Story: Tree Tenants [Sam]

Elechi is a small village found in western part of Africa, a beautiful village blessed with good and fertile soil that can grow many fruit trees like cashew, mango, orange and pear etc. Many of the villagers in Elechi are fruits sellers and it has been sources of their income, But instead of rodents to lead the destruction of some this fruits. A young boy called Sam took up the status of a rodent and human at the same time.
Sam is only son of Nteje one of the deadliest native doctor in Elechi with high status and feared by many villagers because of his spiritual powers, Sam been his son is not exceptional, he is feared because of is rascality
and been troublesome, he finds pleasure in tormenting Elechi villagers and go scot-free, The fear of sam's father and his black powers has left people of Elechi powerless on taking action against him.
Sam having numerous crimes on his name,one of the worse of them is plucking and climbing people's fruit trees both inside the compound of the owner and outside, scaling fences was his main hubby, many villagers keep complaining but who will bail the cat? .Sam and his village gang continued their touring of all village trees to their satisfaction without been confronted. They say everyday is for the thief ,one day is for the house owner
One fateful day,Sam and his friend were strolling around the village as usual, and he caught sight of a short but full ripe mango tree, he cannot imagine how him Sam of all people did not know that this kind of mango tree is still in his village, he did not hesitate to rush towards it, followed by his friends, on reaching the tree, to access it there is need to scale the compound fence, he immediately dash on the fence and scale over, his friends did the same, Unfortunately the owner is not around.
One of his friend asked him if he knew the owner of the compound, He reacted by waving it off ,after all he is not afraid of anybody, he immediately climb the mango tree and start plucking it. Feeling too lazy plucking one by one, he shook the tree very hard, ripe mangoes rained on the ground, Sam was very happy but it did not last as soon as he received the first bee sting of his life, he cannot describe what stung him, he was still panicking when he receive ten stings in a row, he tried to rush down the tree but the bees are not giving up yet, they went after him stinging  hell out of him, he fell off the tree and landed on the ground unconscious.
The bees came down and continue their stinging spree and extend it to his friends who took to their heels leaving Sam in near death,they went and informed his father who came rescuing him with the help of his black charms and was able to disperse the bees away, and carry his son home for medication
Sam regained himself after one week and two days, was left in bizarre, he swore not to near any tree in Elechi again, even the one in his father's house needs to be checked of beehives.

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