PART 26
“I AM PRESIDENT MAMUD”
©Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
“I have had time to really think like you said! I think I know what my real problem is!” Mamud said from the pit the moment he heard approaching footsteps…
“Good to know! That’s means you deserve the treat I brought you…but let’s hear it first.. !”
“Anger! That’s my problem… I get so angry and do things I later regret…”
“Nah! Anger is not your problem but the lack of control is the problem… We are humans and we are allowed to get angry, but we must control that anger before it gets out of hand… You know I used to ask God Why I was born blind, I saw it as a weakness, but it stopped becoming one when I embraced who I am and learnt how to live with it… I am in control of my blind sight, my blind sight doesn’t control me…”
Mamud maintained total silence…
“Do you know we were all created by God, and we were made like him… President Mamud, God also gets angry, but if God were to take action on every of his angry moments, there won’t be any one living on earth…”
Mamud still wouldn’t say a word as no one had ever made him see his life that way…
“Anger isn’t my problem, but my lack of self control in acting during the time of Anger is my problem!” Mamud said silently to himself
“President Mamud, God creating you the way you are isn’t a mistake, he put that fire in you, that anger against evil in you… It is the unique power he has given you, because he knows you need to clear the land of the evil ones, but that same Anger must be well managed and used appropriately…” Yenewa said as she stood up…
“It’s getting dark… I need to leave! I just came around to drop you this treat!” Yenewa said as she dropped a pack of Candace chocolate and a pack of fruit juice…
“I would have loved us to continue this conversation, Mr President, but I promised My daughter I will be back in no time….and I wouldn’t want to break my promise..”Yenewa said
“You have a daughter?” Mamud said as he burst into tears “I don’t know if mine has been found… Did they mention her in the news? I promised her I was going to get her back, but I have failed her!” Mamud said in tears
“Found? What do you mean?”
“My First daughter Sebrena was kidnapped about 17 days ago before my wife and my other daughter left the house!”
“Kidnapped?”
“Yes, don’t know what they would have done to her… I hope she hasn’t had any of her seizures… she hasn’t taken her pills in days… “ Mamud cried as he felt he was a mess of a Father…
“Seizures?” Yenewa’s heart was beating fast…
“She is epileptic!”
“How old is she?”
“7 years old, very beautiful like her mother!”
“Does she pronounce the letter “R” as “ W”? Meaning if she wants to say “Reach,” she says “Weach?”….” Yenewa asked as she felt her body vibrating…
“Yes, you know so much about everything, the speech therapist we got said it was due to the frequent number of seizures she has had that altered her speech…”
Mamud heard silence after
“Hello, are you still there?”
Yenewa sat frozen on one spot as she broke down In tears… She was awed at the magnitude of God’s wisdom… She couldn’t fix the pieces together but it was obvious God loved President Mamud and despite his issues, God would work all things around to Favour him, even if it included his enemies working for him….
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“What do you mean you are considering Bereto becoming the Vice President?” Hidoko raised his voice against Ashkian at the Brotherhood’s Hangout….
“That spot is mine!”
To be continued…
