Dear Senior Opupulepu,
How are you do? I hope you are do fine like how me and my family are all do fine.
Senior, you remember those days in school when numbers had some spiritual powers to direct or misdirect one’s life. Like whenever you get an unfortunate daughter of Eve and you are going to certain somewhere with her, you become very appreciative of the Number 2, because it is only two of you. If however a friend meets you and decides to join you two, pe, then you consider the Number 3 to be a threat to the plans of your enjoyingment. That is when you know that Three can be a Company Ltd.
Senior you are also aware that numbers can play tricks by meaning different from one situation to another. During your class tests and examinations you thrive for 100 or 90 or 80 but never below 50. With such numbers on your answer sheet you will know you have made it. Figures like 20, 10 or between 9 and 0, will make you realize that your family witches and wizards have truly meant your destiny.
Senior, but as soon as you are able to write the GCE Ordinary level and you have figures like 1, 2 or 3 appearing on your result slip then you know that you are born to be a professor and even your teachers will make paddies with you. There when you score like from 4 up to 9, then you know you cannot be counted among those who were born to go to school some.
Senior, as it is when people are picking numbers they will prefer to pick numbers that will gel with their spirit and soul. And so when they miss out and pick any disheartening number they will know that whatever they were going to seek for will never materialize. And some will attempt to interpret the number the way the like. Like what is happening to the Umbrella Concert People today.
Senior, the other day the fetish priestess of the village’s lot-casting shrine came and announced those asafo groups which were short-listed for the fourth-coming, sorry the eight-coming lot casting festival competition in the village. The list which was long included the Elephant People’s Party, the Umbrella Concert Party, the Red Kokokroo Party, the Red Star Brigade, the Green Coconut Tree Planters, the White OkpoParty, the Chin-Gum Chewers Association, the Liquid Petroleum Gas People, Headache Medicine People, Eaters of What You Grow People and Free-Freedom Concert Party and a certain I- Walk Alone Man (Johnnie Walker).
Senior, it was like YesuChristus Emmanuel choosing a dozen lieutenants to assist Him convert ordinary men into saints, Mama-Gin our fetish priestess decided to handpick twelve old akupasand old ladies to put them in an arena and see who can fight for the sacred stool of the village.
Senior just as YesuChristus Emmanuel said “thousands are called but tens are chosen,” of the five hundred men and women who volunteered to be allowed to sit on the stool, only twelve were chosen by our fetish priestess through the inspirations of the good spirits.
Senior those dropped included people like Busum from the people who always drink PAP as in kokoo, Agyei Boat Man of the Front View Party and Addai Dick of the Progress Concert Party.
Senior, these people were caught bringing under-aged girls, people diagnosed to have same toe-prints which the village laws call them lunatics and so cannot participate in any lot casting to came and stand in their behind as parents for them.
Senior, I thought there were going to be commotion after the large number of aspirants were dropped, like what happened during Keta Onion’s reign as fetish priestess. But as for this, everybody went dead silent, it is as if Mama-Gin was feared by all or she did her work so well that all the gods were on her side.
Senior, on the day that she appointed as the day when the chosen ones were to pick their positions, Mama-Gin asked the lucky ones to first pick numbers that will put them in order of positions in the order that they should go and pick their positions on the lot casting paper. Please do not get confuse, just take it like that. I myself I am confused.
Senior, as things went the Elephants first picked to go the fourth and the Umbrellas picked to go the eighth. When the proper run for positions on the lot casting paper was completed, the Elephants took the first position, the Umbrellas took the second, the Chin-Gum Chewers Association took the third, the Red Kokokroo took fourth, the Free-Freedom People took fifth, Eat-What-You-Grow took sixth, Headache Medicine People took seventh, the Liquid Petroleum Gas Sellers took eighth, the Green Coconut Planters took ninth, the Red Star Brigade took tenth, the White Okpo took eleventh and I-Walk-Alone Johnnie Walker was awarded the twelfth position.
Senior, there and then the Umbrella People interpreted their position to be a good omen. They say the number two position confirms that Onaapowura was going to come back a second time. With that there was confusion in the village square. You see, this Onaapowura has chopped paramount chief twice already. He first came when Atadwe Milks decided to take up higher and better duties in Yahweh’s kingdom. Then after that there was a lot casting which he won to squat on the stool for a second time. The next lot casting saw him tumbled off and Nana Owuobiayeowu took the stool to his family house.
Senior, it is therefore clear that in this event of lot casting, Onaapowuraa will be making all efforts to squat on the stool for the third time. So what are the Umbrella People talking about a Second Coming for Onaapowuraa for?
Senior, what people have forgotten is that the Umbrella People are rather wishing Elephants’ Owuobiayeowu a second term on the stool and one thing the Yahweh prophesied the results of the next lot casting to me. The Elephants will chop number one followed by the Umbrellas who will chop number two. Then the Chin-Gum Chewers Association will come third in that order with I-Walk-Alone Man been the twelfth apostle in that order.
Senior, mark my words, and you will see this prophesy coming true. The gap between the Elephants at the top and the Umbrellas who will be next in line will be like the gap between Abraham and the poor man one side and the rich man on the other.
Senior, I say this because I am Daniel from the tribe of Daniel the Prophet and I prophesy this to you and the whole of Ogyakromians. People like the Umbrella Concert Party People can sit there and joke with numbers that do not associate with them. They are only placing a curse upon their heads attempting to take what belongs to others. Quo locutus sum, locutus sum what I have said I have said because quo scripti. scripti what is written is written.
Senior, I am Dan, sorry I am Done.
Its Me. Note: this column should have appeared on our Friday, October 23 edition.
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