The Masquerade's Conductor

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According to the story his father told
all his children, their family compound
was a long stretch of land given directly
to their grand father by the local chief.
It was out of the magnanimity of their
grandfather's heart that he invited a
distant relative to the town from the
village and gave him a piece of land to
erect his house on!
His father told him,
that the distant relative had been scheming
to take over the plot next to his own by
claiming the plot was promised to him
when he moved to town from the village.
There was no record of such!
His father told him to make sure the
land was not taken over by the distant relative!
He promised!
About six months later, his father died!
His father was 70 years old when he died
The distant relative was 62
He was 40 years old
As soon as the news of his father's death broke
The distant relative's children started
clearing the land!
The distant relative was the oldest man
in the compound
Even though he does not bear the name
of the family or direct kinship, he was taking
advantage of the death to the full!
When he was told, he approached the elders
They sent the distant relative a message to
stop every activity on the land at least until
the dead was buried!
They advised him to fortify himself against
spiritual forces
Land issues are usually very emotional and
attracts all sorts of fetish and demonic activities
He knew!
He just wanted to ensure that the promise
he made to his father was kept!
They fixed the burial date
The whole town poised for a war
The distant relative sent him a message
"Keep off that land, don't play with fire"
He didn't respond
The distant relative sent him several warnings
On the eve of the burial, he pulled a stunt!
He got mobile policemen and soldiers to
the community.
He got undertakers
Within two hours
The land was totally surrounded
The grave was dug on it
He buried his Father on the land overnight
By the time everyone would know why he did!
The dead had taken possession of his property!
The distant relative was furious
"You buried your father on the land!
You think you are wise, I will deal with you!
I will show you!"
He didn't say a word
He didn't want his word to be taken out of context
He didn't want to be rude
They had the burial ceremony
Friends and well wishes came from far and near
Many relatives didn't show up
They didn't want to be seen as being on his side
People were scared of being targeted by the
distant relative
The day after the party, they woke up to find
a strange sight
A masquerade's attire and local canes
were on the land!
Nobody moved close to the items
Everything was ominous!
They prayed and returned to the city
A week later, his sister in Illinois called
She had a dream
She saw a masquerade
The masquerade flogged her mercilessly
Her body had sores all over when she
woke up Her sister fell ill afterward
The sickness defied the expertise of
all the specialists
Her sister died ten days after the dream!
A week after they buried his sister,
his younger sister also had the same dream
She developed a strange
Mental illness afterwards and was admitted
into a psychiatric hospital
The elders sent him a message
"Exhume your father's body
Bury him elsewhere
Apologise to the distant relative
You are still young
Don't let him grind your family to dust"
He decided he had been foolish
He reached out to the distant relative
The distant relative said
"I have given the land to death!
I made a covenant with him that all of you
must lie beside your late father on that
land within the next one year!
It is a covenant I cannot break!
Prepare yourself! Death comes!
His younger sister died a few days later
His mother started running around
Seeking for a solution to the problem
He was equally perplexed
His father had three children
Two had died
He was the first child and the only son
He was fortified with incisions, rings
and concoctions...
Then he had the dream
He saw himself on the land
His hands bound behind him
He was on his knees crying
The masquerade appeared out of nowhere
and started flogging him
He screamed to life from the dream
His wife called the Brother in Jeans and
T-shirt
She narrated the whole story
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt asked
his wife to bring him
When they arrived
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt saw the
marks all over the man's body!
He told him about Jesus
He showed him how the spirit of Christ
operates in a believer
The man accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt got him
filled with the Holy Ghost
He spoke in tongues for hours
Then the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
said "Tonight, at 1 am, make your
confession and sleep!
You will see yourself on that land,
you will see the masquerade!
Don't be afraid!
Tell the masquerade to pack all the
canes away from the land
Tell the masquerade never to return!"
He left with his wife!
A week later he was back!
"I want to become a pastor, do you have
a church where you can put me sir"
The man stated joyfully
He had seen the power of God!
He said he did it immediately he got home
He was afraid he would be less confident
later in the night!
He got home and set the Holy Spirit to work!
Six days later, the distant relative was riding
his bicycle home from the farm
when a dead branch from a tree fell on his head
He fell down injured
It took some time before he was discovered
He was rushed to the hospital but his body
resisted every treatment due to charms
and fetish fortifications
The distant relative sent for him
"The elders told me not to heed his call,
so I didnt go to see him!"
He explained
The distant relative died that morning
He took off to the office of the
Brother in Jeans and T-shirt afterward
He had discovered for himself that the
Holy Spirit is real and powerful in the
life of believers!