Reprobate

His Father had seven boys
He barely knew his mother
It was almost as if there was an 
unspoken taboo about their mother
He would later learn as he grew older
That his mother ran away with his Father's driver
One couldn't help but wander why
His Father was a wealthy man 
He was also a politician of some influence
His mother was the daughter of another politician
His Father married her for love and for ambition
The former failed but not before the latter had 
taken his Father to a certain height in life
He was the fourth child
He was eight years old when his mother left
His Father did not remarry
His mother's action was callous, selfish and wicked
His Father was advised by many to do DNA test for
 all the children
The driver his mother ran away with had been driving 
his father for fifteen years
There was a very high probability that some of the children
were not really his Father's children
But his Father declined
"What difference would it have made?
It would have torn the family to shreds either way!
If the suspicion turned out to be true, he would be 
losing some of his children but if it turned out to be false, 
he would be basing his love for his children on a scientific
evidence!"
He was a brilliant boy, always ion the top three in his class!
Their Father made life very easy for them
They had a bus and a driver who took them to school
and picks them up after school
They always had more than enough to eat or wear
at any time
His Father was his hero!
A man who was not broken by the unfaithfulness
of a woman!
He gained admission into the university at the age of 17
He was admitted to study architecture 
He was a lanky, handsome young man from a wealthy
background whose Father was determined to give the
best
His three elder brothers were also undergraduates at the
time, and they were all in the same university!
Their Father rented a duplex very close to their campus
for their convenience
Money, good looks, good clothes, well...
Only one thing seemed to be missing...
Girls...
He was not a novice as such when it comes to girls
He had oral sex for the first time when he was fourteen
The girl was thirteen but she was his coach
She taught him many things that were way beyond his age
His Father was off to work most days from morning till 9 PM
The older ones amongst them had learnt how to cope
without supervision from the age of 10
The three youngest ones that his mother left behind
were the ones his father employed two nannies for
His father also kept them in the second wing of the house
Their house was a twin duplex
While their mother was with them, she occupied a whole wing
Their Father occupied the other
The duplex was linked together in such a way that
if there was ever a day the need arose to detach one from
the other, it would be done quite easily!
He was one of the semi-adults living on the right
wing with his Father
His three younger ones, his Aunt and two of her daughters
two nannies and two housemaids lived in the other wing!
It was the housemaids that his elder brothers
started with
They gave them gifts and money
The girls had little or no say in the matter
He was about ten years old when he suddenly understood
why the housemaids will sneak into their wing
Once or twice a week, get into the room with his brothers
while he was writing homework and/or watching "Voltron, 
Super Ted, Danger Mouse" cartoons
As he grew, he started sneaking to the door and peeping 
through the keyholes
It didn't feel weird watching them
He used the image to masturbate every night
And them one of his Aunty's daughters took to coming
over to study with him when he was preparing for Junior 
Secondary School Certificate examination
That was how he learnt what the real thing was all about!
Girls flocked to their duplex on campus in no town
The duplex was labelled " So and So Boys Crib"
It was one of the happening places on campus
They had a mini gym, snooker board, table tennis board
Chess, scrabbles, video games, card games etc
They didn't have to go chasing skirts
The skirts flocked in willingly
Their Father gave them only three rules
No cultism, no clubbing and no police case
Their Father told them "If at any time any of you or 
your friends or anybody close to you was found
in a mess created by these three evils, I will shut down this
luxury and you will all stay in the hostels like other students!
They were very happy to obey their Father
Sometimes he would sleep with two, three girls at once
At some point, he lost count of the number of girls
he had slept with
Pornography was his best past time!
He had the DVDs in his room and various other formats 
on his phone
At a point seeing a naked female body stopped arousing him
He had to turn to pornography to get in the mood
While he would mechanically discharge the rest
He managed to graduate with a second class lower
just like his brothers!
He got a job as soon as he graduated
His Father secured a position for him in the town planning
arm of the civil service
He got married and started a family
Things became tough
Combining the budget for his family with his
budget for his extra-marital affairs was chocking
He had to give the girl or girls a treat, 
sometimes he paid cash if the girl was a professional
He had to pay for an hotel room
And he did this every other day
His wife was working but even with her income, 
the ship was sinking
He went to the market himself to be sure his wife wouldn't skim 
off him
His friends labelled him "stingy" because he would rather
solicit for a drink than buy for himself and others
After some time, the buyer becomes weary and he would be
tacitly insulted
His Father had done his duty and equipped him with 
an education and also secured a job for him
Free money and lavish lifestyle was off the table
He had to live within his means
But how?
He didn't want to lose relevance
He was known as a playboy, a rich kid, a happening guy
To be so reduced to ordinariness or average was sickening
He turned to his older brothers
How were you guys coping? What were you guys doing?
Two of them had taken it in stride and adapted
The oldest had accepted "Jesus" and was looking forward to
enjoying eternal life
He needed desperately to do something!
One of the ladies he was sleeping with, in his office,
lost her Father, they had to travel to her home town
for the burial
When they got to the lady's home town, she told him
about a popular witch doctor who consults for politicians,
the rich and the mighty
The lady was showing her landmarks of the town when
she mentioned it
Later that evening, he took a drive to the witch doctor's house
He explained to the witch doctor what he wanted
MONEY!
But he wouldn't want to kill anybody!
He wanted a bloodless Money ritual!
The witch doctor gave him many options
The easiest of them was an handkerchief he will use
to rub the head of his daughter while she was sleeping
and say some incantation
He was assured that his daughter wouldn't die
He believed
He gave the witch doctor some money
The rituals were done that night
He didn't return to the hotel they were lodged until
9am the next morning
He got back home and did as he was told
His daughter didn't die
She just fell sick suddenly and became an imbecile of sorts!
He didn't become rich, he became even poorer!
He kept working but the money seemed to be disappearing
He went back to the witch doctor several times
The witch doctor kept telling him things will turn around
Things never did
His wife took the children and relocated abroad
He moved from a two bedroom flat to a one bedroom
He sold his car and the land he bought with a cooperative loan 
He wanted to use the money to process his travelling
so that he can join his family
He was swindled of the money
Everything stopped working, everything!
Even the food he was eating didnt seem to be doing him any good
He looked gaunt, emaciated and sickly
Yet he had done several tests and was said to be very fine
His father and siblings suddenly had a dismissive hatred
towards him
All his friends avoided him like a plague
No girl will touch him with a six feet pole
Its been three years!
He says he is contemplating suicide!
What was there to live for?

I met this young man at Alausa Secretariat, Lagos
He was looking like a street urchin
When he mentioned his name, I sighed
When he told me his story, I shook my head
What he wanted was some pity and perhaps some money
I told him about Jesus
But I could sense that he was restless
He would rather have my money than my Jesus
I asked him if we can exchange numbers
He brought out his phone
Surprisingly he was using a very expensive phone
"I said that phone is quite expensive"
He said "I held on to it because of its video quality
I would have sold it but there are some videos on it
that comforts me at night"
He winked at me as he said this and I smiled!
I said, "You still watch pornography in all this trouble?"
He said "I cannot kill myself, it is what I use to console 
myself"

                                  - Brother in Jeans and T-shirt