ABOUT THE
BOOK
This is a Story no screen-saved godly character will ever have to write. It is a story that drips with events of religious and political absurdity to help us grasp and comprehend the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problems and the compounding postures our stepping stone takes. Anyway, life is good, life is bad. To uphold it this way may not be standing on the fence but to go either way will be rather excruciating.
Patrick Ukah
might have been wrong playing to the extreme yet he was right. The idea that a
man is a product of his thought, what he thinks he becomes puts his name on the
register of the saints. He was St. Patukah, a dangerous saint. He is now
Patukah, a weeping and remorseful saint and hopes to become hereafter St.
Patrick Ukah, a good saint However, if Patukah is a saint, then Senator Kemo is
a co-saint while Fr. Omenka becomes a super-saint.
FOREWORD
The book, praying Mantis’ was written for mature minds. The
language is subtle but effective. Design intended to achieve particular
purpose, firing imagination.
Chapter one, one of the sixteen chapters, iss a confessional
statement from the principal character, Patukah, a notorious criminal akin to
Lawrence Anini’s saga, who later metamorphosed into a saint, was nothing but
meant to pull out and introduce reader into the storyline.
Jittery about being detected by EFCC, Senator Diduwa Kemo
lost billions of naira to fire. Complete the story in chapter 12.
The author, however, made use of didactics in the action
packed series, every chapter has deductive lesson that adds a dose of wisdom to
your stock.
Read the dilemma of rector of Dominican seminary, Rev. Fr
Omenka over missing missionaries in
chapter six.
Get to know about Da Baron’s haven, eccentric Belfast Island.
The author, Osita Ugwu in the nerve- racking novel carved a niche for himself
in annals of humanities. It is a scintillating well- structured woven literal
fabric. Like the apostle who saw Christ rushed and called his brother to come
and see Messiah, pick your copy and
others for your brother, sisters and friend , so that they too will enrich
their stock and intellect.
Nnaemaka
Ikpe
Editor. Snaap Press Ltd.
Enugu.
2006.
CHAPTER ONE
Flat
5, Block 16,
Apollo
Quarters,
Bukata
Estate
June 26, 2006.
June 26, 2006.
The
Inspector General of Police,
Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
Letter
of Appeal
The
indecipherable ups and downs in life, atimes, are meant to be advantageous, and
better for the genuinest of reasons if it as much occurred to us to possess a
deep sense of attributes of goodness in God. Inimical the happenings may seem,
but they are outrightly for character building. Religiously for our crowning
for they are trials and temptation, and it is said that HE tempts he that HE
wants to crown. Although taken too far, it exhausts our patience and drains our
consciousness of God , in consequence makes us awkwardly vulnerable to life,
God and our fellow human beings having the same degree of image and likeness of
God. Therefore, sir, my honorable inspector General of police (IG), I
appeal to you to hear me out, hear the
story of my life. I think it is time I left this pretentious and fake life I am
leading in the name of hiding in others. I have ran the race of this life
through a wrong track but now zeal has let me begin to re-do it the right way.
I am militarily prepared to confess my fakeness so that my crown will
unmistakably bear my humble identity. Besides, this will be an eye-opener for
you and spare you the rigour of searching for the once most wanted character in
the senator Diduwa Kemo arson saga.
As I introduce
you into my hyper-protected private world, I have to apologize for any
regrettable inconvenience you will have to toe, reading my nightmarish
handwriting and legions of redundant details. For the trivial details, they are
not intentional but heartfelt but for the skimpy ones, you have to forgive me
for I have gone too old in mind.
The subsequent
pages bear the introduction and the story. However, the above address remains
tentative until for the love of biblical 70x 7, you assure me that your men
will not violently apprehend me, then I will blow open my permanent address
Yours
faithfully,
Ukah,
Patrick.
To be
continued………………………………………
