By Othello B. Garblah
Dear Father:
Hmm, they say da na small vex ley Papay vex oo. Ley Oldman moh go flex him muscle again! Come see men and women dropping.
My son da whatin happen?
Um, they say ley Papay told him kitchen people them to declare all their belonging they had before coming to work in him kitchen. Bor they na listen. They say him called them and even sent messenger to them to declare all their belonging them-they still na listen.
Ley moh geh vex! Him say all ley people them who refuse moh go home, they moh stay home with no pay until they show all ley thin then they geh.
You joking!
Father da na joke oo. You want see ley people from ley place they called Goworment Starting Astry taking our village property from them again!
Tell me something!
Father, da ever since ley Oldman to them oo. You know in our village we can’t take anything serious ehn. And wah making ley Oldman vex too is stealing bisnay. Everywhere you turn in our village people crying on ley Oldman and him people name.
You say whatin?
Father, da na small thing happening in dis our village here oo. Is leh somer them had really planned to come back to correct de mistakes they made during ley Old lady time in power.
The noise about stealing in ley village ay too much na. You come so, somebody na buy one big car. You come so, some body buy big house-and wein you loka ley money they making and ley time they na work for you will be thinking if ley people are magicians.
So, ley Papay say they moh tell ley village people ley thing them they had first before taking our village job, or else they will nag eh fwen.
Hmm my son, him moh na stop there oo.
What you mean Father-ay look leh da something you know oo.
Bor my son, corruption in ley village da na just failing to tell ley people de thin them you having before taking village job oo.
Other people vey closed to him na do plenty thin then jus in 1 year. Some of ley same thin them ley village people wor making noise for-leh dis bad company da collect our village taxes and sharing it with him people, while giving your village peanuts-if him serious him moh cancel it na na.
Father, da true oo, because dis one here da ley main thin our people want see oo. Yes oo, da na small money they stealing from our village oo.
Imagine da kina free money they taking jus sharing it with somer him big, big people. Ehn they say him Pekin behind it?
Aah Father my name oo. Somebody fini warning say i moh na talk inside dis one plenty before i com turn my fine woman to widow soon. They say da company that president them and their family eating place there, so I moh take my mouth from inside.
You joking my son
Father, dis one da na joke oo. They say no joke in snake mouth oo. Da ley p;ay ay na reach oo. They say Tamba da man, Tamba da man, da in Lofa oo. You take hungry people you put them over good food, what you think they will do? My name ooo.
