Continued from last week
BUT unfortunately, however, trouble reared its ugly head once again for Akin. On one of his business trips abroad, security men, acting on a tip-off, arrested him at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. He was shocked at this action because he felt he had done nothing wrong against the law to warrant his arrest.

But he was further dumbfounded and perplexed when it was discovered that inside all the artworks were cleverly hidden parcel wraps of hard drugs – cocaine and heroin. And it had been promulgated by a government decree that anybody caught with hard drugs would face death by firing squad.

Akin trembled and sweated profusely on sensing that he had been used and hoodwinked into big trouble. He cried his eyes out at the airport. He begged and begged and honestly confessed that he never knew such things were in the artworks but no one cared to listen.

He was escorted to a waiting van. In the next two months his case was heard in the court and even published in the newspapers. Akin was sentenced to death by firing squad. On the day of execution, he wept and sobbed openly and pleaded innocence, but the armed men were more eager to silence him than clean his tears.

Within some few minutes of marching and commanding, a fusillade of hot bullets rattled and silenced him forever. Akin’s head drooped. And he died unsung. Poor soul!
The End.

Heartaches Of Love (1)
DAYO was the only man Yemi ever slept with in her life. Yemi was a girl who believed in pure, true love. And she gave Dayo her whole heart. They went to the same St. Peter’s Teachers Training school in Ibadan. And later went for their NCE programmes in the same higher school. All along they were both good lovers. And there was a sure sign they would marry each other, for their love seemed too divine and binding.

Dayo had drummed his unflinching love chorus into Yemi’s ears and Yemi was full of high hopes about the day they would get married and be called ‘husband and wife’. Actually, there was nothing stopping these two promising lovers to realize their dreams.

Academic ambitions made the two lovers find themselves in the university immediately after completion of their NCE programmes. Coincidentally they both attended the same university, too. This further proved they were meant for each other. Yemi was always happy that things went this way. Dayo read Accounting while Yemi read Public Administration. It was a sweet experience for the lovers. Their love affair was the ‘talk of the town’ even in the university, because their love had blossomed from teenage to adulthood. Yemi and Dayo had never been happier before in their lives than when they were given their certificates in the university.

After their NYSC Dayo got a job as an Accountant with an oil company, while Yemi got a job as a secretary in an insurance firm. Now, Dayo was 32 and Yemi 28, they both decided to get married after working for a year. It was actually going to be the most fantastic marriage ceremony, Yemi thought. Dayo, too, was optimistic that his marriage to yemi would be splendid and magnificent. Yemi often paid Dayo visits at his working place when she was less busy and Dayo always did the same. They planned to get married in December. Parents of the two lovers had approved their marriage. Yemi’s parents liked Dayo because he was good-mannered, generous and caring. He was a six-footer and had a fine physique.

It was just nine months to the wedding day and there was a young lady that worked in Dayo’s office, who felt Dayo had all the qualities she needed in a man. The lady, by name Bimpe, was hell-bent on hooking Dayo by all means. She made seductive passes at Dayo everyday at the office, but Dayo always turned her down…
To be continued next week Saturday.