| In front of the Medicine man’s house. Jemi, Jamu and
the Layabout are laying ambush. They cover their faces with masks. Inside
the house Ojuro is waiting to see Oloko. Before his arrival, she opens the
bag containing her belongings. |
| OJURO: |
|
I wonder what Baba is still
doing on his garden after he had told me to stay here and wait for him.
Let me try these dresses on and see if they will really fit my father. |
| (She
brings out one of the King’s dresses in her bag and puts it on). |
|
|
Don’t
I look like the King? (She puts the cap on her head)
Isn’t it befitting? |
| (Oloko
enters from the garden and looks at her with surprise). |
| OLOKO: |
|
What is this? What
are you doing? |
| OJURO: |
|
I’m trying to put
one of these dresses on and see how befitting it will be on my father. |
| OLOKO: |
|
You mean you brought
some dresses for your father? |
| OJURO: |
|
Yes - One of those
the King gave me to give his laundry man before I absconded from the
palace. |
| OLOKO: |
|
Must you run away
with his dresses if you are leaving? But what is it that you wanted to
tell me? |
| OJURO: |
|
Baba,
you see-wonders will never end in this world. Just as I was planning to run away from the palace, I saw your wife. |
| OLOKO: |
|
You mean Ololo? |
| OJURO: |
|
Yes. |
|
| She was sitting
right on the King’s laps. |
| They
were kissing and hugging and you know the end product of such
recklessness. |
| OLOKO: |
|
Ololo my wife -
sitting on the King’s laps! This is an abomination. Are you sure it was
Ololo you saw? |
| OJURO: |
|
Yes. She was dressed
in a white cloth. Baba you see, since my father gave me to the King, he
has not been performing his duties as expected. So I developed the
instinct of watching over him because he may be giving it to other women.
And I caught him with other people’s wives. |
| OLOKO: |
|
Including my own
wife? (After a long pause) |
|
|
Thank
you very much. You can go home. I know what to do. Ololo will not forget
me for this unfaithfulness. Amuniwaye is trying to kill two birds with one
stone. I will deal with him. A child who says when he grows old and gets
rich, he’ll make the head of the ducks his target meat, will not be
allowed by the duck’s creator to be ripe enough. |
| (The
psychic object of divination begins to send out the usual rambling, faint,
coarse and harsh tone -yelling at intervals). |
|
|
You
shut up there. Where were you when everything happened and you cannot tell
me? |
| OJURO: |
|
I’m leaving Baba. |
| OLOKO: |
|
Thank you. Greet
your father for me and tell him I will be there to see him. |
| (She
goes out and runs into the hands of Jemi, Jamu and the Layabout. They
think it’s the King that is approaching. They attach and stab her to
death). |
