Charms!

Guys am back! I finally got my internet fixed and am i glad?It sure was hell all those days when i couldnt hook up to blogville and had to make do with the little opportunities i got on my brothers PC. I wasnt even able to vote for my peeps Diary of a G, Sparkle and Everyone loves a Naija girl in the blogville idols contest. Pink-Satin i am waiting for season 2, I may just be a contestant myself(lol), seriously u guys need to hear me sing, i sound like something btw Whitney houston and Mariah Carey(No try me o!).

Now to the title of my post, I want to yarn una one small jist, its about my encounter with one Hausa Aboki a few days back. I was on my way out of Multi-links office (My Internet Service provider) where I had gone to get my internet fixed when this Hausa Aboki approached me. I thought he wanted to beg for alms or something and as I turned to ask him what was wrong with him, the guy just brought out some funny looking drugs that had this lewd images of a couple having sex on the packaging. It turned out he was selling LIBIDO ENHANCING DRUGS. I took one look at what he was holding and told him I wasn’t interested and that such things were meant for men not agile babes like me (abi o!).

The guy no gree hear at all! He just kept on with his sales pitch. I was with a colleague of mine who hails from the north and she started telling him in Hausa that I wasnt interested in buying what he had for sale. As we made to get into the car, the Aboki said: “Ok madam, as you no wan buy this one for ya Oga, make you buy sweet me, I sweet you”. Now that caught my interest. Which one be sweet me, I sweet you again?? Out of curiosity (I didn’t intend to buy anyway and I was in the mood for some humour), I asked him to show me that one. After fumbling around for a while in his bag, the man brought out a sachet of powder. It was not branded and I asked him: “Aboki this one wey no get name na wetin?? I neva wan die o!” The Aboki just smiled and said: “Madam, this one u put am inside there, if ya oga enter there come out, na anything you tell am e go do for you, Na only N600”. God have mercy! I exclaimed and turned to look at my friend. She laughed and told me that such things were very common in the north. She now asked him if he had “Ferinjini”(I think that’s what she called it), I asked her what that one was and she told me that it was some powder that is used while bathing and that the person that used it would be so attractive that it would be difficult for any man to resist her once they set their eyes on her. The Aboki man quickly concurred with what she said and brought out another powder concoction, this time not sealed in a sachet but tied in one funny looking nylon. He said: “Madam , this na the one for shine shine face, You go put am for water wen you wan bath, make you no use soap o! any man wey see you go just dey follow you”. (This one don pass me, my people)I laughed and replied: “Haba mallam! As my face dey shine neva do? Me I no want make e shine pass like dis o!” By this time, I had realized that the man really meant business and I was looking for a way to discharge him but the man just kept bringing different stuff from his bag ( I don find trouble o!). I told my colleague to tell him in hausa that we were coming back to purchase his medicines since we didn’t have money to buy them now.

As he left, I couldn’t help laughing at the whole encounter and my colleague went further to gist me how it was the practice among some northerners to buy these concoctions for their daughters when they are getting married. She told me about a friend of hers that lost her pregnancy because of one of such mixtures given to her by her mother. It was a very enlightening experience for me, I have heard about babes that use such stuff to ensnare men and all that but have never believed such stories. Now I had seen a mallam who was selling the stuff and carrying it around.

I remember a story someone once told me about a fight between two babes in UNILAG who were roommates. One of the girls had this powder mixture which she rubbed on her face every morning before going for lectures. It looked like ordinary face powder and she had put it in a face powder container. This babe always had all the guys flocking round her; in fact she was one of the happening babes on campus. Her roommate had innocently used the girl’s powder one day when her own powder was finished and next thing it was like the situation was reversed, the first babe started losing her bobos while her roommate became the center of attraction. Somehow the first babe found out that the second one had used her powder and attacked the poor girl. I don’t remember how the story ended sha but the secret was finally let out of the bag and the first girl was disgraced.

On our way back to the office, I and my colleague kept discussing the issue and we both agreed that using diabolical means (That’s what it is) to ensnare a man or keep his love is not the best and at the end of the day it always backfires on the user. It is always better to make sure your partner is happy, be for him all that he wants and leave the rest to God to handle. The relationship will definitely last longer that way and you can be sure that the love is natural and real not some zombie that will do all u tell him to just because you had bewitched him. One day the charm will fade and what happens next??

I will love to know what you think my friends.