Ikem Adimorah

Weals Of Mischief Ikem Adimorah

Charlie Nduka taught his closest friends - Charlie Hope andCharlie Ricky how to instigate fights. They were havingswelled times watching other fight and cry and perhapswound themselves. When they became notorious in the quaintvillage of Umueze, the children avoided their company. Theirlives became drabbed and dour. They started arranging cocks, rams and bucks fights. They were enjoying it but it alsobrought back the children to them. On a no ordinary day Charlie Nduka lost the family buck in afight it won but lost its life to a doe it fought and won to sire. The priced family doe loathed the stud to death. It was the day the leaders of the village choose to cash in onthe skittishness and ardour the people ascribes to the deities, to check illicit abuse of cannabis, a fast-growing fad amongthe youths. They thought the weed was the reason for thegrowing crime rate in the community. They did not know thedeities are now effete. But puckish Chief Udemba, the ChiefPriest of Ogwugwu deity, propped and bribed by his son'sfriends proclaimed a curse that brought the village to herknees until they revoked the earlier curse on weed smoker