Opana - The Coffin Maker

Opana the coffin maker episode 22

Opana – Episode 22
 
© Akoto Alexander
 
Michael Ansah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth, papa so how bad is her injury and where from that sceptic car because in the town there is no such car operating there and I hope the driver didn’t runaway?
 
Opana: It is one thing that has been baffling my mind my son, as I called you and you didn’t answer, that question came into mind. She has been rushed to the theatre and she is been operated upon, it is when the doctor comes out that is when we will know the extent of injury and for that stupid driver am told he jumped into the bush as he saw people running towards his car. There is no news about him for now.
 
Michael Ansah: But papa does it look that bad and will it be necessary for me to come back?
 
Opana: My son what will your coming do? Just concentrate on the mission ahead of you, if the need arises for you to come over i will alert you on that but please just stay focus and I will update you on any development concerning this issue. Before I forget have you gotten to your destination?
 
Michael Ansah: No papa am still in a car going.
 
Opana: Ah that long time? What accounted for this delay that you are still in a car and not at your friend’s end?
 
Michael Ansah: Hmmmm U won’t believe what happened papa, this afternoon the thing(necklace) saved me from an accident.
 
Opana: What do you mean my son?
 
Michael Ansah: Papa as I got to the lorry station the bus had moved so I was directed to a new and bigger bus which had no passenger in it, as I sat in it, I felt hungry so I ate the food mummy gave me and in no time I got some stomach upset so I got down to ease myself and when I returned someone had taken my seat, I tried to let him vacate my seat but he was adamant so we started exchanging words and all of a sudden I started felling the strangling on my neck. As by your directive I obeyed my instincts and got down from the bus even though I was angry within me, I got a car some minutes later. Papa you can’t imagine the bus I was supposed to board run into a ditch and talking to you right now, no one survived in the bus.
 
Opana: Now I guess you will not get reason to doubt what you have on your neck. We will talk later because I have seen the doctor coming out from the theatre, we will talk later. (call ends)
 
After Kwaku Mike finished talking with his dad on phone the phone he picked from the accident scene started ringing and he answered the call, he told the caller that the owner of the phone had been involved in a fatal accident and he gave the caller the direction to the exact s₱0t the accident took place. Kwaku Mike and his travelling mates got to Accra in some hours time later to meet a transformed place, he realised that the entire place had changed with massive infustructral development, the air also started blowing violently, it seems the storm had now gotten to the capital city and looking at the sky it wasn’t looking friendly at all. The driver dropped them at a filling station and everyone went his way but Kwaku Mike didn’t know where to pass so he brought his phone out to call his friend and alert him that he was finally in Accra, as he called him the network was not that clear to hear the exact direction that was been given to him due to the air that was blowing so he strained his ears to listen to what his friend was saying and before his friend could finish with his direction as to where he could pick him up, Kwaku Mike’s phone went off due to low battery. He decided to make a move to the s₱0t his friend gave out so he hired a taxi to drop him at that location where his friend will meet up with him, as they got to a quite and lonely road the lights of the taxi went off all of a sudden and the car refused to move, the driver tried everything he could do but the car won’t just start, Kwaku Mike was very angry but there was nothing he could do, he paid the driver half of the fare he was charged and he decided to go on foot since no car was plying that road they used. After walking like 40metres he started feeling the strangling again so he started looking around to see if anyone was chasing him or coming after him, he then decided to move from the road to the bush by the road side and the moment he did that he saw car lights coming his way, he wanted to come out and ask for a ride from the approaching car but something told him to continue hiding in the bush and all of a sudden the approaching car stopped right infront of where he was hiding and immediately some people came down from the car wearing all black and holding guns, the moment Kwaku Mike saw that he got scared and decided to hide well and in no time another car drove from the other direction to where the people were and as the car stopped the men in black brought someone out from the car they came with. The person had been blindfolded and because the second car that came had its light on, Kwaku Mike could see the people very well, it looked like something was about to go on, he remembered he had a sophisticated phone on him so he brought it out and as he checked the screen of the phone there was no lock or pattern on it so it meant that he could make use of the phone without any restrictions. He started recording what was going on from where he was hiding in the bush and thanks to the car lights he was getting everything clear without putting on the flashlight on the phone.
 
Meanwhile back at the hospital, Opana and his wife were sitting infront of the doctor to hear what he had to say to them.
 
Doctor: Well sir and madam I will go to the point without beating about the bush, your daughter is currently in coma and I believe she will be in that state for some days before she revives but the bigger problem is that because of the severity of the accident she has gotten a problem with her spinal cord and also her…..
 
Akua Yankey: (cuts in without allowing the doctor to finish his statement) Oh my God, doctor so you mean that my daughter won’t be able to walk again or what, please tell me something.
 
Opana: Woman get hold of yourself and story that rude interruption when someone is talking, doc please continue for me.
 
Doctor: Well sir am afraid to add that your daughter might lose her memory as well because looking at this X-ray before me and test I conducted on her, the back of her head hit the ground and it has caused a clot of blood to block the vein that transports blood in and out of her brain. An emergency surgery must be done so it helps her out or else am afraid your daughter might run made in the future, the ball is in your court right now.
 
Akua Yankey: Heeeeey the devil is a liar and the witches of my house and neighbourhood can never succeed in what they are planning towards my family. I double bind whatever plans and intentions they have towards my children and family,
 
anything they are doing will never materialise. Nothing that are planning will come to pass, they won’t achiever their……..
 
 
Opana: Woman please shut up and let me think, do you have to shift everything on witches or the devil? Papa doctor what is the chances now for daughter or should I say what is the way out?
 
Doctor: Sir as I said earlier on your daughter must be operated upon and even with that she must be flown outside the country to either South Africa or America and the budget for that is around fifty five thousand dollars($55000).
 
Opana: Gracious God!!! Where are am I going to get such money from? Doctor can’t you make it cedis or reduce it for us? My shop got burnt just yesterday including all my life savings, please consider my wife and I.
 
Doctor: Sir it is not like am the one charging the money to enjoy it but rather, the money will be used to pay for your daughter’s medical bills and part of the money will be used to process her travelling doc-ments and one person who will go with her to help her do her things over.
 
Opana: Hmmmm this is a very serious issue papa doctor, I have to start selling some of my properties to raise money so that my daughter is well taken care of, I won’t compromise with her life or health.
 
Doctor: That is very good to hear, the earlier the better for her. I have to attend to some other patients at the emergency ward, please be fast on this case because the earlier the better.
 
Opana and his wife left the hospital feeling very bad and in a very distressed mood, when they got home his wife engaged him a conversation which nearly opened the gate of hell.
 
 
Akua Yankey: My dear so what is the way forward now?
 
Opana: I don’t know what to say for now, am planning to sell my lands and palm plantations by the road side where thoes estate developers have been bothering me about. I might not get all the money the doctor mentioned but I can get more than half of the amount.
 
Akua Yankey: So my love what about the shop you promised to get for me at the market square?
 
Opana: Woman do the right thing at the right time, our daughter is in a critical state at the moment and getting money to get her operated upon even is a problem and you are here asking me of a shop. If my daughter doesn’t get back to her normal self again then I will say forget even a table at the market square.
 
Akua Yankey: Okay my dear, please be fast about the money for her medical expenses then, I can’t wait to travel with her to either America or South Africa.
 
Opana: (watches his wife like a lion who wants to attack his prey and spoke calmly) If you want to travel with your daughter then get your travelling doc-ments and money ready because I should be the one to go with my daughter.
 
Meanwhile it is getting tough at the place Kwaku Mike is hiding, he is been climbed by ants at the place he hiding and the ants are biting him mercilessly.
 
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The man from the second car, ordered the men in black to take the blindfold off from the face of the guy who was brought out of the car and he engaged him in a conversation.
 
Boss: Nicodemus so you think you could abscond with my money and concealment huh?
 
Nicodemus: Boss it is not like what you are thinking, I can never do such a thing after all that you have done for me. I never had any negative motives to run away with your money or concealment, there was a snitch who blew my cover out to the police in the deal I was doing so boss I had to go on a low key. Boss I am now on the wanted list of the police as they having been searching for me because I shot an informant who wanted to leak information on my whereabouts last week.
 
Boss: You told me that those people were genuine people so I should give them as much concealment and goods that they need and now you are giving me stories and playing hide and seek with me.
 
Nicodemus: Boss please give me three more days to get your money for you in full.
 
Boss: If you wanted to get me my money or concealment like you won’t be playing games with me and you had the nerves to play with my little girl’s heart after you exploited her. Well you said the police are after you right?
 
Nicodemus: I never played with your daughter’s heart boss, she was the person who called for a break up and yes the police are after me, please do something about it for me please.
 
Boss: Oh yes I want to do something about it, that is why I made my boys dig you out from where you were hiding. I am hereby relieving you from the police hunt and any other attack so I am giving you a first class VVIP ticket to hell. If by chance you meet my late father tell him am now a very big boy and that if he thought for once that I will die a poor person after he chased me out of his house, then he was damn wrong. I command money from all angles and I own mansions and flint of expensive customised cars.
 
Nicodemus: Boss it has not come to this, remember what I have been able to accomplish for you over the years. I took a greater risk for you with my life and I abandoned my family just to make this cartel grow strong and powerful, please give me a little time to clear this mass up. You know what I can do so please reconsider your decision for am about to hit the biggest deal ever for you.
 
Boss: Shut that thing you call a mouth up, am not listening to any form of excuse this time around, no one and I repeat no one on this earth will ever stab me in the back or outsmart me and live to tell his story, I am the viper snake who accesses my prey before I attack and when I do, I don’t miss my target. As I was saying earlier on before you had the nerves to interrupt me, when you meet my father tell him my accomplishments and achievements so far and tell him I was the one who gave you the ticket to hell. (pulls a pistol out and fires three times into the chest of Nicodemus).
 
Kwaku Mike couldn’t stand the sight of what he just saw so he made a little sound which got the attention of the people on the road.
 
Boss: What sound was that? There is someone around watching us, you guys should go into the bush and make sure you find that fool spying on us and bring him or her before me whether dead or alive. Scorpion I don’t have to tell you what to do because you know what will happen if this spy leaks the information of what went on here, now go with your boys and don’t leave any stone unturned.
 
Scorpion: Okay boss, you know am good with tracking and hunting people down so don’t worry your head at all. Boys team A to the left and team Z to my right, now go and if anything send a signal to me, boss please go home for us to handle this.
 
Boss: Very well then, I will be waiting for you with any information you get.
 
Michael Ansah: (whispering to himself and running through the bush) Oh God please don’t let this wicked people get me because if they do I won’t leave to tell my story. I don’t know where I am even as at now but I know you didn’t bring me this far to die this ugly death. Father God please if you save me from this people erh, I will never stop serving you and your house shall be my dwelling place.
 
Kwaku Mike kept running and he heard footsteps from behind and the next thing he hears is a gun shot which made him fall down. The phone he used to record the video of how that youngman called Nicodemus fell from his hand and as he searched around with his fingers he couldn’t find it so he rises up again and that is when he realises that the gunshot nearly penetrated his left arm. He runs without looking back then from afar he hears the horn of cars which gives him hope that if he is able to get to the road side he might get a car or someone who will give him a ride so he escapes from those wicked people. Another gunshot was fired and this time it hit his right th-gh which makes him fall down again.
 
On the other hand Quincy the friend of Kwaku Mike had gotten to the place that he was suppose to pick his friend up but for several minutes of waiting for his friend there was no sign of him(Kwaku Mike) showing up and what got him more worried was the fact that Kwaku Mike’s phone was off, he had dialed his friend’s number for more tha seventy times in a space of 40minutes, he was wondering if Kwaku Mike had missed his way or possibly had an accident since drivers in that area drove very rough at night but after some seconds he downplayed his thoughts and started thinking positive instead of negative, he decided to wait for a while before he decides on anything because he didn’t want to rush home and later get a call from his friend that he has now gotten to the place he is to be picked up.
 
Back at the bush Kwaku Mike took minute steps to the road side and any car he tried to stop passed him by without even slowing down to listen to him, he decided to jump onto the street so that a car could knock him down because with that he knew the driver could rush him to the hospital for treatment, he said to himself that if he dies through this act fine and if he survives also it will be great for him. He saw a big truck coming but not on a tough speed and he decides to jump onto the street when it gets close but on second thought he realises that if this car knocks him down and he doesn’t die his life will be miserable because his injury might be severe and he won’t get any proper insurance from the car so he made the truck pass and he hears the gunshot again this time without think twice he jumps onto the street and an approaching car knocks him down and he falls down heavily after flying in the air with the force from the car that hit him. The driver comes out and it is a female, out of pity and compassion the lady comes close to examine if the person he knocked down is dead or alive. She sees that the person she knocked down is still breathing so she immediately tries to lift the person up and with the little strength Kwaku Mike had in him he also helps himself up mo-ning in pain and he whispers to the lady to please hurry up and take him out of the place. He told her that if they delayed any further they will be gunned down and immediately he made that statement, another gunshot was fired which made the lady see reason to double her steps and push Kwaku Mike in the back seat of her car and even before the car moved another gunshot came again which hits her side mirror, she gives a James Bond driving and leaves the place immediately, as confused as she was she started asking Kwaku Mike what that action was all about and who he was and why people were shooting at him?
 
Young Lady: (in a confused state) Mr man who are you and why were people shooting at you? Hope you are not a criminal because I don’t want any trouble where I will come in the news as your alibi or partner in crime.
 
Michael Ansah: (in pains) Aaaaaaah!!! Aaaaaaah!!! Aaaaaaah please take me to the hospital please am not a criminal.
 
Young Lady: That is what all the criminals say when they are caught, better speak the truth before I drive you to the nearest police station.
 
Michael Ansah: (still in pains) I swear with my life madam that am not a criminal, I happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Young Lady: What do you mean by being at the wrong place at the wrong time?
 
Michael Ansah: Madam please drive me to the hospital first, I promise to tell you everything when I have been taken care of, I have been shot in the leg and you also knocked me down with you car.
 
Young Lady: Oh shut up Mr man, are you not the one who jumped into the street, what were you thinking of in the first place and were you thinking the road is you bedroom or swimming pool? If you don’t talk now I will drive you to the police station some few meters ahead.
 
Michael Ansah: Madam as I said am not a criminal, the people chasing after me just killed someone in the bush and I happen to be a witness to their crime so that is why they are after me to eliminate me so that the crime will remain a secret forever, am not a criminal and I shall never be one.
 
Young Lady: So if you are not a criminal and part of them, what were you doing in the bush at this time of the day?
 
Back in Opana’s house he had just woken up from a dream that he had and he was sweating so bad…….
 
What do you think Opana’s dream was about?
 
How to grow your business while you stay at  home
Is Kwaku Mike’s life safe after the car knocked him down?
 
Will Bernice survive and stand on her feet again?
 
To be continued

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