Voices

Denial (ending)

     Mummy wa slept up until the next day,I think the injections knocked her out.
I had undergone series's of questioning ,it was therapy in a certain way.
I wanted to talk and move on and find justice and from the look of things Aunty tega was  not going to spare her brother one bit.

Truth is ,he had done things similar to this previously but had never gotten as far as penetration. This was a reason he was whisked away from port-harcourt to save the family further embarrassment he would have caused them.
They were all done with his ways and wanted nothing to do with him.

     In in one instance,he had beaten up a girl for turning down his advances and the shock of him being locked up for 3days had landed their mother in the hospital with a stroke.
He pleaded .
He cried.
He even had the effrontery to tell me,that  he would marry me .He still thought I was naive,my innocence had been snatched away on that dreadful day,all I felt was anger .
I was an angry person and all I wanted to see was him behind bars,sodomised and tortured,like the way he did me.

He was sentenced to 35 years in prison ,this happened 5 months later from the day of the incident .
I still wonder the kind of person Aunty tega was,how she defended a total stranger over her brother amazed me .
I found out later that she had been  raped and had a child from it.
Her baby daughter died at age 5 of hepatitis B.
She nearly ran mad from grief.
It broke her;her only  consolation  was fighting for justice and helping others that had gone through it also.
Going after rapist gave her peace after all the madness she went through herself ,it was a reason she studied law .
She had vowed to bring all rapists  she came in contact  with to their knees .

I got justice.
I got to write Neco and Waec gce towards the end of the year,paid for by Aunty  Tega and Uncle Ochuko.
I found out I was pregnant ,but I miscarried at the 4th month.
I didn't cry ,I could not cry for a child I would have hated ,a child that would have reminded of the past.

Mummy wa left our papa,she blamed him for being one of the reasons this predicament happened.
We never saw him again,he finally got the release he needed from us all.

I proceeded to write my jamb the next year and beat the cutoff marks. Then post jamb ,for the school I wanted to go to .
My new family the ochuko's stood by me through it all ,and I was forever grateful .

The end.....