Continued from Saturday, February 25, 2023

Another episode in the life of King Adegoroye took place in the following month of April.
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He always celebrate a festival in this month every year. So, this year he decided to use a camel for the ritual.

There was this very big camel in the neighbourhood that had been reared by its owner right from its birth. The camel was well loved by everybody in the neighbourhood.

Children and even adults always rode on the back of this gentle and friendly camel. The camel was even pregnant this very year.

The owner was a man by name Musa, who was in his early 30s. He came to the king, prostrated and begged him not to kill his camel for the ritual, but the king was adamant as usual.

“Ha! Haa!! Haaa!!!” he gave a strange laugh, “I kill humans as a sacrifice to the gods, how much more an ordinary animal. There’s nothing you can do young man, I’ve chosen your camel for the ritual and it must die!”

The young man felt so sad and dejected that he wept and left the king’s palace that hot afternoon. So, the camel was dragged to the front of the king’s palace with a long rope. Camels by nature are like human beings.

They are homely and very friendly. They have very good listening ears and understand whatever language you speak to them. They have feelings like humans.

Without much ado the king ordered for his shining cutlass. As the king moved forward to kill the camel the animal knelt down in front of the king and looked deep into his eyes with pity.
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The camel knew the king was really determined to kill it for the ritual. There was no sympathy or pity in the king’s eyes. He was very rigid and strict.

When the camel realised that the king took a step forward again and raised his machete, it started crying. The king was shocked and surprised.

The camel was shedding tears and looking deep into the king’s eyes so that the king could spare its life. This further made the king to be very angry and he cursed that he would surely kill it no matter what.

The camel knew there and then that the king was hell-bent on killing it. Then it started shedding tears of blood.
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Instead of teardrops, the camel was shedding real blood from its eyes. All these did nothing to move the king to sympathy. He raised his machete, swung it sideways and gave the camel some cuts on the neck.

The camel bled profusely for several minutes and died on the spot. King Adegoroye was now happy and satisfied that the camel was dead. He ordered its meat to be cooked and shared among his household.

The following week, the king was infected with a strange illness. He started emaciating every passing day. He consulted his medicine men and diviners for a solution to his problem, but it was to no avail.
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Three weeks later, his body started decomposing gradually. He had a terrible hacking cough ailment too. He coughed out blood persistently. A week to the end of that month, four of his children died one after the other under mysterious circumstances.

He became so lean, gaunt and sunken like a dehydrated and starved vulture.

“Ooophs…why am I suffering this way?” he cried in pains and anguish, but no one answered him. When that month ended, he became blind. He could only hear about the death of his children.

He had eight children. By the second week of May, death had wiped out all his eight children, including Adisa, his eldest child. Surprisingly, King Adegoroye died in the third week of May.

Before he died, he was as thin as a broomstick, and confessed to his people about the evil things he did during his wicked reign.

Almighty God meted out punishment to evildoers, and he is as swift as the thunderbolt.
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