Baba Ibrahim scolded them both,
> “You’re elders—how can you behave like children before the young ones?”
But Baba Inu, still fuming, shouted,
> “Look at me closely! Do you think I’ll let this bag-of-chaff boy insult me?”
He retold the story to everyone. When they heard it, most sided with him, since everyone disliked the spoiled Dan Bishir.
Baba Saleh, however, ran to pick up his fainting son, crying,
> “Help me! Dan Bishir has swallowed energy drugs!”
Panicked, he begged Baba Ibrahim, who was a local healer,
> “Please, do something before he dies!”
Baba Inu mocked him,
> “If you want him saved, I can give you the number of the herbalist who made the drug—for twenty thousand naira.”
Though shocked, Baba Saleh paid. Baba Inu gave him the number and the herbalist assured him the boy would survive.
Relieved, Baba Inu returned home, pleased that the event brought him profit.
Later, when Malam Jibrin arrived to pick the children for Qur’anic school, Baba Inu cheerfully handed over not six but nine children, even paying extra, thinking he was finally free of his burden
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