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Play Summary (scene-by-scene)

Scene One
Office Corridor
Ochuole meets Aloho in an office corridor at the ministry of External Relations. They both express their pleasant surprise to meet each other after several years of graduation. Aloho has come to the ministry to see if she could get a job. To her surprise, Ochuole happens to be the Chief Administration officer to the Hon. Minister in charge of the ministry. Ochuole then promises Aloho a job with the Minister and instructs her to come the following day that she will have spoken to the minister then. They both depart in good faith.

Ogayi’s Residence
Aloho enters with hunger and refuses to tell her friend, Ogeyi, the outcome of where she has gone for job, until she gets an answer to where food is. She finally settles down, after eating, and asks Ogeyi to guess who she meets at the ministry. Ogeyi expresses her surprise to know it’s Ochuole, the campus bad girl. She however warns Aloho to stay away from her, knowing who she is, right from campus. Aloho, unfortunately, refuses to heed Ogeyi’s warning due to her desperacy for a job.

Akpara Hotel at Darkin

Here, we are introduced to Madam Hoha who hails Ochuole as the lioness who has just found a prey. Indeed, she has just found Aloho and that is the more reason she has come to Akpara Hotel to keep appointment with Chief and to gist Madam Hoha. She and Madam Hoha discuss the usual, how they will profit on Aloho, as they usually do over their prey. Then Chief appears and orders two bottles of stout and ishi-ewu (pepper soup) for himself and ochuole, also for Madam Hoha at her demand. Ochole asks Chief for twenty thousand and also makes the matter of her friend, Aloho known to him. She asks Ochuole come with her to his office the following day. 

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