| A small room littered
with animal hides, skins, horns etc. Jemi and Jamu sit on it. Just as
spotlight beams on them, the Layabout runs on stage breathing heavily and
sweating. Jemi and Jamu are scared. |
| LAYABOUT: |
|
I’ve never been so shamed before. I was sweating from my
headdownwards and I nearly soaked my trousers. |
|
|
Can’t
you see me breathing like a baby dog that has overeaten. |
| (Jemi and Jamu are surprised. The
Layabout strips, revealing a small band around his waist. The band
is lined with cowries. There are also snail and tortoise shells hidden and
worn as pendants.) |
| JEMI: |
|
This is incredible |
| JAMU: |
|
I am surprised. |
| LAYABOUT: |
|
How could I have unveiled such
numerous amulets? I was scared and surprised; he has suddenly become vast
in medicine. |
| JEMI: |
|
I cannot believe he
alone has any power. Somebody must have
been the source of his power. |
| JAMU: |
|
We know Amuniwaye
very well. We also know he
knows next to nothing. I know what to do. |
| (He
brings out an effigy - a carved wood). |
|
|
This
is the image of Amuniwaye and I am going to work the rudiments my father
gave me on him. This will settle our differences once and for all with
hero. |
| JEMI: |
|
We should find out
the source of his powers and deal with that source. When the source is
dealt with, Amuniwaye will be left alone and we shall have him within our
little fingers. |
| JAMU: |
|
There can only be
one source. And that is Oloko, the palace traditional medicine man. Someone
told me he has been paying visits there at night. |
| LAYABOUT: |
|
I too suspect Oloko. |
| JAMU: |
|
No medicine will
work on Oloko. |
|
|
The
best thing is to organize some thugs to stab him to death. When we kill
him, we shall deal with Oloko. We shouldn’t waste time. The best thing
is to set about it at once. We’ll keep a vigil at Oloko’s house at
night when the King will be paying his nocturnal visits and stab him
to death. |
| Fadeout------------------------------------------------------- |
