AJ Cities3 chapters · The police at the gates and in the bush
The Officers
Every gate in Lagos has its police, and every police post has its own weather. At the Abraham Adesyan Estate there are three: the pair inside the north gate who want AJ to "settle us," the smoke-break crew out in the bush with a borrowed-and-returned shotgun, and the line of officers who decide, on party nights, who gets in for free.
None of them is a hero and none of them is a monster. They have rent to pay and lunches to find, and they have opinions about everybody who walks past, especially a thin young man with a London accent.
Chapters
- 1Settle UsThey had named a price so high that any sensible man would laugh and walk away, and then the young man from London said yes. · 5 min
- 2Smoke BreakOut here, Oga Radio said, the gun shoots bottles; past that footpath, it becomes a story. · 5 min
- 3The QueueFour guests in five got in for free if they asked nicely; the fifth got a lecture, and the Warden's envelopes got something nobody expected. · 5 min