Wonders they say never end.
I was on my own o today, mmhmm, jejely minding my work (yours truly is a serious worker o). All of a sudden, the next thing I heard was a scream. 'He èeeeee haa a a! !!!! You people would kill me here o (she was speaking igbo). Pay me my money let me go! I have 50 million naira in my account. I am not here to play. Reverend sisters paid it into my account. Pay me, pay me ooo!!'
The hall became silent. Then the lament continued. I looked up to see where the noise came from. Ah ah, i thought to myself, i know this woman na. She is one of our tech customers na. She stood at an akimbo, with a dirty wrapper tied loosely around her chest looking dishevelled. All áttempts by the ever courteous staff of ....... (you want to know where I work abi? Continue waiting, o) to calm her down even made her more infuriated. It took the combined effort of mobile police men(who feed on akpu) to coerce her out of the hall.
And that was were it just began. 😕
She fought off everyone who tried to calm her down and threatened if she is not paid her 50 million naira, she would strip and when we taught she was stiĺl joking, vaaaàmmmn! !! She removed her clothes! Heeee! I found my square root immediately. Trust our naija peeps na.They were there till the whole show ended.
A sizeable number of Nigerians suffer from temporal madness. Agwu, as its popularly called in the Eastern part is a condition whereby a person displays occasionaly, an abnormal behaviour and once the phase has been concluded, regains his or her sanity back. My people say it can be attributed to excessive intake of drugs, biting weather, lack of food, having a bad chi (angel), the harsh conditions of life, excessive seizures as a young kid, etcetera.
As I lie on my bed and think about that woman, I wonder, if life had been a little merciful to her, what strides would she have undertaken in life? Does she have children? Can she be totally cured?
Please feel free to share similar experiences or more bizarre experiences, so that we can be well informed about this condition. And lest I forget, goggle out the term schizophrenia. That's its medical name.
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