WHO WILL BAIL US OUT?
A PLAY
BY
Emmy Boy
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
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Scene 2
Scene 3
PART 2
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Scene 2
PART 3
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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