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Mr Ransom along with two other union leaders, after a meeting of the leaders and members of the union in his compound, took it upon themselves to travel down to where they were told they would apprehend Madam Cash. Perempe, who had planned to follow, was begged by concerned members (and almost everyone was) to stay back as he felt really aggrieved over Madam Cash’s conduct and everyone thought if the two met face to face, the situation could turn explosive which would certainly anger Perempe to do his worst. Mr Ransom clearly put the burden of recovering Perempe’s debt on his own head and promised that he would do all that was necessary to collect everyone’s debt except he did not just see the woman with his two eyes. With that concession, Perempe gave his blessings to the Fufu Union debt recovery team. All agreed to contribute parts of their money to offset the fares of those travelling and acting as their representatives. Before the close of the meeting that day, intensive prayer w

  CHAPTER 6   ‘MAMA BEN,’ MR RANSOM HAD STARTED, wondering how he would frame his case properly, ‘please, your sister, Madam Cash …’ ‘Which sister?’ the woman swiftly had responded. ‘Ah, in this market I have no sister o. My brother, sister, father and mother is my money. With my money, I pay for my transport from home and also to go back. With my money, I buy my market.’ She had handed Mr Ransom a chunk of crisp notes for the sacks of produce she got from him. Done counting and carefully putting it in the big pocket of his frayed jumper and seeing the stout woman struggling to get up from the bench, he had attempted saying something: ‘Please, don’t go yet. Is Madam Cash sick or she’s not in the business again?’ ‘I’m buying and paying you people and you’re still asking of Madam Cash? I hope she didn’t give you all kopnomi to eat?’ That got Mr Ransom laughing out loud though his lips were heavy to mention to the woman here that her former partner, Madam Cash, had actually o

  For treatment, orthodox and unorthodox means were suggested but with the torment deep inside him, Mr Ransom asked those around to quickly drag close his wife’s bag of bitter kola and he grabbed a handful and ate, even without peeling them, like sweets . While people were still contemplating how to reach the nearest chemist’s attendant whose doors were locked at that time of the day and people had suggested he could have gone to the big town to buy more drugs,  Perempe was deep in his farm working and could not be reached with the phone, the numbness started receding from his ears and Mr Ransom could feel them again. Mr Ransom did forget about the medicine shop but religiously kept chewing the bitter kola seeds. As the hours went by, the numbness in his body was reducing. Perempe who had returned from his farm sodden, cold and weary that night could only visit Mr Ransom the next day. But he had called his line late in the night as he heard about the sad incident from his children and