Who Will Bail Us Out?

By Emmy Boy

When Papa Edu, an experienced banker and the head of Okafor family knowingly helps a customer to obtain a loan in his bank where he works by standing in as the customer's guarantor, he thought he was doing himself and his family a lot of favor from the deal.

Problem started when the customer disappeared into thin air with the money leaving Papa Edu completely devastated and in a deep financial crisis which he desperately tried to shake off but failed.

With no hope in sight, he turned to his family for their support during the trying times which they willingly gave him.

But when they stumbled upon his unholy allegiance with a mysterious woman, they had a rethink and began to question his motives. Was he was actually involved in a financial mess or was he just looking for the perfect excuse to pave way for him to marry the mystery woman whom they suspected to be his secret mistress?

Strife, angst, suspicions, accusation and desperate counter maneuvers followed suit and in a desperate and hasty move to protect themselves from an impending future full of uncertainty, all the members of his family started to make their own plans in readiness to counter whatever ill-conceived plans their father had for them.

When the identity of the woman who has been at the center of the whole crisis was finally revealed, the whole picture became clear as everybody discovered how dangerously close they came to destroying the whole family—in one moment of madness!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emmy Boy
• Release date: May 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311875990

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WHO WILL BAIL US OUT?

A PLAY

BY

Emmy Boy

Smashwords Edition

Text copyright © 2014 Emmy Boy

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All names, characters and incidents portrayed in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead is purely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CAST

SYNOPSIS

PART 1

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

PART 2

Scene 1

Scene 2

PART 3

Scene 1

Scene 2

Scene 3

PART 4

List of Words as Commonly Used In Nigerian Parlance

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About The Author

DEDICATION

For my niece Ukamaka and my nephew Leo ‘de’ Great.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I am so much indebted to all the members of my family for their continuous support and the unconditional love they have always shown to me.

CAST

PAPA EDU

MA CHIEMEKA

HENRY

EDU

NNEKA

IJEOMA

SYNOPSIS

Papa Edu, an experienced banker and the head of Okafor family comprising of his wife Ma Chiemeka, their two sons Henry and Edu, and their only daughter Nneka, knowingly helps a customer to obtain a loan at the bank where he works by standing in as the customer's guarantor.

Trouble started when the customer apparently disappeared into thin air with the money without any trace leaving Papa Edu completely stranded and subsequently throwing him into a sudden and very deep financial crisis which led him into making panicky efforts to repay the loan all by himself but all to no avail.

With no hope of survival in sight coupled with threat of a long term jail sentence hanging around his neck and having no one else to turn to, he turned to his family for their full support and understanding during the trying times after narrating his harrowing ordeal to them and they complied and even rallied to see if there was a way they could save his neck.

But in a dramatic twist, it suddenly dawned on the members of his family that their father, under the guise of looking for help, might be taking them for a ride following their discovery of his clandestine alliance with a strange woman.

This did not augur well with the members of his family as they grew more skeptical concerning the whole affair, most especially, when it became so glaring to them that there were no real proof of evidence suggesting that their father could have fallen a victim to that type of scam going by his long years of experience in the banking sector.

Who is this woman and what was her game plan? Was she really trying to help Papa Edu? Or was it the other way round and Papa Edu was the one doing her a great favor? If so, what type of favor could this be? Could it be possible that their father was under a spell and he is being manipulated by this woman?

To make things, Papa Edu who seems to be the only one with all the answers was not forthcoming.

Why?

All these suspicions triggered a lot of confusion and accusations amidst animosity which threatened to destroy the once peaceful family…

When the identity of the woman who has been at the center of the whole crisis was finally revealed, the whole picture became clear as everybody discovered how dangerously close they came to destroying the whole family—in one moment of madness!

NOTE: Certain words and expressions as commonly used in Nigerian parlance were used in the play. Such words were also briefly explained.

PART 1

Scene 1

At Papa Edu’s house

PAPA EDU

Nneka…Nneka…Nne—ka! Where in the world is this girl right now? (Raising his voice) Nneka!!!

NNEKA

Papa, I am coming…

PAPA EDU

Will you quickly report here before I descend on you? You this stubborn and mischievous child!

(Nneka enters)

NNEKA

Papa see me here. Why do you always like shouting at me like that Papa? What is it again this time around?

PAPA EDU

Come o, look at this girl…come closer! Is it me you are questioning like that? Just wait there let me get you! Children of nowadays… (He shakes his head). Where is your mother? I hope she has not gone to one of those their unending market meetings with all those talkative women.

NNEKA

Papa I don’t know where she is.

PAPA EDU

What of your brothers?

NNEKA

I don’t know where they are.

PAPA EDU

Hmm, something must be brewing! You don’t know, you don’t know. Don’t worry. I know you will never know. Okay, what about my food? Tell me, when am I getting my breakfast? Or you don’t know about that one too…?

NNEKA

I’m still preparing it. I will soon be done.

PAPA EDU

Oh Nneka my daughter! How I wish you’ll understand…if only you know…Anyway, there’s something I want to tell you—all of you—something very important, so please my dear stubborn child, if you don’t mind, I will like you to quickly go and summon your siblings and your mother, okay?

NNEKA

Hmm Paapa…why are you sounding like that? What is it this time?! You know you can never scare me…?

PAPA EDU

Don’t be too sure my daughter. Wait until you hear what I am going to say. Something tells me you are definitely going to be scared this time around!

NNEKA

Hmm. In that case papa let me get over with this your food so that you can start telling us whatever it is you want to tell us.

PAPA EDU

(Chuckles) Do I detect a note of worry there already…? I thought you said you can never be scared…?

NNEKA

Papa I don’t care. You can detect anything you want. Let me go get you your food.

PAPA EDU

This food sef!¹ My appetite is seriously affected already.

NNEKA

It’s okay papa. Let me go and get this food so that you can eat and then tell us this thing that is on your mind.

(Nneka leaves Papa Edu’s presence, muttering to herself to express her apprehension. She re-enters carrying the food.)

NNEKA

Papa here is the food.

PAPA EDU

It’s okay. Just place it on my table. Bring me some water to wash my hands.

(Papa Edu opens the plates.)

PAPA EDU

Again?! Wait…a minute, what is the meaning of this?! Nneka what have you prepared for me this morning? Oh God! You know I like egusi² soup so much and I was already preparing to enjoy another round of akpu³ with egusi soup. Now what have you done? Who told you to prepare okra soup for me? Knowing how much I hate that soup, huh...huh? Are you sure you and your mother have not conspired against me once more…?

NNEKA

Haba⁴ papa! Which one is conspired against you?

PAPA EDU

Oh yes! It is a conspiracy! (Papa Edu stirs the soup with his fore finger.)…And to think that there is no standard meat inside the soup. Nneka come here. Why is there no correct meat in this soup? Oh my God, if not for this terrible hunger that I am feeling this early morning, true to my heavenly God I swear, I will not…nothing on earth will ever make me to touch this your food…believe me!

NNEKA

Papa this is not the first time you have said such things. Seriously, I look forward to the day when you will actually not touch the food…

PAPA EDU

Evil child! So that you will eat the whole food alone eh?!

NNEKA

Papa this one you are complaining about the meal, I hope you have not forgotten the important thing you said you wanted to tell us?

PAPA EDU

Ahem! That reminds me. Where are your brothers? Where did you say they went to? Okay, please go and find them. Call your mother wherever she is. Please go now so that I can enjoy this food with all pleasure in peace.

NNEKA

Hmm, papa! Okay, whatever you are going to tell us, it better be good news o! Anyway let me go and see if I can call mama so that you can let the cat out of the bag…

PAPA EDU

That will be a very reasonable thing to do…

(Curtains fall)

Scene 2

NNEKA

(Talking to herself) Where can I find my mother now? These women with their endless talkathons! They talk and talk and talk and they don’t ever get tired! I wonder what they are always talking about in their endless discussions day in day out. Na wa o!⁵

MA CHIEMEKA

Nneka! (Raising her voice) Nneka! Is that not Nneka?

(Nneka turns back and sees her mother behind her.)

NNEKA

Ha mama! Thank God o! I was beginning to wonder where I could locate you again.

MA CHIEMEKA

Find me? What for? Am I now like a lost little child that you have to be going about everywhere looking for me all the time? I saw you when you walked pass Ogadimma’s compound and you looked so absent-minded which is what prompted me to call your attention.

NNEKA

Hmm! Ogadimma’s house this early morning! That means you will still want to go back to that house and continue your endless gossip…?

MA CHIEMEKA

Shut up you bad-mouthed child! I say shut up, you hear me!

NNEKA

(Laughs) Maama! See, my mouth is already sealed!

MA CHIEMEKA

You said you were looking for me so I’m asking you again, why? What for? Why didn’t you call me on the phone?

NNEKA

Mama, it’s papa again o! I didn’t call any of you on the phone because none of you left the house with your phones which is very annoying!

MA CHIEMEKA

Shh, let me hear word! So what about him, I mean, your father? Have you not given him his breakfast? Don’t tell me you enjoy starving that man?

NNEKA

I have given him his food. It’s just that…the way I saw papa this morning… I’m afraid… Mama let’s just go home, please.

MA CHIEMEKA

What is it? I hope you did not tell him something bad? You know, for a girl, you have a very sharp