06/01/2019
Act 1 Scene 1
Police Ofiicer: shut up you
DM: (lying helplessly on the ground, with only his head lifting up) But wetin i do na? I am a honorable man of the hallowed chamber...
Police Officer: and so what, you are a bloody animal (lift his head as if praying to heaven) God bless Aisha for the word.
DM; but what have i done na, you know i am not well, i have severe cough?
Police Officer: And so what? are you the first? Even, Jubril...
Constable: cutting in (expressing shock) oga, shhhh! you know that's a sacred name we were warned never to say it in the public...
Police Officer: Shut up, you lazy officer, common Boko Haram, rag tag soldiers you couldn't stand, you ran away...
Constable: sorry sir, all correct sir!
DM: Can i go home?
Police Officer: shut up! Go home to where? The power at the top should be respected.
DM: Who is the power at the top
Police Officer: You see, I said it. You do not recognize our president...
DM: Oh, is he the one you refereed to Jubil, is that his name now?
Police Officer: Constable, arrest this man. So you are the inventor of the name jubril? Now that is the case against you.
DM: but you are the one that mentioned the name na
Police Officer: Offense two, trying to frame an officer of the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
DM: (coughing harder now), I am tired here o! So you people didn't have any case against me before...
Police Officer..we had! Why did you look at the president with a corner eye like that when he was talking at the chamber about how much he is going to spend again? Don't you know he is the president of the Federal Republic?
DM: But i was not in the chamber that day
Police Officer: I don't care! Are you not DM? the trouble maker, who can't keep his mouth shut?
DM: Don't I have any right any more?
Police Officer: Your rights were lost since 2014! Constable Transition, I mean, transmit, Sorry transmission! Oh God! I have stopped this Tramadol na. Constable, transport this man to the dungeon now.
Constable drags DM away, while DM shouts eje kun nje!