Gbenga and Funke were boarding school students of Obalana High school, Owo, Ondo state. Gbenga was a detractor; there was nobody he could not abuse. Funke on the other hand was a glutton who could eat with a pig. She had always been warned to stop eating whatever she saw so that she would not eat poison.
One day during the drought period, Gbenga placed two of his bucket beside the school well so that he would be the first person to fetch water in the evening, but when students got there in the evening, there was no enough water in the well. In this sense, Gbenga decided to come in the midnight. When he was about to get to where the well was, he observed that somebody was already fetching water, he was annoyed but he had not known who the person was. Some minutes later, he got there and started talking furiously to the person. He talked for so long, but the person did not reply him. Suddenly, the person turned back to Gbenga it was then that he knew that the person he was abusing was an ogress [a ghost]. He was a bit shocked, but later he summoned courage and started using all sort of derogatory words on the ogress.
“I don’t care who you’re, as long as you met my buckets here; you are not supposed to fetch water before me” He said and pushed the ogress away. Immediately the ogress landed on the floor, she disappeared. Gbenga was scared but after some seconds he fell down. He couldn’t stand up and he couldn’t talk again. Surprisingly, his tongue began to come. When the day finally broke, the first set of students to come and fetch water saw him and quickly went back to call their house master who did not know when and how Gbenga sneaked out of the hostel. When he got there, he was very scared; he couldn’t touch him nor move. The length of the tongue amazed everybody. “This must be 5cm long” Mr. Segun, the house master commented. Gbenga was taken to the school clinic but he was immediately transferred to the general hospital before the school management sent for his parents. The doctors treated him for some weeks before they told his parents to take him to a pastor or an herbalist for spiritual treatment. Without much ado, his parents took him to a Celestial Christian Church of God in Akure. Gbenga was there for two months before God finally delivered him.
“I’ll never abuse anybody again and I will never go out again in the midnight” he promised himself.
Funke, on the other hand, was now Adun’s bosom friend. Adun was a new student, although she was not a boarder, she would stay in the hostel till 6pm before going home. Adun was the only child of her parents; she was also a witch who had promised her mates that she would return to their fold when she was fifteen years old, not only that she also promised to bring someone along. She brought different types of cake to school for Funke who she knew would definitely eat the cake without asking her for where she got it and even if she asked, Adun would tell her that “My brother is celebrating his birthday, or don’t you trust me again?”
So when it was a month to Adun’s 15th birthday, she and Funke fell sick. They were taken to different hospitals but the entire doctors’ efforts to treat them were proved abortive. Five days to Adun’s birthday, a pastor who came to pray for the patients in the hospital where Funke was being treated told her parents to bring her to his church because her illness was beyond what they thought. Undisputedly, her parents did what they were told because they had spent a lot of money in the hospital. In the church, the pastor began serious deliverance for Funke who had partially belonged to spiritual realm. Some days later, Adun’s mother decided to take Adun to a herbalist in Akungba but before they got there, Adun died in the car. Her spirit went to the church where Funke was, thankfully, the Pastor had sprinkled Funke with anointing oil. When the spirit got there, the Pastor stood up from where he was seated and began to pray for Funke. He also sprinkled the anointing oil around the church premises before Adun’s spirit finally disappeared and Funke began to vomit every cake that Adun had given her.
When she was finally delivered, the Pastor encouraged her not to always collect gift or food from everybody. Since that day, Funke did not collect food or gift from her friends again because she has learnt a lesson.
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