He was the one that guided Khalid’s relatives to the house when they arrived in Bauchi. It wasn’t an easy task driving in Bauchi with no precise location and he had been on phone with them until he was fortunate enough to get the right location they were in. Something was surely bothering him, he didn’t know the kind of life Aisha had been living in that house. She had no phone with her, and whenever he pestered Nana to call her, they would have to wait until Abba got back home and he would give her the phone to chat briskly with him. And from the way he sensed the way her voice trembled whenever Nana called if he was there, he was sure Abba was beside her.
And it had been three months and days, but they couldn’t reach Aisha. It was always one excuse or the other. She was always sick as h
