STORYFLASH…..

THE COFFIN OF
ERRORS……..EPISODE TWO

Now, the mention of Pa Jimoh’s funeral brings the
magic of the pen back to the first line of the
immediate paragraph before this. Pa Jimoh was
really dead. This must be distinctly assimilated or
there would be nothing of consequence to fathom
from the extraordinary sequence of events that
succeeded his demise. And when a man dies and
is still refused the peacefulness of a grave, then
most people will agree that there is something
still amiss with the world, as it has always been.
Jimoh, being the last of his race, was of no known
family member to claim his corpse, let alone
rewarding him with a befitting burial. It was only
the kind indegenes of Ogbomosho that took it
upon themselves to plant the loner, but they
refused to do it without a coffin available. It was
part of their culture in the remotest part of the
village not to bury any corpse in the soil without
first locking it in a casket. But the only coffin-
maker they knew had his shop in the city, which
was many kilometres away from the village.
Having no other known maker of coffins, the
village elders gathered together their resources
and employed the service of Saka, a gifted coffin-
maker. These elders exhibited their generosity
over the tapper’s corpse to a commendable
degree. If they’d allowed themselves the pleasure
of considering Pa Jimoh’s manners in his lifeh they
wouldn’t have made any step at burying him;
they’d rather have watched the corpse rot and
become meat for fowls of both air and land, for Pa
Jimoh was known to be tight- fisted in his life; a
squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching, covetous old man. He was a well from
which no bucket had ever fetched a generous
water. No beggar who knew him implored of him
to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it
was o’clock, no man or woman in the village ever
once in all his life inquired the way to such and
such a place, of Pa Jimoh. Even the blind men
appeared to recognize him; for when they sensed
him coming ahead, they would tap their canes
and make their ways to their doorways. It almost
seemed as though whenever it came to situations
pertaining Jimoh, they revelled in their affliction.
Some of them would console themselves by
saying, ‘No eye at all is better than an evil eye!’
But even Jimoh himself did not give a trifle care
to this obvious neglect; it was the very thing he
liked, and he always defended himself by
preaching about how he was the oldest inhabitant
of the village at seventy-five, and that every other
villager should always accord him the respect for
an elder. Although he always emphasized how he
was a year older than any other old man in the
village, everybody knew that he was never an
hour richer. And to have such an evil-
embodiment die in the village without the benefit
of a burial might spell misfortune for the growing
generation of the village. Saka worked round the
clock to make a presentable coffin for Pa Jimoh,
and when the work was ready the next day, Saka
was impressed at his own achievement; because
he’d never, until now, completed a casket in a
single day. It was as though the spirit of the dead
palm-wine tapper urged him to hasten up. He
knew quite well that his client would likewise be
duly impressed at the rapidity with which he
completed the work. He also knew that the
villagers could not wait to inter Jimoh and get it
done with. But in the modern world, there was
always Murphy’s Law that could not be avoided.
And in this case at hand, everything worked
together to make sure that the coffin built for
Jimoh did not arrive Ogbomosho in time. Pa
Jimoh had chosen the wrong time to die; he
kicked the bucket when fuel scarcity was rampant
in the city yonder.

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