Inside the beach we really enjoyed ourselves so much. But amongst us the one that owns the golf car suddenly stopped drinking. We gave him fish he refused, we even gave him a lady he refused. He was busy telling us that he wants to go. We tried to plead with him, but he couldn't listen. He insisted that he must leave. Eventually, at about 2:30am we decided to move.
When we arrived at Okera Nla street, we met these armed men with cutlass, gun and many other weapons. Some of these men have blood robbed all over their cloths. They did not hesitate to stop us. They shouted at us saying -who you be? Where you come from? Come down! We obeyed them and dropped down. We told them that we were coming from beach, they asked if we live here, we answered them yes. They started searching us, at the same time asking us to identify ourselves which we did. We noticed that they identified one of us who have lived there for years, so they started suggesting on what to do. Unfortunately to us their boss came out and started hitting us with cutlass, shouting that we must prostrate on the wet ground and start rolling back and front. The more we roll, the more he keep hitting us with cutlass. We were busy vomiting all what we put inside our stomach. Later he asked us to stand up, which we did. That night was my first time to see somebody pointing gun at me. They moved to one side planning to kill us, luckily to us they broke out with heavy argument. Few of them said that they can not kill us, while few said that he should leave us to go because they had already identified one of us. He came to me, started searching me, he collected my remaining pay (about N12,000), my phone. And they came with two options again, that do we want to drop this pay and phone and go or to die here? This happened 2001, i was the only person having phone. We said we better go alive, i gave them the money and the phone. Because of the level of argument, they returned back the money and phone. Still they started dragging us again. But eventually they called me and told me to bring out something from the money and give them, which i did. I told the boss, you ought to have collected all what we have instead of beating us mercilessly. Then they left us that night.
We later learn t that they were O.P.C members. Before they asked us to go, the boss carried me aside and started telling me that we should stop moving at night, that criminals often terrorize this area. That if they kill us this night nobody will come out and besides, they will tell the BALE (KING) that we are thieves. Had it been that they take my life and my younger brother's life that night, i wonder what i would have tell my God. Moving in the night for drinking or searching for women, all these are extra risk. In Italian language is described as "CAMERARE LA NOTTE E TROPPO PERICOLOSO"
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