Thread by @GbengaWemimo

He was supposed to be a happily married man
His wife owned an NGO, she was also a good author
She bought him a range rover sport and a Lexus 350
She bought them a house in Lekki
She had a soft spot for people with special needs and her NGO was specifically tailored to meet the

needs of such people
They hold an event at Alausa, Ikeja every December where their European sponsors and Nigerian sponsors gather to evaluate the good work she was doing and the challenges she was facing
This program is a fundraiser that when well-staged opened the wallets of

her benefactors and kept her smiling to the banks
She was a beautiful woman
He was a lawyer
Her NGO was practically his only client
In other words, she was the cash cow
Without her, he would be penniless
Everybody knew this because he doesn't keep quiet about it
He loves his wife

and he was very grateful for the good hand fate dealt him by bringing her into his life
He didn't need to struggle for anything
He lived an easy life
He smoked marijuana socially, listened to Fela's music, drank beer and was well respected in the community
He was a Christian too,

He often attended church in order to criticize pastor's and their sermons
He sees the church as a social need that society needed and attending the church as a form of check and balance
He would often joke that the priest would feed fat on the sheep if people like him did not

church to keep them in check and spearhead the writing of petitions and complaints against church leaders
He was a gentleman who rarely loses his temper
Many people call him by the pet name "Uncle XYZ"
They met at a season of his life when he was bored and frustrated with life

He was drinking and smoking secretly at the time
He was also a pastor
He snuck out of the house every evening, drove to a beer parlour, and drank one or two bottles
He also smoked one or two sticks of cigarette
He told himself he was doing this to relieve tension
His life was on

hold and all his efforts to move it forward had proven abortive
He minded his business
He had learnt that a close mouth offers no scandal
Nobody knew who he was and since he didn't want anyone knowing he was a pastor indulging in "sin", it was best that he shut his mouth and mind

his business
He was drinking at the bar one day when Uncle XYZ drove in
When Uncle XYZ walked into the bar there was a lady with him
A lady he picked up somewhere on the highway and had somehow talked into being his girlfriend
He had never exchanged words with uncle XYZ before

that day but they had both met before and exchanged a familiar nod
Another guy came into the bar
One of those guys who hung around bars in the hope of getting a free drink
He ran to Uncle XYZ with some excitement
One of the other guys who frequented the bar had been caught in a

scandal
The guy was a lecturer at a private University and had been videotaped sleeping with a student
The tape had been leaked online and this guy's career and life was going to be shattered
Uncle XYZ watched the video with interest
Then he said "I used to think this guy was a

pitbull in bed, I am disappointed he didn't smash the girl more convincingly. For all the trouble he got himself in at the moment, he could have performed better, make the lady scream!"
The other guy laughed
Other guys came into the bar to drink and this their friend who was in

soup was the topic
Nobody talked about reaching out to see how the "sinner" was coping with the mudslide he got himself in
Nobody bothered to call this "sinner" to see if somehow the effect of the poor decision he made that led him into that pit could be mitigated
Everybody just

laughed and drank and moved on
The unfortunate one was the topic for the day
A few weeks later, another sex tape surfaced
It was that of a European man with a Nigerian woman
The reason it came up as a conversation was the performance of the European
He smashed the Nigerian lady

so well that she was screaming and crying in pleasure at the end of the video
The same guy also brought the video into the bar as soon as Uncle XYZ landed with another lady to drink with and then proceed to the hotel room
Uncle XYZ saw the video and almost fainted
The colour

drained from his face immediately
It was as if he saw a ghost
Within minutes he had disclosed that the lady in the video was his wife
It was a terrible evening
He behaved like a wounded lion, cursing and raving and swearing and crying
Nobody was able to calm him down
The lady

with him saw the handwriting on the wall and left
The owner of the bar arrived and heard what had happened
He talked to Uncle XYZ and took him to a room to relax
As soon as Uncle XYZ left the bar, everybody started laughing
Apparently, the video had been online for several months

they all knew about it but he didn't
They had all seen the video and decided to see his reaction when he was made to see it
These are the guys he smoked, drank, watched football games with, and bought stuff for
These are guys who would come to Uncle XYZ seeking help to pay rent

and other needs
These were supposed to be his friends
One of them had positioned a phone camera somewhere and caught Uncle XYZ's reaction on tape, they all watched it over and over again and roared with laughter
The serial smasher's wife was getting smashed hard and it broke him

Uncle XYZ attempted to commit suicide that night in the hotel room he was given
He hung himself with his bedsheet tied to the ceiling fan
He was discovered just in time
He was unconscious and had almost died before he was resuscitated at the hospital
The next day, the guys

gathered again and laughed
They laughed at the weakling who couldn't take such a blow like a man
They mocked uncle XYZ
They said he was "The beheader who couldn't bear the sword coming close to his neck"
They even mimicked him handing and gasping for breath while watching the

video of his wife being smashed
It was so much fun
Another one like them had fallen off the wild horse and bitten the dust with no one to look at him or care
He went to the Hotel manager and found out the hospital uncle XYZ was taken
He drove to the hospital early the next mornin

Uncle XYZ was alone
His wife was in the waiting room but he had demanded that she should not be granted access to see him
He told the receptionist to tell Uncle XYZ he was the guy driving the Camry from so and so bar
He was ushered in immediately
The sight he saw when he met Uncl

XYZ was terrible
The man seems to have lost half of his body weight overnight
They had never exchanged a word of greeting and uncle XYZ chose his company above that of his wife
He sat with Uncle XYZ and told him things can only get better from that point
They talked and cried

together for about two hours
He got some food for Uncle XYZ, they ate and talked generally
He told Uncle XYZ he was a pastor and explained to Uncle XYZ why he started indulging in alcohol and cigarettes
He told uncle XYZ it was a secret sin that would break his wife if she found

out and scatter the church he was pastoring
He told Uncle XYZ that things got so bad that he stopped caring if he lost everything because keeping up appearances felt harder than living free
He needed to come up for some air and that was how he slid right into the mud
He was no

better than Uncle XYZ or Uncle XYZ's wife
As a couple, they were both cheats just like him
Just as they broke their vows to each other, he had also broken his vow to his wife and to those who placed their trust in him to be a good example
Before God, sin is sin
It is humans that

will be indulging in while casting stones on others for indulging in another
It is hypocrisy, the booby trap of sin and it's consequences
He spent the whole day with Uncle XYZ
Later that evening, he met Uncle XYZ's wife and told her to get the services of some Tech guys to wipe

the video off the internet for good
David said his sin was forever before him
Thank God for Jesus, all sins had been paid for and taken away
Uncle XYZ's wife explained that the video was over four years old
She said she did it in order to get the grant they were both living on at

that moment
She wasn't claiming to be a saint
She was just trying to give some context to the video
She knew he was cheating, it had been an issue between them for years
He didn't stop to please her but he was willing to kill himself when he found out she did the same
It was very

strange to her
It took two weeks
The couple talked and reconciled
Uncle XYZ and his wife put up their house for sale and moved to another area of Lagos
He also stopped smoking, drinking or visiting the bar
He invited them to a couple's dinner organized by his church
They attended

The word of God came to them and they gave their lives to Christ
They took it a day at a time as a couple
Uncle XYZ stopped cheating and hanging around bars
He had discovered he really didn't have friends and he was also not a good friend to many
His wife was relieved and happy

(She said she was being blackmailed with the video and when she decided to stop paying the blackmailer the video surfaced)
Somehow God preserved their home and saved all of them
They remain family friends till today

PS: The consequences of sin is getting stoned by fellow sinners

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Biting The Dust - gswmi.com/read/biting-th… Uncle XYZ saw the video and almost
fainted
The colour drained from his face
immediately
It was as if he saw a ghost
Within minutes he had disclosed that
the lady in the video was his wife
It was a terrible evening