Running had always been kojo ansah’s favorite pastime but running for one’s life

was a serious matter and had to be taken very seriously.as a long distance
runner, he felt no cramps after he had run for fifty minutes nonstop but it wasn’t
the same story for his two unfortunate friends who happened to be around him
when this whole escapade started. For his friends’ kusi and nana, this was a
nightmare not in the comfort of their beds but on a very sunny day on the hot
road to Kumasi. The running had started because they were on a deadline and
with this deadline someone was really going to die if it was not met.

Kojo ansah Jr. was a handsome young man born to a very rich Fante mother and
an equally rich and powerful Ashanti father. He was a fine example of someone
born with a silver spoon in his mouth. After going through all the best schools in
Ghana, his best subjects at school was P.E and English particularly because he
was part of the school athletics team and the latter because he was always
spoken to in English any time he was in the house. The other subjects however
were nothing to write home about especially the ones that involved calculation.
Due to this, his dad had to always find a way of getting his son promoted to the
next class. This more often than not saw the dismissal of “recalcitrant teachers
who don’t know how to survive” as Mr. Ansah would usually put it. This
arrangement suited kojo ansah just fine because he wasn’t in any hurry to worry
his head with books. This was his life till university where his mum to disgust
convinced his dad to let him “grow up”. Mr. Ansah who was also tired of cleaning
up his son’s mess agreed to monitor his last son from a distance.it was through
the hustle of university life that he met two friends who were also recovering
from being weaned from their parents influence and they stuck like glue. His two
new best friends kais and nana who had lived in the same condition as kojo were
actually better off than kojo because their parents who were actually neighbors
had thought it wise to send their children to a survival camp which was being
held at tamale for eight months after their high school education because they
realized their children were becoming weaklings. This action even though had
received with rebellion ,it had worked out for good as it had reduced the
children’s dependence on their parents to the barest minimum but rather
increased their codependency .this made the them perfect synonym for
inseparable. The addition of kojo ansah to their group however didn’t cause any
qualms as it seemed like they three people left in a sinking boat and so had to
help each other to survive. Since they all had sociology as their major they were
always seen together from the class to the johns’ .kojo Anshan’s life became a
little bearable when he found friends in the same boat and he began to enjoy
the school. He surprisingly registered for his hall of residence in the inter-hall
games that semester for the 1500m and 3000m races which he came tops and
runners up respectively which earned him a part in the university ‘s athletic
team. After the games were over, the trio went to Vienna city to “chill out”. Had
they known what misery this day would cause in some years to come, they would
have stayed on campus.it happened that on that fateful day a very popular
gambler called bobie ansahwas also there and kojo found himself betting against
him on the same poker table, through luck or something not known to anyone
kojo beat the man and made away with five hundred cedis of the man’s chips but
as with all gamblers they hate to lose and swore that he had a score to settle with
kojo. Kojo on other hand was so excited that day was the start of his addiction to
gambling .after the Vienna city escapade, Kojo and his friends managed to go
through university uneventfully until they all graduated with not so good
averages but which suited them just fine because as with all “dada bees” their
lives had already been planned for them: where they were born to where they will
be buried. They all did their national service at their respective parents firms and
employed thereafter but kojo managed to convince his dad to help get into the
national athletics team since that was where his passion was.after joining the
team kojo moved away from his parents and went and lived at dansoman estates
wwith his friends because that was where the new generation of dada bees in
accra all wanted to live . Athletes all over the world with their popularity and
effrontery always have a flaw and kojo ansah was no exception .kojo ansah had
become a prolific gambler. His addiction to gambling made him the most sought
after athlete in Ghana not because of his profession but because of his debts to
casino managers and gangsters all around the country. This even led to his
withdrawal from the final select squad to the Beijing Olympics in 2008.he
however managed to get back on the team with “dear daddy’s help.

Kojo ansah woke up very late this fateful Saturday morning after he had gone clubbing with his friends
and some ladies they had met at their usual fufu joint .he had come home at around two o’clock in the
morning and had fallen asleep with his clothes on. He woke up more tired than ever with a very
massive hangover. He went to his fridge and poured himself some apple juice since he had heard
somewhere that it was a great cure for a hangover. After downing his juice and convincing himself that
he was feeling better he went and showered and dressed up to go meet hid friends to start their
Saturday .the trio had their Saturday so planned out that it was almost a ritual ;they all converge at a
person’s house, by