AMAL: hope

CHAPTER FIVE 🥺🥺

  * learn to miss someone without wanting them back.*

AMAL.

  
 

    We came back home, peaceful trying to avoid anything to do with Ina and Aunty Basma three days. Mama led me upstairs. I lay on the bed while Jummai sat close to me. Mama and goggo were sitting down on the floor, my throat was dried and I felt an immediate need to quench my taste. It will be considered disrespectful for me to send goggo or mama.

  " Jummai get me water " I said with my cracked voice, Jummai quickly stood up and left to bring the water.

Suddenly she came back saying she was scared that, Ina and aunty Basma were arguing and aunty Basma had a knife with her. Mama stood up immediately to stop anything dangerous from occuring, cause we all knew what aunty Basma was capable of.

Mama rushed to the sitting room and I don't know what happened all we had was Ina's loud scream. Goggo rushed out while I tried to follow behind. When we I reach the living room, I froze. Goggo had her eyes opened wide with her left palm covering her mouth and the right placed on her chest. Ina was on the floor as her own blood made a pool around her.
Aunty Basma had a face of complete shock as she stood tears streaming down her face. While Mama inallilahi was holding a bloodied knife on her hand looking emotionless like she was frozen in time. We all heard a sound and turned to see Abu had dropped the bag he was holding as he was in shock. Did mama just murdered someone?

  " What is happening here?" Abu thundered. No one can answer this question except for three people, Ina, mama and Aunty Basma.

Ina is obviously not conscious, aunty Basma was crying hysterically, while Mama who was with the knife was frozen in time. Abu rushed to his sister picked her up effortless and rushed outside. I did swear I saw aunty Basma smirked.

" Aminatu what did you do." Goggo said but mama didn't move.

  " Aminatu what did you do." Goggo screamed as tears ran down her face as she kept shaking mama but all mama did was to fall on the floor like. She looked straight ahead like she was in a parallel universe.

  " Isn't it obvious she had killed someone." Aunty Basma as she walked towards us she stepped on the blood like it was nothing, or it was like water.

  " You were the one who killed her my daughter can't hurt anyone, you are the one who killed her." Goggo shouted hysterically as she pointed her finger to Aunty Basma. Basma gave out a loud laugh like a hyena. She then touched mama raising her chin.

" My co-wife you shouldn't have interfere but, you have to carry the cross of poke nosing." She said. Then it immediately down to me that mama was innocent.

" How could you." I said as out of anger I used my strength to push her and she fell onto the pool of Ina's blood.

The door was opened forcefully from outside as a group of armed police men entered our house.

" They are the criminals." Abu pointed at Goggo, me and Mama. Am sure the security were shocked when I was pointed out. Common what can a ten years old me do. Goggo tried to protest as the handcuffs were cuffed on our wrist. Mama didn't say a word as we were lead to the waiting van outside, Jummai rushed to us but she was held back by Aunty Basma, all the neighborhood had gathered outside. It seems they got a wind of the information. We were taken to wamako district police station for questioning and tht placed in their cell. I don't know any process here same as Goggo and mama wasn't saying a word. She was looking like a controlled robot.

   " Shey it's three of you that are killers abi, even you this kikiri." A policeman said pointing the baton on his hand at us.

" Bamu san da mutuwan ba. ( We have no idea about the death)" Goggo said in Hausa raising her hand to prove her innocence.

" Na u know wetin you dey talk." The policeman who was obviously not hausa said rudely.

" My grandaunt said we both know nothing about the killing." I said annoyed by the way he was acting towards us.

" Keep quiet. No be for una hand they find the knife when they don torture una, you go talk true come and be speaking grammar here. Make dpo come first, criminals." He said as he eyed us.

" Ogirim." Someone shouted and I guessed it was his name because he turned angrily.

  " My name na obidim. No use una hausa tone they spoil person name." He said offended.

  The dpo eventually came and we were called to the interrogation room. I was given a white blank paper and told to write a statement.

  " I can't even hold a pen not to talk more of writing. I can only say one thing, my daughter didn't kill that woman. They should ask the co wife." Goggo shouted pointing her shaking fingers at them.

  " We are recording everything." The Dpo said as he pointed at a tape recorder on the table.

  " If you want be videoing. aha you guys just faced us, you didn't get the real person involved. Dama Nigeria justice system is already corrupted." Goggo said angrily.

  " Hajiya please let us know what happened." He said calmly.

" Don't call me hajiya. Me I have not gone to hajji. You see this small girl here, she is my granddaughter. Earlier about  seven days ago. My daughter called me and said I should rushed to Usman Danfodio teaching hospital, that she slipped and hit her head, when me kuma I came, I also saw sign of beating on her body, kai I turned and said,  this one is not falling fa. I forced her to tell me, she later said it was her father. I wasn't surprised, because I know that this was coming he used to beat the mother, after six days in hospital she was back home, that is three days ago, she told her small sister that she need water to drink. The small sister went out and came back saying that her step mother and her aunty were arguing and the stepmother was holding a knife, that she was scared to go.
My daughter quickly went to stop the fight before it escalated and the stepmother was pregnant. Just a minute later, we heard a scream and we rushed only to see my daughter holding a knife and the Aunt on the fall,oho I don't know if she had died." Goggo said in angrily. " Now you people made us sleep in your cell full of mosquitoes." She said angrily. Goggo is full of drama herself.

  " Mrs Aminatu kiyari farinwata what happened when you went out of the room." The interrogator said, mama kept quiet.

" Answer me." The interrogator said mama didn't say anything.

" Failure to answer me makes you guilty of the said offense and you can be charged for murder." He threaten.

For the first time, mama's gaze moved, she looked at the interrogator in the eyes.

  " It's only my co wife who can tell me what happened am just an eyewitness, to the murder." Mama said and her eyes went back dead.

" Are you saying that your co wife is guilty of murder." The interrogator asked getting pissed of already.

" No." Mama said making both me and Goggo's head to raise up immediately. What the hell is mama saying if aunty Basma isn't guilty of the murder then who did it.

" You are getting me more  confused, Mrs Aminatu kiyari farinwata, who stabbed Mrs Fatima." He asked, mama remained silent. The officer completely lost it.

" Answer my question." He said banging the table hard making me and Goggo to flinch. She didn't answer at all behaving as if the officer and the rest of us aren't there in existence.

  " Kai mallam she said it is the co wife that has answers to your question." Goggo shouted. He glared at her.

  " Am sorry I will have to detain you till further arrangements are made." He said as he shut off the recorder.

" At least spray mosquito repellent in that cell, somebody will not be in court and malaria will be disturbing them." Goggo said as our wrist were both clasped, with the cuff.

  

    Hey my loves 💓💓💓💞, I have been busy this days, work stuff and stuffs like that, who misses me.

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