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I bought abacha today and it reminded me of an embarrassing experience I had a few years back.
My friend and I had gone to Onitsha Main Market to shop and while we were at it, she suggested that we buy abacha to eat from a lady who was hawking it.
My friend and I had gone to Onitsha Main Market to shop and while we were at it, she suggested that we buy abacha to eat from a lady who was hawking it.
She bought hers with a piece of fried fish and I greedily went for pomo. The pomo was so big, curved in the middle and long. Those types that are usually shaped like a cylinder.
After I was done with my abacha I attempted to eat the pomo but I couldn’t bite it because it was hard. I couldn’t put it in my mouth because it was too big.
I didn’t want to waste it so without thinking twice, I forced it into my mouth and swallowed it.
I didn’t want to waste it so without thinking twice, I forced it into my mouth and swallowed it.
Unfortunately, the pomo got stuck halfway in my throat.
I started choking. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even let out help sounds. I was gasping in pains and wondering so last last it is pomo that has killed me.
I started choking. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even let out help sounds. I was gasping in pains and wondering so last last it is pomo that has killed me.
My friend was nowhere to be found as she had left earlier to buy soft drinks for us. Thankfully the shop owner noticed I was ‘dying’ and she hysterically ran to the front of her shop to call the attention of people passing to help me.
A group of male touts hurriedly came and she told them I was choking on the food I was eating. They held me down and hit my back several times which forced the pomo out of my mouth.
I just sat there in silence in front of the small crowd that had gathered.
I just sat there in silence in front of the small crowd that had gathered.
The big brown pomo was at my feet. That was when my friend came running through the crowd.
"What happened? What happened to you?" She asked me.
"What happened? What happened to you?" She asked me.
Before I could narrate what happened one of the touts who helped me quickly said, "See the big thing your sister swallow as she small so. She go like preek well well."
