Accra wahala

 The year was 2012 and in the middle of July. The weather was quite cold but this did not deter my friend and room mate, Eva from waking up one dawn to go to Accra and do some "selection" for the new academic year.  

Upon arrival, our "customer" was already at post and was about to open the bale. And as the saying goes, "The early bird catches the worm". We beat all other shoppers to it and to say we were excited is an understatement. 

Within an hour and a half, we were done with our selection and were on our way to Tema station to board a trotro back to campus. We were chatting excitedly and quite oblivious to our surroundings. However, Eva noticed that a few people would stop and stare at us strangely for seconds and drew my attention to it. That made us stop and look around us. To our utmost surprise, a boy of about 11 years old was following us. This boy was quite unkempt and had a strange look in his eyes. He would stop when we stop and walk when we do. We got really scared and started running, but guess what? He started running too. Oh my God! Exclaimed Eva, "the boy is chasing us", she said. We ran all the way to the Law school, where there were some law enforcement agents sitting by some vendors. We breathlessly explained our predicament to them and they in turn, asked the strange boy to leave us alone. However, he did not heed to their caution and proceeded to follow us again once we left the school. To be honest, we did not know our next line of action as we looked around us helplessly and out of breath. Out of nowhere, a woman who saw what was going on asked us to follow her to a friend's shop, which had  a lot of sales boys who, according to her, could easily get rid of the boy. We gingerly followed her and true to her word, the boys were able to detach the strange boy from us. One even offered to escort us to the trotro station to board a trotro back to campus. 

To this day, Eva and I do not even dream of going to Accra at dawn ever again. And to be honest, I always shudder when I remember that incident.