“You can ask the landlord, though. I believe he should have an answer to that. He couldn’t have forgotten them if they truly lived here, as you said. It is just that he is not at home now; you can check back on him,” the woman’s partner had informed him.

Mukhtar asked if they could give him the landlord’s number, but the man shook his head and said, “No. I don’t want Baba’s wahala. You can drop your own, though. If he wanted to talk to you, he would call you, or you could simply come back later. I will tell him you asked of him, Sha.”

Mukhtar had dropped...