chapter 5

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Sagir received a reply from nafisa about two weeks after he sent her the letter. the content of the letter showed her willingness to give the relationship a trial. It was at this point that sagir decided to his friend aminu know about the relationship.
Then the two lovers started to communicate with each other regularly. They became fully committed their affair.sagirs uncle resided In kaduna. Dr Khalil Ahmed who was a younger brother to his father, who worked with the Nigerian national petroleum corporation. So, whenever sagir went to kaduna, he would used that opportunities during the holidays to meet with nafisa. Their relationship waxed stronger, to the extent that they both pledge to marry each other.
Sagir was the eldest son of his father, alhaji ahmadu, who had two wives and three children. He was a senior public officer in niger state civil service. The children were all from second wife. Sagir who was the eldest was eighteen. Salmat who was the second was fifteen and presently ss1 student of government girl's secondary school bida, while muktar the youngest child of the family was in primary 2
Alhaji ahmadu married the first wife, hafsat, when he was 22. They had been living peacefully and happily for thirteen years. Their only worry was the they had no child, but they continued to have hope for that, one day, god would answer their prayers. But hafsat agreed with the fact that whatsovere god destined to be will be. She therefore advise her husband to take another wife, which he opposed at first but later he reluctantly yielded to pressure and married suwaiba. After eleven months the union was blessed with a baby boy. The naming was celebrated in Grand way; it attracted many personalities and many others..
Alhaji Adam's love for his first son was extraordinary, maybe, because of the respect for his name or long period of fruitless marriage.whatever his son requested was given to him. Although he did not always want what would upset the mind of his son, he made him a dedicated and hard-working individual with sound moral character. The name Muhammad sagir, was given to the new baby. That had been the name of alhaji ahmadu's father who passed away three months before the birth of the baby. Indeed, Allah gives and take lives.

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