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Landlady, Rover and her 4 Puppies.
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Who are the most powerful people in Lagos? Landlords [or landladies] and their dogs!
If you lived in my kind of house, the land lady determined when you came home and when you left the house in the mornings. She decided when you parked your car in the compound, where you parked and sometimes, how you parked. She can raise your house rent a few hours before its due and expect that you pay as at when due. Woe betides you if you buy a new car or change your ‘tokunboh’. That instantly translates to increased house rent and renewed ‘three stomach’ [eta inu]. In what ways do they show their power? Let’s look at household appliances. The size of your landlord’s generator sometimes determines the size of the generator you can buy. If your landlord uses a smaller generator than the one you just bought, my guess is that a few days down the line, you will get a letter from her solicitors or agents that your generator is constituting a public nuisance and making life unbearable for the other tenants in the house [who didn’t complain to him anyways]. If you have a gas cooker when your landlord or landlady uses a kerosene stove, then you are brewing trouble. You were ‘advised’ [warned] severally, most times, unsolicited, of the dangers of using a gas stove. When do landlords show their power the most? When the rent is due? Hell no! Environmental Sanitation Days? Yeah! Mama, my landlady, usually wakes up at 6.30a.m on sanitation days and goes round all the flats in the hou...
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