Letter to God: Lord, things have started happening oo

Dear Father;

Hmm, you na hear the news? They say our chiefs at the Traditional Council na start acting leh main bad men them ooh.

They say, they na start chasing people na for money ooh. The man them mon go issue some kina  gauge order again?

My son which one you talking so?

Oh, Father you na hear they say the Chief them from the Traditional Council are all over the place looking for the big man from our village money house. Ehn, you know the people who can prepare the list for people to know how much money they will get from our village cashbox, that the man they running behind so.

Wait ooh, so that the man say they mon loose ley election? Da wa they chasing ley man leh to say that him make them to lose in them district them. They na hear seed fini game fini.

So, where the man too eh na?

Father, da the biggest question in town right na, na. They say they can’t find the man. They na send people to the man house, he na there. They are looking for all him pelele place them, they can’t find him.

But da force, da they geh money before they leave, the one they na eat, ay na alright?

Father, me I wan talk some ooh, but they will say my mouth too wide. But da na that money bisnay alone oo. They wan to disgrace the man. They say that the man behind the people giving them red card-plain and simple. So, all da one they doing right na da vla. They wan money to take home, especially the one them the people fini showing ley door.

And you know Father, da na all ooh. The people say all the rope them behind the man mon come too for them to put them in jail.

Looka, my son, da so, so joker them over there for true ya. They wan say for whole six years they were sitting down there all the funny, funny thing them wor happening, they na do nothing, da na they wan show da they working?

You say whatin? You wan tell me this Oldman na sit down yea good, good he na start running behind people?

Father, you na hear the thing, I say. I say da na the Oldman ooh. Da Oldman pa, he na here, he in Uncle Sam’s village right, na, na, but da the one them who went for voting and the people show them red card. They say, the man mon come do recast budget so they can take their owner final cut before they leave.

Ehn, so da the man mon take the blame ehn. The time they were siting at da place there just chopping wa, wa leh da, they were na thinking da this day will come, da the village people were na going to renew them contracts?

My son, the people thought they were going to be there for 24 years?

Mm, the only man who stay there for 27 years, na passed ooh. All they people you see da na make 18 years and going for 27years, trust me Father, somer them will na even sit down at da place. The way, the people waiting for them to put handcuff on them sef, it na for fun.

Tell me something my son!

Oh, Father, ay na joke oo. Da na small wahala coming in our village oo. You will see. This one da na vla oo. Just be there we watching.