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Scene
1
Jazz song blazes out from some
loudspeakers. The scene is filled with crowd of young people chattering,
laughing and making merry. Some humming to the tune of the song, suggesting
they are equally dancing to the tone of the song.
ABIGIRL: Tunde, I am tired of dancing. Let’s get back to our
drink.
TUNDE: We have barely danced for thirty minutes and you are already tired?
Come on...
ABIGIRL: Please let’s get back to our drink. I’m just tired.
TUNDE: Okay...
[They take a seat]
TUNDE: You dance very well, Abigirl. I enjoyed the way you were twisting your
waist all around me. You are so romantic and attractive. You are charming!
ABIGIRL: Thanks for the compliments.
TUNDE: You have everything that a man needs in a woman: beauty, moderate
stature, brilliance, sexy eyes, fair complexion skin, intelligence and tempting
boobs! In short, you too fine babe. I
see why guys are flocking around you in this campus. [He sips his drink]
ABIGRIL: Stop the flattery, Tunde. Are you taking me in today?
TUNDE: Not today, please.
ABIGIRL: Why, Tunde? If you truly love me, you’ve got to prove
it.
TUNDE: I love you but you are not sexually attracted to me. Despite all the endowments you possess. I am not really
sexually attracted to you as you may think. Though you possess what drives
normal men wild, my sexual orientation is towards my fellow men. I have told
you this before but you seem not to believe me; I’m a gay. Even if you stripe
yourself naked before me, it doesn’t move me, honestly.
ABIGIRL: This is strange! Despite all my sexy look, shape,
voice, and so on, you are not moved? Gosh!
TUNDE: I don’t give a damn to whatever you call it, I am a gay and I am proud
to be a gay. And for your information, I am going to bed with a very handsome
guy, a gay like me, tonight. He is a fresher, studying Mechanical Engineering
here in UNN.
ABIGIRL: I am only sorry for you. I have been warning you
against this evil of homosexuality. This is sinful and illegal. We can still
manage fornication with each other. Don’t ruin your life, Tunde.
Cut
to...
Scene
2
Someone
snores. After a while, a phone rings. The snoring seizes and we hear someone,
who we know later to be DESTINY yawns. We
hear sound of one rolling out of bed
DESTINY: (Takes a deep breath. He picks the phone) Hello...
CALLER: Hello, Destiny. How was your night?
DESTINY: Fine, thank you.
CALLER: Where are you now?
DESTINY: I am just waking up from bed
CALLER: (Surprisingly) You are still sleeping at this time of the day?
DESTINY: What says by the time?
CALLER: Are you asking me? Don’t you have a wall clock there
in your room?
DESTINY: (Exclaims) What! 8 a.m.!
[Rushes out from bed]
CALLER: I called to remind you that the Prison Evangelism
Team will be meeting today by 9am for the prison evangelism. Please, no African
time. As the leader of the team, you’ve got to lead by example.
DESTINY: Thanks for the reminder, Brother Lawrence. God bless
you?
CALLER: Bless you too brother Destiny. Shalom!
Cut
to...
Scene
3
Someone
yawns. We hear sound suggesting someone getting up from bed.
STEPHANIE: Oh sweetheart, you are up from the bed now?
TUNDE: Yes my love. It’s been my habit to wake very early to read. My parents
inculcated it into us. How was your night?
STEPHANIE: Fine.
TUNDE: Did you enjoy the act?
STEPHANIE: Oh yes. Very pleasurable. You are really sweet in
bed.
TUNDE: Thanks dear. You see, life is complex. Even we human beings don’t
understand ourselves. That one sexual orientation is directed towards the
opposite sex does not make the one whose sexual desire is directed towards the
same sex an alien. One’s sexual orientation is not an attitude, it is a
condition. That’s how God has conditioned us.
STEPHANIE: Hmmmm
TUNDE: So, don’t let anyone make you feel you are a strange being or worse
than a beast. It’s just unfortunate that this country is so dumb and reason
like people of the Stone Age. Feel safe but play safe, you know this country is
not safe for us yet but safe only for the fornicators, adulterers, and the
likes.
Cut
to...
Scene
4
At
the market square, Destiny and his friend (Yomi) are making some purchases
DESTINY: Please package all these ones.
MARKET WOMAN: Okay Oga.
YOMI: Will all this be enough for them?
DESTINY: That’s all the church gave us. I think it’s going to
be enough.
YOMI: The last GCE I was told you wrote recently makes it the third one
since the last three years we both left secondary school. Is the result out?
Sorry to bring this issue up at this time. I’m in school already, in my third
year, studying Petroleum and Gas Engineering. Just came back last two weeks for
a break. I asked my dad if you had secured admission into any university, but
to my utter amazement, I was told you are yet to clear your O’ level result. I
can’t believe this is happening to a fervent Christian like you.
DESTINY: Well, God assured me in a dream last night that He
was preparing me for the university so that I would be able to stand against
the evil tide of the university and to...
MARKET WOMAN: See am. I don pack am finish.
DESTINY: How much?
MARKET WOMAN: Everything na Twenty Thousand Naira.
DESTINY: (Sound of money being pull out from the
pocket) Have your money madam.
MARKET WOMAN: (Sound of crisp of naira notes being
counted) Thank you. The tin
complete.
Sound
of Nylon is heard as the woman transfers the items to Destiny
DESTINY:
Thank you, madam.
They walk away
DESTINY: So, as I was saying, there is a reason for
everything. God assured me yester night in a dream, that my training is
completed and very soon I will gain admission to the university. That was after
unveiling some deep revelations to me about homosexuality. Anyways, I wrote
UTME this year. I filled in awaiting result. And to the glory of God I had 245
in the exam. The result is not out yet but I believe I will make the GCE this
time around. It’s well my brother; let’s talk about the prison inmates we are
going to visit...
Cut
to...
Scene
5
Sound
of a chain iron door opening
INMATE ONE: [Taps a
sleeping mate] Chairman ... Chairman.
INMATE TWO: (Drowsily) Yes...
INMATE ONE: We get visitors oo.
WARDER: You have a maximum of 30 minutes to stay with them. But be careful
with them. They are dangerous. Raise alarm if you are assaulted.
YOMI: Thank you sir.
[Sound
of the door locking]
INMATE
TWO: Yes, what do you want from us?
YOMI: Ehmm..
IMAMTE ONE: (Subtitled in
Yoruba) Stop stammering and talk straight. No time.
INMATE TWO: Ejo. Can’t
you see they are gentle and look responsible? Don’t talk to them like that.
INMATE ONE: Sorry Sir, Chairman.
INMATE TWO: So, gentlemen, how may we help you?
DESTINY: We came to sympathize with you in your condition and
to also have a discussion with you. We bought some things for you.
[Sound
of unpacking of items from a polybag]
INMATE ONE: Ori e pe!
INMATE TWO: Thank you. We will listen to you because of the items
you brought for us. Hunger is not our friend here at all. We are all ears.
YOMI: You speak good English. What level of education did you attain?
INMATE TWO: I’m a graduate from UI.
DESTINY: Hmmmm. This is unbelievable. What brought you here?
INMATE TWO: It is a long story. But in short, homosexuality
landed me in jail.
DESTINY: (Takes a deep breath.) Do you know
God?
INMATE TWO: God? I know Him and hate Him at the same time.
YOMI: What? Why did you hate God?
INMATE TWO: I hate God because He created me a gay. And because
of this I’m stigmatized, persecuted, hated and rejected, and eventually
incarcerated.
DESTINY: Really? Please, can you give us a little background
of your story?
INMATE TWO: When I was a young boy in Lagos, Nigeria, I had a
mysterious unexplainable sensation whenever I saw an attractive guy. So, I
thought to myself, maybe I’m a girl deep down. I kept thinking that maybe God
made a mistake. Perhaps, I was meant to be a girl. But the stigmatization, and
disgust attached to the people with such a feeling made me feel unsafe. Then
depression kicked in as I realized my family would hate me if they learnt the
truth about me. In school, I was bullied by classmates as my friends made fun of
my feminity. I tried to blend in by playing sport but I was terrible.
It
sounds crazy, but picture yourself in a boarding house stuck in there day and
night for months with boys relentlessly attacking you.
To
cut the long story short, since all efforts to change to a straight failed, I
began to sleep with boys, and young men like myself. I was also given to
alcoholism and smoking. Then one day I was caught making love with a guy in a hotel.
I was arrested and thereafter cast into this horrible place.
YOMI: Hmmm. How often did your parents visit you in the boarding school?
INMATE TWO: My parents come to visit me in school? They never
did. Their tight schedule didn’t permit them to. They sent my uncle to visit me
in school.
DESTINY: Your lack of adequate parental care could have
certainly contributed to the condition you are today.
INMATE TWO: You seem not to understand me. It’s God who
conditioned me this way, not my parents or anyone else. Even though they all
seem to avoid me today because of my sexual orientation, I still credit the
blame to God. He is the one to blame.
DESTINY: Please, what is your name?
INMATE TWO: Dayo is my name. But people call me Dakolo.
DESTINY: Dayo, can I ask you a question?
DAYO: Yes, you are free
DESTINY: Who created those who are prostitutes, thieves,
fornicators, adulterers, and so on?
DAYO: God of course.
DESTINY: Is it God that made them like that?
DAYO: I don’t know.
DESTINY: Human beings are free moral agent. However, we are not
like beast and animals without the will power to control our libido, desires
and emotion. Since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, man became vulnerable
to all kinds of sin. The holy Bible said in Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 19,
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have
set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that
you and your children may live”
God
in His benevolent love has sent Jesus to die for all our sins, including
homosexuality. He is the Bread of life. If you allow Him into your life, He
will strengthen your will power and give you grace to do away with all forms of
sin, including homosexuality.
INMATE ONE: Wait please, is homosexuality a sin?
DESTINY: Yes. It is. It was because of homosexuality God
rained down fire and brimstone to devour Sodom and Gomorrah. I came with a
Bible. Can I read a particular passage of the scripture to you for us to listen
to what God says about homosexuals and sinners in general?
INMATE ONE AND OTHERS: Yes.
[Flipping
sound of the Bible]
DESTINY: Yes. In Romans chapter one verse Eighteen to Thirty
two, it reads- 18 For the wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who
hold the truth in unrighteousness;
DAYO: Young men, please go. (Sobs)
Please just go…
DESTINY AND YOMI: (with a confused tone) Why?
[He
burst out into tears]
YOMI: (Sympathetically) Please stop crying and talk to us.
DESTINY: We are here to help you.
DAYO: (While sobbing) Why now?
Where were you 20 years ago when I started having these strange feelings? If
you had come 10 years ago or earlier, I wouldn’t have been in this mess. Why
did God keep this message from me until this time?
DESTINY: He has asked us to bring this message to you today
because of His love for you. It’s not late to turn a new leaf and repent from
all your sins.
Jesus
loves you. He is not responsible for your sinful state; it’s the devil. That’s
why He came to earth to die for you. It’s because of you He wore that crown of
thorns. It’s because of you He endured the insult, assault, and shame. Just because
of you, He was beaten to a pulp, thrust on one side with a sharp object and
spat on too.
The
same God who saved me from all my sins can also save you if you will humble
yourself and penitently ask Him to forgive and save you.
Watch out for Episode 3
Written By Alienyi Jeremiah
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