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around the garage staring at the men and seething with frustration. Their delay was on to him one of bafflement; he was

lling a few names: "Your father! Your stroke-eaten grandfather! Buy your mother's breasts at five naira!" With time he grew weary of upbraiding his buyers and took off the 'for sale' placard. Impatience groaning inward, he went on telling as many money-bags as he could, mostly those away from his street, and they awed him with promises of buying it soon. It became a reverie about every

d on his gate this morning, looking all chummy and determined. Since morning he had refused to add to the Seven Million Naira offer, despite Agu'

se thunderous looks irritated Agu. He was the buyer's lawyer, the first lawyer that earne

ill alive." He pointed to it, as though to show them something outstanding about it whi

s neck. "I don't like Benz. I am buying it for my gate man,

he looked like those Yoruba that had spent half of their lives abro

uption of anger, one that would curse him in his mother tongue soon and dra

d Agu glared at him like a watchdog, in

h his breath and led them into the sitting room to finalize it; he handed them one title deed, c

had been my bold step and rendering the world broke my staircase, he said thoughtfully. He was 26 and he hoped to be made at 27; having local and hard currencies in his pocket was worth dying for now. Way back on campus where he was brought into the plan he had started seeing himself at the

powerfully at his beholder and Agu rubbed his snout, feeling how those words scared through his face; how everything in this world could easily be converted i

pointed at the bungalow, "So heed to our wish," the lawyer said an

ead. He would love to slap the lawyer into the floor, even if not right away, maybe sometime out there on the street. He knew he advised the buyer ag

t his hand and Agu shook hands with him. "I wish yo

on of selling my inh

replied, throwing his ag

hand for a hand shake and Agu snubbed him by leading them outside.

waved back. He kept to his gaze yet thinking; I am not alone now. If he and Agu were yet to get th

New York, who helped to source the bills he used in procuring gadgets and prepared machine codes for the softwa