The discolouration of her face wasn't the product of a make up artist neither the scarification marks on her body that of tribal marks . The different shapes and healing stages of the scars gives a clue to possible objects of battery and duration. Yet she remained faithful and persevering in her marriage, hoping that one day, the man that once loved and swept her off her feet by his gestures would one day come back to his senses and love her once again but the soluble ego in alcohol encapsulated her wishes/prayers.
One would think that the birth of Agnes into the family would re-write the script or better still re-assign the character given to Mr. Dimgba which he played so well as to make him a new OSCAR Award nominee.
The third day of August will always come with a scapel to open the wounds in the heart of Mrs. Eunice, a wound deeper than those due to her husband's assault and for which no therapy could stop its recurrent breakdown. This night is darker than all nights with a bag full of regrets, a night of horror, when the angel of death moved over the land but couldn't see the blood of the lamb on Dimgba's door post. He came in drunk as usual, demanding for his supper to be brought but his wife ignored him as no money was made available to her and she was almost running out of her little savings from petty trading. This night she had no appetite to stomach any trouble so she retired to one corner of the room like one dejected with her eleven months old Agnes who she carried in her arms. Yet he would not let the toothless bull dog be. Her silence provoked him into doing what he knows to do best with his wife. Irritated and frustrated by his actions, Mrs. Eunice pushed her husband away but his furious recoil with the intention to punch her face landed on his daughter's head. The trauma was so severe that Agnes began to fit. She was rushed to the hospital by her mother alone with the help of her neighbour, a transporter. Agnes was resuscitated but couldn't be admitted for financial reason but as they were making their way back to the house that night under the rain, their tricycle slipped into the gutter while trying to avoid a pot-hole and Agnes sustained another trauma to the head from the bar of the tricycle, fitted the second time and lost consciousness. She was confirmed dead on arrival to the hospital the second time. The news of her death severed the blood supply to her mother's brain and she slumped. WHO ACTUALLY KILLED MISS AGNES? Was it the Father, mother, government, or cyclist?
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