Must Read: Pleasure And Pain

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Pleasure And Pain

Thirty minutes later, Nancy arrived back home from the market where she had gone to purchase some food items. As she stepped into the room, she saw what appeared like a lifeless figure lying on the floor, and the person looked exactly like her aunt. She moved closer to her aunt who appeared to be sleeping on the floor while her room was vacant. After several attempts to get her to talk, all her efforts proved abortive.
Nancy became scared when she couldn’t resuscitate her aunt back to life, then she started screaming for help. Her persistent wailing seemed to have attracted the attention of neighbours who ran into the house, in a bid to ascertain what the problem was; About four men and three women ran inside at approximately the same time, and met Nancy crying while holding on to her aunt who remained unconscious.


They kept asking millions of questions which Nancy couldn’t provide an answer to, then they figured it was best to rush her to the hospital. One of the men sprung up to get his car key, and they bundled her inside the vehicle, and then, they rushed her to the University of Benin teaching hospital (UBTH) at Ugbowo, which is barely a kilometre drive from the university.



Mrs. Osadolor was admitted on arrival, and taken to the emergence ward, the doctor confirmed that she was in a severe coma, then she was put on life support. A phone call had to be put to her husband, an immigration officer who was based at Abuja, the federal capital territory.



Mr. Efosa Osadolor flew to the Benin airport in about two hours time, and he got to the hospital to meet his wife in a critical state. The doctor informed him that his wife suffered internal bleeding which appeared to emanate from physical brawl. The only way they could get to know who did it – is if she survived to give a first-hand explanation of the matter. The doctor then assured Mr. Osadolor that he had good news and bad news respectively. The good news being that she would recover from the coma, and the bad news being that she lost a three weeks old pregnancy, after being childless for ten years.



Mr. Osadolor was almost in tears after seeing the situation that is wife was going through, he was so vexed that he couldn’t wait to know who had brought so much pain on his family. The person was definitely going to regret his or her actions.



Nancy narrated the little she knew about the incident to him, but there wasn’t enough evidence to know the culprit.
Later that day, she woke up under intensive care to behold herself on an hospital bed, while drips were placed on strategic parts of her body. The doctor, her husband and Nancy were there to comfort her, but the doctor warned them not to disturb her until she was strong enough to talk.
Mr. Osadolor had put a call through to the then Commissioner of Police in Benin, who was his childhood friend to assist him with policemen to guard over her while in the hospital so that the suspect(s) don’t come back to finish her, knowing she was the only one who could expose them.
The next day, she spoke for the first time since her collapse, and her health was getting better. She narrated the whole story to her husband from the very beginning, and right there, Nancy received a deadly military slap from her uncle-in-law who also act as her father. It took the intervention of the policemen on guard, before he let go of her, after his wife started crying and pleading that she not Nancy, was supposed to be blamed for not nurturing her daughter in the right way, otherwise, Nancy wouldn’t have aborted for a guy three times, and even get pregnant for him the fourth time.




The hospital ward was turned into a drama theatre, as Nancy went on her knees begging her father in tears, but he refused to yield to her pleas, insisting that she must abort the child, whom he called a bastard.
The doctor intervened into the matter in a calm way and excused furious Mr. Osadolor to his office, and then advised him to revert his decision on Nancy, stating that she was prone to losing her life, considering the fact that the pregnancy had already matured, and it wouldn’t be appropriate should he lose his only child left, after his wife had also lost a baby. Two wrongs they say don’t make a right.
Mr. Osadolor had a re-think about his decision and forgave Nancy, but melted out serious punishment to her, plus the fact that she was gonna be grounded for a very long time.
Nancy’s case was solved, but the equation wasn’t balanced yet. Nosa was next-in-line…..