CHAPTER TWO: BATTLE OF GREEN SNAKE AND THE SNAKE CHARMER: THE FIRST TRANSFORMATION FROM MAN

By Raising A. Jimoh

FIRST: THE PROLOUGE

Commonly, animals do not turn back to look at their faecal discharges except, uncommonly too though, in some local dogs that could turn to consume them. That itself is a rare case manifesting an inherent grave disorder that could lead such dog eating the intestine of rat. Somebody slammed your door hard on your face after walking out on you in show of anger. You walk up to bolt the door that is shut hard already. You are merely in prospect to deceive either of two people: yourself or God! But ultimately then, who are you deceiving if common sense says you can't deceive God.

Faeces of an individual has no value according to the law of nature. Thus the reason animals don't look back at it. They simply move on in joy for discarding valueless waste from their system. So, when you reasonably leave a system you have convinced to be of no value to your existentialism, to what cause would you want to look back? To take a decision to exit a system you are accustomed to, however awkward it might be, is always a hard nut to crack because it is inherently a change process. The intrinsic factor of the hope for the unknown is it's static friction which needs the skill at generating ideas with the inner commitment to infusing life into them as the lubricant required to remove the opposition force to the change motion.

Any system rocked and overwhelmed with cultural injustice of hankypanky, favouritism and 'animal farm' intrigues in gross impunity cannot serve any man well except for those born as a natural slave. For the freeborn, it is an aberration to naturally move away from.

Given all this, let those concerned not live in the illusion of a return of the Snake Charmer to the White House. It should be a long wait at the river bank for the blink of a crab. You will yawn tire! Let the green snake bite anyone and everyone at will, na your toro be dat

That is why it should sound more as a silly ranting from any purveyor of a message to the snake charmer not to come to the House again. metaphorically, this only signals a wave down at the vehicle that is already gone. And come to think of it, a discerning mind would also wants to ask reasonably: where is the adulthood sense to suffice for those that sat in deliberation over recovery of a spilled milk if not for apparent deception. Or how else do you describe a case of someone that has abandoned you for close to five days after slamming your door on your face. Shouldn't that suffice for the fact he's gone for good!

The Charmer has moved on since. All that matters now is a forward looking to the fateful day when the book - Once a Girl-Child -- shall bring the light to illuminate all crevices for the hidden truth to come out. We need not rush in search of the light. Second base jare!

CHAPTER 2: THE FIRST TRANSFORMATION TO SNAKE

With a seemingly gaze at Oga, who was not conscious of the happenings, but attentive look askance on the man on seat a distance away, the charmer could see the cornea of his eyes torn gradually from yellow to molten red. The pupil became green and through it was an intermittent star-like flashes of light that would faze out in spectrum of white light and in full sphere of their radiation - just like the exact colours of the rainbow except that the latter's half is seen to be buried in the horizone. "Why are you smilling?", Oga asked the charmer, who fixed his gaze at the transformation process.

"Never mind sir, I'm just taking your brief as an easy task", the charmer replied without distracting his attention. He noticed Oga's prompt look at the direction of his eyes. Of course, he saw nothing unusual. He could only see the House members sitting in the committee's deliberations under the outer carport. No one of them also noticed anything unusual about their vice chairman amidst them. At this time, the charmer could now see a head of green snake resting on its three-layered folded body as a reflection from a corner on the green floor. That caused a shift of his gaze towards the position of a big Mikano generator. Under it was a real life snake in that form. "You do not need any distraught over that Oga", the charmer said further to aptly diffuse any suspicion oga might want to have.

He left Oga to join the seating - already a closed circular arrangement that offered him no space to put his seat in that alignment. But that was an opportunity to take a preferred vantage position to continue his observational process of the emerging amazement.

Gradually, the snake uncoils into a full stretch of its length to prime with the grass against the small blocks demacating the grass from the concrete motorway. The charmer almost lost his sight of it any more. In coincidence, this happens just as the vice Chairman stretched his body in full length with pretentious sigh of relief from exhaustion.

"Ahaah! Oga! Se' f'asoko moju ni?, someone asked. "F'asoko" is a House Slang for adult game of sungbalaja's exploitative surgery on a concubine. The human snake ignored him as he relaxed back. Again in exact coincidence, the snake coils back to its position, now with the head standing upright. Next was a brief of its usual show of force, which at this time synchronized with the man stretching his neck side ways and yawning in the process.

Reporting the snake attacks at Atale residence to Oga did not make any significance because Oga he did not seem to reconcile it with the slanderous slighting of ego and moral dampening the Charmer held it to be. The subject he rather picked from the oral petition was the content of monetary implications of the publicity which he frankly declared that he was not ready to foot any such bill. "I dont pay for media", he said. He however promised to speak to Atale who was in charge of finance. In actual fact, Atale had futily tried to reach him on phone soon after the phone conversation with the snake. The Charmer left Atale's residence straight for his house where he acknowledged seen the missed calls

Oga had only confirmed what was a familiar experience to the charmer when he said he was not used to paying for media... The charmer knew this when he led a team of writers to capture his leg of activities in the political history of Alimosho under a project called Project Alimosho Heritage(PAH). His pecuniary contribution to that project was to be a bottle of wine despite an expressed request of his support towards the project. He collected account number that would later die in hi phone without any turnout of value... Evidently from the latter experience of the Charmer, he values information, particularly in context of media war to which the terran of politics and his ranking is vulnerable. The charmer was one total stranger that warmed his way to his heart on account of this likes.

Soon after his coronation, he was to face the heat of assault from the Arida establishment over his resolve to quit the 'cultist' clan. His coronation was a direct succession to the progressive hegemony previously seated at Arida. While a thorough evaluation of Oga's coronation would read a course of divine intervention, Arida believes the office he now occupies is its birth right for which he must hold his allegiance. Oga nevertheless holds that he has a heart of his own. The ensuing feud provoked the media war in which the Charmer deployed his skill to line behind Oga. The latter was also apt to recognise his professionalism in deploying the artillery of pen in the war. Thence the entry of Charmer into the White House at the level of a senior ranking associate.

The angst of green snake about this was conspicuous as boldly written on his face. This would further be provoked deeper by an incident the charmer felt it was worthwhile to carry along the snake... Continues.