Opana the coffin maker episode 26

Opana – Episode 26
 
© Akoto Alexander
 
Opana gets to the estate developer’s end and he tells him his purpose of coming over to him.
 
Opana: Good morning Mr Addo, I will make my mission of coming here very brief so that you can proceed with your day’s actives.
 
Mr Addo: Good morning Mr Ansah, let me offer you something first as courtesy demands. Mmmm Esi get my visitor some fruit juice and some snacks. Mr Ansah please feel at home.
 
Opana: Oh I feel comfortable been addressed as Opana. I came here in respect to the visit you paid me some time back concerning my parcel of lands and palm plantation.
 
Mr Addo: Oh that is good but please let me invite my wife into this discussion, she happens to be my business partner in the estate developing business. Sweetheart please come over right away.
 
Esi: Sir please I have brought the fruit juice and snacks.
 
Mr Addo: Very good, please call your madam for me right now, tell her to stop everything she is doing and join us this very minute. We have an important guest here this morning.
 
(A very beautiful woman with great curves joins Opana and Mr Addo shortly)
 
Mr Addo: Opana this is my better half and business partner, she is Mrs Pearl Addo.
 
Opana: Nice meeting you madam and for you Mr Addo, I must confess that you have eyes for quality and good things. Your wife is an epitome of beauty and she looks like our first lady of the country, indeed behind every successful man is a very pretty woman who assist him with decision making.
 
Mrs Pearl Addo: Am flattered with your words sir and if not my husband who is here like I will say you are trying to woe me into a relationsh¡p……. hahahahahaha.
 
Opana: (laughing out loud) You are equally full of humour Mrs Addo, can I afford to buy your pomade even? Please ooo don’t give me the chance to choke with laughter.
 
Mr Addo: I feel am the luckiest person on this earth with my wife beside me. You can only admire her but she remains my wife forever.
 
Opana: Hahahaha that is very true, please let me go straight to my reason for walking into your house this morning. The last time you came to my end, you registered your interest in my palm plantation and lands, I turned your offer down even though you gave me a very good reason to sell my land to you. I had the chance recently to travel to some of the neighbouring communities around this town and I saw some of the developments that you have brought over to those place and I must confess I really liked what I saw, I have always been someone who loves beautiful things and I don’t settle for less with the things I engage myself in, I realised also that if you are given the opportunity you will turn the fortune of this community around by bringing investors and billionaires to our small town so upon deliberating with my wife who is not here at the moment, I have decided to sell my lands and palm plantation to you on some terms and conditions. If you are okay with it, we will go into a doc-mentation process which my lawyer will come out with.
 
Mr Addo: Oh this is good news Opana, can you open up a little on your terms and conditions?
 
Opana: Mmmm first am selling my lands in the dollar currency and also when you finish building on the land I sell to you, you will give me one of the expensive houses you built on it.
 
Mrs Pearl Addo: But sir isn’t your offer too much?
 
Opana: My dear how much is too much? My little research on your estates has brought to my notice that you don’t sell your houses or estates in the cedi currency so what is the big deal here when you buy the land you will build on it in dollars? I believe you know where the land is and I wouldn’t like to tell you the number of people who have been to my place to purchase it, I don’t know why I even took steps here to talk business with you in the first place.
 
 
Mr Addo: Sweetheart please can you allow me to handle this matter, Opana please don’t get angry based on what my wife said. You know how women like to do business sometimes.
 
Opana: Oh am not angry but I equally don’t like doing business with women either. So are you interested in my clause or you are not cool with it?
 
Back the mansion of the Boss:
 
Boss: Scorpion I hope you came with good news?
 
Scorpion: Boss am sorry but it seems that guy is smarter than I have been thinking he is.
 
Boss: What do you mean by that?
 
Scorpion: Boss you can’t imagine that guy outsmarted a nurse at the hospital he was taking treatment from and injected him with an injection that made him sleep for him to run.
 
 
Ginola: Scorpion why are you not telling the boss that we came in contact with him but he gave us a wrong direction which aided him to run away from us easily.
 
Boss: Whaaat? Scorpion I can see that now you have lost it and you can’t sting anymore, the poison in you is finished and is high time I dispose and relieve you of your duties in this cartel. Your incompetence is becoming unpardonable and if I countine making you spearhead my operations, you will sink my sh¡p in the ocean. Am giving you 21days to get me that fool or else Ginola will take you position and lead my operations, you know what that means.
 
Scorpion: Am very much aware of that boss and I promise to smoke that guy out to you very soon.
 
Boss: Henceforth you and Ginola are going to work hand in hand and don’t try to be superior over him from now onwards. If by 21days time that fool is not brought to me then I will give Ginola the authority to lead the boys including you. Do I make myself clear.
 
Scorpion: It’s crystal clear boss.
 
Ginola: Thank you very much boss for the confidence you have imposed on me, I promise not to disappoint you in any way. Expect the best from me sir and for that fool who wants to brings sleepless nights to you, his days on earth are numbered.
 
Boss: Now you guys should get out of my sights and tell Debbie to bring the girls into my inner chamber, I need a French m-ssage to calm my mind and nerves down.
 
The guys walk out of the mansion and Ginola sees how moody Scorpion is so he engages him in a conversation to find out what the problem is:
 
 
Ginola: Bruv what is the problem, you look depressed?
 
Scorpion: What game are you trying to play huh?
 
Ginola: Game? What do you mean by me playing games my guy?
 
Scorpion: The slow movement of the lion doesn’t make it a weakling, don’t try to double cross me because if you do I won’t think twice to crush you. All the games you were playing in,side there, I want you to know that I saw your tactics and I believe now you are happy because you have been elevated to my status but I want you to know that, I have seen, fought and conquered battles much difficult than this case we are facing now. This matter is a tomato case to me, watch your back when walking because you are not safe any longer in this world. Go and inform Debbie that the boss wants to see the girls and herself in his inner chamber. (walks away from Ginola with a straight face)
 
Ginola: (talking to himself) What did I do wrong this time, was it wrong for me to let the boss know the matter on the ground? Who cares if you are angry with what I said after all, I was in this cartel long time ago when you joined, you think because you were first a land guard so you are having a much criminal mind than me, if you don’t know I was also once a pick pocket who graduated to become an armed robber before I later became an assassin, I have robbed and killed much people than you have ever done so chill out my friend. Everyone for himself God for us all.
 
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Quincy: Bro this is where I live for now, it’s not that luxurious or big but let’s just manage it for now and feel at home. I know when the society and the world hears our story in the future, they will never envy any rich man because I always say that jealousy and enviness are the tools of the devil that he uses to expand his territory. But what are you doing in this nurses scrubs, hope it is not what am thinking?
 
Michael Ansah: Did you say luxurious or big? Man you should be proud of yourself for what you have and have been able to achieve, don’t we have the same certificate? Am I not coming to squat at your end for sometime so I try to org-nise myself also?
 
Quincy: I know but I just want make you know the matter on ground, maybe your expectations were high as you were coming over.
 
Michael Ansah: My friend stop whinging about and be grateful for the little mercies God has been showering on you, am not a lady who you should try to please, even if you were sleeping in an uncompleted house or kiosk, I will still join you without complaining. Am here for us to join forces to make money so don’t worry, it is the end that matters and not the beginning, been alive up till now is a miracle.
 
Quincy: Aha that reminds me, so where did you go last night after you made me a watchman all night long? For you I fear you more than Messi and CR7 even on the pitch, tell me which lady hosted you last night and why are you in nurses scrubs?
 
Michael Ansah: What are you thinking about Mr man? My hands and mind remains very clean, if not for this nurses scrubs like I will be a dead man by now. My brother be very grateful to God for my life and help me convey God’s praises and adorations to Him, it is a big miracle for me to be alive from yesterday all the way to today.
 
Quincy: You have been beating about the bush since you started talking go straight to the point my brother.
 
Michael Ansah: Bro when coming to the city yesterday a guy double crossed me and took my seat in a bus I was supposed to board to the city, I tried to oppose him for him to relinquish the seat but he threatened me that he will beat me so I got down from the car not wanting to come to the city on a fighting note. Later I got a 4×4 car coming to Accra so I joined the car and after some miles in the journey we came to meet the bus I was suppose to board in a ditch gutted with fire, my brother no one escaped to tell his or her story.
 
Quincy: Yeah I think I heard that story in the evening news bulletin last night. I was bothered but hearing from you made me okay but I still want to know where you slept last night and why are you in nurses scrubs?
 
Michael Ansah: The game is been brought to your house so why are you rushing to injure yourself outside. As we got to Accra last night I called you to meet me so you pick me up, the phone went off even before the called ended due to low battery and because the air was blowing violently I didn’t hear you well. I picked a taxi to drop me at that restaurant close to the school over there and the car stopped along the bush before you see the houses on that path, the driver tried everything he could but the car won’t just start, I had no option than to walk since no car was coming that way my brother. After walking some distances on the lonely road, I saw a car headlight approaching, I wanted to stop the car and ask for a ride but my instincts told me to hide so I went into the bush and the very place I was hiding the car stopped infront of me and some fearful men in black got down from the car holding guns in their hands.
 
Quincy: Allahuakbar, hope they didn’t see you?
 
Michael Ansah: No my brother, but hmmmm they brought out a guy who had been blindfolded and shortly another car came from the opposite direction, a middle aged man came down and judging from the middle aged man’s statement the one they had blindfolded was his worker but he had absconded with the man’s money and concealment, I mean they were drug dealers and right in my sight in,side the bush I was hiding, the middle aged man shot the blindfolded guy in the chest three times and he fell down dead.
 
Quincy: My goodness so what happened next bro?
 
Michael Ansah: Well all this while I was recording what was going on over there with a very sophisticated phone I was having on me.
 
Quincy: Ah but your phone was off so what sophisticated phone are you talking about?
 
Michael Ansah: When we(I and the people in the 4×4 car) got to the accident scene I stumbled on a phone I later got to know that it was for the guy who took my seat in the bus, on the street was a big tree lying down and per my calculation the driver of the bus tried to dodge the tree and he lost control, the bus somersaulted and fell in the ditch.
 
Quincy: Oh okay I now get the picture as to how you got the sophisticated phone. So what happened next?
 
Michael Ansah: Charlie from nowhere some ants started biting me from where I was hiding and it made me make a sound which got the attention of the bad guys, the middle aged man ordered them to chase after me and bring my body to him whether dead or alive. The guys gave me a chase of my life and that started firing their guns at me, the first bullet nearly entered my arm here but I was lucky because I fell down. The phone fell from my hand and since I wasn’t having time I didn’t bother to search for it in the dark, I dropped my bag so that I could run effectively and swiftly. In no time another gunshot came through and this time it hit my th-gh and I felt all was over, something in me told me not to give up when I heard car horns blurring some few meters away from me so I gathered some renewed strength and headed to the street, as I got to the street no one was willing to stop his or her car for me so I jumped into the street and I was knocked down by a lady who came down from her car to help me to the hospital, this bad guys didn’t give up and they were still firing at us, they lady helped me into a her car and drove me to the hospital where the bullet was taken out of my th-gh and my injuries were taken care of. At dawn one of the nurses came to check up on me in the private ward I was kept to give me an injection which will put me to sleep for some time, I outsmarted him and injected him with the syringe meant for me, I took his dress and placed him on my bed. When I got down the bad guys had disguised themselves as police detectives and were at the hospital to finish what they couldn’t end the previous night.
 
Quincy: My God so how did you escape from them?
 
Michael Ansah: Great question my brother, I was confused but I had to summon courage and act like a brave dude, I bumped into their leader who asked for my help to locate the ward which had people with gunshot wound or injury. I seized that opportunity and gave him a wrong direction to the last floor of the hospital where only woman and babies were, you can’t believe that idiot gave me one hundred cedis for the direction all because I told him that people with gunshot injuries or wounds were kept at a secret place in our hospital, he was so grateful for my assistance and I managed to escape from the hospital but before leaving the hospital, I saw a damsel who was eyeing me with a burning desire in her eyes.
 
Quincy: You and women issue, even when your life was in danger you were still eyeing a pretty lady. So how did you manage to call me with your phone since it went off the previous night?
 
Michael Ansah: As I woke up, I saw my phone on charge at the private ward I was lying. I don’t know who placed the phone on charge but the person did me a lot of good, the money that idiot gave me was what I used in conveying myself to this place easily.
 
Quincy: Woooow indeed the good Lord has been merciful to you and I believe that, for been alive still then God has something big ahead for you. Let me get you something to eat and after that, you go and take a cold shower, once again feel at home.
 
Quincy prepares breakfast for his friend and himself and as they were eating, he switched his television on and a breaking news was been shown.
 
TV Anchor: Yesterday night the police got a tip off from some army officers concerning the death of a youngman and as the police got to the crime scene they got to know that the deceased was one of the notorious drug peddlers that had on their top wanted list. He was a member of the strong cartel group in the country and to what led to his untimely death it is unknown for now, we promise to get you more information concerning the mysterious death of the youngman whose name has been withheld for now. Anyone with information concerning the death of the deceased can contact the numbers below for a handsome reward.
 
Quincy: So what at all is happening in this country.
 
Michael Ansah: Guy that is the person who I witness his execution last night.
 
Quincy: Jessssssus Christ my brother then you are in a deep s*** oh, I believe this people are still looking for you and they will go any length to get you either dead or alive.
 
How to grow your business while  you stay at home
All of a sudden there was a very heavy knock on Quincy’s door…….
 
Who could that person behind the door be?
 
To be continued