HOUSE WIVES: We no go gree o,we no go gree,we no go gree o, we no go gree.
GRANDMA: Kemi, Kemi, Kemi, please, what is your problem, how many times do you want me to call you before answering?
Who are those people making noise? They are getting nearer.
Kemi: Grandma, getting nearer ke? I don’t know what you are talking about o, what type of noise?
GRANDMA: So you can’t hear the noise abi?, I think something is wrong with your hearing system.
Kemi: But Grandma, what is our problem with this? If they like let them continue with their noise, is our house palace, or are we one of the chiefs?
GRANDMA: You are a small girl, the noise, am hearing, is like some people are gearing for battle if not war, and if not curtailed, it may lead to unpleasant consequences.
Kemi: War ke? God forbid, kilagbe, kilaju, Grandma?
Anybody wanting war should face Sambisa forest, not in our town, lae, lae .
Grandma: Kemi, Kemi, they are in front of our house already, they are all women, they are shouting, “We no go gree, we no go gree…..We no go gree for an empty Christmas.”
But, what does that mean?, this is serious o,and why our house? Please, look after the kitchen for me,and let me find out what the problem is.
Women Leader: Ah, please, raise your voices the more and shout louder, that is Grandma coming, thank God, we can’t take this, empty and uninspiring Christmas, laye. Not for us and our children, laye, laye,it can’t happen. They, our husband, can celebrate Christmas whichever way they like,but for us and our children, we deserve good celebration of the festival.
Grandma: Good morning my children, why all this? Early in the morning like this? You are saying you no go gree,no go gree for what any way?
Women Leader: Grandma, please, listen to us very well, our husbands have gone bunkers, they are saying we can not celebrate Christmas, and if we are going to celebrate it, we must be ready to cut our dresses according to our clothes, that the years of living fake lives is over, that we need to put aside those things, that will make them incur unnecessary debts, that ,all the house wives must 99 percent local, that even,we must not think of imported rice, meat, fish, chicken, ram ,cow ,all these oyinbo seasonings, etc.
That ,Gari, cassava flour, ebiripo, pupuru, sapala, cocoyam, fufu, starch, tuwo monsara, tuwo ndawa, etc.
Grandma,do you know what? they even told us ,we should not think about all the Vita,Vita, so also ofada rice, Yam tubers, that they are too expensive and cannot afford them for Christmas, hence our anger.
You know what Grandma, they also asked us to see how we can arrange for ponmo, local mushrooms, locust bean, cassava leaves, cocoyam leaves, iyana ipaja vegetables, butter leaves etc, for soup during the Christmas, you can see how callous these people calling themselves our husbands are.
Christmas, of all festivals, this is unheard of, Grandma.
Grandma:My children, All I see here, is plantain trees, and there is no need sharpening our cutlasses before cutting them.
Nkan to wa nle yi, iti ogede ni, se ,e gbo, do you hear me?
Women Leader: Grandma, we are talking about how we can have a joyous Christmas, you are talking about plantain tree, where is the nexus?
Grandma:My children,we kuku no dey same page,this era in our town needs patience, endurance and ultmost understanding, hence, l will admonish you to see things same way with your husbands.
This time too , shall pass, by His grace.
Because after Christmas, there are lots of bills to settle, and in that case, the slot will fall on your husbands, your children will go back to school, you will need to pay hospital bills, electricity bills, even feeding, which is very compulsory, please, things must be in moderation this time around.
Apart from this, they too may not know it, their suggestions will help our town’s economy, and this too, will impact our family health and well-being.
Please, talk to your followers, there is urgent need to shealt the proverbial swords, there are positive battles ahead of us, so we need not waste our energy unnecessarily, please, please and please.
Women Leader: Thank you Grandma, you have made our day with your explanations. We will go back home, to our husbands and see how we can iron things out with them, we know things are hard, but, but, but.
Grandma: Please, nothing like but, but in this case again, go and settle things with your husbands.
Odun Ayo la ma se lagbara Olorun o.
Happy Christmas and new year in advance.
Thanks for taking my advice.
E se pupo.