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Episode 5.......As if they were just discussing the thieving incident,he resumed the topic and answered his wife's question “You don’t have to raise a false alarm. I won’t cry wolf when there is none.”
“False alarm? How?”
“I am doubting seriously in my mind if thieves ever came into this compound.”
“Why are you doubting? Do you suspect anybody?”
“Until I get to the police station tomorrow.”
“Ohoo! Mmm? Police? Till tomorrow? Okay.”
“Akudi, come nearer let me ask you a question.”
“Ask me, my husband George. It is only the two of us in this compound.” She went nearer to her husband.
“Akudi, tell me the whole truth; do you know anything about this thing which happened in this compound?”
“I have to raise alarm and tell Abanja people that I am now suspected to be a thief. People will gather for me and you just now because of this your smelling utterance. Mmm! George, what do you mean by your question? My people will hear that I am now a thief. I am crying for my stolen clothes and other property and you are suspecting me to be the thief.”
“Akudi, if you like, speak one hundred words at a time; my question stands. Do you mean to tell me that you don’t know anything about this theft in my compound? Tell me the truth in confidence when it is not yet late.”
“Is that? Okay! It is said that driving away an old wife before or after marrying a new one is too bad. In this case, the new wife has not yet arrived and the old one is being threatened. It will be terrible. Or, George, it seems you don’t know it. You will later regret taking two wives. You will say ‘had I known’ about your involvement in polygamy.”
“Regret your head,” George cursed. “If you like, let the whole village gather for you and me tonight. But I’ve warned you beforehand. People have never gathered in this compound before because of quarrelling. If it happens through you this evening, count yourself a divorced woman. Yes! The moment you try to kick me like football, you’d better go back to your father’s house.”
“Uuh! Shame unto George. You don’t know that a man who takes a new wife and drives away the old one is like a bird that flew up from the ground only to perch on a mound. Such a man is only marrying and living with one wife, just as the bird is still perching on the ground.”
“I have to advise you for the last time. Stop your bad behaviour because you are only hurting yourself. As a farmer, I am supposed to have many wives and have many children who would help me work in the farms. After this, I am going to marry two more women. Then, if you will remove your dresses and move about naked like a mad woman, it would be suitable for you. Jealous wife! Why not be cool-headed and accept my decision? Am I not the head of the family? Thieves to enter into my compound? Never! It has not happened before and I believe it will not happen. This is purely the handiwork of Akudi who never wanted a co-wife,” he concluded while carrying his bicycle and long cane-basket which he returned into his hut.
He undressed and carried his chair to the front of the house and sat down, apparently ready for more talking, or if much provoked, beating up his wife. With more words that hurt her mind, Akudi shouted in mocking laughter:
“Hee hei! Hee hei! George Okonta has got one wife and is about to complete marrying the second one, and with proposal for two more wives when he could not withstand the storm of one. George, the randy he-goat, you have already advanced your reasons for wanting to take plenty wives. The highly erotic man who could not control his lust is hiding under the cloak of a farmer to pack many women into his house. Bear you in mind that it is one wife one trouble, two wives two troubles,” she said, moving her steps backwards and distancing herself from her husband.
“I will manage you and additional nine wives with your ten troubles. And Akudi, we have talked enough. If I handle you this evening with the vexation in me, you will die in my hands.”
“It is true. It is true,” Akudi said, still retracing her steps. “Come and kill the vagabond because she has no one who would ask questions. Is it so simple as that?”
Akudi knew that whenever George talked much, the next thing that would follow was beating and fighting. She had moved backwards but raised her voice the more.....
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11/02/2026

...She went into the compound and inspected her hut and that of her husband. George kept standing where he had been since he returned and wandered in thought:
“Women are always desperate whenever they wish to achieve their aim,” he reflected. “Akudi must be the person behind all these things. She could have masterminded this to put an end to her having a co-wife. Or, could it be any of our neighbours who is envying me? Who did this and why did he or she do it? I rule out another person. It must be Akudi. She has been behaving strangely of late. The target must be the bride price money.”
Akudi came out of the compound with a grim face. “George, I will raise alarm; all my important things, new clothes, money and necklaces are gone. Go inside the compound and survey and evaluate the worth of property removed by the thieves instead of standing there since you came back.”
“If you dare raise alarm, you will leave my house this night,” said the short and stout-looking George.
He now stood his bicycle on its stand and began to go round the compound. Speechlessly, he went inside his hut and went round it. His wife followed him and asked in a low tone:
“Why do you consider it unnecessary to raise alarm? Ours will not be different from that of others. Other people do raise alarm to inform their neighbours whenever they experience something like this.”
George finished going round his hut and went into that of his wife. He had noticed that the money for the bride price was also stolen but he said nothing about it.....

11/02/2026

Episode 4
…compound when Akudi returned. Akudi looked like a woman who had worked in the farm all through the day. She greeted her husband in a weak and subdued tone. Looking very tired, she stood briefly before she went and sat on an exposed root of a pear tree at the front of the compound. She had met her husband gazing all over the compound and pretended being ignorant of what had happened. After resting awhile, she got up and went nearer to her husband and said in a pretentious casual manner:
“I’ve been waiting for you to open the gate but you keep standing. What happened?”
“Look into my compound,” George said soberly without looking at his wife’s face.
Akudi walked closer to her husband and stood on her toes and peeped into the compound.
“Terrible! What is all this? Thieves came into our house?”
“That is what I’ve been trying to establish in my mind.”
“Why have you waited so long?”
“What should I have done?” George replied.
“We should raise alarm and inform our neighbours.”
“It will serve no purpose. No need of raising alarm.”
“It will serve very good purpose. To alert our neighbours that thieves have broken into our home and carted away our property.”
Akudi went and carried her farming tools and took the key of the gate from her husband and opened the gate......
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10/02/2026

.........He finally resolved to take a second wife, no matter what the first wife’s reaction would be. He did the negotiations, carried upwine to his in-laws, and a date to pay the bride price was fixed.
When George began the process of marrying a second woman, Akudi felt it so much that she no longer slept well at night. She kept thinking of how to fight back her husband for ignoring her protest. One market day, she knew that her husband was about to go to the market, and she left home for the farm before her husband left for the market.
At the time of usual quietness in the village on market days, Akudi left her farming tools in the farm and returned home. She broke into her husband’s hut and removed plenty of valuables, including the money which her husband intended to use in paying the bride price of his new wife. She also broke into her own hut and removed plenty of her own belongings, including clothes and ornaments.
She packed the items to the house of one of her relatives living in a nearby village. From there, she returned to w**d the grasses in her farm. Truly, the fenced compound of George Okonta and the two huts in it were disorganized and put in disarray, like where thieves had gone on rampage. Palm fronds used in covering the red-mud wall fence were pushed down from one corner of the fence, making the spot look like the entry and exit route of thieves who had ravaged the compound.
As if it was timed, George returned home and was still holding his bicycle by his hand, standing speechless in front of his house, staring around the compound.......
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09/02/2026

…challenged him to another wrestling contest. Okonta had looked caustically at his challenger and shrugged his shoulders in disbelief and said:
“It is really true that whenever Lion’s legs get broken, the Antelope goes to him to draw his debt.”
This was few years before George, the only son of the father, was born.
Before he became a polygamist, George Okonta had lived with Akudi, his wife, for eight years without a child. They loved each other and did things together, with love and understanding. It was rare to see one of them having a meal without the other. George was a Christian before he married Akudi. He had promised her that they would wed in the church, but suddenly, without explaining his reasons to anybody, he reverted to heathenism.
Akudi was a church woman who loved the Christian doctrine of one man, one wife. When she was not wedded in the church, she abandoned the Christian faith and went back to idol worshipping.
One day, the farmer called his wife and told her that he wished to take a second wife to try if the new wife could bear him a child. Akudi refused and reminded him of his promise to marry only her and wed her in the church. George pleaded with her, saying it would not be good for him to watch and see his lineage end in his time without any effort to keep the name of Okonta living.
Akudi refused bluntly and said she still had the hope to bear children. One night, George went to bed and made up his mind to take a decision like a man. He said he saw no reason why a man should be waiting for his wife to .......
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09/02/2026

Chapter One
There was once a man called George Okpajieagu Okonta. He lived in Abanja village by the creek of the River Niger. He was a famous farmer married to four wives whose names were Akudi, Nwaku, Adaeze, and Nwakego. Akudi had for her husband a boy named Nwokeji and a daughter. Nwakego had for George Ogonna and three other male children. Nwaku and Adaeze did not have any child for the farmer.
At his birth, George’s father named him Okpajieagu mgbada abia ya ugwo, which was shortened to his second name. Like other Igbo names given after the birth of a child, Okonta gave this lengthy name in respect of what happened to him after he was attacked by the famous dreadful influenza. He had survived that illness but was no longer the Okonta he used to be. Before then, he was a huge wealthy farmer recognized for his strength and unbeaten record in the field of wrestling in Abanja village and beyond.
But a few years after this attack of influenza, one Abanja man who had challenged Okonta to a wrestling match seven times on different occasions on the days of wrestling contests, and whom he had beaten in all, met him on the way one day and challenged him to another wrestling contest.
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03/02/2026

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01/02/2026

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