Opana the coffin maker episode 42

Opana – Episode 42
 
© Akoto Alexander
 
At the Bank Manager’s Office:
 
Opana: Manager I want you to bear me witness to something that we are about to do over here. My good friend here will give you some dollars and I will like to open a dollar account in your bank so my brother over to you.
 
Mr Addo: (opens his briefcase and brings some dollar notes out) Mr Manager over here is the amount I and him agreed on to purchase his parcel of lands so you can check to see if the money is intact then we can proceed with the next line of action.
 
Manager: Ah thanks for the privilege bestowed on me, I will get someone to come in with a counting machine so that we verify for ourselves the wh0le amount. (picks his telephone and issues a command then invites the person to his office)
 
Mr Addo: My brother can we expedite the process because I have an emergency meeting to attend so as the counting of the money is ungoing I will like us to sign the the remaining part of the doc-ments.
 
Manager: (orders the person knocking his door to come in) Ah my dear come over here with the machine, start counting this money for me.
 
Opana: Okay my brother, at least your effort has shown how genuine and credible you can be so let’s do the signings and thankfully the manager is here to sign the witness part.
 
Manager: Am happy to inform you that the money is one hundred thousand dollars.
 
Mr Addo: That is good, now since the bank manager has confirmed everything is genuine and intact I believe our business transaction has been a success and am looking forward to do much greater works with you in the future. I will be on my way then, it was nice doing business with you Mr Ansah aka “Opana the rough boy”, I promise to work with the clause stipulated in the agreement sheet. (walks out of the office)
 
Opana: Mmmmm manager please divide the money into two and give me half of the money then open a dollar account for me. I have to rush to the hospital and make payment for my daughter to be flown outside the country for an emergency surgery to be done on her.
 
Manager: Sorry about that sir, since you are already a client of this bank you will just have to sign some few papers then you are good to go because we already have details about you.
 
Back at the Airport:
 
Julia: (walks through the people waiting to pick up their relatives or busines partners then she saw her name on a printed paper) Excuse me gentleman are you the person who was sent to pick me up over here?
 
Ginola: If you are Juliana Ohenewaa Dotse then yes am the one who was mandated to pick you up.
 
Julia: Oh that’s awesome, please can you take me to the car you brought because Ghana is really hot and I can’t take the heat any more, gosh Africa is really hot and I can see my fellow Africans are really suffering with all this heat.
 
Ginola: (talking in his head) See her too known life over there, when you get the chance to travel small you come and talk big big grammar, are we the ones living here in Africa shea butter, my friend keep quite and endure the weather God in His rightful mind saw befitting for Africans. Do you know how many people who are suffering from rheumatism here in Africa and if the weather is to change for even five minutes do you know what problem it will cause for us?
 
In the Washroom of the Airport:
 
Quincy: Guy what is wrong with you all of sudden, you are making me scared.
 
 
Michael Ansah: Charlie I saw the guy who shot at me on that faithful night. You know when I saw the car I was wondering where I knew the car but the moment I saw the guy getting down from the car I got to recognise where I knew the car.
 
Quincy: Oh really, which guy are you referring to my brother?
 
Michael Ansah: Ah didn’t you see that guy in blue suit who got down from that black tinted glass Land Cruiser?
 
Quincy: You know the people coming in and out of this place are too many so my mind wasn’t on any particular person especially when we had seen the person we came to meet.
 
Michael Ansah: My guy we are not safe at all oooo, I thought I had escaped away from those murderers but they are still following and tracking me. We have to be very grateful that the man didn’t recognise me and also his boys who came to this place didn’t see me but hey what did you tell Julia before coming here?
 
Quincy: I told her not to worry but she should go and look for the people who were supposed to pick her up from the airport. She said she will get in touch with you when she settles down at the hotel she will be lodging and even invite you over if possible. My guy the chick fresh paaa ooo, my guy from the way she was looking at you and demanding for hugs from you means another thing to me ooo, I presume she has fallen for you oooo.
 
Michael Ansah: Herh are you alright or you have developed typhoid fever all of a sudden? What will a sophisticated lady like her type be doing with a jobless youngman like me, can I even afford to buy her soap that she uses to bath or even the pomade she uses? Charlie am only a son to a coffin maker so let me cut my coat by the material I have available, please don’t push me to my early grave, for some of you guys you always mistake like for love. That lady only likes me so don’t attach any strings to it my guy.
 
 
Quincy: See mumu, which lady will waste such an amount of money to acquire all the things we have in the bag in my hand for free, don’t you know that in this world that is no free lunch and even the life God has given to us, He expects us to worsh¡p him in return. Your parents took care of you for you to get a better place to stamp your feet so that in the future they can also benefit from the investment they wasted on you, sometimes we blacks think we can cheat nature by playing smart in some cases, we rush to aspiring politicians to give us money which we don’t know where they get it from and we expect them to work effectively and efficiently after they have spent fortunes on us when they are voted into power, they will first harvest the seed they sow before they came to power.
 
Michael Ansah: Afternoon lecturer thanks for your lecturing in this washroom, am thinking about how we will escape from here and you are standing there here bombarding me with scenarios that won’t help us.
 
Back at the Hospital:
 
Matron: Maabena how are you seeing your new role as a matron?
 
Matron: So far so good everything is on track and I think the guidelines you gave me has made things very easy and I am loving my new role that has been assigned to me by the senior doctor and you. I promise not to let you down because to whom much is given much is expected from.
 
Matron: I like the way you just expressed yourself to me, it goes a long way to tell me that you are up to the task ahead of you. I have called for a short meeting so that I announce to your colleagues the promotion that has been given to you so that they accord you with the respect that is due you. Now let us move to the staff room so I make your new position known to them.
 
Back at the Village Hospital:
 
Doctor: Hello sir, I believe you coming here this afternoon you have good news to tell me?
 
 
Opana: Oh yes doc, I have been able to mobilise funds and I have been able to raise the money you quoted for me to get before my dear daughter is flown outside for the surgery. Please doc I sold my parcel of lands just to raise this money for you so that my daughter gets back to her previous state again, I want you to expedite the pace at which you are moving so that my little girl gets a better medical care.
 
Doctor: Sir there is a saying that “better soup nah money kill am”, now that you said you have brought the money I can mount pressure on the people working on the doc-mentation of your little girl so don’t worry at all because I know everything will go well for your little girl.
 
Opana: I like the sound of what am hearing papa doctor with this wonderful display of compassion and professionalism I promise to do a special coffin for you or any of you family members when any of them dies.
 
Doctor: I beg your pardon sir, are you by chance wishing for me or any of my family members to die?
 
Opana: Oh I am not wishing death for you or any of your family members but you know death is enevitable so should incase it comes your way I would like you to know I have promised you of a coffin. It is what I have that am giving.
 
Doctor: Please take your gift because am not interested in that.
 
Opana: I have heard you but if you say you don’t need it I won’t force you. Please here is the money, kindly check it so that I attend to other matters.
 
Doctor: (counts the money and gives his conformation) The money is intact and with this I am giving you my word that latest by three days time your daughter and her mother will be catapulted out of this country for a very proper health care.
 
Opana: Thanks for the positive assurance, I will be waiting for your confirmation later but so far how is my daughter fairing?
 
Doctor: Your daughter is recuperating very fast to the treatment we are giving her and if everything goes well then we should be rest assured that your daughter will bounce back on her feet in less than three months.
 
Opana: That is good to hear because my children are very dear to me even though we fight often.
 
Back at the Airport:
 
Michael Ansah: My brother kindly check if those criminals have finally left so that we can run to the house in peace, we have to enjoy life through the things Julia brought, we have arrived and the photography world will hear from us soon.
 
Quincy: I love that my brother, we will paint the art industry red with our outstanding works. Let me go and check if the coast is clear for us to move from this place, today has been a mixed feeling of good and bad things but in all God will win the battle over satan.
 
Michael Ansah: Charlie make sure you check very well for any guy wearing a blue suit with white shirt and a black trouser. Also check for any black Land Cruiser with a tinted glass parked right infront of the walkway at the arrival hall.
 
Quincy goes out to check and comes to inform Kwaku Mike that the coast is clear and immedately they rushed out to where they have parked their motorbike and without looking to see whether Julia had seen the people who will come and pick her up, they left the airport to Quincy’s house in a hurry. Upon arrival Quincy went to the bike owner to deliver the bike key to the bike owner but he met his absence and when he called him he told Quincy to bring the bike somewhere at that very moment because he had waited for them for long but he didn’t show up so he took the lead to the place he is.
 
Quincy: Hommie where are you because your door is locked or have you cornered some girl in,side your web?
 
Motorbike Owner: Guy you people kept long, as I waited for you and you weren’t forth coming I left the house to my work place because an emergency call came through that I should come and check something important at our sub station close to Ayi Mensah. Please come and pick me up and becareful on that road because the driver’s that ply that road drive in a reckless way.
 
Quincy: Ah bro you know how I do it so don’t worry. I will call you when I get to Adenta so you give me a proper direction to the place. (call ends and he rushes back to his room)
 
Back in Quincy’s room:
 
Michael Ansah: (opens the bag to check out the content in it and he is amazed with what he saw in the bag) Woooow hope am not seeing things wrongly? Julia took it upon herself to buy three cameras, two iMac laptops, tripod stands, big lens, an iPhone and to top it all a drone. This young lady spent a fortune to get me all this things, herh Julia wherever you are I curse you with more money, good health and every joy you deserve on this earth.
 
Quincy: (rushes into the room which gets Kwaku Mike on his feet) Charlie I have to run along and pick the bike owner because he said we kept long so he left the house to one of their sub stations close to Ayi Mensah or something like that. Hey what am I seeing on the bed? Did Julia buy you all this things just like that? Guy there is more to this lady ooo, you we will talk more about her when I come back, please prepare something so we enjoy when am back, see you later.
 
How to grow your business while you stay at home
After Quincy left the room some minutes later Kwaku Mike feels the strangling again on his neck……
 
Can you guess what is about to happen to Kwaku Mike?
 
To be continued