KACHI's DIARY[After Jail]

THE OTHER SIDE

After leaving jail,I was sent back to Nigeria by Zimbabwean Government. I was indeed glad as I updated my diary. It was the only thing I carried about,all of it.
Nigeria had changed alot. I went back to Father's house,nobody seemed to know a concrete story on what happened to them. I was so sad. The house I once knew as a home was deserted even though our property still remained. I got the a strange urge to tidy up the house and live there. Maybe someone would show up,I hoped.
I had been there one month. Surviving was very hard,I even stole a bit.

On October twentieth,I was outside playing draught with a friend when another friend rushed in with a flyer. He sounded very excited,very hopeful.
Finally,we read the content of the flyer. It was a scholarship examination advertisement. I sighed and tossed it aside.
I was never dull as a child,I was just misdirected.
I was cajouled or maybe I did see the light. I enrolled for an O'level examination,made all my papers and applied for the scholarship examination.
The results of this examination did not take long to be released.
I began to feel my life was not cursed when I saw my name was short listed,that was one of the few times I ever saw myself happy, that happy. I ran home to break the good news to them. Everyone was happy for me.

The university for me,really had no tale. I barely had friends,I barely talked. Seeing those kids been youthful tired me and when they tried to tell me how hard core they could be,I got agitated. In a couple of years,I had graduated. Brings us to the present. Yes,my life was not what I dreamed it would be. I have a party with some friends later today. Having been indoors for days writing this diary,has got me tired. I really wish I could pass on this party,Joey on the other hand would probably not forgive me. Now,to the matter of what I am supposed to wear. I leave in two hours.


I have barely recovered from the shock. I am Temitayo Tijani. I have known Ogwu Kachi since we were kids and Kachi has just been killed.
Wondering why Kachi's diary is in my possession even though he has just been killed? I will try to make this as simple as possible.
Kachi was killed at a party right in front of my street. I was going home from the market when the incident happened.
I ducked to have a clearer view when the shooting started. I can not tell who was shooting and why the person was,however,I managed to see that Kachi had been shot and was grasping to a book,quite big as though his life depended on it. That book caught my attention and even though I knew he was hit bad and was definitely going to die,I felt I had to take that book. I probably should have thought going into a shoot-out scene through,I am glad I did not.
As soon as a car drove off,the shooting stopped and dead silence fell upon a once lively party. I ran straight for Kachi,but he was already dead and I took the book from him,ran from the scene and headed straight home. In a couple of minutes,I heard sirens.

Day two since Kachi's death and reading his book felt odd. Finally,I decided to and I saw that Kachi wanted his diary to be published. He wrote all the details of his life that portrayed him for who he really is because he wanted to keep record. He however carefully strikes out certain details he does not want to be published. He wanted him to be seen as the 'Unfortunate Victim'. Kachi's last wish was obviously to have his diary published,the part he wanted to be published. I did help him achieve that wish. I wrote the account of his life just the way he wanted. Kachi is not who we all think he is,Kachi is sick and he probably would have had help. The fact that he wrote the entire truth on his diary and strikes out some details on the same diary awes me. I still do not understand why anyone would be so twisted. I think I can conclude that he did deserve to die!
Kachi was thirty two years old and he says he is heading for Youth Service when there is an age limit for Youth Service in Nigeria. I still do not understand why he did that.
In his diary,Kachi had nude pictures of his sister Anwulika pinned to the pages of his diary obviously without the knowledge of her. Now we really see why she was his 'Favourite' sister. He was perverted.
Kachi stole and was never caught.
These are all in his diary,carefully written and striken out. This boy was ill.
He killed his mother when he was nineteen,and he claimed ".....And was the last time I saw mother". He blamed her for everything that was happening in his life. When? He met Benard and his friends when he had killed his mother. He was still recovering from killing her when he strayed from home.
Kachi's mother,Chisom lived in a shack after she had be driven by her husband.On that fateful day,Kachi went to her shack and poured acid on her while she was asleep and cut her limbs afterwards.
Anwulika? He set her ablaze for letting their father touch her. She was returning home that night when he set her Ablaze. He however says he does not know if she died as she ran away. Now we see that these people did not just waltz out of the life of Kachi,he 'waltzed them out'.
Kachi had carefully striken out those details on his diary and now I understand why he always took it everywhere he went,even to his death spot.
He also stroke out how ruthless his father was. Kachi wanted a less ruthless father portrayed. According to the striken parts,Kachi's father was very ruthless,more like something was driving him to be so wicked. He once tried to engage Kachi in homosexuality.

In my conclusion,Kachi's father was the root of the problem. Did Kachi's father cause the problem of his family especially Kachi? Or was Kachi just a sick person? Would Kachi have ended the way he did if he had left with his mother? Was it Kachi's mother's fault? Was she too timid? There are lots of "what ifs" or was the Ogwu family under a curse?
What could have driven Kachi so far?
Why did Kachi write his diary the way he did? Was Kachi crazy? If Kachi lead a better life would he have died? Would he have turned a new leaf if he was alive? Did his father's attitude generate the ripple effect? Was Kachi too far from God? Or was the family just cursed? No one is blamed for the choices we make,no situation is blamed either.

I am Temitayo Tijani and I have just read one of the most twisted life story. I am awed and my view of life would never remain the same. We all look but see differently,some look but see indefinitely.