On Thursday it will be two months since the day Adede, unarmed civilian, father, husband and hardworking bus driver, with no history of mental illness, single-handedly decimated a checkpoint of policemen. Eight policemen, seven rusty AK47s, and sixteen pockets bulging with squeezed naira notes.
Tolu Ogunlesi was born in 1982.He graduated in pharmacy from the University of Ibadan in 2004. He is the author of a collection of poetry Listen to the Geckos singing froma Balcony, (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004). His fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, Sable, Orbis, Eclectica, Stickman Review, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review, Smoke: A London Peculiar,Sentinel Poetry Quarterly.