All Thanks To Ikechukwu.

Ramota was lost in the rhythm while making making her toast bread. On putting the second slice of bread into the machin, NEPA extinguished the light. That was the most annoying moment of the fun cooking.

“Oh what’s all these? They could have allowed me to finish toasting my bread if at all they will cut off the light,” Ramota laments as there was no more hope of making her slice bread.
There was no generator nor any other source of electricity until NEPA decides to bring back the light.

“It’s not NEPA. We’ve exhausted the unit. We have to recharge for more units,” Ramota’s sister, Aliyah identifies the problem but there’s one more problem.

Ramota’s apartment is a new self apartment which she rented a week ago and not familiar with the meter number and the rules of the house.

“But there is another problem,” Ramota laments for the second time.

“What is it? It’s easy. We are just going to recharge so we can finish making our toast bread,” Aliyah who was yet to identify the second problem goes into the room and brings out the electricity token vending machine.

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“We don’t know which of the two numbers written on the wall is the correct number for the token,” Ramota who could do anything to make sure that her toast bread gets ready played a game.

She played a game in which she sings a song touching two of the numbers and the one she touches last when the song ends will be the meter number which she will use.

Toniki tokeji gbangba dekun, Ramota repeated this Yoruba song three times till she eventually picked the second number on the wall.

“Ramota, what if something goes wrong,” Aliyah, the one who never jokes with her money asks her older sister. Even though Ramota was aimed at making the toast bread by recharging for more light units, she was scared as well but optimistic.

Slowly, Ramota watches the number and types it on her phone. To be sure that nothing goes wrong, she cross checks the number three times before recharging ten thousand Naira light on the meter number.

“I’m very scared but hoping to receive the code in a few seconds,” Ramota was aware that she has taken a big risk but hoping to get the code. Her hope of a few second eventually turned into a minute and from a minute and they waited ten more minutes.

“I told you! How will we waste a whole ten thousand Naira? I told you to wait but you didn’t. All you wanted was toast bread but can you see what you have gotten yourself into,” Aliyah who never has patient and is so quick to cry begins to mourn the money she had just lost.

Suddenly, Ramota stopped craving toast bread. Her tummy became unnecessarily full. She lost her appetite. Losing ten thousand Naira out of her fifty thousand Naira was a lot. Ramota falls on the floor and begins to wail and regretted why she started craving tosst bread in the first place.

“Hello ladies,” Mr Ikechukwu, the man in the second flat approaches the ladies. Normally, Ramota and Aliyah are usually jovial but Mr Ikechukwu noticed that the girls were not in the mood to respond to him. Instead of responding, they both hissed at Mr Ikechukwu and continues to wail over their money which they had just lost.

“Well, I noticed that someone recharged ten thousand Naira on my prepaid meter. I tried to find out who did that but after listening to your conversation, I got to know that it was you girls who mistakenly recharged my prepaid,” Ramota jumped up and wiped her tears. Her eyes were already red like that of someone who has been crying for days but after Mr Ikechukwu tells them what happened, she feels optimistic again.

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Instead of Mr Ikechukwu giving them back the ten thousand Naira, he decides to recharge their prepaid meter so they do not make the same mistake anymore.

“Have it in mind that the first number on that wall is your meter number while the second is mine. You can write it down so this mistake doesn’t happen again,” quickly, Ramota gets a pen and paper then writes down the meter number.

Phew! The light came up again. Ramota and Aliyah thanks Mr Ikechukwu and the appetites appeared back in their stomachs. They made their toast bread while having fun doing it and they had a nice time eating their meal.