The Street Professor (ePub)

It is commonly quoted in Nigeria that if a farmer plants cassava, at harvest time he can only reap cassava. And so it goes that when Don Chilly Senior begrudgingly denied his wife the right to participate in Don Chilly Junior's upbringing, the stage for destruction was set and the repercussions were to be felt as far away as South Africa. Don Junior's parents, especially his father, a former law professor and himself immersed in shady dealings with the wrong people, make many important and significant decisions for their son. Soon both Dons are caught up in their own web of lies, deceit and secrets. Desperate to control his family and business partners, he gains a rather tainted reputation. Between it all, a lot goes wrong. Don Junior, a.k.a. the Street Professor, becomes a 419 and the unlikely victim is Van der Rogue, the president of the South African Allied Farmers' Union. This product of teenage parents, who fell from favour following a steamy affair with the young wife of a benevolent wine merchant, has Fortune smile on him for but a moment. Beguiled by a beauty, he falls for Don's junior's trap. 419 is not a crime, but a penal code created by the subsequent Nigerian government to prosecute those accused of committing the crime called Obtaining By Trick (OBT). The code was amended by different military dictators and sanctified by some others, who baptized the decree that was used to prosecute fraudulent activities that happened to fall under decree number 419. The crime committed against the sucker or mugu as OBT called the victims, dressed in whatever uniform, is simply called fraud. The almighty 419, the kings and queens of fraud, a.k.a. Obtaining By Trick, are indeed the masters of this work of art. The victims and most of the players of this lucrative business are in total darkness. Only a handful of them seem to know what is really happening. But the conspiracy is over. Now let the truth be told to prevent OBT practitioners from injecting the world with the poison of 419 any further.