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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