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    The Princess Must Die
    The Princess Must Die
    The Princess Must Die
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    The Princess Must Die

    By Olatubosun Matthew Macaulay

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    Dela, a beautiful Ghanaian princess lured to Lagos, is on the run. She has sworn to go back to Ghana and expose Komla who runs a very lucrative slave racket, therefore the Princess must die! Three men are looking for her: Aloba, her new-found lover and dreaded gunman. Seun “Commander” Kayode, an underworld kingpin who wants to use Dela to trap Aloba, his former bodyguard turned traitor and Ejiro, a banker, who wants Dela in order to reconcile with his past. These three men make use of weapons they know how to handle best: Aloba, his gun and skill. Commander, his killers and vast connection in the underworld and Ejiro, his wit and intelligence. Suddenly, the road to Ghana is littered with corpses, in gunfights and intrigues. Will the princess make it back to Ghana? This is the story of never-say-die determination, love and tragedy. The Princess spent only six days in Lagos but, what trying and terrible days!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMermex ventures
    Release dateMay 27, 2018
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      The Princess Must Die - Olatubosun Matthew Macaulay

      DIE

      Copyright © 1999 Olatubosun Matthew Macaulay

      All rights reserved. This work is registered with the Nigerian Copyright Commission.  No part of this publication may be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit.

      ISBN: 978-35945-1-6

      Publisher:

      Mermex Ventures

      mermexventures@gmail.com

      olatubosunmacaulay1@yahoo.com

      DEDICATION

      To my late twin-sister Mutiat Macaulay

      CONTENTS

      THE PROLOGUE

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      PROLOGUE

      It was a cold November night in Ubogo, a little village in the Delta State of Nigeria in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred ad fifty-four. Ufuoma, the first and the eldest wife of Akpojioto Okpako, was in the hut of Onome the midwife, labouring to deliver her first child. She had been married to Akpojioto eleven years ago but after three fruitless years of marriage, Akpojioto took Aghogho the daughter of Maduka as wife. Aghogho quickly gave birth to three girls within four years. But, as far as Akpojioto was concerned, she was no better than Ufuoma. Whereas, Ufuoma was fruitless and useless, Aghogho was simply fruitful but also useless. Akpojioto saw no difference between the two so he married another woman called Rukewe, the daughter of Oghenekevwe. Rukewe produced four boys and a girl within six years.

      That’s a woman who knows why she was married said Akpojioto, talking to his friend Okiemute Now, I have a full house. Ufuoma can afford to be barren and Aghogho can have all the girls she wants to produce.

      But the gods finally smiled on Ufuoma. She took in and nine months later in the cool night of November, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The happy father named the child Ejiro Oghene and that, was the story everyone knew in the village. Everyone, except Ufuoma the mother and Onome the midwife, and these two women will never say the other side of the story to any soul.

      Onome had been the village midwife for several years. She had been taken to the city of Onitsha, many years ago when she was barely fifteen years old. At Onitsha, she had stayed and grew up in the house of a white couple, Dr. George Williams and his loving wife Margaret. Onome had proved to be an intelligent girl and after staying with the white couple for just some years, she started helping Mrs. Williams in the hospital set up by Dr. Williams in Onitsha. She was trained as a midwife by Mrs. Williams and she was doing quite well when, suddenly, Dr. Williams died. Mrs. Williams could not stand the tragic loss of her husband; she packed her bags and left the shores of Nigeria for good. Few months later, Onome also tied up her few clothes inside a big sack and left the city of Onitsha, back to her village.

      As a result of her training and experience, she became an invaluable asset to the village, not only as a midwife but also in treating minor ailments. Her stay with the white couple had made her to frown upon many of the beliefs and customs of her people which years before, she had accepted as normal. She had watched with horror, as twins delivered in her hut had been forcefully snatched from the arms of their wailing mothers, taken to the evil forest and slaughtered. There was nothing she could do to stop this evil practice. She had tried talking to the village elders but all her efforts had been met with curt and sharp rebuffs.

      She had watched with keen interest, the development of the pregnancy of Ufuoma and she knew, from experience and after examining her, that Ufuoma was carrying twins in her womb. Ufuoma would be terribly hurt, she thought, if these babies were eventually taken from their mother and killed. She liked Ufuoma, a kind, gentle and loving woman, who had suffered much for her barreness especially from Rukewe, the favourite wife of Akpojioto. However, all the virtuous qualities of Ufuoma paled into nothingness in the eyes of her people because of her barreness.

      When Ufuoma was finally in labour and she was brought into her hut to deliver, Onome made sure that none of the usual helpers, she was training as midwives, was around. She used to have two or three women with her, to help in the delivery of babies, but this time she made sure there wasn’t any single witness to what she had planned to do. She did not tell Ufuoma of her plans either, because she did not want to put her under unnecessary stress and alarm.

      The twins came out that same night. Adorable babies they were and very, very identical. She showed the babies to the mother who immediately burst into tears. Onome consoled the distraught mother and outlined her plans to her. There was really nothing Ufuoma could do than to accept the plan of Onome or lose both babies.

      The following morning, Ufuoma, rather in a pensive mood for a new mother, was escorted by her joyful mother to the house of Akpojioto, with a bouncing baby boy. Later, in the evening of that same day, Onome also left the

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