Dear Senior Opupulepu,
How are you do? I hope you are do fine. As for me and my family we are all do fine.
Senior, you remember those school days, during revision week, when students begin seriously learning everything and nothing, with the hope that what they learn will appear inside the question papers inside?
Senior, you see, those times there are categories of students who study. There are students who know the thing and the thing knows them. So during the revision period they will only be revising coolly while impatiently waiting for the exams, so that they can pour all the stuff in their heads and put them on answer paper top. These types of students are always ready, waiting for the examination week to approach.
Senior, there is another set of students who know that with just a little effort they too will make it. These will scan through their notes and books and pick areas they were not well vested in and study to understand, just in case the examiner does the wrong thing and detours into that section. They will not be taken unawares.
Senior, there is another category of students who pitch their tents at the borderline, and will learn everything in a rush with the hope that something will stick inside their head inside, and they will call on Yahweh to make only what is in their head inside to drop like ripe mango in our ex-former School Prefect’s garden inside. This category of students blames the witches in their family for their woes.
Senior, perhaps the last category of students is those who keep wondering what school is all about. They won’t study because they always observe strict social long distance between them and their books. After all, if books talk about diseases, conflicts and wars, why should we make friend friends with books?
Senior, these students also want to pass by any means possible, and if the opportunity creates the opportunity, they can thief question paper or spy over their next door neighbour in the exams room and use the human version of ICT to transport what is in the neighbour’s answer sheet inside unto theirs.
Senior, in fact, such students care less about anything, and they can insult, abuse, condemn and fight anyone who they feel is not their buddy-buddy. But they too make attempts to study and this is how.
Senior, they will do some recce on all the serious students and see what they are studying, then after that they will establish diplomatic relationship with their books, and open only the chapters that contain what those serious students are studying.
Senior, such students are in that category of students who panic throughout the exams, especially when others keep their hands perpetually up, shouting “paper!” There and then, they will start getting trotting stomachs, cold feet and cold sweat. Things do not go on well for them in the exams room, because they made enemies with their books in the classroom.
Senior, at that moment, and for the sake of survival, this category of students will clinch to even a single strand of hair to hold on for life’s sake. Their necks will grow longer than the giraffe’s, and with telescopic eyes they will scan over answers on their next door neighbour’s paper and, boom, they will write something. In fact, they will write anything. But, of course, people must see that they are writing, and they will write aggressively. They will hope that the examiner will mark their answers based on their aggressive approach, as a boxing judge will give high scores to the most aggressive boxer in the ring, in case there was no knock down.
Senior, as the day for the lot casting is drawing nearer, our ex-Omanhene, Onaapowura Nana Odinihu Ontiaobiara, is in some stage of desperation. I wish you are his friend, so you will advise him for me.
Senior, the problem is, it seems as if Onaapowuraa has not taken his studies, sorry his trainings, seriously before approaching this rematch. The Great Leopard rather has decided to train and train well, well, as if his very body and soul depend on this very bout.
Senior, you see, Onaapowura’s trainers are misleading him. They told him that once Donut Trumph is off the stool in Amelika, Yahweh has sent a sign that he, Odinihu, will win hands down and legs up. So our ex-Omanhene has gone dancing Jerusalema and azonto in the village square, instead of carrying blocks and running.
Senior, Yahweh just made him go round to see what people are studying, sorry, Free Skuuling that the Great Leopard introduced to all and sundry, sundry and all.
Senior, Onaapowura had prophesied that this Free Skuuling would break down all the huts in Ogyakrom and set bushfires in all our farms if Jack Toronto brings that into being. He believed in a retrogressive approach to that problem, where, until one million school blocks had been put up, all school going age pupils and students must go chasing field mice, catching crabs, and chasing boys and girls. Or, at best, they should go planting forests in the grasslands.
Senior, talking about planting forests and I remember this same Odinihu, when he was Omanhene, collected all our church collections and said he was going to employ the young ones to go and plant forests in our dry lands. No tree was planted and our monies were not refunded. When we demanded answers, not examination answers, Odinihu said he forgot and planted the trees in the harmattan season, and so, because of lack of rains they all dried up and died. And only yesterday, he visited a place called “Valley” in the heart of the driest place in Ogyakrom, and promised that if he is lot-cast back to the stool, he would pay all the young-young ones to go and grow forests. Again! With whose money, people are asking?
Senior, when Onaapowura saw that the main tip, as in major apor, in this eighth coming lot casting is all about Free Skuuling, he came out openly to say that as for he and Free Skuuling, they are blood relations and that he gave birth to him. He even said it was him who sent Free Skuuling to skuul, and without him Free Skuuling would never have been somebody.
Senior, Onapowura is saying that he out-doored Free Skuuling in a quiet ceremony, because he does not want people to know that he had born-born with an under-aged daughter of Eve. He even went on to produce some birth certificate of Free Skuuling to prove that he is the father. But it turned out that he produced receipt or payment of milk powder.
Senior, I thought there will be some confusion that will be basaaa in Ogyakrom, but rather the villagers are not paying any attention to Onaapowura, but continue praising the Great Leopard for great things he had done.
Senior, some people sent themselves as emissaries to see our ex-Omanhene to advise him to resist talking the way he was talking, because if he wants to claim Free Skuuling as his child, people will think he is a child trafficker, aiming to thief someone’s child.
Senior, I believe Onaapowura has a long way to go, if he can even walk into the ring on lot casting day. As for me I am Dan, sorry I am Done!
It’s Me!
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