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Sep 17, 2017 Features / Columnists, The Baccoo Speaks
The dry season is here once more and so too are the fires. One enterprising person would set fire to some trash in a plot of land to the north of the city only to see this fire spread out of control at an alarming rate.
The winds are also going to fan the flames but as fate would have it, this fire would not be too close to any building, but only just.
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One can never understand the rate at which people kill each other. It is only now that the people of a village would discover a body close to a waterway. The police would be hard pressed to find a motive until a child reports what he saw.
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Three bandits are going to tackle a family because of the perception that there would be foreign currency in the household. He attack would be savage since the attackers would be very young and scared.
Thankfully, they would be taken off the streets but the community would recall that these young men had been in this situation before.
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