The ordinary gate man in a white man’s house.

    By Michael C.Onah     

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Akpos have  walked by and  nearly passed a tall black gate at his right hand at lekki phase 2 street in Lagos, while he  striped behind and he saw a banner paced on the gate, say ‘gate man needed urgently’, so soon the gate was opened while a minute waiting  for 2018 latest model venza while parked outside drove in, he pried his long neck like a giraffe  when he saw a gorgeous man closing the gate and  rushed on him he greeted humbly, any way he can’t speak decent English , what he does is cut and join.

‘Orga good afternoon sir,’ he greeted but could not hold his smile it very obvious in his life trying to connect with a white man in the first time.

‘Hello, good afternoon,’ he replied and adjusting his black  eye glass.

‘orga I bei see a notice on the gate, say  gate man needed urgently. Is it still available  now?’ he asked crashing his head while he turned his face the other side, a woman attending to a customer in her grocery shop.

‘What’s your name?’

‘Akpos.’

‘Where are you from?’

‘Eee mm… mm, na cross river.’

‘Ok. You like it?’

‘orga well, well.’

‘Have you work this kind before?’

‘Haha orga I bei baba for this…’

‘Ok, come inside let’s talk briefly before I give you the job’. He said and he followed him behind, soon he then closed the gate. Akpos thought he wanted to grasp on him in the first place the way he did like piping outside carefully and fear griped on him.

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‘It been two day you started work, sincerely I can see you are good,  you have proven to me the 

Stuff you claimed to be yesterday. You’re a professional you know?’

‘Yes oh, orga I dei do wan well.’

‘ I can see. so what’s your pay check I pay you a month?’

‘orga that grammar too big, a beg I no understand well.’

‘I mean your monthly salary’.

‘ehe na now you dai talk.’

‘So…’

‘But orga na you go decide how much you go dei pay me every month, na so we da do wan for niger.’

‘Ok just name it. I give you go ahead.’

‘Ah orga this one big for my mouth, ok thirty thousand.’

‘It a change. I’ll make it for you fifty…’

‘Eh orga na you try pass. Orga I go serve you well well before I leave this compound to cross river where my family dai’

‘It alright but promise me you’ll be a nice person here.’

‘orga na nicer I go be no be even nice,’

‘you sound very funny, you can go back to your duty post’, he said and left inside the house.

‘hai but this money cool oh. My speak like this oyubo man: I wanna gonna, I wanna gonna to americanna.cool money men, may be na dollar I go pay me, eh but where I go change em may be I go help me.eh my family da for confirm e’dikai’ko soup.’ Shortly he entered his apartment still thrilled when he had the horn outside the gate.

‘Who bei that?’ he yelled on his lungs.

‘Open the gate’.

                    

‘Oh madam sorry oh’, he did apologies while she hurriedly drove so rough nearly bumping the barked venza and cut sharply at the side safe guard and packed.

‘What kept you so long Mr.?’ she asked frowned her face.

‘Ah madam I no no say na you ho’.

‘Don’t let it repeat  again, have I made myself clear?’

‘Yes ma’.

‘Good. Have you eaten something?’

‘No ma’.
    

‘You’re not hungry?’

‘I dai hungry well oh’.

‘Fine I go to kitchen and fix you something to eat.’ She said and left into the house.

‘A’beg fast madam hungry wan kill me for here, since morning oil thing never enter this belly, na only cabin biscuit ten naira  I shop’. He said and sluggishly entered his apartment.

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