wondering whether you should talk to me. Well, let me begin by telling you that Director Bobo Dovlo has been incredible all the years he has headed this institution, and I had been full of admiration for him, until Mr. Kofi Kuntu was brought here. I am convinced he is doing something very wrong where the boy is concerned, and I’m very worried about it. His choice of medication is suspect to me, and I’m not very comfortable at all. So if you know anything that could help me make a major decision, this is the time to let me know.”
Maa Abena nodded and smiled nervously.
“What I’m about to tell you will definitely shock you, madam,” she said quickly. “But I don’t know what to do at the moment, and I believe you would be in a better position to advise me.”
“Go on, dear, I’m listening,” Miss Ansah said.
Maa Abena began haltingly, and told the kind woman all that she had gathered about the Kofi Kuntu case.
Elsie Ansah’s eyes widened with disbelief at first, to absolute shock and furious chagrin at the end.
“My good gracious,” she whispered with horror when Maa Abena finished narrating her story. “It all makes perfect sense now! I was right in stopping you from giving Kofi medication for some time! My word! This is absolutely horrible! What to do, what to do, what to do!”
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She stood up and paced the room restlessly, finally going to the window where she stood gazing out for a long time as Maa Abena waited with bated breath.
Finally, she turned from the window and came back to her seat, sitting down gingerly and almost wringing her hands.
“We need to tread with caution, Abena,” she said carefully. “We can’t trust anyone here. Almost all the workers eat out of the Director’s hand, and they’ll do anything to please him. Let’s keep this between the three of us; me, you and Nii Lin. Director Dovlo has very powerful friends, both within and with government, and he’s one of the most respected people in the country, and he’s very talented in his field. If we give him so much as a tiny iota of suspicion he’ll do something to make Kofi insane for real. I’ll try and fix an appointment with Judge Akwasi Buabasah and let him know what’s going on.”
Maa Abena breathed with relief, and her whole face lit up with happiness.
“Oh, madam, that’ll great indeed!” she said. “I’m so grateful!”
Senior Nurse Elsie raised her eyebrows at Maa Abena Nyantie.
“Well, in as much as I must commend you for getting to the root of this matter, I must say I sense something extra in there, Abena,” she said with a glint in her eyes.
“Something extra, madam?” Maa Abena asked, confused.
“Yes, dear, like something extra for Kofi Kuntu?” she said with a smile. “He is, after all, a very attractive young man, and I’m sure he has the ability to make a lady’s heart go thump thump in the right place.”
Maa Abena gasped, shocked, and tried hard to recover from her sudden unease and nervousness.
“Oh!” she said, flustered. “Well, no, madam. I just…just feel a lot of pity for him, and nothing else, please.”
The older woman laughed and waved a hand.
“Don’t fret yourself, dear,” Elsie Ansah said. “Just needling you. But do take care, okay? I’ll let you know how it goes with Judge Buabasah.”
“Yes, madam,” Maa Abena said hurriedly and stood up. “I’m grateful. God bless you. I’ll get back to work then.”
“And one thing, Abena,” Senior Nurse Ansah said with a serious face. “Tell Nii Lin to begin rolling cameras in Kofi’s ward. I want him to give me copies of the video recordings for a month. One of his cousins is in the CCT room, and he can have copies from him. But please, let them keep it a secret! I don’t want the Director finding out about that.”
“Yes, madam, I’ll tell him. Thanks again.”
When Maa Abena went out of Nurse Elsie’s office, she stopped for a moment and took a deep breath.
She evaluated herself for a moment, and then she shook her head, her beautiful face worried.
“Nope, nope, I can’t be that transparent!” she whispered to herself. “I don’t feel anything for that boy. I’m just sad for him, and I’m pitying him! Well, it is true he is younger and handsomer than Roman Reigns, my WWE idol, but surely, I don’t fancy him, not a player like him anyway.”
As she walked along, however, the worried lines still remained on her face. Her little self-motivational speech had done nothing to erase the image of Kofi’s face from her mind’s eye.
If anything, she found herself looking forward to seeing him again.
“Oh, crap!” she whispered to herself. “My dearest Lord, I’ve served you faithfully, please! Don’t let this heart do any thump thumping for that corpse banger!”
She giggled suddenly to herself, and looked around quickly to see if anyone had seen her.
***
When Kofi opened his eyes Pilot was naked and squatting on his bed with his face clenched so hard that his eyes were red and veins stood out on his neck, and he was farting monstrously.
Kofi sat up quickly with great trepidation, staring at the man with bulging eyes.
“What the hell are you doing?” he exploded.
Captain, lying on his side on the bed and clutching his teddy bear, looked at Kofi’s shocked face and shook his head sadly.
“He’s trying to shit on your bed,” Captain said. “He says he heard some evil voices coming from inside your bed, and he’s shitting on them.”
Kofi got off the bed, grabbed Pilot by the arm and pulled him so hard that he crashed on the floor. The stench of the flatulence was so bad that Kofi curled his arm across his nose.
Malboro suddenly grabbed Kofi’s shoulder and spun him around, smiling broadly and holding out his hand.
“Hiya, I’m Malboro,” he said enthusiastically. “Welcome to madness. We’re all mad here.”
“Oh comot for there!” Kofi said miserably and pushed Pilot away as he tried to climb on his bed again. “Hey! Go and shit on your own bed if you want to shit on a bed! Nkwaseasem ara kwa! Nonsense!”
“You don’t understand!” Pilot said plaintively. “The voices are in your bed! They’re coming for you! They’ll kill us all if I don’t poop on them!”
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Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
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“The voices are not here!” Kofi explained. “They’re in the water closet! I heard them! If you want to poop go and do it in the water closet!”
Pilot pushed Kofi hard in the chest.
“You goat!” he said angrily. “How can voices be in the water closet? Are you crazy? Don’t you know they’ll drown in the water?”
“Oh, yes,” Captain said. “They will drown like glonglonglon! And then they wouldn’t be able to swim because they’ve drowned.”
“Hiya, I’m Malboro,” said Malboro. “Welcome to madness. We’re all mad here.”
Pilot pointed to Captain’s teddy bear, his eyes suddenly wide with fear.
“The voices are in that thing!” he cried suddenly. “They’re going to kill us all! I have to poop on it!”
And Captain sat up suddenly and looked at Pilot with eyes that were suddenly mad with fury.
“You want to shit on my brother?” he asked, and then he launched himself off the bed and smacked into Pilot, and both of them crashed to the floor in a heap of limbs.
Malboro pointed to Pilot’s naked buttocks.
“Do you know there’s one hair on this man’s bombom?” he asked with rather a serious face. “Just one hair. It is called Shalanta because it shalants.”
Kofi looked at Malboro with suspicious eyes.
“What is shalants?” he asked warily.
“How would I know?” he said seriously, and then he smiled and held out his hand. “Hiya, I’m Malboro.”
“Go and sleep, Malboro,” Kofi said and walked dejectedly to the chair behind the desk.
“How can I sleep when I don’t have eyes?” Malboro asked rather crossly, frowning at Kofi. “Eyes are windows to the soul. So if I sleep the Spajigans will come and look through the eye-windows at my soul and laugh and hoohoo, hoohoo, hoohoo!”
“Okay,” Kofi said and turned away to read his Bible.
Captain and Pilot had stopped fighting.
They were now both lying prone on the floor and pressing one ear each to the cold floor.
“I hear something,” Pilot said and put a hand to his lips. “Shush, shush, I can hear it!”
“What, what, what?” Captain said excitedly as he also strained to hear whatever it was. “I hear some krrrr-krrrr sounds too!”
“No, no, no!” Pilot said. “The krrrr-krrrr sounds are coming from Malboro’s bed, he’s bouncing on it. Pay attention and listen to the floor! You’ll hear the voices!”
They were both concentrated hard on the floor, their faces screwed up.
“I hear it, I hear it!” Captain said, and Kofi turned his head to look at him.
“What did you hear?” Pilot was asking eagerly.
“I hear President Trump,” Captain said. “He’s singing Amakye Dede’s song!”
“Wooooooow!!” Pilot said, listening hard. “Yeah, yeah! I can hear it too! He’s singing Amakye Dede’s Brebrebe song!”
“Nooooo!” Captain said. “Listen well! It’s not Brebrebe!”
“What is it then? What is it?” Pilot asked eagerly.
“It is Brebrebe, can’t you hear?” Captain said.
“Okay, I hear it now!”
Malboro suddenly rushed to Kofi’s side.
“Hiya. I’m Malboro!” he said brightly. “Heeeey! You’re reading the Bible! If you meet Lot ask him why he slept with his daughters! That man was such a fool!”
“Lot?” Kofi asked, smiling in spite of himself. “Who’s he?”
“Oh, that man whose wife turned to salt and he ended up shagging his daughters!” Malboro said excitedly. “I used to be a preacher, you know. I was preaching in the Synagogues to some thieves when Jesus came. Jesus didn’t have patience at all! He took a whip and caned all the thieves! Meanwhile I was preaching to them. That’s why I told Judas to betray Jesus. I even visited Rachel. She was a prostitute. I gave her three rounds gish gish gish and she ran away because her skolokakita was paining her.”
“Her what?” Kofi asked with a huge grin.
“Her skolokakita, smelly hole, hole of chanchuba, the hole of all troubles of all men of all countries! Don’t joke with skolokakita, the hole of papuloo, it can kill you! It can take you to your death, that hole of abalakus! If you follow it, you can even shag a corpse, I tell you!”
Kofi began to giggle, and then it turned to a thunderous roar of laughter. Pilot and Captain sat up, looked at him, and they also roared with great laughter.
Malboro had an uneasy look on his face, and then he also bleated out a high-pitched insane laugh that only made Kofi laugh harder…
And when the door opened and Maa Abena Nyantie and Nii Lin walked in, they found all four of them laughing so hard that it scared Maa Abena to the very ends of her nerves; for a moment she couldn’t tell whether Kofi was sane or insane.
She walked toward him slowly and saw that tears were streaming down his face because he had laughed so hard.
She touched his arm gently.
“Kofi?” she whispered. “Are you okay?”
She knew deep down that it was now absolutely urgent to get Kofi out of the asylum. He was in a great risk of becoming insane if he should be left to operate under such acute stress.
Malboro held out his hand to her.
“Hiya. I’m Malboro. Welcome to madness. We’re all mad here.”
“Hello, Malboro,” Maa Abena said.
Kofi controlled his laughter and smiled at her, and she saw just how incredibly handsome he was, especially when he was smiling like that.
“Hello, Abena,” he said, his eyes roving her face. “You’re so damn beautiful. Anytime I close my eyes I see you, can you believe that?”
She tried hard not to smile, but when she looked down at her feet, she was smiling.
And she was relieved. At least he was sane, for now.
But she knew it was very dangerous to keep him cooped up in the asylum.
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Akweley didn’t know why she still had unhappy mood swings recently, especially late at nights just before she slept, and sometimes in the afternoons when she was all alone.
It had been almost five months now since Kofi was sent to the asylum. During that period, she had borne the pity and support of her circle, who had all expressed shock sent her messages of support.
Some too had only been filled with scorn, and laughed at her behind her back, but that didn’t worry her overly. It had been very difficult at first, once her initial anger had worn off. She had thought about Kofi a lot, and wondered what might have gone wrong to make him to betray her love and trust in that most terrible way.
She had given him everything because she had loved him to her very core, with everything she had. She knew her father hated him, but she had loved him, and stayed with him through thick and thin.
What he had done was dastardly, and she just couldn’t forgive him. There was no justification for it, and she just didn’t understand why he had done a horrible thing like that.
But that was all in the past now.
She had been shattered, and her heart had been filled with pain, but she was on the road to recovery now, or so she thought. In the gloom of her shattered life, Attah Badu had happened!
It happened in a whirlwind fashion.
Her father had been close to her, trying his best to help her through the crisis after Kofi’s shameful exposure with the Indian corpse. He had insisted on taking her to his office, and to his meetings, making her a part of his busy life.
It was during one of those meetings with some new investors that she had met Attah Badu. He was a Ghanaian, but had lived almost his whole life in the United States, and had now come home to settle, and to invest.
Apparently, he was investing a lot of money into the estate development market, and had chosen to partner her father.
The company, LARYEA ODAMTEN WALLS, would now become ODAMTEN BADU ESTATES.
Attah Badu was a perfect gentleman. He was well-groomed and dressed very well. He was tall and well-muscled, every little bit a fit man. He was kind and had a nice face. He was not as handsome as Kofi, no, and probably she would never meet anyone as handsome as Kofi, but he was a real man.
From the very first time they met, and exchanged smiles, it had almost been as if they were meant to be together. She knew later on, from her father’s thoughtful shrewd looks, that it was something her father had been expecting.
Attah pumped his money into the new partnership, and left the running to the experienced Laryea.
He was forty years old, seventeen years older than Akweley, but he was a gentleman, and that was all that mattered. It was not like Akweley had seen him as a partner from the onset. He had been more like an older brother who was helping her though a very bad time.
They had spent a lot of time together. They went to restaurants, to beaches and resorts and to other functions. They also sometimes went to his incredibly-beautiful house on the Akuapim Mountains.
They visited many interesting parts of the country with Akweley serving as a tour guide. Sometimes they stayed longer than a day, but Attah Badu was always the perfect gentleman. He always paid for another room for her, and never made any advances at her.
Gradually Akweley began to warm to his company, and her trust for him increased. She noticed that everywhere they went women stared at him with blatant invitation on their faces, but he never for once paid them any attention.
She dared to ask him if he was in any relationship, but he explained that his marriage had ended in divorce two years previously, and that was why he had come down to Ghana to take things easy.
Their friendship had grown. Akweley realized that when she was with Attah she didn’t think so much about Kofi. She realized that Attah was a great outlet for her pain, and four months into the relationship, he had brought her home, opened the car door for her, and as she stepped out he had kissed her slowly and gently.
It was the first time she had been kissed by another man since meeting Kofi at school and falling in love with him. It had not been an exhilarating explosion of passion like she always felt with Kofi. The fire had not been there, that raging reckless fire that always ended up with heated lovemaking, but that was okay. It was because she was healing, and because it was a new relationship.
It was also because she was growing, and things changed as one matured in life.
A couple of weeks later he had proposed to her on his cruise ship as a musical quartet serenaded them. It had been quite romantic and heart-stopping, and she had accepted his proposal.
Her father had been over the moon at the news, and wedding plans had started in earnest, slated for her birthday.
The only one who had not been happy was Nana Akwasi, her friend. Nana, who had been a family friend since infancy and who had loved her all his life, had thought that with Kofi gone she would eventually be his, only to be met with this news that she was going to marry a forty-year-old naturalized American who was filthy rich!
Nana Akwasi threw a wild fit, and for days refused to speak to Akweley.
Not that she gave a care, anyway.
She had been happy, especially when the wedding invitations were printed, and she scanned one and sent it to everybody in her contact list, and posted it on her social media accounts.
The congratulatory messages poured in, and she was excited that she was on the right path to happiness at last…until one of her friends commented on her Facebook post that other girls could now compete for Kofi Kuntu’s love.
Akweley didn’t know if the comment had been in jest, but suddenly that comment alone gathered tens of replies, from girls, all of them saying they would now go for Kofi Kuntu.
That was not the kind of reaction she had expected. True, some of her male friends posted newspaper clippings of Kofi on top of the corpse, but they received harsh backlash responses from the females.
Akweley lay in bed that night reading through the threads and feeling absolutely shocked by the fact that her female friends were jumping to Kofi’s defence despite the dastardly act he had committed. They were saying that since the court found Kofi mentally-unstable, it meant he needed help, and once cured, he would be available to them.
This really infuriated Akweley, and brought sharp twinges of jealousy to her heart.
And then she received a WhatsApp message from Ato Sey.
ATO:
You’re making a huge mistake! You don’t even know why Kofi did what he did! You’ve refused to listen to my explanations and now you’re going to get married? Well, I wish you all the best!
Akweley read the message over and again, and as her anger boiled, she also felt a momentary coldness, of unease…and then her unhappiness set in.
She replied Ato’s message.
AKWELEY:
U keep away frm me, both u nd ur occultic friend!
She saw him online typing, and then the message came.
ATO:
Sure, we will. Kongratz with ur oluman buggy! Smdh!
Akweley dropped the phone and walked to the window where she stood staring out for a very long time.
She admitted to herself that she was very unhappy.
“Leave me alone, Ato,” she whispered tremulously. “You and that friend of yours. Just leave me alone!”
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 15
“I’m going to stab you,” Pilot said ominously. “I’m going to stab you really badly!”
Kofi Kuntu opened his eyes slowly.
It was still dark, and that meant they were supposed to be asleep. Pilot was standing beside his bed with his right hand behind him, concealing something, maybe a knife.
Kofi’s heart gave a lurch of fear.
Pilot was grinning fiendishly in the dim light provided by the shaded lamp above, the one that comes on during sleeping time. Kofi saw that Captain and Malboro were sleeping soundly.
Pilot grinned again, and his teeth glinted in the dim light wolfishly.
“I’m going to stab you goooood!” he drawled.
Kofi was terrified. He carefully swung his legs to the other side of the bed and rolled off, gaining his feet. Pilot screamed behind him and came for him.
Kofi fled to the door and yanked it open, and found himself on the corridor. He ran blindly along the corridor, and behind him came the Pilot, screeching maniacally.
“I’m going to stab you goooood!”
Kofi had never been so terrified in his life! He ran to the end of the corridor and found the stairs that led to the downstairs were cordoned off with huge chains linked with a padlock.
He moved to the stairs that led upstairs and ran hard, wheezing with terror.
“Oh, Jesus, dear Lord, please help me!” Kofi said as he ran, taking the steps two at a time, and all the while Pilot followed him, screaming with maddened glee.
“I’ll stab you! I’ll stab you goooood!!”
Kofi gained the upper corridor and ran down its length, wheezing for breath because he was so tired and scared. He was afraid that he would have a heart attack soon.
Suddenly he tripped and fell, crashing heavily to the cemented floor. Panting with terror, he turned on his back and tried to get on his feet, but Pilot fell on him, giggling and screaming.
Kofi screaming with fear as Pilot drew back his hand, sure that the man was going to stab him to death with his wicked knife…
But there was no knife in Pilot’s hand.
Instead he used his forefinger to stab Kofi’s chest over and over again.
“Stab, stab, stab, stab!” Pilot said, laughing uncontrollably. “I told you I’ll stab you! I told you I’ll stab you goooood! Stab, stab, stab, stab!”
Kofi’s heart was yammering crazily in his chest as he lay there, waiting for the terror to subside and feeling each jab of Pilot’s finger.
He put an arm across his face suddenly as the sheer hopelessness of his situation hit him again, and he wondered if he would ever get out of the Adada Asylum alive, and with a sane mind!
He was assailed with a sadness so deep that he could not control it. To think that he had it all…a good job, a good life, the love of a good girl!
And he just threw it all away in the silly pursuit of the pleasure of the body.
And now here he was, running in the deep of the night from inmates in an asylum who wanted to stab him with their fingers!
Great sobs racked Kofi Kuntu, and he wept bitterly on the floor of the D-Block corridor.
Pilot stopped jabbing him and looked at him with sudden dismay.
“Hey!” he said, getting off the prone body of Kofi, who still cried, unable to stop himself.
And then Pilot also began to bawl loudly, and as the two of them cried they failed to see that they had landed on the floor just in front of Baluu’s cell. Baluu, asleep on his cot, was awakened by their combined bawling, and he stood up slowly and walked toward the gate.
Pilot was sitting with his back to iron railings of the cell gate, and Kofi’s arm was still flung across his face, and so neither of them saw Baluu approaching.
Baluu reached between the railings, grabbed Pilot’s neck, and banged him hard against the railings, and then he began to choke Pilot.
Pilot could not breathe, and in his agony he flailed his legs desperately, kicking into Kofi’s side. Kofi put down his arm and turned his head angrily, and that was when he saw Baluu choking the life out of Pilot.
“Hey, Baluu!” Kofi screamed desperately. “Stop that! You’re killing him, you animal!”
Kofi grabbed the giant’s arm and tried to pull it off Pilot’s throat, but Baluu’s arm did not budge! He was as strong as Samson! Kofi tried and tried! He pinched the man’s arm and even bent and bit him hard, but Baluu would not let go! Pilot’s eyes began to roll, and Kofi knew he could be dead in less than a minute!
His eyes roved the corridor desperately, looking for something to use as a weapon, but there was nothing.
Kofi began to scream for help, and then he saw the fire extinguisher against the wall at the end of the corridor. He ran to it fast, unclipped it, and ran back to where Baluu was killing Pilot.
He removed the safety pin and pointed the nozzle at Baluu’s face, and then he depressed the trigger. The white foam jetted out with maximum force into Baluu’s face. The giant screamed with terror and let Pilot go.
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Baluu looked at the spraying foam fizzing out at great speed at him.
“Eiii! No be small! Yieeeeeee!” he screamed, his eyes wide with fear and fled from the cell gate to the far end of his ward where he sat down in one corner, shivering with terror at the spray still gushing out of the nozzle of the extinguisher.
Pilot was coughing on the floor, and he moved away quickly from the cell gate.
“Come here, you bastard!” Kofi screamed at Baluu. “You bully, you murderer! Come here and I’ll spray your damn face for you!”
But the giant was cowering in his corner, face still terrified, and he was making gibbering noises. He raised his hands suddenly and covered his face.
“Eiiiii! No be small ooo! Eiii, no be small ooo! He gave me the white Jabujabu! He gave me the white Jabujabu! He sprayed the white jabujabu fuuuuuuuuush in my face o….ei, no be small! White jabujabu!” Baluu bellowed suddenly with fright, and trembled violently.
Slowly the anger left Kofi, and he dropped the fire extinguisher. He stayed near the gate, so furious that he dared Baluu to come get him, but the giant remained on the floor, still terrified.
“Dandruwaaah!” Kofi said disdainfully.
He reached down and grabbed Pilot by the arm.
“Hey, buddy, are you alright?”
Pilot got to his feet and smiled weakly at Kofi.
“Pilot wants to sleep now,” he said weakly.
“Yeah, let’s go and sleep, buddy,” Kofi said with a relieved smile.
As they walked toward the stairs, Pilot spoke.
“Herh!” he said.
“What?” Kofi queried.
“That man was killing me paaa!” he said. “Herh, he squeezed my neck until I saw my own ghost standing in front of me.”
“I’m sorry buddy,” Kofi said softly.
“But you saved me, Kofi,” Pilot said. “Otherwise he would have killed me. I think he’s mad. Herh! He squeezed my neck paa o! I saw my own ghost standing right there in front of me ready to go somewhere la! That mad man almost killed me totally!”
“Yeah, he’s very mad,” Kofi said.
Pilot smiled and shook his head.
“Why do they keep brining mad people to our house?” he asked. “It is dangerous, you know. They keep bringing mad men here.”
Kofi chuckled, and then he laughed softly.
“Don’t laugh, I’m serious,” Pilot said with all seriousness. “There are too many mad people here. Instead of sending them to the asylum they bring them here. Very soon the place will be full with mad people.”
Kofi chuckled again, but this time in a subdued manner.
He didn’t want Pilot to pick it up and begin screaming with laughter. They had had enough adventure for the night!
“Kofi, where do you think ghosts go to?” Pilot asked when they were back in the room and lying down on their beds. “I saw my ghost standing in front of me. I almost died!”
“Go to sleep, Pilot,” Kofi said gently.
“What sleep?” Pilot shot right back. “I saw my own ghost and you want me to sleep. Have you seen your own ghost before?”
“I believe it was your soul, maybe, not ghost!” Kofi said sleepily, still basking in the glow of getting a little revenge on Baluu.
“What soul?” Pilot shouted. “Have you seen a pink soul before, you sprayer! It was my ghost, my own pink ghost. Hey, Kofi, why did that ghost have red eyes?”
Kofi did not speak.
He was fast asleep.
“Maybe my ghost is from Cambodia,” Pilot said drowsily. “That’s why it had red eyes. Ei, Cambodia ghost…”
A moment later he also drifted off into sleep.
***
On Thursday evening Maa Abena stood near the bed and watched Kofi reading his Bible with hungry earnestness, and she smiled to herself as she walked to the washroom to freshen up.
When she came back he was still reading, and she sat down beside him. He stopped reading and turned to smile at her.
“I have a lot of questions, Abena,” he said, his face serious. “There are a lot of stuff here I didn’t know, and there are a lot of stuff here I don’t understand.”
She smiled at him.
“I don’t think there are many people who truly understand the Bible from cover to cover, Kofi,” she said gently. “My pastor will be here on Sunday. He comes here most Sundays to pray for the inmates. So reserve your questions. You can ask him everything about the Bible on Sunday.”
He nodded, and smiled.
“I’ll do that, Abena. And thanks so much for this Bible. I’m learning a lot of things.”
“I’m glad to hear that, Kofi.”
They were silent for a while, and then she stood up.
“Well, I have to go now, Kofi,” she said in a rush. “Tomorrow is my off day, and so I’ll go and visit my parents.”
He looked at her sharply, his face displeased immediately.
“Oh!” he said, scowling. “Meaning I won’t see you tomorrow?”
She heard the disappointment in his voice, and saw the earnestness on his face, and suddenly time ceased to exist as they stared into each other’s eyes, and it dawned on her that she would also miss him. Her off days had been on Sundays, and so he had not noticed it much, because she always made sure she came to the wards in the evenings.
The roster, however, had been shuffled, and she now had her off days on Fridays.
“I’ll come back tomorrow, of course, and I’ll see you in the evening, Kofi.”
He reached out and touched her hand briefly.
“Please do,” he said miserably. “I’ve grown used to seeing you.”
That one hit her, and she looked deeply into his eyes, suddenly uneasy by a strange note she had heard in his voice.
“Well, don’t you try your flattering skills on me, Kofi Kuntu!” she said softly, looking deeply into his eyes. “I don’t fall for sentiments.”
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 17
Kofi’s eyes never wavered.
“I love seeing you around, Abena,” he said softly. “That is a fact. And I’m not flattering you. I’ve lost my fiancée, forever I’m sure. She has not bothered to come and check up on me, and I don’t even have access to a phone to call her.”
“We’re not allowed to bring phones to the wards, Kofi,” she said gently. “However, if you can give me her number, I’ll speak to her, and tell her you miss her, and that she made a mistake about you.”
His eyes were tender as he looked at her.
“I would love that, Abena,” he said softly.
She gave him a pen and paper, and as he scribbled the name and telephone number of his fiancée, she wondered about the faint little twinge of distress she felt somewhere deep within her, and dismissed it quickly.
She took the slip of paper and tucked it into her bag.
“Well, I’ll be on my way then, Kofi,” she said, but as she made to move away he reached out suddenly and grabbed her wrist.
“Please, Abena, sit with me for a while. I want to know everything about you. Would you tell me about yourself?”
“Now?” she asked, taken aback.
“Now, please,” he said gently. “At least it would make you spend a little more time with me.”
She stared at him, secretly glad. She sat down and began to tell him about herself.
When she left he was soundly asleep, and she stood gazing down at him for a little bit longer before she turned and left quietly.
***
Maa Abena Nyantie, an only child, was always the centre of attention whenever she visited her parents. Each of them loved to fawn over her, making her feel extremely cherished. Although they were not overly rich, they had enough to make them happy, and she was the apple of their eyes.
Being home that day was fun. She and her mother went shopping, and they cooked a sumptuous meal of banku and okra stew, and then the three of them had a feast in the dining-room.
Her father, huge and grey-haired, took a toothpick after the meal and leaned back with a contented smile on his face.
“How has it been with you, Abena, my princess?” he asked gently, but his eyes remained sharp. “I see you look extremely happy.”
“Yes, because I’ve seen you and Mom, Daddy!” she said with a smile, and her mother chuckled. Both of them knew that was not what the man of the house was talking about.
Mr. Fiifi Agyemang peeked at her from over the top of his spectacles.
“Now look here, young lady, stop playing smart with me,” he said, ignoring the giggles of his wife and daughter. “You’re a fine woman, very beautiful, well-trained, kind-hearted…the kind of girl any man would want for a life partner. Now I thought you and Calvin were headed for the altar, but your mom told me a few days ago that you pulled the brakes on that. You broke off with Calvin. Now why did you do that? He seemed like a nice chap to me.”
Maa Abena squeezed up her face at her father, and she giggled again.
“Actually I didn’t, Daddy,” she said as she popped a piece of goat meat into her mouth. “Calvin pulled the breaks on himself when I found him in bed with a woman he claimed was his cousin.”
“Ohhhhhh!” Mr. Agyemang said, shocked. “Is that so? He seemed like a good man. What about Smart? That boy was always in the shadows when you were tight with Calvin.”
Maa Abena laughed at that, choked, and started coughing. She took a sip of water.
“Smart?” she said when she put the glass of water down.
“Let her eat, Fii!” Mrs. Agyemang said with a meaningful look at her husband. “It is red oil, and she might choke rather badly if she continues speaking.”
“Well, she’s not a baby, is she?” Mr. Agyemang said defensively.
“I’m okay, Mom, really,” Maa Abena said. “Well, about Smart. It came out he has proposed to almost all the unmarried girls in the church, and managed to see the nakedness of quite a number of them.”
“Awoooooo!” Mr. Agyeman said, shocked. “Hmmm, so is there anyone else?”
“Daddy!” Maa Abena said with a laugh. “I’m just twenty-three years old! I’ve not had enough of you and mom! Let me chill small wai, please! Don’t let me rush. God will bring whoever he is very soon.”
“The earlier you marry the better, princess,” Mr. Agyemang said. “You marry early, and you give birth, and then you would have enough time and strength to take care of them. If you wait too much by the time your children reach their teenaged years you would be a very old woman!”
“God will bring him, Daddy,” Maa Abena said.
“Amen, I believe that,” Mrs. Agyemang said with a chuckle. “Which reminds me; yesterday I was at the saloon when my hairdresser asked about you. I told her you’ve now been posted to the Adada Asylum, and she was saying she hoped you don’t have to work with that boy who was sleeping with the rotten corpses.”
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Maa Abena stopped laughing immediately.
“Is that where they took that boy?” Mr. Agyemang asked with a scowl. “What was that name the press gave him mpo…aha, The Ghost Banger. Is he at the Adada, dearest?”
Maa Abena sighed, and then licked a bit of okra stew from her fingers. This was it. She needed to tell them about Kofi now because there was the likelihood that Kofi would meet them someday, as soon as his terrible mishap was sorted out.
“His name is Kofi Kuntu, Daddy,” she said carefully. “Kofi Kuntukununku, to be precise!”
“What a name!” Mr. Agyemang said, chuckling. “No wonder he sleeps with rotten women.”
“Fii, stop that, would you?” his wife said with a scowl, and then she turned toward her daughter anxiously. “Do you see him? You shouldn’t go near him, dear. That man is evil.”
“Actually, he’s my friend,” Maa Abena said.
“Are you out of your mind, young woman?” her father thundered angrily.
“No, baby, please don’t entertain that young man!” her mother chipped in.
“His is a case of extreme prejudice and ill luck, Mama,” Maa Abena said softly, then she went ahead to tell her parents all about Yaw Kuntu.
Mr. Fiifi Agyemang stared at her with a gaping mouth when she finished speaking.
“Oh, but if that’s true then it’s absolutely preposterous!” he said angrily, shaking head. “The boy is obviously a fool, but that does not mean he should be subjected to such a beastly treatment!”
Maa Abena winced at the ‘fool’ part.
For some strange reason she suddenly did not want her father thinking of Kofi Kuntu as a fool.
“Surely, this can’t be allowed to go on, dear!” Mrs. Agyemang said, appalled. “It’s against every figment of humanity! You should report to the police, or let the press know!”
“With what evidence, Mama?” Maa Abena asked softly. “Director Bobo Dovlo is the best in the country. He’s respected worldwide. He can always deny, you know, and without proof we can’t do anything. If we bring that kind of pressure I’m afraid he might do something quite irreparable to Kofi to cover his tracks. Miss Elsie Ansah says she’ll speak with Judge Buabasah, so until then we have to play it safe.”
“Play what safe?” Mr. Agyemang thundered. “There are things you play safe with, and there are things you need to force through! If this gets to the press Dovlo or whatever the jackass calls himself wouldn’t want the attention! An investigation could go on, and his reputation would be tainted! There’s no diplomacy here! Just report him to the police and give him to the press to chew!”
Maa Abena looked at her father uneasily.
“You believe so, Daddy?” she asked, a little scared.
“Listen, my dear princess, if what you’re telling me about this man is true, and I have no reason whatsoever to doubt you, then that man is not human. There’s simply no way he’s going to allow that poor fool to come out of that asylum. He’s either going to kill Kofi, or he’s going to render him permanently insane. Any minute you waste is another nail in Kofi’s coffin. Tell Miss Elsie that she’s playing with fire. She must take action now!”
“Yes, Daddy,” Maa Abena said miserably. “I’ll let her know.”
****
Maa Abena called Ato Sey when she left home later that day.
“Hey, the most beautiful girl in the world!” Ato said with an elated voice. “How’re you, dearest?”
“I’m doing fine, by grace, Ato,” she said sunnily. “How’re you too?”
“A bad day just received a blast of sunshine because you called me, my sweetest pumpkin. Wow, this is a surprise!”
“Well, today is my day off so I came to see my parents,” Maa Abena said.
“Oh, and you didn’t let me know yesterday?” Ato asked, his voice hurt. “We could’ve had lunch together. Hey, is it too late to hang out a bit?”
“You’re working, aren’t you?” she asked with a chuckle.
“Well, for you, I can always take a risk, my angel,” he said tenderly.
“Well, actually, I wanted to speak to Akweley,” she said.
Ato gasped at the end of the line.
“Akweley?” he asked. “The Akweley I know? Kofi’s Akweley Odamten?”
“Yes, I mean Kofi’s fiancée,” Maa Abena said. “He gave me her number, and I called her. She said she was at the office with her father, and could spare a few minutes with me. I told her it’s urgent, but I didn’t mention Kofi. I was wondering if you could direct me to the office.”
Ato giggled uneasily.
“Well, that’s another surprise,” he said softly. “She’s going to get married, you know.”
“What?” Maa Abena said, surprised. “She’s going to get married?”
“Yes, dear, to a wealthy guy from the diaspora who’s pumped money into her father’s ailing business. The wedding is in a couple of days, and she’s busy preparing. I don’t think she’s ready to listen to anything about Kofi.”
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 19
“Oh, but she can’t do that!” Maa Abena cried. “Kofi is going to be so devastated! I have to speak to her. Can you direct me to the office?”
“I’m sending you the Google Maps location via WhatsApp,” Ato said. “I’ll wait for you at the entrance.”
“Alright, thank you so much, Ato.”
She cut the call and waited.
Less than a minute later Ato sent the location, and she hailed down a taxi and hopped in.
It took almost an hour to get to the offices of the renamed ODAMTEN & BADU ESTATES.
Ato, in a sleek black suit, white shirt and polka-dotted tie, was waiting for her at the plush reception. He hugged her briefly, and stayed a mite longer than usual just holding her, revelling in her classic beauty.
“Wow, you’re even more beautiful close up, my Gem,” he whispered, aware that people in the reception were looking at them intently. “But come on, dearest. I’ll take you up to the Executive Lounge where you’ll find Akweley.”
They exchanged light conversation as they rode the elevator to the topmost floor, and then walked along the most beautiful corridor she had ever seen into a glass-walled lounge with a breath-taking view of the city spread out beyond.
Maa Abena walked to the window and stood gazing out, enjoying the picturesque view.
“I’ll go get Akweley then, my gem,” Ato said with a smile. “And I hope afterwards we’ll go out to lunch.”
She turned and smiled at him.
“Took some heavy banku in the morning, Ato,” she said gently. “Still not feeling hungry yet.”
“Then maybe you’ll keep me company as I take my lunch?” he asked hopefully.
“Well, okay, that’ll be nice,” she said at last.
He smiled happily and walked out.
There was no one else in the lounge, and so she walked around, admiring the incredible furniture and the beautiful arrangement of the room.
Some minutes later the door opened, and she turned round.
Ato had returned with Akweley.
She was wearing an excellently-tailored cream skirt suit and a white shirt opened at the neck and displaying a very expensive-looking gold chain. Her strap shoes were cream and of impeccable quality.
Even then, as beautiful as she looked, she saw at a glance that the other girl standing near the window with a curious look on her face was a far more beautiful girl. Even in her black jeans and red T-shirt there was an inner glow about her that reflected on her clean, beautiful features.
Akweley walked forward with a slight frown on her face.
“Maa Abena Nyantie, I presume?” she asked, extending her hand. “We spoke on the phone. You said you had something urgent to tell me about a proposed business for my Dad?”
Maa Abena shook Akweley’s hand and smiled guiltily.
“Forgive me, please, madam,” Maa Abena said. “Actually, I lied. I didn’t want you to turn me away. Yes, I’m Abena, and I’m a nurse at the Adada Asylum where Kofi Kuntu is being kept.”
She saw the furious look on Akweley’s face immediately, and she was dismayed. Without warning Akweley’s right hand flew out, and she slapped Maa Abena across the face rather cruelly.
“How dared you, idiot!” Akweley hissed with uncontrollable wrath. “You’ll meet me under such deception? I’ll have the security throw you out of here, you idiot!”
Maa Abena clutched her cheek, but she did not look afraid. Her eyes blazed with sudden anger at Akweley.
Ato moved toward Akweley with an angry grunt, but Maa Abena held out her hand to him, halting him.
“Throw me out of here?” Maa Abena said angrily. “Go on and try! For the world of me I can’t understand why you claimed you loved Kofi when you refuse, even now, to hear anything about him!”
“Because he’s dead to me!” Akweley screamed, and raised her hand again.
“Don’t you dare!” Maa Abena hissed furiously. “I let you hit me once, because you were right, I deceived you into meeting me, but if you dare hit me again, lady, I’ll show you what a real bitch can do!”
They glared at each other, and Akweley realized slowly that indeed, this girl who looked so innocent and docile outwardly had a fire pit in her that shouldn’t be disturbed. Slowly she dropped her hand, breathing hard.
“If Kofi sent you here, go and tell him I’m moving on, okay?” she said furiously. “Tell him to forget about me, because I’m going to get married to another man! Tell him that he’s dead to me, and he should never ever try to contact me again!”
Season 2 Episode 20
Maa Abena shook her head with wonder.
“Goodness me, but this attitude is strange!” she said with repressed fury. “Of all the attitudes I expected, this blatant self-denial wasn’t one of them. You’re capable of walking away from Kofi without bothering to know what really happened that day he was caught on top of a corpse?”
“That’s what I’ve been telling her all this while,” Ato said softly now, and the two of them became aware suddenly that he was still with them.
“Well, what he did wasn’t shrouded with invisibility that required a special Merlin to interpret, was it?” Akweley asked angrily. “He was making love to a corpse!”
“As ugly as that notion is, as shattering as it was, lady, you still owed it to him to know his side of the story, to know why he did it! You two were going to get married, for God’s sake! Instead of feeling so affronted why didn’t you just ask him why he did it? Why didn’t you allow him to explain himself even if he was speaking nonsense?”
Akweley was still breathing hard, but deep in the depth of her eyes lurked a scream of uneasiness. She licked her lips and moved to the window where she stood gazing out for a long time, and then she turned and dropped into a chair.
“It seems to me you know what really happened. Maybe he told you why he did it!” she said coldly. “Fine, sit down, and tell me what the catalyst for his madness was!”
Maa Abena shook her head, staring at Akweley with disdain and disbelief.
“Really?” she asked tightly.
“Please, Abena, allow me,” Ato said, and sat down on the settee next to Akweley, and then he began to speak fast, narrating in detail everything that had happened to Kofi.
Akweley sat quietly for a long time when Ato finished speaking. She looked suspiciously from Ato to Maa Abena, and it was quite evident that she found it hard believing them.
“And you’re telling me this man, this Bobo whatever, decided to keep Kofi there because he feels affronted by Kofi’s supposed seduction of his late wife?” she asked softly. “You expect me to believe that?”
Ato got to his feet warily, his face cold as he looked at Akweley.
“I don’t expect you to believe it, Ak,” he said coldly. “I told you what went down, and you have two choices here: either believe your man, or don’t.”
Akweley got to her feet and looked at him with fury.
“You sick bastard!” she grated out with uncontrollable fury. “You sicken me! I gave that bastard everything! Everything! My life and my soul, and he was cheating on me with numerous girls?”
“Yes, he was, Akweley, because deep down he’s always been the boy whose parents died in an accident, and he had to struggle through life from one foster home to the next! I’m not trying to justify his actions, far from it, and I know you got really hurt by what Kofi did, but we all learnt a lesson from what happened! I haven’t slept with any girl since! I can’t even sleep in my own bedroom now because of some scary shit happening in there, but my womanizing days are over. I want to fall in love, and marry! My playing days are over! This has changed Kofi too, and made him a better man! If you can forgive him, and help him to come out, you’ll have yourself a handsome, young husband devoted only to you! But, like I said, the decision is all yours, Akweley!”
Akweley laughed scornfully and looked at Maa Abena.
“Well, thanks for being here, but I possibly can’t forgive him for all the crap his selfish behaviour has brought my way,” she said icily. “I gave him my life, and he treated it with scorn! He exposed me to the worst form of public ridicule and humiliation. I’ve lived through hell! Now, my life is open ahead of me, and I have a man who will care for me. Kofi made his bed, and he can lie in it! He means nothing to me now. I hate him, and he disgusts me! Go and tell him that. It’s over, and I don’t ever want to see him again!”
She left the room in a huff, leaving Maa Abena staring at the closed glass door with shock and disbelief.
Ato sighed miserably and rubbed his forehead.
“Well, that’s it,” he said sadly. “Listen, is there any way you can arrange for me to see Kofi?”
Maa Abena placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Not now, Ato,” she said kindly. “The Director has put a total slammer on all visits to the inmates at D-Block, especially to Kofi. We don’t want to do anything to alarm him or make him aware that we know what’s going down. I’ll speak to Miss Elsie and see our next line of action, okay? And then maybe we can work something out.”
Ato leaned back and sighed heavily.
“Well, then at least just smuggle a phone in there, okay, so that I can speak to him for a few minutes, please. I miss him so much!”
“I’ll try, Ato,” she said gently. “There are CCTV cameras all over the place, but I’ll see what I can do. Now, I really have to go. I must admit that Akweley’s behaviour has put a damper on my mood. Rain cheque?”
He smiled at her, although it was evident he was very disappointed.
“No sweat, gem,” Ato said gently. “For, you, anything. But come, my shift is totally washed out by that encounter. I’ll drive you as far as my break-time will allow.”
He took her hand as they walked to the elevator, and she smiled nervously.
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 21
It was late afternoon.
Kofi had taken a bath, and read some Bible passages. It was amazing how he was becoming more and more fascinated by the things in the Bible each day.
He was amazed that there were so many incredible stories in there, and he had spent almost twenty-five years on earth without being exposed to such jewels of knowledge.
He wasn’t feeling hungry, and so he didn’t go for lunch.
Maybe it was because of the fact that he missed Maa Abena so much, although he would be the last person to admit it. He could see those beautiful eyes of hers when he closed his eyes, those incredible curves that would have made him go mad with uncontrollable lust just a few months ago.
But when he looked at her, lust was the last thing on his mind. He saw an incredible woman, a selfless and entirely honest human being, the type of which he had not met frequently in life.
He admitted to himself that it was becoming increasingly difficult not to think of her as something more than a friend, although he knew he shouldn’t entertain any ideas about her. A girl as pretty as her wouldn’t be single, even though Ato seemed to think so.
Ato, his best friend, was more than interested in Maa Abena, maybe he had even fallen in love with her.
Buddy Code…Desert Area!
Ato had told him about Maa Abena, and the fact that she could be the one woman he sent to the altar as his life partner. Kofi knew he had to honour that. Once Ato had put a claim of interest in Maa Abena, he had to abide by the ABCD of friends: Area for Buddy, Code Desert!
He couldn’t make a play for Maa Abena, even if she bounced Ato’s proposal.
Kofi Kuntu sighed deeply!
Here was one instance that, for the very first time, the ABCD rule was really pinching him up!
And of course there was Akweley to consider.
She still might be angry, yes, but there was still the chance that what they had shared was strong enough for her to forgive him eventually.
All that aside, however, he still missed Maa Abena so much.
Her smile, her gentle laugh, the twinkle in her eyes, her aura, the shock of her touch, the sound of her voice, the way she moved, how her white uniform simply fitted her body.
He missed her…
With his three companions out for lunch in the dining-room, Kofi lay on his back and surveyed the ceiling, wondering if he would ever leave the Adada Asylum and know the peace of a meaningful life outside.
He must have slipped off into sleep, because when he woke up he saw four fierce faces looking down at him. For a moment he thought they were his co-inmates, but slowly it dawned on him that they were wearing the uniforms of the security men of the institution.
Kofi was suddenly scared, and he bolted upward.
A fist thudded against his jaw, and he fell down on the bed again, and then the security men began hitting him with the short black batons they were holding. Kofi folded himself into a foetal position to protect his face as the blows pelted him left. right and centre.
The painful beating continued for a while, and he felt inflamed pains all over his body, and felt blood trickling down the side of his head from a gash one of the wooden batons had opened.
Why?
In the name of God WHY?
Why were they beating him now?
What had he done now?
His mind cried out against the cruel torture!
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why….dear Lord, dear Jesus, DEAR GOD WHY AM I SUFFERING LIKE THIS?
He was weak, almost passing out, when they stopped hitting him. They held him by the arms and legs and lifted him onto a gurney, and they secured the restraints around his ankles, wrists and across his forehead.
None of them spoke as they pushed the gurney out of the door and along the corridor. Kofi was in excruciating pain, and he could barely move. He wondered weakly if this was the end of his life.
He had no doubts whatsoever that Director Bobo Dovlo was behind this new atrocity.
The gurney was now being pushed up the stairs, and Kofi’s blood ran cold!
Upstairs led to the floor where Baluu was being kept!
He began to struggle feebly, and opened his mouth to scream but a baton landed savagely on his face, breaking his lips and causing more blood to erupt.
He moaned with pain.
They were on the corridor now, and he was being pushed along.
This time Kofi did not weep.
He was suffused with so much fury that he wished he had a gun.
He would’ve shot all of them dead.
Finally, the gurney stopped, and then a face appeared above his.
It was the face of Director Bobo Dovlo.
He smiled down at Kofi, and it was a very nasty smile indeed.
“Now you know what happens to stupid young boys who go around sleeping with the wives of other men, you bastard! Next time, if you’re reincarnated, you wouldn’t go around sleeping with married women! Aboa bi ba!”
Kofi glared up at the man with fury.
He could hear a terrible sound on his left. It was a crashing sound, a destructive melee of violent sounds that filled him with fear. He knew it was Baluu. The giant was in a frenzy, like he sometimes slipped into, and he was destroying everything in his cell.
Director Dovlo could see Kofi struggling, as if he wanted to say something.
He bent low and peered at the boy.
“Do you want to say something, fool?” he asked disdainfully.
And that was when Kofi spat a mouthful of blood and spittle into the man’s face.
“Go to hell, you bastard!” Kofi screamed with all the fury he could muster.
Director Dovlo moved back from him with a scream of rage. He brought out a huge handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his face as if there was something corrosive on his face.
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“You mongrel!” Director Dovlo kept screaming as he wiped the disgusting liquid from his face. “You filthy, dirty, mongrel!”
He suddenly slapped Kofi across the face, quite hard, his eyes bulging with enraged hatred.
“Mongrel! Filthy, dirty, scum! Rabid mongrel!!”
“What do we do with him, sir?” one of the security guards asked.
“Throw him in there with Baluu!” Director Dovlo said. “Do it! Now!”
The security men looked at each other with sudden trepidation, faces stunned.
“Baluu is in murderous mood, sir,” said Atakora, the head of security. “He’ll kill the boy instantly!”
“Don’t you dare question me, you diseased cancerous menstrual clot!” Director Dovlo screamed. “Throw the mongrel in there!”
Kofi remained calm as they began to loosen the restraints holding him to the gurney. He was too weak to fight, anyway. When they unfastened the tight band across his forehead he turned his head and saw that Baluu was indeed in a killing mood.
The terrible giant had overturned his bed and shredded his mattress.
The floor was littered with torn Styrofoam and the covering around the mattress. He was naked, and he was breathing hard as he looked at the people on the corridor. He had smashed his fists into the walls, and he was bleeding across his knuckles. He was breathing hard, his monstrous muscles rising and falling.
He was indeed in a killing rage.
“Tuluku, tuluku, tuluku!” Baluu screamed fiendishly. “E no be small o, e no be small o! I’ll kill all of you tuluku shuku-shuku!”
The guards removed the padlocks, opened the gates, and then they hurled Kofi’s body into the cell and quickly closed and locked the gate again but without the padlocks.
Baluu gave a thunderous roar and raced at the cell door, crashing himself against it repeatedly, reaching through the bars to and trying to grab some of the security men, but they moved back out of reach with cries of terror.
Director Dovlo looked at the insane man without any expression.
“If you want someone to tuluku shuku-shuku, kill him!” he said, indicating Kofi’s body with a forefinger.
Baluu turned round with another maddened roar, huffing and puffing like an angry giant, and then he saw Kofi’s body on the floor.
He screamed insanely, bent, picked Kofi up, and then he threw him with savage madness against the far wall. Kofi’s body smacked into the wall, and he dropped to the ground, all but dead! He could feel every nerve end paining him terribly as he got to his hands and knees.
He fought against the unconsciousness because he knew Baluu would kill him instantly if he became unconscious.
Across from him, through the bars, he could see Director Dovlo and his four bad men laughing, and again his wrath soared at how human beings could do this to another human. They wanted him dead, and now they were going to stand there and watch Baluu killing him.
Baluu roared insanely and rushed at Kofi again.
Kofi raised his forefinger and pointed it at Baluu, remembering how the giant had been terrified of the fire extinguisher. Not knowing what he was doing, Kofi held out his right forefinger like the nozzle of a fire extinguisher and crooked his left forefinger like he was pressing down the trigger of the extinguisher, and then he made the sound of gaseous emissions.
“FUUUUUSSSSSSHHHHHHHH!”
Baluu stopped suddenly and threw up his massive arms as if to protect his face and he began to shake immediately with fear.
“Ei, no be small oooo!” he screamed with sudden fear. “It’s you again o! Ei, no be small ooo! Don’t spray me with white jabujabu!”
He stood trembling, as Kofi got to his feet slowly and in much pain, and approached the giant. He put a hand on Baluu’s arm, and Baluu flinched, his face torn with fear, terror shimmering in his eyes.
“Ei, no be small!” he said, trembling. “Please, don’t spray me with white jabujabu!”
“I’m not going to spray you, Baluu,” Kofi said weakly. “You see those men over there? They forgot to lock the cell door with the padlocks. I’m going to open the cell door. They wanted me to spray you, so I want you to kill all of them like tuluku shuku-shuku!”
There was an instant look of wrath on his face.
“Ei, no be small!” he said with fury. “They wanted you to spray me with white jabujabu? They’re dead! All the tuluku shuku-shuku are dead!”
“Yes, with the white jabujabu, but you’re my friend!”
“Ei, no be small!” Baluu said with a sudden huge grin. “Jabujabu is my friend!”
“Yes, Jabujabu is your friend!”
In the corridor the four security men stopped laughing.
Director Dovlo was standing near the cell gate. He could see that Baluu and the boy were talking, but he didn’t know what they were talking about. Baluu was so huge and broad that he had totally blocked out any view they might have of Kofi, and so the director had not seen Kofi imitating a fire extinguisher.
The fact that Baluu was not attacking Kofi and was having a conversation with him really infuriated the Director and absolutely flabbergasted him.
He just couldn’t understand how Kofi had been able to neutralize the terror of this beast. It just didn’t make sense! His plan of having Baluu kill Kofi was not working, and it filled the Director with much murderous ire!
“What’re you doing, Baluu, you filthy piece of piss?”
“Ei, no be small,” Baluu said softly. “That man is calling me a piss!”
“Yes, yes, Baluu,” Kofi said weakly. “Stay here. I’m going to open the gate for you! He is the chief tuluku shuku-shuku! Jabujabu wants you to hammer him first!”
“Ei, no be small! But I hear you, Jabujabu!”
When Kofi walked past him and approached the gate, they all moved back toward the wall with looks of shock and disbelief on their faces.
“How did you control him?” Director Dovlo shouted with sudden shock, his face all contorted up with a mixture of fury, demented hatred and sudden apprehension.
Kofi simply smiled as he walked forward.
Just stand there, Director Kwasea Bobo, Kofi thought to himself as he walked, smiling fiendishly…
Just stand there, don’t make a move, just wait for me…I’m the Jabujabu, and I’m going to show you how it is done…I’m going to let Baluu tear you to pieces, so you stand there for a minute longer, please, don’t you dare move…I’m going to let Baluu shred you like tolo beef!
Kofi could actually hear the evil voice in his head, and at that particular moment all he wanted was to see Director Bobo Dovlo being mauled and torn to pieces!
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 23
When Kofi got to the gate he reached through the bars and grabbed the large handle of the locking bar, which the security men had carelessly left unsecured with the padlocks.
Director Dovlo was still looking at the broad back of Baluu with incomprehension, and then he suddenly saw Kofi pulling the locking bar up.
Bobo Dovlo’s face paled, and sudden horror filled his eyes as it dawned on him that the gates had not been secured.
“Oh, no!” Director Dovlo whispered, and then he turned without a word and began to ran away.
“Oh no, you don’t, you lunatic!” Kofi screamed and yanked up the bar.
The security men stared after the fleeing back of their boss with uncomprehending eyes until one of them saw what Kofi was doing and shouted.
“Jesus!” the man said with terror. “He’s opened the gate, good grief!”
They took precious seconds to react as Kofi pulled the gate open and rushed out into the corridor.
There was a roar behind him as Baluu gained the corridor too in all his phenomenal fury and dangerous violence.
Kofi began to run after Bobo Dovlo.
There was absolute terror on the Director’s face as he glanced behind him and saw Kofi gaining on him.
Atakora raised his baton to strike, but Baluu grabbed his neck, lifted him clear off the floor and slammed him with such sickening brutality into the wall that blood rushed out through Atakora’s mouth instantly.
Baluu flung him away like discarded doll, spun round and slammed a fist into the jaw of another security man who had beaten Kofi the fiercest. There was a faint crack as the man’s jaw dislocated and he slumped to the floor with fractious torture on his face.
The third security man was a huge hulking man, the one who had slammed a baton across Kofi’s mouth when he had tried to scream. He bent quickly and pulled out a wicked knife with serrated edges from his boot.
He flexed the knife at Baluu.
“Come on, you mad piece of cow dung!” he hissed in a terrible show of bravado, but the sweat glistening on his face clearly betrayed how terrified he really was inside.
“Ei, no be small, you get the jaga-jaga knife!” Baluu said with a dark frown on his face. “Baluu will take the jaga-jaga knife and knife you deeply in your thigh, ei no be small! I’ll take the knife and knife you in your thigh chuuk-chuuk!”
The Director had almost reached the end of the corridor when Kofi hurled himself at him, colliding solidly into the back of Director Dovlo, and both of them crashed to the ground.
The Director shrugged free and tried to stand up, but Kofi swung his right leg straight into the man’s groin.
Director Dovlo screamed with pain as Kofi’s kick sent shards of torture through his testicles. He clamped one of his hands to his testicles and, his face screwed up with pain, he tried to crawl to the stairs.
Meanwhile the brawny guard leapt forward with his knife, intending to slash into Baluu’s stomach, but the giant jumped back with the litheness of a matador and unleashed a horrific right uppercut that almost tore off the man’s head!
The blow lifted the huge man off his feet and slammed him into the wall, and he collapsed to the floor with terror on his face. Baluu squatted, picked up the knife which had fallen to the floor, and then he began sticking it into the security man’s thigh.
He would stick it in, pull it out, stick it in, pull it out!
The man moaned in deep anguish each time Baluu stuck him with the knife.
“Ei, no be small!” Baluu was saying as he stuck the man. “I told you I’ll take your knife and knife your thigh chuuk-chuuk, take your knife and knife your thigh chuuk-chuuk, take your knife and knife your thigh chuuk-chuuk! Ei, no be small!”
Blood had drenched the security man’s thighs, and Baluu got fed up and stood up, turning to face the fourth man.
This last security man was young, around Kofi’s age, and he stood petrified against the wall. He was so filled with fear that his back was pressed against the wall and his hands splayed wide and up against the wall, as if he had been crucified to the wall.
He was trembling rather badly, his eyes bulging and streaming tears, his mouth opened wide, and his nose trembling with uncontrollable terror.
Baluu approached him holding the bloodied knife.
“Ei, no be small!” Baluu said as he looked at the young man. “I’m going to knife-knife your throat chaka-chaka-chaka!”
And when the young man heard these words from Baluu, his bladder loosened up much against his will, and hot urine came gushing out, splaying his cream uniform and falling down his legs in torrents.
PASSWORD
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman
Season 2 Episode 24
Kofi got up on a half-crouch and slammed a shoulder into Director Dovlo, sending the man crashing to the floor once again. Kofi clamped his left arm around the Director’s neck and began to choke him.
“Let me go!” Director Dovlo struggled feebly, his skin suffused with the putrid sweat of a coward. “You’re going to let that man kill me!”
“That’s the idea, isn’t it?” Kofi hissed angrily into the man’s ears. “You wanted him to kill me, didn’t you? Now it’s your turn!”
“Oh, please!” the Director wailed, and his face looked absolutely tattooed with fear. “Oh, please! Don’t do this this, please, please!”
Kofi held on tight and looked up just in time to see Baluu standing in front of the young petrified security guard, and there was a bloodied knife in the giant’s hand!
Kofi’s heart skipped a beat as terror grabbed him!
He knew without a doubt that Baluu would kill the young man without the least care.
“Hey!” Kofi screamed loudly. “Hey, Baluu! Come here! Jabujabu is calling you! The Chief Tuluku is here! I have him! Come and shuku-shuku him!”
Baluu looked down the corridor at Kofi holding the Director, and then he looked at the young man against the wall standing in a pool of his own urine, and then he looked at the bloodied knife in his hand.
“Ei, no be small!” Baluu said softly. “I don’t want Chief Tuluku. I want to knife-knife this one chaka-chaka-chaka!”
“Come here, Baluu!” Kofi screamed desperately. “Jabujabu is calling you!”
“Ei, no be small!” Baluu replied. “Fucking Jabujabu! Where’s your jabujabu?”
He suddenly reached out and grabbed the throat of the young man, and then he raised his knife.
“Nooooo!” Kofi screamed.
“If you don’t let me go, Baluu will kill that young man, and his blood will be on your hands!” Director Dovlo said through his choked throat.
Kofi knew that Bobo Dovlo was right.
As much as he hated the man, he would have to let him go otherwise Baluu would commit murder.
He threw Bobo Dovlo away from him with disgust, stood up, and raced down the corridor towards Baluu. Director Dovlo got agonisingly to his feet and fled down the stairs, moaning with pain and terror!
Kofi came to a stop and glared at Baluu.
“Stop, Baluu, stop!” he shouted, straining to sound authoritative. “Leave that man alone right now! Don’t make me spray white jabujabu on you!”
Baluu turned on Kofi with sudden fury and raised the bloodied knife.
“Ei, no be small o, ei no be small o!” he screamed in a demented fashion. “I want to knife-knife this man chaka-chaka-chaka! If you keep disturbing me, I’ll knife-knife your aponkye face for you! Okusiee!”
Kofi licked his lips.
His fear was palpable.
The young man against the wall could barely breathe, and his terror was making him pass more water, making the pool of urine around his feet even wider. Kofi tried a final time.
“Jabujabu commands you to leave this man alone and return to your cell at once, Baluu!”
And with a scream of demented fury Baluu swung the knife wildly at Kofi, almost splitting his face from forehead to chin. The only thing that saved Kofi was that he was already taking a step backward!
Baluu swung the knife again, in a wide arc, aiming for Kofi’s throat this time. Kofi felt a faint scratch across his throat, and he knew death was beckoning him, and he was just seconds away from a most terrible end!
He turned and ran down the corridor, and with a scream of fury Baluu came after him. Kofi was wounded, and his bones were cracked, and he was weak and dizzy, but he forced himself to ran to the fire extinguisher against the wall, all the while expecting Baluu’s knife to sink into the base of his neck!
He dragged the fire extinguisher from the wall and released the pin before turning and aiming the nozzle!
But Baluu was already running away from him, screaming with terror as he dropped the knife and ran like mad!
“Ei, no be small ooo, ei no be small ooo!” Baluu was screaming as he ran, pumping his massive arms hard. “He has the jabujabu o! He has got the jabujabu o!!”
Kofi’s heart was thudding with reaction as he dragged the fire extinguisher behind him to the cell gate. Baluu had entered the cell and was cowering in the far corner, covering his face with his arms with fear.
Kofi sighed and dropped the fire extinguisher. He pushed in the locking bar on the cell and arduously fixed in the heavy padlocks.
To Be Continued…
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