She wanted to tell them that she was going straight, but they took her inside Giwanu, which was on the left. It was as if her tongue was tied. They drove slowly, and she saw some of her friends at Giwanu. She wanted to wave at them, but couldn't—something felt like it was holding her back. It was as if an unknown force had tied her tongue.
They stopped slightly opposite Okiti Junction in Giwanu. The guy got down from the Keke and went somewhere—she had no idea where. The Keke driver remained quietly seated. She picked up her phone to inform her boss that she would be coming late. She typed, "Sir, dem dey carry me dey go where I nor know." Her boss called her immediately after seeing the message.
She excused herself and went to answer the call. Her boss asked her over the phone, "Should I come?" She wanted so badly to say yes, but instead she said no. It was as if greed had clouded her judgment.
She went back into the Keke, and soon after, the other guy returned.
He told them that the native doctor was angry because he believed they were trying to deceive him. Before they arrived at Giwanu, they had agreed that she would pretend to be the Keke man's sister and that they were both on their way somewhere when they encountered the guy.
The guy said the native doctor required them to recite some incantations or they would all die. They did as instructed—reciting the incantations, spitting on a stone, and blowing air onto it seven times while repeating the words—before returning to meet the native doctor. Uzezi failed to understand that the guy had already met with the native doctor earlier and memorized the incantations quickly. But greed had blinded her.
They moved a bit further from Okiti Junction, and to her greatest surprise, the stone transformed into money—five hundred naira notes. Then they turned around, passed the native doctor's house again, and headed toward the estate.
After leaving the Giwanu Junction, they stopped. The guy demanded that everyone hand over their phones, money, and ATM cards. He told them to call out their PINs. Uzezi gave the wrong PIN, but the guy had already taken her Android phone.
Then, the guy told them that for trying to deceive the native doctor, a curse had been placed on them. He said Uzezi would bleed until she died, and that the Keke man's private parts would swell and burst. Out of fear, she complied with their instructions. It was too late to back out—she was close to work but too terrified to go back.
They continued driving past the estate toward the cinema. They stopped at the first filling station before the cinema. Before getting down, the guy placed all their phones, along with the sand and leaves they had used for the incantations, into Uzezi's bag and asked her to hold it. He told them that the native doctor instructed they each walk past seven streetlights without looking back, repeating the words: "I no go die, I no go…" seven times to break the curse.
During this time, Uzezi didn't care about the money they had promised her—she just wanted to break the curse and be free.
After the guy finished his part, he asked the Keke driver to move further ahead, as they couldn't use the same streetlight. While waiting, the Keke driver and Uzezi had a conversation.
"I don't trust this guy at all," said the Keke man.
"Same here. I'm scared. I just want to break this curse and leave," Uzezi replied.
"Don't be scared, I'm here for you. When I go to do mine, look at my Keke. When you go for yours, I'll watch over your bag and phone," he assured her. That gave her some relief.
At Ojagbugba Junction, they asked her to perform her own ritual. But before that, she was made to repeat the incantations again and gave the correct PIN. Though she later tried to change it, the Keke man overheard it.
When she came down to perform her part of the ritual, she walked forward as instructed. But when she turned back to return, they were gone. The Keke and the men had disappeared. Her world crumbled. She couldn't get the incident off her mind.
Soon after, she bumped into her best friend from secondary school. Together, they went searching for the men. They headed to Deco Junction and eventually entered a Keke to Giwanu Junction again. Uzezi began crying uncontrollably while her friend comforted her.
She called her boss and begged him to take her to the bank. He agreed. But by the time they arrived, all her money had already been withdrawn. Heartbroken and devastated, she left the bank in tears and went home.
Later, she returned to work.