I sprang on my feet as I immediately recognised, 'Black Scorpion', the man who just stormed my office, furiously complaining.
I sprang on my feet as I immediately recognised, ‘Black Scorpion’, the man who just stormed my office, furiously complaining.
He said the lady, though politely, also rubbed “salt unto the injury” by asking why a man should call himself a ‘Scorpion’.I reminded him that the lady officer was born several years after the civil war, when he had left the service. And that if she had proper understanding of the Nigerian history, she would not have asked the “Black Scorpion” while he chose to answer such a name.
I also explained that the young officer, Oviosu, meant well as we would not want our great men that survived wars die cheaply on the road. He also appreciated that… I ordered that his vehicle should be released to him.
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