Falling down from the tree wasn’t the only thing that scared me, the punishment that will follow by the no 1 man was my major fear. ‘’ Jezzz I have shot somebody’’ he shouted. I on the other hand got up in a rush and shouted, ‘’ Don’t worry, you didn’t shoot me’’. ‘’Oh thank Goodness, what were you doing on top of the tree’’? he asked. This time, the whole crowd has gathered around us and all activities stopped as well. I was sleeping on the tree I answered, and the head of our confraternity came, he pointed the touch lightly at me and said. ‘’ I knew it will be you, from today henceforth, I want to see your face first in the arena in every meeting we hold’’.
True to his word, the head of the organization always asks of me in every meeting and made sure I’m seen around till the meeting is over. That was how I escaped being shot by one of our own. I was always eager to be noticed by the people in power, so I keep doing what no other person dared to do and I will be punished consequently. I must let you know this the punishment of the organization is the most dreaded thing any member of the organization would wish for, so you try as much as possible to avoid it at all cos.
I even participated in the removal (Over throw) of a number one at one time as young as I was. We succeeded and that made me kind of popular. After my OND, I had to go to the university to study Engineering because my mother didn’t like the course I was studying (Polymer technology). So she made me took JAMB again when I was supposed to be on my industrial Training. I wrote the JAMB and I passed it.
Now let me talk about my mother a little. She did play a very vital role in my life as a young man, she wasn’t the disciplinarian like my dad (beating me at all times). She had her own way of flogging my conscience and making me do the right thing at all times even when I don’t want to. She can appeal to your conscience by making you see why you are not supposed to behave the way you do. My mum can make the devil see reasons why he should not be evil. She had that gift and I loved her so much God bless her soul. I don’t smoke nor drink, my kid brother does all of that and my mother hates it like poison.
My mum equally felt I was a scent then because I don’t do drinking and smoking and felt my kid brother was the cultist in our family. Never judge people by their looks, all those who have done that towards me, got the shock of their lives whenever they find out I was a cultist.
The first impression you will get about me is, what an angel I am. I have got the looks of an angel actually, my face doesn’t tell you what I’m capable of and all those that did judge me my looks were in one way or the other disappointed. Especially, my own members, I will explain this much later as time progresses. Now back to my mother, I loved her to the point that I vowed to stop being a cultist once I get into the university. My reason was that; I don’t want her to suffer because of me in any way. I see some of my friends being arrested by the police or die. I know my mum will be heartbroken if any of these happens to me.
So I decided to stay out once I resume. Now I put in for UNIBEN first and the second choice, I scored 232 mechanical engineering which was the exact cut-off make for the admission. They wouldn’t give me except I push in some money, when I told my mother about it, she wrote a letter and asked me to take it to the Pro- chancellor of my state university ( AAU, Ekpoma). If any of you know or have heard of that school, you will agree with me that it’s one of the dens of cultism in Nigeria. Even though I know UNIBEN is as bad in cultism as AAU, what UNIBEN does that AAU does not do is that they know how to protect their image better than AAU.
I took the letter, with my credentials and headed for Ekpoma. I go to the Pro-chancellor’s office and he welcomed me. He was a reverend father in the catholic church, my mother was the provost of Benin deanery CWO. So she was a very popular person in the catholic church. I gave him the letter and he asked me to go and get a change of university form which I did. That was how I gained admission into AAU. Now I basically did not want to go and live off-campus, I wanted to live in the hostel so I can stay away from some of the cult members I used to see in the school environment especially those that came from Auchi poly where I had my OND.
They were always asking me to come and start fellowshipping with them. I told them I don’t want to for now, and they respected my wish. They knew if they push further, I might get hostile with them and that might lead to a serious confrontation with them and might not end well. So the let me be.
Now there were two groups each claiming to be the authentic faction of our group in EKP. Those that came from Auchi poly and those that have been on the ground. All this I never knew until I was brought in. An incident happened one day in my faculty, a friend of mine from the electrical department, told me that the chief of defense wants to see all members that are not fellowshipping in engineering. Since I was one of those, I was asked to come along. So we gathered under a tree in the engineering faculty and I saw one huge and very handsome dark dude.
I asked Emmau who he was, and I was told he was the man in charge of defense. As he came closer with three other guys, he stopped where I was and asked me my name. I told him and his next question was, ‘’why have you not been fellowshipping with us’’? I told him I don’t want to for now, and that their leader is too lousy for my liking. Emmau was tapping me from behind, looking at me with that eye that says – please do not to get him into trouble.
The defense guy replied to me by saying. ‘’ You will be dismembered and then we shall kill you afterward’’. These words got me infuriated and I told him where my house is in school that if he dares come there, whoever shoots first will go meet our maker, and I walked right out on him. Believe me, nobody in his right mind does that to a chief of defense and goes scot-free. Well like I said before now, I do things that no one dares do in the organization. I love challenges and the adrenaline it comes with.
Emmau came to meet me afterward and fear was written all over his face. He was just doing his second year in the organization and he thought I was too. He never knew that was my fourth year and I was one stubborn heck of a boy. He admired my courage and told me no man in his right senses can pull out what I just did.
Something happened that changed the whole narrative in my life. My beloved mum died and her death really took a toll on my life. After her death, I needed to get myself engrossed in any activity that will get my mind off her. That was when I decided to join and start fellowshipping with my organization again. Now, which faction should I fellowship with, after weighing my options, I decided to fellowship with those that have a root with Auchi poly where I had my roots too. Plus the fact that I have issues with the defense guy in EKP, I knew I will never survive it if I decide to fellowship in their camp. So I met my age-long friend Morrel and told him I was now ready to start fellowshipping. He told me there was going to be a meeting come that weekend, and that I should be ready as he will contact me.
Meanwhile, that action I pulled in school that day with the defense guy has made me very popular on both sides. This I didn’t know until later when I started fellowshipping. Now I never knew my rejoining the fraternity and start fellowshipping with them will cause a lot of deaths and trouble within the fraternity. There is something important worthy of note here, the war ( FIGHTS) within fraternity is far more dangerous than the war with opposition. This is what I will discover with time as I continue on the road of no return.
WATCH OUT FOR EPISODE 4, YOU DON’T WANNA MISS IT.
STAY OUT OF CULTSM, THE ENDTHEREOF IS DESTRUCTION.
GOD BLESS.