chapter 1

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You should be thankful for everything I

have done for you that is what a stingy

man always those to remind people for the

little things he has done for them.

He  always praises himself that he is a

man,basically because he had  many

offsprings which he could barely takecare

of and this morning the only mistake he

believed his first wife did was to ask him

what they would be having for breakfast

and that those not applies

because the food taken in the morning is

for the whole day to himself he is a saint

wai dumamai haba malam tun shakaran

jiya muke faman chin dumamai fa, Woman

I give what I have all his children are

suffering from malnutrition,debt from

school fees and from other people in the area.

        

"Talatu ni zan tafi aiki the work he always

does without spending what he got from it,

5 of his children have to drop out of school

because of their father's ill

treatment they are into vocational training

and hopefully they  would make a better

being for theirselves and the remaining 5

they get some meal from the home school

feeding program,before the invention of

this program the only thing they do during

break periods is to stare at their classmates

when they are having their meals or they

eat the reminant and the crumbs or rather

they beg and when luck is by their sides

they get to eat it if not well they would deal with it .

              Malam Abu and his family leaving

in a rural area were everyone has a wish

but due to place they find themselves it can't be granted.

  Mama tala next week we are going to

start our exams and we haven't paid our

exam fees for the previous years,talatu was

not happy with the constant complain

about there children's school fees and her

maigida as she calls her husband has

forbed them from engaging theirselves

into any business that would fetch them money.
                 
He believed that women in general

shouldn't be allowed to work because they

would feel superior over their husbands.
     
Today being  Saturday meaning no school

and work Man Abu wasn't himself when

he woke up he had high fever and he has

being shivering on his bed but when his

wives and children came to greet him he

told them he was fine that he just had a

slight headache and would be fine after he

takes tuwon toka.
                His family where amused by what

he just oughtered he refused to go to the

clinic nearest to them because all his

calculations where on how he would pay

the hospital bills and buy drugs for himself.
                
               Even though his illness hasn't die

down he still maintain his large and

obesity body his family going into all this

sufferings when he leaves the house for

work he always has an early morning

Mama pot restaurants that he always goes

to fill his stomach before heading to work.
         

And as  the case is right now he hasn't

been able to send his grown up children to

marriage because he has been thinking of

sending them off,and basically his illness

today was as a result of the sleepless nights

he stopped himself from having thinking

and calculating the cashes and loan he

would take just to send them off his only

intentions was just ashafa fatiha that ends

it all but nah what of the refreshment that

would be served and the kayan lefe and

kitchen equipments the brides would need  hah what a world!!!

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