Babida the lumberjack had now stayed three days in his room and never left it once.

He scrupulously followed the prescription from Doctor Dabo and was now feeling in form.

It was thus time to finally start his new duties as Governor of the province of Okunde.

He geared up and dressed nicely in a brand new military uniform, then left his room accompanied by a young sentinel of his close-knit guard.

He reached the doorstep of his new office and had sad memories of the last time he stepped out of it and landed in the cell of the underground.

Indeed the bureau that the woodsman was about to...