It Is True What the Aged Said, “When Your Neighbour’s Beard Is Burning, Shave Yours!”
Dear Senior Opupulepu,
I hope you are do fine, fine just as I am do fine, fine.
Senior, I do not know why Yahweh decided to take away our aged. They are full of wise-dom and wisdom. They say very practical things that if followed, they will surely make life for better for best for us in this ewiase, we are living in it.
Senior, one saying I ever love is this, “If you see your neighbour’s beard burning, just shave off your own.” What is more practical than is, for it might not be your bathing time for you to go and look for a bucket of water to stand attention by your beard.
Senior, this, “If you see your neighbour’s beard burning, just shave off your own,” has been exhibited life in the situation and condition happening in the Umbrella clan.
Senior, you see, not too long time ago, Abusuapanin Wofa Yaw of the Elephant clan, called the underaged in the clan and told them that he had a vision from Yahweh Himself and in that vision, Yahweh told him that just as He took the omanheneship from Wofa Saul, and gave it to that small insignificant boy called David, He Yahweh, swore on His Name that He will give the omanheneship of Ogyakrom to the Missi-Missi clan.
Senior, these small, small boys and girls were overexcited and starting reciting the message all over Ogyakrom like they were reciting, “Tsetse Kule.” And when the whole of Ogyakrom heard this, the KpakpoShito people screamed, “Kwe, yebie!” The Fetri Datsi people, screamed “Tsoo, nyake ma!” And soon all of the non-Missi-Missi Ogyakromians started screaming in protest.
Senior, they could not protest to Yahweh for fear that they might say something that will encourage St. Peter to sack them from the Gates of Heaven. They took their anger on the messenger and Wofa Yaw was insulted big, big that I also felt the insults some.
Senior, see what indigenes of a clan did to their own Abusuapanin. Meanwhile the Umbrella clan members were happy and went about singing Wofa Yaw’s message like they were singing at a festival.
Senior, not long after, this Wofa Yaw again gathered these same small, small boys and girls and taught them history. In that class he told them that the Missi-Missi people, I mean those people who can brag about nothing and about everything, are in fact not indigenes of Ogyakrom.
In fact he said that when one is talking about those who dug the foundations upon which Ogyakrom was built, the Missi-Missi people do not come anywhere in.
Senior, he said in truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth that, the Missi-Missi people were slaves who run away from their masters and madams and are taking shelter in Ogyakrom. And that anyone carrying the name, Asante, is a redeemed slave in the Name of Yesu.
Senior, this information also was recited by those small, small boys and girls for all of Ogyakromians to hear.
Senior, surprisingly, the Missi-Missi people uttered no sound or cry of disagreement. Whether what Wofa Yaw said was true or not, I do not know. However, it was other clans who spoke on their behalf.
Senior, this one too, the Umbrella people led by their Chief Abusuapanin, Wofa Sammy, amplified this and made mockery of the Elephant people.
Senior, not too long after, this same Wofa Sammy of the Umbrella people, gathered small, small Umbrella boys and girls and told them that, the only way to stop dumsor in Ogyakrom and make it a thing of the past, was to go about burning people’s things.
Senior, he added that when they go to umbrella factory, they will see that umbrellas are made out of violence, like bending, bending metals and things, in the heat.
Senior, he added that all Umbrellas in Ogyakrom are to be wild and violent and ready to destroy anything good in their path. As for the bad things they must leave them, there like that.
Senior, lo and behold, these small, small boys and girls decided to do what they were taught in day nursery skuul, and also went reciting in public what they were told by Wofa Sammy.
Senior, when Ogyakromians heard this, they descended on Wofa Sammy like rain falling down during the raining season.
Senior, now Wofa Sammy’s slay queens are avoiding him and the yor ke gari seller who credits him yor ke gari have stopped crediting him yorke gari. In fact, she has decided to do money na hand, plate na table with him.
Senior, as for Hajia Fati, he, dare not go there. Like he will see and smell pepper.
Senior, now Wofa Sammy is crying that he does not know why his own small, small boys and girls could do him this, like so. I heard he is going about saying that if he had known that this was what was going to happen to him, when Wofa Yaw’s beard was burning, he would have shaved his.
Senior, as for me I am carrying shaving stick on me everywhere I go. If I see someone’s beard burning p3, I will shave my moustache.
Senior, I am Dan, sorry I am Done.
It’s me!
