This is a pitiable and pathetic story. It concerns one of our ex-beauty queens whose mother has continued to humiliate and disgrace. The woman, who is arguably in her sixties, is a big time drunk.
Always at the mercy of alcohol, nearly everybody on the street where they live in Surulere, Lagos knows about her shameful challenge. Forever coming home drunk and regularly drinking herself to stupor even at home, her children sometimes weep upon sighting her, staggering home and looking helpless and horrible.
Another sad thing about this woman who is from the South-South and had all her children for different men is that whenever she is drunk, she must look for a man that will take her to cloud nine. Well known for bringing her boyfriends – both young and old home – her children are now the laughing stock of their friends and neighbors.
The ex-queen, of course, is very, very pretty. Fair skinned and not-too-tall, her Heart is currently in a mess. The 19th alphabet begins her name. And before settling down not too long ago with a much older man who plays big in the society, she was an item with a Caucasian whose way of life many of us still can’t comprehend.
NB: First published July 2012