[They arrived at her car parked outside his house and he yelled at the gateman Mamud to open the gate for her to go out.]
JOHNSON: Mamud!
MAMUD: Oga!
JOHNSON: Please open the gate fot my friend
MAMUD: Yes sir.
[They bade farewell to each other as she drove off and Mamud locked the gates behind.]
ACT TWO SCENE TEN
[Mamud is seen sitting and thinking, mostly soliloquising about problems known to him when Abigail walked in.]
ABIGAIL: Mamud the thinker of life. Why you sit down dey think like person when get family issues?
MAMUD: En this Happy-Girl, ki bani. Leave me alone. Me and you, ba wahala kuma.
ABIGAIL: I no come buy wahala. I just dey concerned as I see dey look like suya when no gree done.
MAMUD: Kai da wawa’ne! [He insulted] As your mouth open reach you no dey see as that oga upcoming girlfriend dey do around oga? When e just reach out time madam to come house, she go jas comot. Akwai damoa walahin! [He reported]
ABIGAIL: Anyways, no be lie you dey talk, this go make am the 7th time this month when small aunty dey reach here comot before big aunty go come house.
MAMUD: I smell something fishy.
ABIGAIL: How you no go smell fish. Na So so food you dey smell. Aije bai gbe e o! No let food go kill you o!
MAMUD: Food no go fit kill me walahin. [He protested with some Hausa gibberish]. Focus on the issue on ground. You dey look me less less. If not for the condition of things I for dey Aso Rock dey rock things. Allah ya tai make mu lafia, walahin ta lahin!
ABIGAIL: Anyways, na them come know o. E no concern me. Whether small aunty come do morning service and big aunty come do evening service na them know. Na only one oga give ring to.
[Suddenly they realised that Ebanehita was behind them as she had walked into the compound through the small gate. They were surprised and obviously cowering in fear.]
EBANEHITA: So this is what you guys do when you are less busy eh? You gossip. Oya! Abigail return to your task. [She ordered Abigail and then faced Mamud] This is how you secure the house eh? I just walked in on your little chit chat and you did not even notice me in broad day light, Mamud!.
MAMUD: [murmuring in Hausa gibberish] Madam, that happy-girl carry my attention go where I nor know. I even know when you take enter, but I no just wan talk.
EBANEHITA: If you know what is good for you, better behave o. Focus.
[She advised and walked into the house]
[Mamud complained in Hausa before checking the gates and moving into his abode.]
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Love Swing
ActionA turn of event as he loved someone who did not love him back and she loved someone who may not even lover her back. The story of love that swings from the ideas that were embedded in us right from the time we were salvaging our high school grades...
