Pastor Mrs Johnson has been discharged from the hospital after a long stay. She has been asking about her daughter and the answer she constantly received was that she travelled.
- Benita is not yet back? And all these while she couldn’t even call to know how I am? Where in this world did she travel to? I am not getting this at all or is there something everyone is refusing to tell me?
- mum, Richard called, Benita shouldn’t be your worry. You just got out of the hospital after a very long time. Please relax and get well first.
- Richard, for the love of God, where is my daughter? What is going on in this house? I remember she’s pregnant, how can a young pregnant girl leave the house for so long and no one is worried or looking for her?
- mum enough
- don’t you say that to me. (Crying) my only daughter is missing and you’re saying enough?
- mum, please just calm down.
- shut up. Don’t tell me to calm down. Are you married? Do you have a child? Do you know what it means to loose a child twice? I lost my twins to the cold hands of death 3itrs ago. It will never happen again. I need my daughter.
- mum, you are shouting, it is not good for you.
- Richard, I have not even started. I have not even started shouting. Bring back my daughter.
Richard started crying. Reverend Johnson walked in. - dad, please do something.
- honey, Mrs Johnson called, where is Benita?
- emmm, honey, you just got back from the hospital, doctor says you don’t need this at all. So please relax, Benita will soon be here.
- call her at list. I want to hear her voice. Let me hear her voice. Benita please I want to hear your voice. Benny please (crying)
Reverend Johnson and Richard became confused. They don’t have Benita’s contact neither do they have that of pastor Mrs ifunanya’s.
Pastor Mrs Johnson started misbehaving. Richard woke up at the middle of the night to find his mum littering the whole sitting room with tissue paper.
-Mum, Richard called out what are you doing? - I’m looking for Benita, she could be hiding in the garden.
- mum, what garden? Are you alright?
Pastor Mrs Johnson walked into the kitchen and brought a knife. She pointed the knife at Richard holding him so close by his neck.
-oh my God! Oh my God!!! Mum that’s a knife you’re holding. Mum no, please no. Drop the knife ,oh God please save me. Dad!! Dad!! Dad!!
Reverend Johnson rushed out of his bedroom. Danladi was knocking from outside when he heard Richard screaming.
-Honey, rev called, please put the knife down. - he took my daughter. I kept my daughter there. He took Benita. I will kill him.
Richard was crying.
-No Jesus my wife is going mad. Jesus my wife is loosing it. Jesus help me. no honey, the person with your daughter is in , in, in, emmmmmmm, yes her room, Her room. This way.
He showed her to Benita’s room. He quickly locked the door immediately she entered. Rev went down stairs. - Richard are you OK?
- yes dad. Where is mum?
- in Benita’s room.
- and the knife? Did you leave her with the knife?
- oh my God.
- Dad, how could you?
Suddenly, they heard her shout. She stabbed herself.
IN ABUJAβ¦β¦β¦.
Benita could not sleep. - what is going on? I feel something is happening somewhere but I can’t place it. Oh Lord, you who sees the unseeable, and knows the unknowable, you can search out the deepest in the deep, you who knows it all. Where ever this danger is, do what you did when Pharaoh was after your people Israel.
Oh Lord, I stand in the gap against you demon of death lurking around my family, you blood sucking demon, in the name of Jesus, by the blood of Jesus be destroyed. I bind and cast you out to the dry land in Jesus name.
Pastor Mrs Johnson stabbed her left arm. She was rushed back to the hospital.
She might be needing a psychiatrist.
The next day, Pastor and pastor Mrs Kelvin demanded the unthinkable from BENITA.
TO BE CONTINUED.
