From The Rejected Stone by Osa Amadi, Arts Editor
LAST WEEK
Mistaken to be a criminal, Chukwuma, the economist who was reduced to a laborer, was shot to death by policemen while he was asleep in an uncompleted building at the construction site, but Chima narrowly escaped death. Both the dead and the living were taken to SARS. At SARS now, Chima again narrowly escapes summary execution:
Once again, Chima found himself in the midst of detained criminals in the same cell in the same SARS, GID, Ikeja. He knew he was in a deeper trouble this time. But that was not his problem for now. He had seen Chukwuma jump up, shouted and fell down. Something told him that Chukwuma had been killed – a graduate of economics who could not find a job, five years after school. His family had sold everything they had – land, household property, animals and everything – in order to send him to…
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