Our Father’s Inheritance
By Bede Ehiogu
A dying man on his sick bed in the hospital called his wife and four children.
Dying man: ‘To you my wife, take over the petroleum company at 4 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi.
Wife started crying loudly.
Dying man: ‘To you my first son, take over the shopping mall at 12 Kingsway Road, Ikoyi’
First son rolling and screaming.
Dying man: ‘To you my second son, take over the gas station close to the airport’.
Second son crying louder.
Dying man: ‘To you my third son, take over the eatery at Falomo’.
Third son was wailing
Dying man: ‘To you my only daughter, the high school is yours’.
Daughter crying loudest.
The confused nurse asked:
‘I don’t understand why you people are crying and screaming in pain. Your dad left you a great deal of properties to make you comfortable till the end of time’.
Wife: ‘Properties ko… comfortable ni! He is a cleaner and those are places he cleans everyday…
