Bros Abudu broke his forearm because of Ponmo( smoked cow skin)
Good day hives, I hope this great feeling here is over there. I know it must have been so all over the world.
Happy December
I am starting with, while growing, we have so much fun. All activities are fun in Lagos
A scenario I saw but younger than the participants, these are my elder brothers in the street and at home.
There was early 2000 or so
After footballing activities, we decided to stroll through Sand Field to get to a point where some would branch to our destination.
Besides the joint, there are where a firm smokes cow skin for bulky sales for consumer purposes.
It is just an open place with a big earthenware fire-pot ( Adogan) and gigantic pots and spoons.
As the crowd all do after that daily activity to try our luck by searching everywhere for leftovers some mistakenly left behind smoked cow skin. (Ponmo)
And that day was our lucky day.
We found a long brown string of smoked thick long cow skin( long Ponmo). We were eleven in number.
So we decided to jump a fence to reduce the sharing ratio.
Five immediately came out and others are not fit for the challenge, and they are out.
Bros Friday gave a jump and dove across the fence.
My elder brother also ran very fast and looped across the fence.
Then Bros Abudu ran a flash and gave an overview jump, he jumped over the fence with greater height left but all of a sudden, we all heard "Crack"
Then a loud noise Mummy, Daddy!!
We heard Brother Abudu screaming from the other side, I couldn't even look back and ran as fast as I could to get home and pretend that nothing had happened.
Later in the night, my elder brother came back. I asked him and he said they took him to his parent's house, dropped him off and ran away.
I could not laugh either, I had not seen Bros Abudu for like 2 months, but my elder brother said he and others visited him.
It was there they gave him Ponmo master and gave him his string of ponmo to complement his name.
Bros Abudu is now out after 3 months, but all we noticed was that Bros Abudu has a curved forearm.
He took it like that, only his friends are allowed to call him Ponmo master and for others, it is prohibited.
As for me and other young boys who witnessed the scenario, a hammering knock on the head will be served for anyone who defaulted by bros Abudu himself so we all know it was a no-go area.
But we wouldn't forget Bros Abudu broke his forearm because of Ponmo.
I hope you laugh out loud.
Remain healthily.