The Mortician…
THE WRITER
ALEXANDER AKOTO ADJEI
THE MORTICIAN
(Nii Dromo The Mortuary Man)
EPISODE 19
After my statement was taken, Mr Narh pleaded with the crime officer to have a word with me and he was given five minutes to talk with me before I was locked in the cell.
Honestly, I was very ashamed of myself and I didn’t know how to start explaining myself.
Mr Narh, after expressing how disappointed he was in me, asked if I knew the implications I have brought upon the mortuary because the moment this news came out into the public domain people would no longer like to patronise our mortuary knowing.
He really stressed on a lot of negative things I had positioned the mortuary into and later asked who I would like him to contact first.
He also wanted to search for a very competent lawyer to come and defend me or see if I could be granted bail; after all, when you beat the child with the right hand you draw him closer to you with the left hand.
I gave my mother’s phone number to him so that he would call and inform her of my current plight because I wasn’t having any girlfriend who I could rely on to bring me food or anything I might be needing in custody.
I gave him the keys to my room and showed him where my cheque book was so that he would bring it along when next he came to visit me to sign an amount for a lawyer’s initial charges.
He told me he would call my mother the moment he left the police station and also inform Mr Nyamekye and see how best he could resolve the issue and later go out in search of a lawyer for me.
In less than a minute some media people rushed to the police station and started taking pictures of me without even obtaining permission from the station officer or commander of the police station.
I tried hiding my face but some of them had already gotten a clear shot of me.
The police officer behind the counter quickly opened the cell gate and pushed me inside to avoid a stampede at the police station.
Some other officers were called in to calm the situation down at the station and ward off the media personnel from creating an scene at the police station.
Honestly, I received a huge welcome party from the cell inmates who were already in the cell.
I received slaps and punches from them as if I had been caught stealing from the market square.
The cell leader ordered them to stop eventually and asked me to come and sit next to him so I tell him what exactly brought me to their five-star hotel.
As I started my story the officer who locked me up called me to come because the commander of the station wanted to see me.
He marched me to the commander’s office with the media people still taking shots of me. All this while I was still in handcuffs.
We got to the commander’s office and I saw two elderly men and Ken seated in front of the commander.
One of the elderly men tried attacking me but with the timely intervention of Ken’s swift movement he stopped the man from hitting me.
I surmised that the man was Ken’s father because there was the resemblance between them and the other person was Sammy’s father per my calculations.
I was threatened by Ken’s father that I was going to spend the rest of my miserable life in jail for raping a whole lawyer and the would-be daughter-in-law of the richest man in town.
The other man who I believe to be Sammy’s father was by then writing and signing on something I suspected to be a cheque.
He later tore a leaflet and handed it over to the commander to see to it that I was not granted bail at all cost.
He then turned and gave me a wicked look and said to me in a very unfriendly tone that “meat meant for the lion had nothing to do with the hyena.”
What pained him most, he said, was that the virginity Tilly was preserving to give it to his son on their wedding night I had come to destroy everything just like that.
The commander cut in and told the men not to worry their heads and that he would see to it that their request was adhered to.
All this while Ken was looking at me quietly without uttering a word to me or anyone in the office.
The commander ordered the officer who brought me to send me back to the cell and it was that time when Ken followed and requested to have a word with me privately.
He also registered his great disappointment towards the action I took and told me that even as at what I had done he had forgiven me but would never forget it.
He further told me that he was not in support of any legal action towards me so I should bear that in mind.
I asked him how Tilly was faring and coping with the unpardonable thing I did to her, and he told me she was still in shock due to the accident she was involved in and that she found it difficult to speak.
The only thing she did to interact with them now was through exchange of writing.
I felt bad and devastated as the officer took me away from Ken’s presence.
I turned and saw a white Range Rover car coming close to where Ken stood, the door opened and Sammy got down from the car with one of his arms in a P.O.P and bandage draped around his head.
He pointed at me whiles talking to Ken and tried coming over to where I was being taken to but Ken stopped him
I was sent back to the cell and the cell leader was still waiting to listen to my story that brought me to my current destination.
I told him everything from day one that I set sight on Tilly to now that I had goofed big time towards her. And I told him that I didn’t even know if Tilly would find a place in her heart to forgive me for taking advantage of her when she got to know eventually.
But the cell leader told me not to feel bad because even though what I did was wrong and, in some customs, it would be termed as a demonic abomination, I managed to bring Tilly back to life again.
He said what I did even the best doctors or surgeons in the whole world couldn’t revive a dead person back to life again but for me I had been able to achieve the unthinkable results ever.
He gave me the assurance that everything would be okay and that I shouldn’t loss hope in God.
I looked at him in a very surprised way as he made those comments and even quoted from the holy Bible.
He smiled and told me the fact that he was behind bars didn’t mean he was a bad person.
According to him, the police station was like the hospital and anybody could be brought there any time because some issues were unforeseen that attacked you when you least expected it to happen to you.
He also narrated his story that brought him to the police station and immediately I felt sad for him.
Indeed “if your house is far someone’s house is behind yours”.
Mr Narh came back to the police station with my cheque book but the officer at the counter didn’t want to buy the idea of me signing the cheque whiles I was behind bars.
However, after Mr Narh greased his palms, he gave his consent.
I signed a cheque of 8,000 cedis for him to go out and find a very good and competent lawyer for me.
I didn’t hear from him again for that day until the next day that he showed up with a female lawyer with the name Barrister Doris Dede Tetteh.
She was a very beautiful lady who was very confident that even though I was at fault she would try everything possible to get me out of police custody.
She had a one-on-one conversation with me where she asked me to tell her everything that happened from the moment the lady I slept with was brought to the mortuary.
I even went an extra mile by telling her the secret relationship I had with her back at the university even before she travelled to the UK and the promise Tilly gave me concerning her virginity.
All this while my new lawyer was recording my narrations and also taking note of some vital information.
It was only when I was done with my narration before I got to know that she had recorded everything I had said and that she would get me out of police custody in no time.
She told me she wanted to see the commander so she would be right back.
Before she left to see the commander, I gave her the hint on the cheque Sammy’s father gave to him the previous day.
My lawyer smiled as she left me to see the commander with the revelation I brought out.
When she went to the commander’s office to fight for a bail on my behalf, she was told that the only place I could be granted bail was at the law court.
Furthermore, the CID officers in charge of the case were still conducting their preliminary investigations and until they were done, I couldn’t be arraigned for court.
Barrister Dede Tetteh banged her hand on the commander’s desk and told him that was not possible.
She asked him if it took the CID officers a whole year to get enough evidence to nail me down that was when they were going to arraign me before court?
She quoted some portions of the constitution that spoke about our human rights and further told the commander that she was aware of the cheque he took as a form of bribe from Sammy’s father and she had pictures of the commander coming out of the bank after …
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I am Akoto Adjei Alexander, a Christian. A product of Abetifi Presbyterian Senior High School, Abetifi-Kwahu. I am in my late 20’s and the last born of the boys my parent brought to earth. Basically, I am a fiction/scriptwriter who loves to write about nature and the realities of life. I do a little of Graphics Design, I do MC’ing of events somethings, a Motivational Speaker and a Relationship Talk Expert
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