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[dog barking, children shouting]
[indistinct excited voices]
[kids chanting in Yoruba] Thief! We caught a thief!
[in Yoruba] Thief.
[woman] Thief. Look at his face.
He nearly stole my car.
The car that I've not finished the payment of.
Should I kill this guy?
Burn him! Kill him!
Ah, mama.
-[Youth Corper] Just... just relax. -Just burn him.
This guy is part of the gang that steals car on this street.
God will punish you. We will burn you!
-Today is your turn! -We will burn you today!
Relax now! There's no point for violence.
If this guy did anything then let's take him to the police station!
-[woman] Push him to the front. -[man] Give me a tire!
If this boy dies here today it's on your head!
It's on your head!
Wait, don't burn him oh.
-[man] What's wrong with you? -Don't burn him.
Because when the police come, everything will be on my head. You can hear it.
-Madam, listen to me! -We will burn this guy here!
Madam, listen! [in pidgin] We will burn him!
The thing is, my car was stolen here too.
Because I didn't have insurance, I couldn't retrieve it!
-Please, tire, fuel! -[yells]
-[in pidgin]Take me to the station please! -Relax, now.
[in pidgin] Take me to the station!
It's incredible the
dangerous extent the human beings will go
when we are passionate about something.
My name is Adewale Esho.
And that's me in the hands of the terribly angry mob.
And this one
is Chike, my best friend.
We are about to embark
on this project that seems to now want to consume us!
Okay. Let me back track this.
♪ I wanna be, I gotta be I wanna be starting ♪
♪ The gold, the gold, the gold ♪
♪ The gold, the gold, the gold is coming ♪
At the time,
the king had committed an abomination
and the gods had turned their backs
against the Ijesha people.
Their commerce had collapsed,
and they had suffered losses to even smaller kingdoms.
After many wars,
the Ijesha people were exhausted.
They had lost a lot of the men in their army.
Many of the indigenes had been taken as slaves,
but the high priest, he never gave up on Yeye,
the symbol of their success.
[chuckles] And that's the gold statue.
Verbal history narrates that the statue of Yeye,
molded with pure gold,
-weighed over 6000 tubers of yam. -[students gasp]
-Wow! -[lecturer] Converted in today's weight,
that will be over a ton of pure gold.
No matter how hot the battles were,
the high priest
always managed to smuggle the gold statue
out of the reach of their enemies.
Hiding it in various parts of the kingdom.
and even beyond.
Centuries rolled into centuries
and several generations after,
nobody could find the gold statue.
It is said that only one custodian
in every generation.
can describe the whereabouts
of this massive statue.
Wicked!
[students laugh]
When the European explorers came to Africa,
they combed and tore up everywhere in the zone
in search of this massive gold.
They were desperate to take it back with them to Europe.
Yeye had disappeared!
It's a history with a lot of mystery about it.
In fact,
a school of thought calls it a myth.
[men gasp]
So who knows,
just maybe the Ijesha people's gold statue
worth 500 million dollars in today's gold value
is buried somewhere in the south west of Nigeria.
[menacing music]
-Maybe not. -Chike,
my grandpa has told me this story before.
So...
your grandpa believes in the existence of the gold.
-Ha, yeah. -If there was gold
buried somewhere,
Hmm.
with the weight that was described
in that stupid story,
they would have dug out that thing long time ago.
-Hmm? -We're talking about
500 million dollars.
I mean, white men with all the new gadgets they have,
[in pidgin] they would have dug the thing out.
See, let me tell you what's interesting about this thing. Hmm?
My own forefathers are the original
-custodians of this gold statue. -[chuckles]
[laughs] Wale-stic Wale!
-[in pidgin] This guy thinks I'm lying. -Wale pumping!
-[in pidgin] You think I'm lying, right? -[mocking action]
Grandpa Esho.
Adewale Esho.
-[laughs teasingly] -I know your gimmick.
-I know your-- -Grandpa, you're just...
See, I don't know what to say to you anymore
because you're making this thing look like it's one big mountain.
Grandpa.
Just tell me where this thing is. It's simple now.
You've even brought me Schnapps,
er,
-whiskey and gin. -Yes, now.
Grandpa.
I just bought you these things to feel alright.
-Ah. -Ah.
-Our ancestors -Hmm.
will not allow,
er, that secret... out.
[spluttering] But what...
Until...
it is time.
This family is going to be famous
because I'm going to type things on it,
[smacks lips] and put it on Google.
Grandpa, if anybody types your name, Grandpa Esho.
Boom!
-Google? -Yes.
Who is Google?
[Wale] My ancient Grandpa refuses to cooperate with me.
That nonsense about
only been able to speak out the location
of the statue when he's about to die?
What if he suffers a heart attack?
Or gets run over by a trailer or something?
So, all that gold will now go to waste forever?
God forbid!
Even though
it's a bad thing to wish,
But... something...
in me that wishes the ancestors
would come and take my grandpa home.
So that we can fast track the business of revealing
the location of this
500 million dollars gold.
Somehow...
my wish came to pass sooner than later.
My grandpa is dying.
The ancestors beckon!
-[female voices singing] -[inaudible]
[inaudible]
[in Yoruba] Thank you.
[in Yoruba] Thanks for taking care of me.
[in Yoruba] By the rocks where the river gushes.
[in Yoruba] That's where the great Araba tree is from.
[inaudible]
[Wale] Alright, big grandpa.
Having bugged the room
and hearing what only the next custodian
which is my uncle, should know,
we now have the dilemma of finding the precise location
of this ancient deity.
I mean, grandpa's explanation is in parables.
Just like lines from a Shakespearean book.
Who's got the time to be decoding this ancient riddle now?
[upbeat music playing]
-[phone beeps] -[Wale] And that's where Bryan comes in.
Bryan was my school father in secondary school.
He now lives abroad.
Bryan used to work for this...
British museum, but not anymore.
He's presently some kind of...
consultant and lecturer in a university in London.
And if anyone can help Chike and I
understand the intricacies of this,
it is Bryan.
Hey!
[clears throat]
Chike.
-Chike! -Hmm?
Bryan has locked in.
Bryan has keyed into the vision.
He accepts.
He wants to give this adventure a boom!
A shot.
-Really? -[hisses joyfully]
Guy.
I've got this gut feeling that we are going to
get that massive gold!
[in Arabic] I swear!
[upbeat music plays]
Right, so...
once you believe this physical position
as described by your...
late grandad...
I think I may have found the...
area that houses the statue.
There's a massive structure that seems to house other...
structures in the zone of the coordinates.
Bad news is...
there's no ID on Google.
Yea, so... so what do we do?
Well...
at least we can see the area
that is narrowed down
Is in the modern day Ilesha.
You're going to have to take a trip to Ilesha.
[Wale] Bryan.
Bryan are you sure of your coordinates?
Dead sure. What do you see?
[gong clanging]
Bryan.
It's a prison.
-A what? -Ilesha Prison.
-[computer beeping] -[Bryan] Are you sure?
Yes, I am dead sure.
It's a prison. Prison!
[birds chirping, traffic noises]
Ah.
Okay, alright.
At least we know where the statue is now.
Come on, guys.
You just can't give up on this now.
Hmm.
So, what you're saying is that we should blow up the prison
so you can get underneath it.
Or... do you have any other plan?
Well... you...
get into the damn jail and get the bloody gold out.
You are certainly out of your mind.
You don't know what you're saying.
We should go to prison.
We should go to jail.
But the prize is worth it. Isn't it?
Are you listening to yourself?
Think about what is at stake here.
500 million dollars is at stake here!
Is that not worth dying for?
Is it not?
Look, if both of you go digging in there,
it will take you a shorter period of time
to dig and get the gold out.
Of course, we have to worry about how to get the statue out.
Tsk. Chike,
let's do this thing.
[smacks tongue] Let's do it.
Wale, you are... jumping.
Uh-uh. This is not jumping.
Listen.
Both of you are going to have to commit a crime
and get jail sentence.
Yes.
That's the only way we going to have an appropriate length of time
with which to dig and get the gold out.
Of course,
you're going to have to make friends
to partner you with the digging.
-I reject it, in Jesus' name. -Stop it now!
I reject it. Over... [in Igbo] God forbid!
-[Wale] Bryan, please. -I will never, I will never...
-[Wale] I'll talk to him. -My generation will not go to prison.
-What is... what are you talking about? -There's nothing to talk to!
-Wale, calm down! -What is it now?
Bryan, let me explain something to you.
-My parents have spent money on me. -[huffs]
They have gone through a lot,
for me to get to this place.
And I do not intend to repay them
by going to prison. Uh-uh.
-That's not a way to say thank you. -Chike.
Going home with your share,
your share of the amount of
500 million dollars is going to be enough reward
for your parents. Trust me!
-This guy, do want to die anyway? -Me oh, Chike...
I am not going to jail.
This generation is full of tardiness.
[inhales]
NYSC will send you somewhere to serve.
Then you will actually...
have the audacity to ask me,
to influence your posting.
What about the other people that were posted there?
Are they not human beings. Or...
Oh, oh.
You think you are better than them.
[protests]
-Akin. -Yes?
But since you know a director there...
you can help with the transfer to the south,
not necessarily Osun State.
Huh? Adamawa is far.
And cost of transportation is very expensive.
-Grace. -Huh?
You are one of the problems of these children.
You overindulge them.
And you make it seem as if I don't have their interests at heart.
I know you do.
All I'm saying is that
Adamawa is at the other end of Nigeria.
Hmm.
Look, the cost of transportation is too expensive for him
to come and be visiting,
and for us to visit him.
Oh, but if he was schooling...
or serving in the far ends of Canada or Australia...
by that time it won't be too far to visit. Right?
But that is different.
-[in Yoruba] That's different. -Wale.
Your generation must learn
to conform.
That is the only way this country can work.
Not for my generation.
But for your own generation.
[indistinct voice on television]
Your request to...
be posted here is strange.
Most young men I know would not want to work here.
I thought NYSC was about...
posting people to go and teach all across the country.
Sir, I believe for me this is going to be a very unique experience.
[sighs]
Well, interesting,
because um...
a lot of the youth these days of the Youth Service Corps, they...
they want to serve in oil companies,
er, telecoms companies,
and er...
Even as a kid, I had a different level of maturity.
-Hmm. -I...
I never really wanted to do anything that...
every other kid wanted to do.
But... but this is a very highly sensitive area.
I can imagine. I can imagine, sir.
Okay.
I've, er, looked at your... listen,
I'll... I'll keep you in the admin building.
Alright? It's safer.
Alright? So I can keep an eye on you.
And because the prison environment is not a very
good environment for just everybody.
That's why we train our warders
in paramilitary tactics
so they can handle the inmates.
Especially the ones that get out of hand.
They are very funny characters.
Chike is the name right.
Yes, Chike Okereke.
-Chike... -Okereke, sir.
Oke-reke.
Okay. Alright then.
Okay. So I'll be monitoring you.
I watch everyone in this place.
-Alright. -Thank you very much, sir.
You are dismissed.
-I will not disappoint you, sir. -No problem.
[Wale] Dad personally drove me to the park in Lagos.
I...
sneaked out of the park and headed to Ilesha.
So I hibernated in the dingy hotel Chike secured.
Useless place!
No water,
no light in the rooms,
bed full of bedbugs.
But that was all our money could get.
I guess when one wants to own...
500 million dollars worth of anything,
one should be ready to swim in murky waters.
[static on walkie-talkie]
Samuel Okon.
You don't even look these crimes that you're committing.
In one week,
you have been brought here twice,
for trying to steal...
a baby goat.
Are you sure you are mentally okay?
And if we charge you to court now,
you meet a magistrate that will just throw you into jail
for these... for these stupid actions!
Where is your family?
[in pidgin with Efik accent] Boss, they are in Kano.
Kano?
-Hmm. -Ahn ahn!
So what exactly are you doing in Ilesha?
Em...
[in pidgin] you know all these boys.
He said he's on his way to Port Harcourt
and he lost his purse.
That in the bid to get money to continue the journey,
that's why he has been stealing.
Ahn ahn.
[police chief] How stupid can you be!
And it did not occur to you to...
to help them carry bags in the park
so that you can earn money.
[sighs]
Here.
Look, I feel your pain.
It's like it's my body. All these things.
Tsk! [in pidgin] No, you are not feeling any pain.
Don't even go there.
This had better work out oh.
Tsk.
I will personally go and strangle my grandfather in his grave
for not making this easier for me oh.
Ah, ah, ah!
Wale, it must work.
Hmm. It will work.
Hmm. [chuckles]
So that means as it is now,
we have to find something really bigger.
Something that is strong, hard, bad!
That will take you straight to...
to prison.
[dramatic music plays]
[police sirens blaring]
[indistinct excited voices]
[Wale] So,
we are back where we started.
Relax, relax, relax!
[in pidgin] You can't burn anybody. Why would you burn him!
[in pidgin] Let's take him to the station. I'll take him to the police station!
[in pidgin] What's up with you, really?
Is it the police that caught him?
-Are you crazy? -Relax. Relax now!
Please give me tire and fuel!
-[Chike] Which tire? Relax, calm down! -[Wale screams]
[Chike] Calm down. No, no, no!
[in pidgin] Relax! They can't touch you.
[in pidgin] Please take me to the police station!
[in pidgin] Take me to the police station please!
-[in pidgin] Man, don't you dare push me! -What's wrong with you!
-[in pidgin] Don't push me! -What's wrong with you!
[in pidgin] Leave this place!
Don't push me!
[Chike] Wale!
[Wale in pidgin] Take me to the police station please!
[in pidgin] I will punch you!
[in pidgin] Now, calm down.
[in Yoruba] No, don't. Don't!
[in Yoruba] The time I stole a Blackberry.
[in Yoruba] That time I stole a Blackberry in the garage,
[in Yoruba] I know what they did to me!
-[in Yoruba] Yes, I know. -[in Yoruba] Never!
[in Yoruba] Stop! Be patient!
-[in Yoruba] You are all thieves! -[in Yoruba] I agree!
[indistinct yells]
[in pidgin] We will burn you!
[screaming]
[lighter clicks]
[woman] Don't burn him oh!
[Chike in slow motion voice] Wale!
Wale!
[police siren blaring]
[Chike's voice echoes] Wale!
[female voice] I don't understand you these young people.
This country provides you a lot of opportunities.
It may not be easy.
But you can survive.
You can get by.
But you choose to destroy yourselves
by engaging in criminal activities.
Mr. Samuel Okon,
do you have anything to say to the court
before I pass my sentence?
[in Efik accent] I'll accept whatever punishment you give to me, Your Honor.
Should I then assume that you are genuinely sorry.
Yes.
I'm ashamed of myself.
And of my family.
And...
I'm not pleading...
not to be punished.
Prosecution counsel, any further word for the court?
My Lord,
I am glad that the young man...
realizes and admits that he has done
evil.
And should be punished.
My Lord.
Mr. Samuel Okon is sorry.
And I plead that you temper mercy in your decision
for punishment.
And if you'll be kind enough to let him go,
I assure you
he will never engage in such acts again.
Mr. Samuel Okon,
the society is ashamed of young men like you
who are hale and hearty but have decided
they want to arrive at the corridors of success without working for it.
I could give you the maximum sentence for this offence
which is nine years.
But because you are sorry and sober,
I will give you the minimum.
And so you're sentenced to...
12 months in jail with hard labor.
And I hope that when you're done serving your time,
you will become a new man who is willing to contribute
positively to society.
The Prison Services inform me that
there is no space in their minimum prisons,
here in Ilesha.
And I certainly will not allow you
to be mixed up with hardened criminals.
Because I think you're just
a misguided young man who
needs a second chance
to prove to society that he can be useful
to himself and to society.
And so I will advise authorities to...
take him to another minimum prison
in another city.
And the closest on this sheet are Kaduna and
Calabar minimum prisons.
And since you have said that
you are an indigene of Akwa Ibom state,
Calabar should be close enough to home for
easy rehabilitation.
And so Mr. Samuel Okon,
as a gesture of my further kindness to you,
you will serve your prison term in Calabar minimum prisons
for the next 12 months.
[gavel bangs]
Wale!
Ahn ahn!
Wale!
What's going on?
Who is Wale?
His name is Samuel Okon.
[in Yoruba] Really, Wale?
Why is he calling you Samuel Okon?
Or his name is not Samuel Okon. Hey!
[in pidgin] This guy has told lies in court.
What did he do?
Breaking and entering with intention to steal.
Impossible!
Impossible.
[in Yoruba] Is that true, Wale?
Your father said you had gone to Adamawa NYSC camp
to serve for about a month now.
Ehn?
This one? [in pidgin] This one is not a Corps member.
[in pidgin] This one is a criminal.
He's going to start his jail term now in Calabar prison.
I beg your pardon.
My God.
[in Yoruba] My sister.
[phone beeps]
[in Yoruba] My sister.
Dotun.
[in Yoruba] What are you saying?
What are you saying?
Ehn?
[in Yoruba] My son is not there!
[in Yoruba] My Adewale Esho.
He is not in Ilesha. He is in Yola!
No now, Dotun. No!
[laptop thuds]
How can he be going to prison in Ilesha?
It is not possible!
It cannot be Wale.
Look,
I...
drove him to the motor park myself.
And then in my presence...
he...
he checked his bag into the vehicle.
On his way to Yola.
He took what? He took a photograph
with NYSC uniform
and sent it to us.
Here. From Yola.
On his way to prison?
Why... Dotun!
Prison!
For... for what?
Hey!
[in Yoruba] Wale. Adewale Esho has killed me!
[in Yoruba] Adewale Esho has killed me!
[in Yoruba] Where do I go?
Yeh!
Well, madam,
I...
I sympathize with you.
I honestly do sympathize with you
because, um, there's no family...
that wants to have their relative...
in prison.
And it's understandable. Em...
But you see, em...
there's nothing I can do.
There's nothing. I... There's no move that I can make now.
The place is congested.
The only place that I think it's,
we have like, er, two vacancies or so,
is the maximum prison.
And em...
I will not even suggest that you...
do the maximum prison. So...
er, I think Calabar is the best place.
-Ehn? -Yes.
Madam, Calabar is the best place to...
to go because...
see, the prisoners we have here
are hardened criminals.
Armed robbers, assassins,
those are the people that we have here.
They are all on death row. They're... all of them are here.
I won't suggest that your son...
your son stays here. So Calabar is the best place.
Mister, please.
[in Yoruba] Please.
Tsk.
[in Yoruba] Ah, I'm done for!
[in Yoruba] I'm done for.
Calabar is very far.
Please, help with to transfer to Lagos.
[in Yoruba] Please.
Warden.
Sir.
Send him to Calabar.
-What! -Sokoto or Kano, I mean,
I don't care where he serves his prison sentence.
Okay?
He does not deserve the worry of any member of my family.
-Ah! -Grace.
-Let's go. -No! No! No!
Don't listen to him oh!
He's very, very angry. Don't--
-Grace! -Yes?
Why... why would you say that?
I'm sorry.
[in Yoruba] Don't be angry, please.
Let him face the damn wrath of the law!
The young man is... is an adult.
In spite of all the...
decent education and training that we gave to our children,
that... that stupid boy decides
to follow the path of criminality. So let him!
And yet you're here,
begging them to take...
to take it easy upon him.
You know I will never be a part of that.
He's our child.
I know he has embarrassed us.
-Grace. -Yes?
He's your son.
Oh yes, he's your son.
I often told you
that you overindulge these children.
But you won't listen to me.
Now, look at where we are now.
Warden.
[tearfully] I personally...
I personally carried this boy...
to the motor park!
I gave him...
I gave him enough money...
okay, enough money...
to last him until his first NYSC allowance.
I... I do not know what anybody
born into my family
would ever want
that would make him steal a car!
This is... this is insane!
It's nonsense.
And he had better not come back to my house.
Let him stay there.
And... and keep that name. That...
Sunday Okon and or whatever Okon name that he used
to commit the crime and to serve his prison sentence.
[in Yoruba] Look,
I'm giving you three minutes.
Okay? I'll be waiting for you in the car.
If I don't see you after three minutes,
you'll meet me in Lagos.
No! No!
You cannot go!
-[in Yoruba] Please, in God's name! -Grace.
-I beg of you! -Grace!
-[in Yoruba] Leave me alone! -Yeh!
-It's your fault! -Yeh!
-Ah ah! Leave me alone. -Yeh!
[in Yoruba] Please!
[in Yoruba] Help me! Yeh!
[in Yoruba] My son is not a thief.
Ade is not a thief oh!
He's not a thief.
[in Yoruba] Please help me.
Dotun!
-Please, em, -Dotun!
Mr. Ogoro, I'll be filing an appeal tomorrow morning.
Please just help...
keep here in Ilesha until the appeal is done...
is done with, please.
-[Mrs. Esho] I beg of you. -Barrister,
this is why I don't relate with families of inmates.
The emotion psychology,
the drama,
all of that.
You know. So what is expected of me? What should I do?
Mister...
I beg of you.
My son is dead.
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
[in Yoruba] Please, please,
pity me.
May your children...
never derail.
-Amen. -I beg of you. Help me!
[in Yoruba] Please, help me.
Mr. Ogoro,
keep him in the maximum prison
-until the appeal is done. -Ehn? Max what?
-[in Yoruba] I'm dead. -Please.
[in Yoruba] Wale has killed me.
[in Yoruba] I am dead.
[bench clacks]
Move!
[warden] Move!
[chains chinking]
[growling]
[growling mutter]
[tongue sucking sound]
[warden] Move!
[Mrs. Esho whimpers]
[prisoner growls]
[Mrs. Esho] Adewale.
What is this?
[Mrs. Esho] 'Dewale!
This is not adding up.
[sobs] There are three cars at home.
If you're this crazy about taking a car to Adamawa,
I could have pressured your father
for one of the cars.
What.
I told them it cannot be... There must be a mix up!
[in Yoruba] Something is happening.
He cannot steal a car! This man is not...
[in Yoruba] This boy is not a thief.
He's not a thief.
But I'm confused.
How come you ended up in...
[spluttering] Ilesha!
And commit a crime!
Ah, God!
[in Yoruba] I... I don't understand.
You even took a photograph.
You sent us a photograph of yourself
with your uniform.
NYSC uniform.
Then, what is going on?
[in Yoruba] What's happening?
Tell me. You're just looking at me!
-[in Yoruba] I will bite you! -[in Yoruba] My sister.
Yeh!
[Mrs. Wale] What!
[whimpering]
-I'm sorry, mom. -Ehen.
Help me apologize to dad. Please.
That what?
Uncle D.
Tsk.
I'm not interested in any court appeal.
-Hmm? -Uh-uh.
Can't stand all the trauma of back and forth.
All these court processes, I can't.
The magistrate gave me a short sentence.
And I would have...
I would have been done by the time you start all this court process.
I beg your pardon.
-[in Yoruba] I'm dead. -[in Yoruba] What did you say?
[Mrs. Esho laughs nervously]
[in Yoruba] I am dead.
I am dead.
[in Yoruba] God!
God that I serve!
You are hearing this boy.
-What is going on? -Mommy...
[prisoner 1] I stand oh!
[prisoner 1] OC rugged.
-[prisoner 2] Ruggedity! -[prisoner 1] OC dogged.
-[prisoners] Doggedity! -[prisoner 1] OC wogged.
-Woggedity. -[prisoner 1] OC naked.
-Nakedity! -[prisoner 1] OC wicked.
-Wickedity! -My OC!
[in Yoruba] Head of family.
Capone di Tutti!
Permission to duty.
[in pidgin] Speak, speak.
[in pidgin] It won't be well with your future generation.
Amen!
[in pidgin] Your mom snuck in here.
[in pidgin] Imagine the level.
Your mom gave you rice.
Gave you chicken, gave you everything!
Drink, juice,
[in pidgin] to oppress the people that are here, right?
[in pidgin] You think this place is a boarding house?
Guy!
When I'm talking to you I need you to focus.
[in pidgin] It's prison republic...
-that they call this place. -[prisoner 3 in pidgin] That's right!
And this ministry you just entered
is the ministry for condemned men
and dead men walking.
Dwap!
[prisoner 1 singing] ♪ Since morning ♪
[prisoners] Eh!
[prisoner 1 singing in pidgin] ♪ I haven't eaten ♪
[prisoners] Eh!
-[prisoner 1] ♪ Since morning ♪ -[prisoners] ♪ Okay ♪
[prisoner 1 in pidgin] ♪ I haven't eaten ♪
[prisoner 1 in pidgin] ♪ God will punish you warder ♪
[prisoners singing in pidgin, clapping] ♪ Prisoners for prisoners ♪
♪ God will punish you warder♪
[prisoners in pidgin] ♪ Prisoners for prisoners ♪
Hey!
Big head warder.
[in pidgin] Lead warder.
[in pidgin] Tummy warder.
Warder warder.
No one! I repeat...
[in pidgin] no one is on a higher level inside here.
Don't let them deceive you.
[in pidgin] Their level is not good enough.
[prisoner 3] No level.
No level!
[in pidgin] They don't have level. They just aren't good enough.
Hammer, you know what provokes me about this guy's matter?
You that the head warder brought here, telling us to take it easy.
Are you Mr. Eazy?
-[prisoner 4] No he's Eazy E. -[prisoner 3] I'm suspecting you. Come.
You and him are related?
You don't talk? If I slap your face, eh.
-[Wale] We are not related. -You said what?
-We are not related. -You say?
-We are not related. -[head prisoner] Shh.
See...
from today henceforth,
your mother
wants to bring food,
toiletries,
or pocket money,
[in pidgin] she has to bring for everybody inside this cell.
-[head prisoner] Do you hear? -[in Yoruba] It is a law.
-[prisoner 3] Ah! -Amen!
[in pidgin] Over here,
it's Zone 3.
Are you listening?
Yes sir.
[in pidgin] Over here,
we're not so many.
[prisoner 1] At all.
We are just fifty--
One!
And in here,
we don't have discrimi...
nation!
So...
your mama,
She now has...
51 children. She's very lucky.
In fact,
as I'm feeling right now,
I have to tell you that that's the only thing...
that you can do here
that will keep you safe.
Because...
that rubbish that
the head warder came to say here,
that one won't work.
Now, you are looking at me as though it's a picture.
It's not a picture. This is real!
That cigarette he gave us as bribe.
That one has gone into water.
So if you want to be here.
And you want to stay safe.
Here, if you want respect.
You got to earn it!
Did you hear that?
Talk. Are you crazy? Talk!
Idiot.
[speaking pidgin in Efik accent] I didn't go to school.
I said...
"Earn it." Say that.
Earn it.
[in pidgin] It's not Enitan.
-Earn it, idiot! Earn it. -[in pidgin] Earn it, not Enitan.
Earn it. Earn--
You have to what?
Earn it.
You need to do that.
I don't know why.
[in pidgin] I'm sure I've never seen you before in my life.
But as I'm looking at you, I just hate you.
Everything about you as you are.
I just hate you!
Guy, look.
[in pidgin] There are two types of fowls in this world.
We have chicken.
And we have [in local accent] "sikin".
-[prisoner 2 in pidgin] That is so! -You see,
"Sikin"
is what we eat here...
-[prisoner 2 in Yoruba] That's true. -that's making us sick.
So, as my Capone has spoken,
If your mother wants to bring food,
she should apply chicken.
I agree that not every house where rice and stew is cooked,
do they fry plantain.
But me as I am,
I can't eat my rice and stew without plantain.
Based on the spoilt kid that I am,
It will give me catarrh.
So tell your mom
to fry plantain for me.
You hear me?
What did you say you want!? Talk, talk! What did you say you want?
-Moi-moi. -Moi moi! What do you say you want?
-[in Yoruba] Peppered gizzard! -Salad!
-Salad? -Salad, yeah.
Same thing.
Okay chill, guys.
So, you've seen it.
Your mom is lucky.
Your mom will just prepare 12 coolers
of varieties.
Moi moi.
Plantain.
[in Yoruba] Beef innards.
[in Yoruba] Innards of everything.
Fill up the 12 coolers.
If your mom does all these things, guy,
you have a visa here.
But if your mom...
can't spend money to
take care of us here,
you see that money your mom doesn't want to spend,
your mom will buy coffin with it and
wait for your dead body.
Because I'm assuring you,
except I'm not Hammer,
you won't last two days.
[speaking Chinese gibberish]
[prisoner in Yoruba] You are completely done for.
Gracie.
-Are you alright? -Very much alright.
Very much alright, Akintade.
You abandoned your home
and your business in Lagos,
only to end up in Ilesha
feasting prisoners?
Akintade.
[tearfully] Our child is in trouble.
I can't just abandon him.
Adewale is in the house of criminals of this town.
If it's cooking
and giving food,
drinks,
anything, [sobs]
that will give him his favor
or his freedom,
I will keep doing it.
I will keep doing it until he leaves this place.
My son is never a troublesome child.
Never!
And I know there's something wrong!
Something is wrong!
You refuse to see it!
Something is wrong!
Something is going on.
For him to attempt to steal a car.
As good parents, we keep praying.
[in Yoruba] You heard me?
We keep praying.
Well, maybe we don't even know our child.
Ah!
We know our children.
I know my son.
I know Adewale.
Adewale is never a troublesome child.
Adewale has never been troubled by anything!
And I know the God I serve.
I serve a living God.
And that God
will expose whoever it is.
We have never had any problem with any of our children.
Do you realize that? Do you remember? Do you know that?
Well, he obviously hid his true character from us.
He succeeded in doing so
because that is what has happened.
If he had succeeded in stealing the car,
Gracie...
would we have known about it?
I... I reject it!
[in Yoruba] My son is not a thief.
My son is not a thief.
Why do women choose to live in the land of perpetual fantasy
when they are confronted with stark reality like this?
What is not clear to human beings,
God sees.
Okay, so.
How long are you going to abandon your home and
[chuckles]
and... and your business, and stay in Ilesha like this,
feasting prisoners?
I am not feasting anybody.
I am buying favor...
for my son.
Tsk.
And I will keep doing it...
[sniffles] until
[sobbing] I find solution to this problem.
This is the first challenge...
our family is facing.
And we should face it together,
as a family.
But this your hard stance
will not solve anything!
Have you forgotten?
These are the children
that will bury us when we die.
[sighs]
As good parents,
when children are in trouble
parents stand by them!
Adewale is in trouble.
We stand by him.
During [sobbing]
his tribulation.
What are you doing?
[sniffles] Take me to the prison.
[sniffles] It's time for visitation.
[in Yoruba] What stupid visitation is that?
-Ah! -Hmm?
[in Yoruba] Me!
[in Yoruba] God forbid.
Gracie.
[tearfully] You should know me better than that now.
I cannot be a part of this your madness.
You are on your own.
You. And your son.
[door opens]
[whimpering]
[sobbing]
[upbeat music plays]
[prisoners singing in pidgin] ♪ Food has landed ♪
♪ Better food has shown up ♪
♪ Food has landed ♪
♪ Better food has shown up ♪
♪ Drinks are flowing ♪
♪ We will keep on drinking ♪
Samuel Okon.
[in pidgin] It's now that I know your head is screwed on tight.
And...
your mother too,
she acted well.
Now she's behaving like
she's our mother too.
And because of this eh,
even a fly...
cannot touch you.
And any warder inside this prison
that messes with you,
he's messing with us all.
-[Hammer] Yes. -Am I lying?
-Yes, sir! -No!
-You are not lying. -No!
Welcome. You hear me?
Never in my 66 years
have I seen joy and jollifity
in the prison before
like I saw today.
That's to tell you that
I've never passed the baton of my experience
and my long sojourn
to anybody.
Until this today, today.
So I'm passing it to you.
The 66 years I have spent
inside prisons.
When I say prison, I mean national prison
and intercontinental prison.
From Zimbabwe to Morocco.
-Morocco to Mali. -Hmm.
-Mali to Algeria. -Hmm.
And everywhere.
South, west, north,
central Africa.
The 66 years that I have spent,
I pray
that you will double it.
Amen!
You will stay long in prison...
-Amen! -than me.
You will enjoy prison.
[prisoners] Amen!
Prison will enjoy you.
[prisoners] Amen.
Word, no evil
will affect you anywhere.
Amen.
You are a great boy.
Prison will bless you.
-As I bless you. -Amen.
-Hey hey! -Ancestor!
Ancestor!
♪ Better food has shown up ♪
Ancestor!
[police siren blaring]
[Wale] Bryan is hard at work in London.
He involves a major gold merchant...
in London.
From that point on.
Bryan liases with Chike in Admin,
Chike facilitates info flow to me.
Then the flow goes
vice versa.
[in pidgin with Efik accent] Leave it! I swept it to this point.
-[in pidgin] Ah, er... -What's up with you?
excuse me, sir.
[in pidgin] Please move.
Move, please.
Em. Sorry you...
asked me to remind you...
that you wanted both of them to go and cut their portion of the field
because it's this tall. I saw it and it's really bad.
And you know you said that you feel that they are enjoying...
too much AC. So...
I should remind you that you have to take them...
to the field by yourself.
That's very true.
God bless you for the reminder.
-Eh, Samuel Okon. -Boss.
You have been lazing around this place recently.
-[in pidgin] Boss, what did I do? -[in pidgin] You are doing nothing!
This place
is just too small for you to clean.
You must clean all this place before I get back.
Do you understand me?
-No problem oh. -Aha!
I will make sure I supervise him.
Ah, I trust you. I trust you on that.
I trust you on that. My friend drop this thing.
Drop it and you guys should move it.
Okay, give me... give me that thing.
Make sure you keep an eye on this guy.
[in pidgin] I will do it, boss.
Well done, sir.
[in pidgin] I will do it.
-[Chike whispers] Ah, man! -[in pidgin] What is...
Hey!
Oh boy!
Ah!
[in pidgin] I have not had AC.
-[in Yoruba] Wale, are you alright? -What happened?
[in pidgin] Get off that chair!
[in Yoruba] You are not serious.
[in pidgin] Wale, get off the boss's chair!
-Which level? -Which level!
[in pidgin] Leave the table!
Please, let me enjoy. In short,
I haven't checked Facebook in how long now.
-Let me check. -You want to check what?
Wale, leave...
-Don't touch that system! -I haven't checked--
Wale, don't do like this now!
[in pidgin] I want to do throwback picture.
[in pidgin] Oh, look, the boss is coming now!
[in pidgin] See what I was saying? He's coming already.
Aleka!
[laughs]
[in pidgin] Leave this place. How are you anyway?
-Your father. -Leave father alone.
How far with you? How are you?
Eh!
Oh boy.
[in pidgin] You see these people in Zone 3?
If not for momsie's food...
I swear those men would have killed me.
-God forbid. -Right now,
I don't even know what I would have...
been able to do without my mom. I swear.
Heya.
I'm not even sure I can look her in the face
after all this craziness.
I... I don't know.
I feel like I should tell her everything.
Huh?
-Tell who? -I just wish.
No, no, no. No, Wale, you cannot wish anything.
Wale, look at me. You can't wish anything.
Throw that wishing thought away.
We are here, let us face this one.
This is our destiny now.
No thinking, no wishes.
Gbam! That's all.
Yeah.
Tsk. What's up now?
What's up with the warden? Any update?
Guy, I'm okay.
Guy, this place eh?
Hmm.
This place.
The politics here, eh.
It's gangster. It's tight!
I'm not even joking.
-For real? -Oh, yo!
-See, there are two factions, right. -Hmm.
There's the head warder's faction.
HW.
And the people that are loyal to him.
Now there is the DHW.
That's the deputy head warder. I told you about the guy now, Mr. Antar.
That devil's first born.
Exactly! [in pidgin] That I also said he was the devil's PA.
He is devil's first born. The guy is mean.
He has his own side.
And people that believe in him,
-that believe he will become the boss. -[in pidgin] What's up with him?
I do not know.
The guy tackles everything and everyone.
Anything the head warder says,
he tackles it. If Mr. Ogoro says something, he attacks.
He will have a reason.
He will have something to quote.
The guy is just mean to everybody.
The guy has a problem with me,
-as a Youth Corper. -Hmm hmm.
Oh. Breaking news. The guy has a problem with you here.
The guy says you should be in Calabar prison,
and not here.
God forbid. [in pidgin] It's his family that will be in Calabar.
Do you know this idiot actually wrote two petition letters
to the Zonal Controller.
Ahn ahn.
[in pidgin] Saying what, now?
[in pidgin] I don't even want to know what's inside.
As I saw it,
in the dispatch, I took them and tore them!
I ate them. I swallowed the papers
-so there won't traces. -Nice one. On to rat things.
Ah ah. Normal level.
-Take this. -Ratatata.
-Correct guy. -That's the only demon we have.
That's the only problem.
Hmm.
What's up with the gadget for the digging?
-How far? -Oh yeah. Bryan,
and the London
gold merchant that's financing this excavation,
-Hmm. -have sent a few things via courier.
-Okay. -Yeah, so I have those ones.
Alright, cool
Wale, now this is the best part of the news.
-What? -Do you know that...
that gold
is not worth 500 million dollars?
-Really? -Now listen.
The Hong Kong,
London,
and Dubai gold merchants
say
that that gold
is worth
a billion
dollars.
♪ If money is the root of all evil ♪
♪ What is poverty ♪
♪ See I don dey pray pray pray ♪
♪ Papa God go bless me ♪
♪ Abeg he bless plenty Me I no dey play play play ♪
♪ Because we want the kpa We dey the kpa plenty ♪
♪ No we know soke, see we no dey fear ♪
♪ We no dey run rara, o le le... ♪
They're coming. Wale, Wale, they're coming.
[in pidgin] Let them come!
[Wale] Grinding time.
Bryan and the gold merchants in Dubai
commissioned 32-AD,
a company in Lagos Nigeria,
to map the entire prison
using super high tech drones.
Chike and I have positioned spy cameras everywhere here.
The cameras upload visuals to the satellite
and our partners monitor all activities in Dubai.
Obviously, I can't dig the tunnel alone.
And I'm aware that Capone has a death sentence
hanging around his neck.
[in Efik accent] Capone, you are a good man.
As in, very good.
And it will hurt me to see that they will hang you sooner or later.
Okon.
Hmm?
[in pidgin] See, I don't fear death.
All of us will die one day.
Hmm.
But you see, my happiness is that
I've done justice to
my wife and her boss
for what they did to me.
What exactly is your problem?
Answer me. Those two children.
He is their biological father.
This is their biological father. Okay?
[prisoners chatting indistinctly]
Hmm.
Tsk. But Capone,
Hmm?
[in pidgin] You know we can escape out of here?
[in pidgin] I don't have that plan.
[in pidgin] Capone, we will plan this thing.
Hammer,
[in pidgin] I'm escaping out of here.
And as my OC,
I want you to know
so that you can follow me as well.
[in pidgin] Except of course you want to serve the life sentence you have here.
Ehen!
My Capone! Ehen!
Ahn ahn.
[in pidgin] This escape plan you're talking about is long overdue,
since 12 years ago.
Okay.
[in pidgin] Now I know what's going on.
These are the ingredients we'll behead the warders with--
Hey Hammer,
[in pidgin] nobody is beheading anybody.
-Really? -Yes.
[in pidgin] Since we're not going to behead
the warders or anybody,
how then are we going to escape?
Good.
[in pidgin] That's what I expected from your mouth.
[in pidgin] You should have asked me what my plans are.
[in pidgin] This is the plan.
[in pidgin] We will dig a tunnel.
Eight of us from Zone 3 here.
[in pidgin] We will dig every night.
We can escape.
Possibly in three weeks or more.
[laughs]
-Leave him. -[Hammer] Oh!
Escape.
Tunnel.
[laughs]
-[in pidgin] How come it can just-- -No!
We get to plan the whole thing.
-Okay. -Now come.
-[inaudible] -[upbeat music plays]
Oh boy, look at gadgets!
Man, look at these gadgets!
We are breaking!
-We are burst-- -Shh!
[in pidgin] Ah man, your parents are rich.
Look how everywhere is looking set.
-How did they get so much money? -Shut up!
If you know the kind of money this boy's father's got.
You know his father?
I know his family. I've just been pretending.
I know rich people.
This boy that you are looking at, his father lends banks money.
-Hmm? -Yes now!
[in pidgin] Don't you see the kind
-of food his mom brings us? -Hammer!
-[in Yoruba] Welcome. -You're related?
Hmm.
[upbeat music playing]
[phone beeps]
[phone beeping constantly in tracking mode]
[phone beeps with location discovery sound]
Capone.
[in pidgin] This is the place we start the digging from.
And as it is,
it's this gadget that we all follow.
[speaking Chinese gibberish]
[in Yoruba] Yes, we're digging your glory.
[speaking Chinese gibberish]
-Ehn? -[speaks Chinese gibberish]
[in Yoruba] You too, [mimics] shefan!
[speaking Chinese gibberish]
[speaking gibberish]
Let's us dig the damn thing!
-[speaking Chinese gibberish] -[speaking gibberish]
That's why they deported you.
[phone beeping constantly in tracking mode]
[phone beeps with location discovery sound]
[loud thud]
[Wale] We dig all night and stop all tunnel activities
at 5:00 a.m.
-[knocking] -We clean up,
catch some sleep
and flow with normal prison activities.
I beg your pardon.
After all your mother did
to convince me
to keep you out of this maximum prison,
you still insist on remaining here?
Do you know the kind of hardened criminal,
murderers that we have here?
Adewale!
Look at me!
Something is wrong with him.
This is not Wale!
I've bonded with the people of Zone 3, sir.
We have a daily spiritual fellowship.
I lead all the religious activities
and it is good for my spirituality, sir.
I wish to remain here till my time is up.
Yeh!
If you take me to the minimum prison sir,
it's just like me starting all over again.
-[Mrs. Esho] Ahn ahn. -Meeting new friends
and acquaintances.
Adewale.
Are you here to make friends?
Inside that place
houses condemned criminals.
They are humans, too.
Look at his eyes!
[in Yoruba] Look at his eyes!
Yeh!
And you will be surprised they still have some good left in them.
At least the only time I had issues was when I just came here
and now,
things are different.
I teach them a lot of things.
I teach them English, Maths,
Biology, Chemistry, Physics.
You do that here?
Yes sir.
And they all love it.
By the time all these men get out of here, sir,
they won't only be useful to themselves,
but the entire community as a whole.
I am very proud of this boy.
This boy
can influence people in this place
so when they come out
the inmates will be changed.
This boy will write his name
in gold,
by the time he leaves here.
'Dewale Esho,
-Er... -look at me.
[in Yoruba] Look me in the eyes.
Nothing.
Tsk. I repeat.
Nothing must happen to you in this prison.
-Nothing will happen. -Nothing will happen to him.
[in Yoruba] My God!
-Er, Samuel Ok-- -Ah!
[in Yoruba] Ah, I didn't give birth to an Okon!
[Poison in pidgin] Ehen, where are you?
[Rambo in pidgin] Who's digging? Who has sand over there?
Shh, guy!
[in pidgin] That small quantity of sand I told to go and dump,
and you've been gone like you went to do somewhere else.
Poison, what is wrong with you? Are you mental?
Are you crazy?
Don't you know that to clear this sand secretively,
passing it and putting inside our clothes,
staying still in some places,
putting it inside sacks, putting it inside toilets, different angles...
Don't you know one has to use his brain to do that?
Heya.
Please when will you be wise?
When will you have a brain? When will you get some sense?
[Poison] Just to go dump sand upstairs,
and you're saying you are skillfully arranging,
you are using arithmetic to do all these things? You are not well.
Come, look here. If you just talk anyhow, I'll turn you into a dwarf.
If I deal with you, you'll fizzle out. You will fizzle out, [hiss]
-[Wale] Hey! -Are you insulting me?
[in pidgin] What's all this that you are doing?
[in pidgin] What's all this noise you're making, shouting like cows?
[in pidgin] All these things you're doing will complicate things oh!
[in pidgin] Man, look, I've told you before
-that I don't want this hard way... -Shh!
-to escape.
[in pidgin] What!
Look, I just want us to leave this place. I'm tired of digging.
Is there any time you are not tired?
[Rambo] Guy, what's wrong with you? I'll deal with you!
The cholesterol in your system is what's making you tired.
If you had sense you would have added a little weight.
-What is wrong with you? -And you with the extra weight,
-do you have any sense? -Guy, I will reduce you!
-See, if I... if I... -Ahn ahn.
Poison. Rambo.
[in pidgin] Do you want to die young?
See, any of you that thinks he can use his reggae
to disturb my blues, I swear to God, I'll kill him here.
If you don't want to go home, I want to go home.
The plan is to dig this tunnel,
reach outside of this prison wall, and we escape.
And we will do it intelligently so that
when the warders come, they will know that
we are very intelligent. Now, what's all this noise? Are you both mad?
Hey Deputy, I hail!
I've heard you.
But listen to me please and don't get upset.
I'm tired of digging. It's my right, it's my strength.
I'm tired of digging.
I don't want to suffer to escape anymore.
See, this thing is not hard now.
See, from this point, eh,
to that other point we are looking at
is like ten meters away before we burst out of the fence.
Can you hear how you are saying it?
Er, ten meters.
Anyone listening to you will think we just dig a little and
we'll reach the free world. Ehn?
When we started digging this thing,
how many weeks did you say it will take us to dig?
How many weeks have we been digging for now?
Ehn? Wasn't it three weeks you said we will dig for before we escape?
Look, we can be here digging for the next six months.
[in pidgin] We could keep on digging for six months!
[Hammer in pidgin] Please.
I don't want noise here again.
Samuel Okon,
it's true Rambo is senseless.
We all know he is senseless.
Everything he needs to use to have some sense, he's used to get fat.
But you are making sense now.
Guy.
-What's happening? -Deputy.
See.
[in pidgin] I understand what you are saying.
But this level has gone as planned.
Where we are coming from...
is far.
Where we are going is just very close.
Deputy. You see this angle that we are looking at?
The soil there is soft.
Samuel Okon.
[in pidgin] Are you sure this guy knows what he is doing?
How many of you have noticed that even this tunnel
has two branches?
A normal tunnel is supposed to have one branch.
If you want to dig, keep digging away.
As for me,
I'm not digging anymore. I'm tired. I'm going to the room.
Whatever is going happen can happen. If you...
Deputy, do anything and I will report. Nothing. I'm not scared of you!
-[Hammer] Listen up, everyone. -Deputy.
Look, Samuel Okon,
[in pidgin] I will ask you
and I want you to tell all of us
that are here.
How many days
are left for us
to dig to the outside of this prison wall
and escape?
-Maybe like-- -No!
[in pidgin] Maybe like what?
Be precise.
[in pidgin] What do you mean, "maybe like what"?
You see we're the ones suffering to dig.
Be precise. Let us know.
Guy, be clear.
Two days.
[in Yoruba] That is confirmed.
[in pidgin] So, you mean in two days' time, we are leaving here?
Two days.
[Wale] We will leave here.
We will go. We will just be free.
-We will break free, eh? -Everybody.
We will need to put our hands together
-to do this thing. -Okay, okay.
Look, Samuel Okon.
You know me.
But you don't know me.
[in pidgin] If it's not as you said it,
look at this tunnel that we've dug very well.
Me, Hammer,
I will make sure personally that we kill you here.
Then bury you here.
For misleading us.
Do well.
Two days.
Alright, guys, back to work.
Let's go. Alright, dig!
-Move it, move it! -Dig!
[Hammer] Quickly!
[deputy head warder] Today,
you will be cleaning up the home
of the Chief Judge.
You will be cutting grass.
You will mop and wash the floor.
And you will even be painting part of the place.
Those of you selected for this assignment are boys
whose prison term will soon come to an end.
If individually or collectively,
you decide to mess up
by doing something stupid like
thinking of running away...
Huh!
I will personally
mess you up.
So use your heads.
Let your heads be correct.
This bus will take you and bring you back here by five o' clock in the evening.
[in pidgin] Alright, alright,
file into the bus.
Hey, hey!
Triple one zero, come here.
[portentous music plays]
You.
All those unreasonable privileges
that HW is giving you in this place
will one day mess him up!
Mark my words.
I personally had to stop that nonsense
your mother was doing here,
bringing food three times a day.Every day!
And I heard that she even made you
designers prison uniform.
I heard you have about ten pieces.
Huh?
When the government code say it's the government
that should provide uniforms for the inmates
and the warders in the prison!
Now you look like somebody that should be on the covers
of Vogue magazine,
GQ magazine,
Genevieve magazine.
What rubbish!
Your mother must be really jobless.
Your prison sentence came with hard labor
And you haven't done any labor since you got into this place
because of the privilege your mother has in this place.
All those nonsense must stop today.
You will go out there
and fulfill the terms of your prison sentence.
And if any of the accompanying warders
return to this place to tell me that you were lazy,
or you tried to mess up,
[mimics laughter] boy,
I will personally make sure that your life is miserable in this place.
Now, get out and get into that bus and get out of here!
♪ [Olorun Maje by D'banj playing] ♪
So... Antar.
Why do like challenging me in this place?
I am not challenging you, sir!
I am just not comfortable
with warders who should be busy doing something else
have now so much time
to be giving a Youth Corper
paramilitary training.
Antar,
if they are not doing their responsibilities,
you just urge them on and everybody is happy.
That's exactly what I did
before they came to report me to you. Sir!
Okay.
You need to lighten up.
You're too stuck up and tight up.
It is not...
See, see, let me tell you... wait slow down.
I have a feeling that
you are on a war path with me.
Even your subordinates.
I am not on any war path with anybody here, sir!
Just that we have all taken and sworn an oath
to the federal government
to discharge our duties without fear or favor.
I am just trying to be faithful to that oath.
The way you are going about this thing,
it looks like there's no life after this work.
Ahn ahn.
Sir.
Our concentration should be life on the job.
I will let posterity...
take care of the life after now.
An-tar!
Ah... wow!
Oh!
This man!
Be quick now.
[in pidgin] We will be late for dinner at base.
Mister.
[mechanic in pidgin] Please cool down.
I don't know why the vehicle won't start.
Ehn? I have changed kick starter three times.
The car still won't start.
Cool down, you hear, cool down.
[in pidgin] Mister, call a taxi so that we can go.
That is against the prison rules.
How many taxis will we call that will
accommodate all of you and us?
We can call three!
And which warder will sit in the two taxis?
See nobody needs to be with us.
And moreover we can't run away.
There must be a warder present with prisoners at all times.
It's the prison rule.
[in pidgin] What are you saying, mister?
When something happens, aren't you supposed to find a solution?
We will stay here til this vehicle is fixed.
-Ah! -Or someone comes to pick us up.
Tsk.
[in pidgin] I don't understand what's happening anymore, Capone.
Ah ah.
It's already past 11:00 p.m.
-I'm tired. -Samuel Okon, we haven't seen.
Or maybe...
are you sure they haven't released this boy
and he forgot to come and tell us bye-bye.
-Ah. -Release who?
-Samuel Okon. -In Jesus' name,
may God never allow them to release him.
-Amen! -[in Yoruba] It is a law.
Instead of them to release Samuel Okon,
we will all die inside this
-maximum prison. -Amen.
-That's true! -Release who!
Someone will just come in here to deceive us
with gadgets then leave us in the middle of the project?
-No, no, that's not going to happen. -Hey, hey, Hammer.
That boy is not like that.
I'm sure something happened.
Look, em, Capone.
Chairman. Due respect.
We're the ones who dug the tunnel to the level it is right now.
We can't abandon it now.
Let's go and continue the digging, finish the entire thing
and leave this place. I'm tired!
See, let me tell you something.
We don't know where we are digging towards.
So I will suggest that we wait till tomorrow and
see the boy first.
So, if Okon is not here now, we will just abandon the project, eh?
Something we've been digging for so long we'll just...?
God won't agree with that. God won't agree with you.
We are digging it!
This one, we are digging to the end!
See, it's only that boy that knows how to use the gadget.
Capone, forget about the gadget. Ah.
Who did the gadget help?
In Warri where I come from, gadgets fear man.
Is it not the brain that was used to assemble the gadget?
Have you all forgotten we are supposed to leave here tonight?
I beg you in the name of God.
[Capone] See, let me tell you something.
I'm not so sure that the boy is even sure we are leaving tonight.
-Eh! -[warder in pidgin] Who's that?
-[warder in pidgin] Are you mad? -We are finished.
We are all finished.
[in pidgin] Even the boy is not sure of the mission.
How are we following a blind man? Blind leading the blind.
-We are finished. -We must push this bus
to the prison yard this night!
Boss,
[in pidgin] the prison is far.
It's seven kilometers from here.
Will you shut up!
Okay, okay!
My house is not far from here.
We will push the bus to my house
where we will all pass the night.
[prisoners whispering] Mister man. Ah!
Capone, ah.
[in pidgin] Capone, we can't wait.
Ah. We can't wait.
You know it's life imprisonment I have here.
This is the one opportunity I have to escape.
Leave once!
Whether Okon is here or not,
Capone we will leave here.
We will dig this place today. Today, now even.
Aro, hold it.
Maximum respect, Capone. Can I ask you a question?
What if Okon is dead?
[Poison] Or if he has been transferred and we weren't told.
This is how we will all be waiting?
-What's special about what the boy does? -Kai!
-Holding an ordinary gadget? -[prisoner gasps]
[Poison] We're the ones doing the digging.
-[prisoners gasp] -We're the ones using our muscles to dig.
The guy just carries the gadget and...
Baba, let us go and dig. I'm tired. Hmm.
You don't even know where you are digging to.
We could go and dig now and hit something else.
Burst out somewhere else and get caught.
If they are going to catch me, let them catch me.
I don't have anything to lose in this life.
-Ahn ahn. -Look, ehn...
we are here talking. I said let's go and dig and we're here.
This is how we will be talking til day break.
That's what I told you people from the beginning.
Being the Rambo I am, you should have let me import guns.
Import bullets and I will tear this place down
so we can escape from this place but you didn't agree.
My friend, come on keep quiet.
Seems like it's the Rambo they call you that's fooling you.
You have all the guns and you are still in a maximum prison.
Why didn't you use the guns to defend yourself?
-I was shooting when I got arrested. -Shh!
-I don't know what kind of-- -Shh!
[clears throat] Get them up.
-Tiny, how far? -Tiny, move it.
Alright, alright.
-[door squeaks open] -[prisoner] Come out of here.
I'm so tired.
Oh boy.
Yeh!
Oh boy!
Jesus Lord.
[in pidgin] What's this?
Chai.
Look at levels.
Hey!
Kai!
I salute!
[laughs]
-You are too great. -Hammer time.
Oh boy.
Ahn ahn.
-God damn. -[in Arabic] Oh my God!
What?
Even in Kuje prison we dared not have tried this.
Kai, man you tried!
Jato!
Gogo. Banju.
Which patrol? What's the meaning of this?
Ehn?
See, so you guys have been planning how to escape since.
You didn't bother to tell the rest of us right?
Shh.
See, let me just tell you ehn,
we are all escaping together.
-[Banju] Tell him. -Life will not be good for everybody that
attended your naming ceremony.
-Amen. Baba don't curse again. -[Hammer] Ehn?
Me!
Me, Hammer!
[in pidgin] You open your mouth to talk to me like that?
A trailer passed and I didn't see it,
talk less of the driver inside it.
So if Hammer is thinking about escaping.
you too are thinking about escaping?
How many years have you spent in prison?
[in pidgin] Forget about all that stuff you are saying.
If you say that stuff I'm not going to be happy with you. See...
-Shh! -Do we look like kids to you?
-[Banju] Tell him. -Oh!
[in pidgin] So we should be looking at you with our naked eyes
as you escape from this prison.
You will break out of prison
and we will be here like we've been cursed. Right?
What have you seen now that your eyes want to jump out of their sockets?
Your muscles and veins are bulging like you want to die before death.
What's working you up?
We haven't even broken through to see where we are going.
You want to kill yourself before death arrives.
-Poison. -[in pidgin] Baba, please let me vent.
If you repeat what you just said,
-I will put you in their category. -I will rather be here.
-What is up with you? -Don't vex.
Where do they know we are going that they want to follow us?
You have forgotten that escorting was how slave trade started.
That's true. When they locked their lips with padlocks
and took them overseas. Baba, I didn't forget any of that.
So if I was reasoning...
hey, I've killed somebody.
Let me...!
Baba don't be upset.
You guys should leave him alone. See,
all that noise he's making is just bragging.
Poison, let me just tell you, don't talk foolishly.
See, it's poison that will kill your father,
kill your mother, kill everyone in your family.
-It will kill you too, kill all of us. -You are crazy.
Your shouting will get all of us killed. Just cool down there.
All this noise is not going to work.
If you make noise again here, ehn?
The boss at the top will hear about this.
[whispering]
How did that happen?
How am I supposed to know?
I don't know. I don't know!
The only thing I know is that
they know about everything
that we planned.
And from the way they sound,
my Capone, the way they sound,
those guys can spoil things.
But here's the good news.
I beg you, Capone.
With your permission.
I will go back inside that tunnel
to go and kill all of them
then use the sand from the tunnel to cover their bodies.
Then continue with the digging.
Just give me your permission.
[in Yoruba] Boss,
aren't your boys going to give us water with this food?
Will you shut up!
I can't risk you useless boys
pissing on the floor of my boys' quarters.
What's going on here?
No, we are just praising you.
[giggling nervously] Capone, eh!
Capone the Capone.
[in Hausa] I hail you, sir.
[in Hausa] I salute you.
See, pop, let me make it clear for you.
You see your gray hair?
-It's wisdom. -Hmm.
The great one!
-Correct wisdom. -Wisdom.
We overheard you guys' discussion this evening.
Ahn ahn.
It's not fair now, Capone.
We too are also supposed to be part of this great plan.
Because those of us on the same zone
are supposed to participate in the matter.
Because those ones you want to sideline,
ehn, will begin to open their mouth
and start talking.
Start to talk around the boss at the top.
Before you know, Boss Antar will start to sniff around,
calling us to the side to ask questions.
And you know what can happen.
Mouths will start to open.
I will blow the whistle.
-I will blow it! -What did you say?
I said I will hold the whistle.
Seems like something is wrong with you.
Wait.
Are you threatening me?
Boss, it's not a threat.
Capone!
You know now.
We all in Zone 3 are one great family.
And families are supposed to run together.
Check it now.
We that are not condemned criminals
that still have a future--
Shut up there!
Now listen.
And listen very well because I won't say this twice.
Can you hear me?
If I hear...
No, that's a mistake.
If the breeze blows
and I start to feel like
one of you here
is thinking
about talking
and goes on to ruin this
great escape we are making under this tunnel,
I will snap the person's neck.
Did you hear what I just said?
Capone, it's not that bad.
No need to snap anybody's neck.
Because there's nobody that dares to ruin this...
-this great escape. -[inaudible argument]
Shut up there!
Can you hear me?
If I hear...
Like I said, if the breeze alone blows,
and I start to think
that one of you is thinking,
not as if you've said it,
but you are thinking about talking...
What did I say I was going to do to the person?
Oh good.
Your senses are still working, right?
I will just bury you here and cover you with sand.
Hammer.
Let's leave them.
Let them work too.
That means more hands for the digging.
Remember what I said.
Don't let it go past that.
And you know I don't like to talk.
Don't make me come back here.
-Capone! -Capone!
Capone has spoken.
Cool down.
And you know we have to dig this tunnel tonight.
Look how everything is now.
Ehn!
Before those three crazy men came to join us,
disrupting everywhere.
Cool down, cool down.
Those crazy boys!
-Wait, who are you calling crazy boys? -Yes, the crazy knows himself.
-Who are you calling a crazy person? -You are the crazy boy!
-He didn't mean that. -Is it your joke? I mean it!
Help me hold this thing in case someone wants to die.
-Are you mad? -You are crazy.
-Take this thing please. -Wait.
Hold him for me, Poison! Don't mind him.
Did you kiss some crazy?
-You hugged her. -I hugged some crazy.
I will beat you and your father that is not here.
Today.
[in Yoruba] It has been decreed.
It's going to be like it was from a plane crash
-That's it. -that you came out from.
-[in Yoruba] It has been decreed. -Bantu, can you hear him?
Your father.
-Forget about your juju. -It does not matter.
-Mine is Egbesu. -Please!
Show him. Show him today!
And somebody will die.
When I beat people, it's me that gets injured.
Yah! Yah!
-You're the one who gets hurt, right? -Don't let him overpower you.
Aro! Aro! Forward gear!
-[screaming, grunting] -You're mad.
But what kind of thing is this?
Why did Capone involve the new team in this digging?
With their bad luck.
I cover my digging with the blood of Jesus.
I cover this escape with the blood of Jesus.
God, let people know that you're God.
If it's possible, allow only me to escape
so that they can know that you exist.
Let me escape.
Give it to him! Kill him!
-Ah! -Yeh! Give it to him!
That's it!
Cut him back!
Eh!
He's bending now! He's bending you!
[grunting]
-Don't let him overpower you! -What are you saying?
-Ah! -[grunting]
[in Yoruba] Boss, please!
Ah!
Hey!
[in pidgin, Hausa] He punches him! He kicks him!
[in pidgin] Lifts up!
He shows him to God!
He's hitting him in the air.
It's double trouble!
What's that?
Hey!
Oh boy!
OC rugged.
This is the women cell.
Oh!
Hey!
The lord has done a good thing in my life. [chuckles]
-Hey! -I've reached my escape point.
I'm not going anywhere again.
-Banju. -Ehn?
See how fine this place is.
Hey, is this a cell?
I will be right back.
[panting]
[coughing]
What's all this now?
What's all this?
I told you to compose yourselves.
See what you all have made happen.
What's this now?
I warned you to compose yourself.
You didn't. What's all this?
What am I going to tell Capone now?
Hey, shh!
-[woman 1 squeals] -Hey, shh!
-Hey, hey! -[woman 2 squeals]
Listen.
Just listen.
Listen very well.
Ehen, see...
We didn't come here to harm anybody.
Ehn?
So just cooperate.
If you go and do anyhow and make your shouting...
shouting to spoil our runs,
I will strangle you!
Are you listening to me?
[in American accent] What... what's happening here?
Are we dead?
-[whimpers] -See, see, see.
You are not dead.
But you could still die, if you don't comport yourselves.
Okay?
Don't be angry, it's just a small accident that just happened.
An accident in our cell?
What!
Who are you people?
-Please, please don't harm us. -Please!
Please, I beg you. Don't... don't kill me.
You can kidnap me, okay.
But don't harm me.
My father will give you any amount you want.
My father has money.
He has... he has money.
Stop shaking.
The other one looks like a turkey.
-Today's one. [chewing noise] -[laughs]
-Alright...
don't come to my side. Be on this side.
Not my interest. I love light-skinned things.
-Ehn, that's good. -Ehn, no problem.
Let's just play with them so their mind won't be racing too fast.
Hmm hmm, good idea.
[both clear throat]
Er... [both chuckle]
Er, so...
OC rugged, that's not what she's asking.
What she's asking is that...
who are we?
So let us introduce ourselves.
I want to introduce myself to this fine girl.
Did he say he was deaf? Did he say that he can't hear?
No I'm deaf and dumb now.
Tell me what they said.
See, see.
We know that you people are [in Yoruba] prisoners like us.
-Ehen! -We have seen your uniform.
-So... [chuckles] -[Rambo chuckles]
You know, we are all the same.
We are... you understand. [laughs]
So now that we have come to... an understanding.
[hesitates] Please, what...
In the name of God,
-what do you want? -Hey girls.
Please, ehn, just relax your nerves.
We are not here to harm you.
We are just passing by.
What? No!
We are escaping!
[speaking Chinese gibberish]
-Yeah! -Escaping?
Babe, we are leaving. We are clearing out.
We are leaving here.
We can go and continue outside. Where we can enjoy ourselves better.
You know, any level. Let me just, er...
control it. I will do it. I swear down.
You know because I, too, am brave.
[chuckles] I'm quite adventurous. I'm very...
-Strong. -[gasps]
-Aliyah, what happened? -It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine.
I just woke up and I was...
in... I was in... [laughs] my bed fell down! [laughs]
-Oh my goodness! -But it is fine. I just thought that...
But I'm good. Okay.
These guys, these ones...
they are from the men prison.
And...
And they are on an escape mission.
And they're willing to take us if we want to tag along.
-Escape? -[Aliyah excitedly] Yes!
Wait hold on. You mean like a...
-prison break? -Exactly, like prison break.
Girls, girls.
Please. Let's not get involved with these men.
You know the crazy penalty involved in escaping.
They have warned us again and again.
Oh please, Sister Christie!
Listen, listen everybody.
Listen.
This is my cell so everybody will flow with whatever I want.
You've enjoyed the comfort of...
my father,
having to spend his money and influence
in getting the prison authorities to rig this place for me.
Okay?
Now my idea of...
comfort and luxury has nothing to do with these four walls.
But these guys have come up with a great idea
on how to get us all out of here.
So nobody!
Should ruin it for me. Please!
-Hmm hmm. -Exactly.
I will defeat you in this game!
-Come on! -Now, get him.
-[Poison in Yoruba] It's a law. -[woman 1 laughs]
-[woman 2] Hmm. [chuckles] -[Rambo laughs]
[woman 2 giggles]
Capone! Ah!
[in pidgin] You shouldn't have allowed them do this thing now,
when I wasn't around.
But did you tell anybody where you were going?
Capone I couldn't tell anybody where I was going.
You know, when that warder came to take us,
he said we were going to some judge's place
to do something there that I didn't understand.
Now we know.
Yesterday nobody knew anything.
Ehn, all through the night nobody saw you.
And the boys, they started to panic.
They didn't want all of their efforts to go in vain.
So they had to go dig the tunnel.
Capone. Hmm. Tsk.
I hope they haven't spoiled all our plans for us?
I hope they knew how to do this thing well
because there's a way to go about digging this thing.
Tsk!
I'm warning you.
Banju!
What are you doing here?
What am I doing here?
What are you too doing here?
Ehn?
Aren't we all supposed to be outside training?
Ehn?
[laughing teasingly]
You are making your face like someone who is caught
stealing chicken in the pot.
I want to steal chicken from the pot.
[laughs]
Me too, ehn.
I want to go and steal that chicken too.
Eh, let's do it quickly before those hungry lions find us here.
[upbeat music playing]
What's this place?
It's a special cell in the female prison.
You broke into the female prison and nobody mentions this to me!
Because it's not that important.
Are the female prisoners the matter?
They don't matter at all.
It's the tunnel that is important in this thing.
That's why we didn't mention it.
Hmm. Hmm. Tsk.
I don't want you to feel bad like...
people don't appreciate you.
As we were digging yesterday,
I don't know the devil that came and entered Gogo
and Aro's head.
They started fighting.
Then suddenly we heard the noise.
Before we knew it we found ourselves inside female prison.
What were you all looking for?
What kind of fighting were you doing? Which fight?
See, if you want to get upset, still reserve it.
Because there are still one or two things I want to tell you.
Look, Samuel Okon,
the situation as it is now...
You see these girls?
They are now part of the prison break.
-Hmm? -They now know the escape plan.
In order for them to not start talking,
telling people we are trying to escape. You understand?
We just have to bring them into this escape plan. The prison break.
Or what do you feel?
[upbeat music continues playing]
[music stops] Ah!
What's happening now?
Ah.
Who's this?
[in British accent] Why have you just shut the music out of our lives.
Sorry eh.
Sorry.
[in pidgin] What's all this?
Hmm? This is not what brought us here.
[in pidgin] That's the one that started the tunnel.
Please let's go back and continue our digging. Please!
Aw!
[in British accent] Look at you. So, so cute. So adorable.
Where were you when King Banju was sweeping me off my feet?
-Hmm? -Okon.
[laughs] See.
You... you and your...
grave diggers. You people can go and be digging.
Me,
I am going to be here
forever
and ever,
-and ever. -Banju, are you mental?
Amen!
Did you smoke marijuana?
This is not about smoking anything.
See.
I have not enjoyed like this
since I came to this stupid men's prison.
Ahn ahn.
What's happening.
You see that girl?
You see that girl.
Her father is a big man.
Big man!
He has so much money.
See.
Let me tell you, her father is the friend of the vice president.
-Yeah, my dad too. -Ehen?
The man has influence.
So much influence. His friends have influence.
Let me tell you, this girl, it's cultism that got her here.
If not for the president that didn't let the issue to die down,
you think she would be here with you?
No. Don't be doing like that.
See.
Her father used the influence
of his friends and everybody to get clearance
to refurbish this whole female prison.
That's why they did everything. Two generators.
Not "I pass my neighbor" generator, rather "I pass my neighborhood."
See, this place...
Sound proof.
Inside this corner.
Jacuzzi.
Ehen?
-There's a Jacuzzi here? -Yes, now. There's a Jacuzzi here.
When we finish here,
me and my Queen Samira, we'll go and bathe in the Jacuzzi. Ehn?
-[chuckles] -Oh baby.
-[chuckles] -Me and you are going to
-bathe in the Jacuzzi. -Mm hmm.
Ehen now.
Sister Christie.
Oh baby. [chuckles]
I don't mind that you massage my soul.
I bind that demon speaking through you in the name of Jesus.
The demon is in my waist. You understand.
I don't mind if you use massage to bind it for me.
-You know-- -You all should stop this rubbish now!
[Hammer] What's the reason for all this?
Are you all crazy?
I've closed my eyes now. Before I open it,
let's leave this place. Now!
To go where?
Where are we going? Are we going to dig your grave?
See. See women everywhere.
Everybody is enjoying.
And then you want us to go somewhere else?
I'm staying here.
If they like let them come and catch me here.
-Please relax, baby. -[in Efik accent] Ariya.
If you want to escape from inside this prison,
tell your friends...
tell them to follow you.
Let all the boys here. Everybody!
Go back to digging!
Aw.
You are such a cute, cute, cute lovable guy.
Are you listening?
Let's go! Let's go and continue digging now.
Oh, where are we going to?
The tunnel is not complete.
See, if we don't finish this digging tonight.
It's a problem. It's trouble for us.
[woman 2 laughs] You
are so, so cute.
And yeah, I am definitely,
definitely,
going to make this one my king.
[laughs]
Okon.
Be very careful of yourself oh.
Is that your name?
Okon. Or sweetheart.
We're gonna change that
-to a new sexy name. Okay? -[Hammer splutters]
See, all of you know me. I will lose it here now.
You want me to kill someone. Open someone's head up!
I say let's leave here. Are you all mad?
-Oh you, stop yelling! -As in...
Stop being such a big bully.
It won't... it won't be good for the person...
-[squeaks] -Are you mad?
-Hammer! -Is it me you're calling what?
I will break this hammer on your head!
-Hammer, are you mad? -[Wale] She's a woman.
Look at me behind you! Here I am.
-Sorry. -Are you mad?
Ahn ahn!
What's all that about?
You're just shouting
at my queen.
[in British accent] Oh no, you got to note this yeah, Tarzan,
I got a new king now.
Okay? Yeah, so you get out of my bed,
leave the room,
and yeah I'm gonna name my new king,
my knight in shiny armor.
Okon, so you've stolen my wife right?
You've stolen... In short, the two of you...
The two of you are crazy! God will punish the two of you.
Look, Banju, I don't like this thing that you're doing.
-I don't like it. Comport yourself now. -Hammer don't tell me that!
Don't tell me that again.
You are here when my wife was taken.
You didn't say anything.
Now I want to talk, you say I'm talking nonsense.
Come on, let's leave this place. Are you crazy?
Look, you are not bossing me tonight. No way!
I'm telling you. You can't do that.
I've told your brother. You are not bossing me tonight.
-Ahn ahn. -I didn't hear you!
-I'm telling you that-- [slap sounds] -[women squeal, gasp]
[alarmed chatter]
Oh, he knocked out Tarzan!
Hold this chicken for me. Hammer,
You! You!
Turn back from there! What's up with you!?
-Come, I will chop off your nose. -Hey, shut up there!
God will help me destroy your joy!
-I said I will chop off your nose. -God will help me destroy your happiness!
What's working you up? I will bite off your tongue!
What's working you up?
-You guys should calm down. -What's wrong with you!?
-Calm down now. -No, I won't calm down!
-What's wrong with you? -What's all this?
[glass shatters]
[Wale] These men of Zone 3,
These guys belong more in a psychiatric hospital.
Quite a mad lot!
-[Christie praying] Fire! Fire! Fire! -[Aro praying in Yoruba] Amen! Amen!
-Fire! Fire! -[in Yoruba] Amen! Amen!
Goliath will kill David in this yard!
It cannot happen!
I said Goliath will kill David!
It cannot happen!
Roll call done!
Inspection will be complete soon.
[metal door clanging open]
You.
-Me? -Yes, you!
What is your problem?
Sir, if we start to talk about this problem,
you will not go home until midnight.
Looks like you are drunk!
Boss Antar he's not drunk.
He has had malaria since last night.
Did I ask you to speak for me?
Or is it you he is talking to?
If I lie...
I die.
If I don't lie,
I die.
Mr. Antar, I'm not drunk.
You can smell my mouth. Ah.
I'm just sad.
My pride has been punctured.
Is that your problem?
Yes sir.
[in pidgin] If we say it...
the ground will be full.
It will shake.
Alright,
tell me.
In front of this congregation?
Sir, no.
I only do confession to one person.
You want to come to my office and tell me then.
[stomping sound]
Yes.
Good.
Now bring Banju with me.
Yes sir.
And get the others to tidy up.
And get started with their day.
-Hmm hmm. -Okay, sir.
If I lie!
I will die!
If I don't lie...
-I will die. -[prisoners singing Yoruba song]
-So, what will we do now? -[prisoners singing Yoruba song]
-It's him that blew the whistle. -[prisoners singing Yoruba song]
[prisoners singing in Yoruba] ♪ He will be well beaten ♪
♪ A weakling setting trap for the strong ♪
♪ He will be well beaten ♪
Now talk.
Is there anything going on in your cell?
Or in the prison that you want us to know of?
Yes sir.
Okay.
I'm all ears.
[in pidgin] If this guy talks...
Tsk.
[in pidgin] If this guy talks!
[in pidgin] I will tear this prison down!
[in pidgin] I will tear it down with serious riot!
[in pidgin] Sir, if I talk, the ground will shake.
Forget shaking, just talk.
Er, sir, can I have er…
Panadol, Alabukun and Sprite
to calm my headache?
I've been having… a headache. It's very... headache.
Since the middle of last night, my whole body…
Look at my mouth. I can't even shout well.
Can you hear me? I can't talk well.
Body pain.
And back pain.
Go get them.
Cold one.
Cold.
Sit down.
I should sit down.
[grunts]
Ehen.
[sighs]
[grunts] Eh.
[in pidgin] Ehn, in the past I would have just
taken the two like that. I'm growing old now. [laughs]
I will take it one by one.
[indistinct chatter]
Leave your bread now. [in pidgin] Why are you hiding the bread?
[in pidgin] Why won't I hide the bread.
-It's because of you. -He's hungry, oh, he's hungry.
Look.
I have work to do today.
Don't waste my time like this.
Mr. Antar, I'm not wasting your time.
This thing that I have to say,
it's very important to the well being of all of us in this place.
Then say it and get it off your chest!
-Yea I will... -[splutters]
-[scuffling sounds] -Boss...
-You want... -Come on!
[in pidgin] Do you want to drink my leftovers?
But I told you that I will only speak…
if I'm alone with you.
Do you want to tell me the number of people that will be with me?
Look, speak and get this nonsense out of the way, please!
[scrapping sounds]
Alright, go.
There's only one person left here with me.
And that's a prison protocol that I can do nothing about.
Okay, sir.
[indistinct chatter]
Sir, I don't want you to be angry.
But once I speak my mind on this thing,
please I will like you to do something about it immediately.
Or else I might not survive another 24 hours in this place.
I give you my word nobody can touch you in this prison.
I should say my mind, right?
Say your mind.
I can even give you special treatment when you have spoken.
Mr. Antar Peters, I believe you!
Ehen. [chuckles] Em.
The matter should have been reported to the top boss Mr. Ogoro,
you know,
but as you have shown candid interest,
I should just tell you, right?
[reaction] So, em…
I can talk freely, right?
Talk freely.
[in pidgin] My boss.
Some people,
they are complaining about the quality of beans they are giving us.
And this, er…
six times… six times a week,
it's too much.
It's too much. And this matter…
it was the top boss they originally wanted to tell about it, Mr. Ogoro,
but you know, it is believed that if they tell you,
you will not tell the boss.
You understand? So now that I have told you.
You, you will give me protection. From those boys.
Because you know… this is not how we...
we planned it.
You understand.
[laughs]
You mean,
it was because of beans
that you have kept me on my toes since morning?
You know that the welfare of the inmates
should be of paramount concern to you.
Ah, Mr. Antar, ahn ahn.
In your cell zone,
you told me that your reputation, your pride had been punctured.
What does that mean?
Hmm. Tsk.
[hisses]
Things are happening in our side.
Can you imagine that stupid boy, eh…
Samuel Okon.
Ehn, that Samuel Okon.
He's now the preferred guy.
How?
Thank you very much that you have asked me how.
Me, Banju,
I'm the draught champion of this prison.
That's how this Okon boy.
Three games, three minutes.
That's how he just beat me like that.
From nowhere he just beat me like that.
Ahn ahn. And, oh, oh, you see?
Even you yourself, if you were in my shoes you will not like it, right.
So you can just imagine how I must have been feeling.
See you are already getting angry.
-And it's not you, it's me. -Banju,
you mean
it was because of beans
and draughts
that you have kept me in suspense since morning.
Mr. Antar,
these things, they are important to us the inmates.
You know,
I just said I should come and…
chill with you and, you know, collect AC. [laughs]
Take this idiot back to his cell.
As a matter of fact,
lock him solitary confinement for two days
for this effrontery!
Ahn ahn, Mr. Peter...
No, don't do like that, ahn ahn.
Mr. Antar, Mr. Antar, see...
People have left this place and they've become presidents.
[chuckles]
Hey!
[in pidgin] Banju is crazy.
Banju
is a crazy man.
[in pidgin] You know my mother's brother's friend in admin?
[in pidgin] He told me when Antar took Banju into his office,
Antar was asking him…
he told him that
[in pidgin] they give us too much beans.
[laughs]
That he cannot beat me in draughts.
[in pidgin] That's when Antar got vexed
and took Banju to solitary confinement.
[laughs]
Meaning...
our digging continues tonight.
[indistinct chatter]
Hey bring down the noise, please.
Please.
It's bloody hot in here. I can't imagine what hell's gonna be like.
Like it's so hot.
If we had known earlier.
Aliyah's father could have got central air conditioner down here.
Hey guys!
[in pidgin] It's all set as I talk to you.
[in pidgin] I've hit it many times,
[in pidgin] no sand is coming off.
[in pidgin] Seems like there's a piece of metal inside here.
[in pidgin] And I suspect it's the foundation pillar of this prison.
Wait first. Wait.
[feet shuffling]
Step back first.
[gadget beeping]
[in pidgin] You see this thing we just discovered?
[in pidgin] This is the pillar of this prison.
Wait.
[in pidgin] If you touch this thing as it is,
that means we want to bring the prison down
and that won't make sense at all.
[gasps of dismay]
[in pidgin] So I will advise. I will advise.
[in pidgin] Hear me out.
[in pidgin] Leave this thing as it is.
[in pidgin] We will be working by the side.
[in pidgin] We will continue the digging from this side. Here.
Because if we touch this pillar like this.
[in pidgin] It will be a problem.
[in pidgin] See what I was saying? This is the devil's handiwork here.
Oh God.
-[in yoruba] The devil got here too. -[Wale laughs]
[in pidgin] All the same, what this gadget is telling me right now...
This thing
[in pidgin] is lined with the fence of this prison.
[in pidgin] So a few yards from here and we will burst out of this prison.
[reaction in pidgin] So don't worry.
Like, I wish we could have an adventure like this,
over and over and over again!
I wouldn't mind staying in jail repeatedly.
Yes, and yes he is so brilliant.
Yes, yes, yes.
My King Okon.
Yes, he is the brilliant hero.
And we are definitely going to have brilliant children.
Hey! Mr. man, take it easy now.
[in pidgin] Hey, sorry boss, don't be angry.
-What is all these nonsense? -Don't be vexed, boss. I will carry it.
-My friend pack those things! -[in pidgin] Boss, I'm packing it.
[Chike singing religious song]
[coughs]
[clears throat]
[Chike singing religious song]
Corper!
Make sure he doesn't read any of these files.
-Ahn ahn. Mr. David, now. -Oh, okay.
[in pidgin] I didn't study in school to that level.
[in pidgin] I can't even read any of these things. Tsk.
[Wale] Yea? Hey.
Wow.
[Wale in pidgin] Let me start from your side.
[Wale singing] ♪ Swing low ♪
♪ Sweet chariot ♪
♪ Abasi is coming to carry me home ♪
♪ Swing low, Mr. David ♪
♪ Swing chariot ♪
STAT SEEN. ARRIVE DESTINATION TONIGHT. NEED FLIGHT FOR STAT. ARRANGE
♪ Abasi is coming to carry me home ♪
[metal doors clanging open]
The boss said you can go.
[singing] ♪ How great Thou art ♪
♪ How great Thou art ♪
We go carefully bring this pillar down.
-[Gogo] Okon, -Hmm?
-you said we should dig around it. -Hmm hmm.
-[in pidgin] We've dug around it. -Yeah.
[in pidgin] Now you want to bring it down.
-You want to collapse the tunnel? -Gogo.
Don't you know it's risky?
[chuckles] Gogo.
[in pidgin] You will need blood tonic when you leave here.
[in pidgin] All this blood you are wasting I don't understand.
[in pidgin] You see this pillar you are underestimating like so?
[in pidgin] That's what will carry us out of this tunnel.
[in pidgin] It's what we will stump on out of here.
[Rambo] Eh?
Okon.
[in pidgin] You mean it is this pillar that we'll stomp on out of here?
[in pidgin] It is.
[in pidgin] Why are we wasting time? Let's destroy it! Bring it down!
-Hope this thing won't fall on our heads! -It won't collapse.
-Look, Okon. -OC Rugged.
[in pidgin] It's a fact we all know that Gogo is senseless.
Always.
But for the first time the guy is talking reasonably.
[reaction] Hmm.
You see, if we remove this pillar
[in pidgin] and the prison crashes on our heads or something blocks
[in pidgin] the tunnel we've been digging for months now,
Okon,
-your story will be "gone too soon." -Surely.
I don't like him. He's such a bully.
Aw, I love bullies.
-[laughs] -Oh, naughty you. Naughty.
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
Ruggedity.
[in pidgin] Don't dull yourself, this thing is not coming down.
We are leaving this prison tonight.
-[in Yoruba] Prisoners! -Yes sir!
-[shouting in Yoruba] Prisoners! -Ruggedity.
[in pidgin] You've heard it from the man himself. Let me tell you now.
[in pidgin] Let me wish you good luck in advance
that we've reached home already.
Now, let's split our line. Let all the girls...
Poison, arrange the girls and get buckets to pour everything.
[in pidgin] Hey, Rambo! Go over to that side.
[in pidgin] Let's all keep the momentum going please.
[upbeat music playing]
[suspense music plays]
[thundering sound]
[cheering]
Okon, Okon, Okon!
[drums beating]
[car alarm beeps]
[in pidgin] We've seen the light, Capone! We've seen the light.
-[in pidgin] Home sweet home! -The tunnel has opened to the outside?
Safe journey!
Journey mercy.
[gasping] God of Samuel Okon!
You see this pillar as it is?
We will all gather and carry it out
from here and put it in the truck outside.
-Okay. -You get it?
So we won't leave any traces at all.
[in pidgin] So we don't leave traces.
-Move it! Move it! -You want to do what?
-[Rambo] What's happening? -[Gogo] Carry the pillar?
Gogo...
[in pidgin] Me, I don't get it!
Do you hear me?
This whole thing is not making sense to me at all.
Where are you taking this thing to?
So…
Wait! Wait!
Okon.
[in pidgin] Is there something we don't know about this pillar?
-Tell us. -Come if you talk!
I swear to God! If you talk again there.
[in pidgin] I will use this helmet to bust you head. Are you mad?
[in pidgin] Gogo, are you crazy?
[in pidgin] Look, let me tell you something you don't know.
[in pidgin] Because you've seen outside doesn't mean you've escaped.
I swear to God if you make me upset now,
[in pidgin] I will return you back to cell and nothing will happen.
[in pidgin] What's your problem anyway?
[in pidgin] Okon said he needs the pillar! Then what's your own problem?
Do you know whether he wants to take it home as souvenir?
So that his family will know he's first to go to prison in their family.
[in pidgin] You are struggling with him over the pillar!
Should we put Maggi, curry and salt for you to eat it?
[in pidgin] Guy, I don't like this! I don't like it at all!
Behave!
[in pidgin] Are we the one escaping or the pillar?
[in pidgin] Aboki, is it me you're...
You're answering question, right? It won't be good for you. Are you mad?
[Aro in pidgin] Leave him.
[in pidgin] Don't you know that if you pursue him,
[in pidgin] he will blow the whistle and Mr. Antar will come here?
[suspense music plays]
[dog barking]
[shouting in Arabic] God is great!
[screams]
[in pidgin] Now help him carry the pillar so that we can leave this place.
[in Yoruba] Now, now!
[screams]
[in Yoruba] Aro is out! Command follows!
Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!
[laughing wildly]
Good job.
Okon.
Capone.
Nice one.
-Capone. -Nice one.
-OC Rugged! -Shh!
[jubilant music playing]
Hello, Dubai.
Pop that champagne!
-[shouts of celebration] -Pop! Pop! Pop that champagne!
Look we are loading the biggest single unit of gold
that the world has ever seen.
Mission accomplished.
Yes! Yes!
[screams]
[suspense music plays]
[in Yoruba] Oh boy,
[vigilante in Yoruba] these are prisoners trying to escape.
[in pidgin] Wait! Lift it up!
Hold it there!
-[in pidgin] See now, there's trouble. -[dog barking]
[in pidgin] Okon, you see now? Me, I'm gone.
[women screaming]
-On your knees! -[gunshot]
[squeals]
What's going on?
Chike!
Chike, what's going on?
If you run, I'll shoot you!
Oh please, don't shoot.
[mournful music]
I need to make my hair after all of this.
I can't believe this.
After everything I did for you and your mother?
You do this?
When you have just two months or so
to complete your prison sentence.
Are you stupid or what?
Sir,
a criminal is a criminal.
I warned.
-Can we get blankets, please. -Will you shut up!
-[gasps] But we are cold. -Shut up!
-Shut up. -Oh.
Rubbish.
-Mr. please-- -Hey, shut up!
-[in pidgin] Let's be fast-- -Hey, shut up!
[in pidgin] My leg is paining me. My body is aching. Let's be fast please.
And you...
that I took like my little brother
and encouraged to learn how to become the biggest or the brightest
in this service.
You decide to go and make prisoners escape.
Sir, there are no little brothers in this job.
All known protocols have been bridged.
And I kept warning.
Now, the people who designed
the guard and admin protocol of this prison service
cannot be idiots.
I warned that this day would come!
Just shut up for a while, please!
Sir, I am not the criminal here.
These are the criminals.
Just shut up, okay?
Oh, sir, well you can shut me up.
But the procedure says that
the zonal commander must be informed at once.
In this kind of situation, the code is… one, nine, two.
Do you see how bad you make me look?
Huh?
And you.
All my acts of generosity to your mother and you,
you throw it back on my face.
Sir, while you are busy…
making criminals understand the gravity of the breach,
maybe I should help you…
in placing that code one, nine, two call to the zonal commander.
[in clean English] May I have a word with you in private, sir.
-Oh my God! -Okon?
I beg your pardon.
I'll like to talk to you, sir.
[exaggerated surprise] What!
And he's even speaking English.
[reaction] Wow!
This boy is a rounded circle criminal!
What effrontery!
And he's even planning to hold hostages already.
I'm already secured in handcuffs and leg chains, sir.
So I can't harm you.
Sir, I hope you're not considering this nonsense request.
Because code 43
says that no single warder
should be left alone with a prisoner, or even more.
There must be security presence.
Sir, it is important that I speak
with you. You and I, alone in this room.
Will you keep quiet! And stop taking advantage of the boss's good nature!
[dramatic gong beats]
Everyone... leave my office.
-Audu. -Sir!
I beg your pardon, sir?
-Lead everyone out of my office. -Yes sir!
I'm so proud of you, my knight in shiny armor.
[in pidgin] Boss, hope you're aware that the shooting of my leg by these vigilante
is an abuse of my human rights.
Tsk. Audu, take everybody out!
[in pidgin] If army officers had shot me, I would understand,
not these silly vigilante.
Tsk. [grunts] Take it easy.
Sir,
this is a complete disregard of code 43.
Antar, get out of my office.
Get out of my office. Now!
[yelling] And you. Step back!
[dramatic drum beats]
If you make a move there, I'll shoot you.
-Boss, no-- -Hey!
I'm not going to do anything, sir. I just wish I could move closer so I can talk.
Speak from where you are. Don't... don't come near me.
See, behave yourself.
Uncle, I do not come from a home of criminals.
In fact, I'm from a very decent family.
But I'm on a critical mission, uncle.
Chike and I.
We are on a mission that is going to bring comfort
into our lives, and many others
that are willing to make this work.
Uncle, we are here to dig out a gold
statue that is worth about a billion dollars
in the gold market. It is an ancestral gold
that dates back
to many centuries of history.
A lot of people have tried to steal it from us.
Even the white explorers. They came, they tried...
during their exploration of West Africa.
To no success.
Uncle, my family
is the traditional custodian of this gold.
And we dug this gold out last night.
I mean, this one billion dollars
worth of pure gold lying at the back of the vehicle we were caught with.
Uncle, please I beg you.
I beg you in the name of God. Please.
Do not let all this effort go to waste, please.
Presently, we're just three ownership in this deal.
Myself, that's one block. Chike, another block.
And our partners in London and Dubai, that's another block.
[sighs]
The cash for this gold is down.
And it's been raised by merchants in London, Hongkong,
Dubai and South Africa, respectively.
Uncle, I'm offering you to be our fourth partner in this deal.
And that's you making
a 250 million dollars
that your children,
your great grandchildren yet unborn would be grateful for.
[suspense music plays]
[Wale grunts]
What do you take me for?
What effrontery!
Audu!
-Sir! -Get in here!
Sir!
Now, you, you... go get me, er...
Get the boys. Get these... the prisoners.
Get them secured in a secure place and lock them down.
-You. -Yes sir!
Go. Wait...wait, get me Chike, that boy, stupid boy. Get him for me.
-Yes sir! -You!
Go and secure the vehicle. We're taking him
and Chike
to the zonal commander for decisive action on all this nonsense you've been doing.
-Do it! -Yes sir!
Sir,
the zonal commander will be in his home and sleeping at this time.
Taking hardened criminals to his home
where his family sleeps, is against the procedure.
That will be taking danger to him in his home.
Antar, I will take responsibility for that.
That is a lot of responsibility outside the code book.
[suspense music plays]
Go. And secure the prisoners. That was the instruction.
It's an order.
Sir, you go against almost all the codes of operation.
Antar, when you become the head warder
you can live all your life by the code book as you want
but for now, you're dismissed. Leave!
Antar, leave now. Leave my office.
Leave my office, Antar!
Come on, guys!
There's a high security breach that has happened at the prison
and the controller is coming here
for a serious high-security meeting
and I want you all to... to leave.
-Are you the only guys here? -Yes sir.
And everywhere is safe, right?
-Yes sir. -Okay, fine.
-You can take the day off. Alright? -Sir?
Take the day off. Well, your guns, please. Thank you.
Fine. Just go.
And then you can come back tomorrow morning.
-Yes sir! -Quick, quick, quick.
Thank you, uncle. I know you're in.
One billion dollars worth of gold.
[suspense music plays]
This is my retirement benefit here.
And it came... from a [in Yoruba] prisoner.
[chuckles] Do you know that part of the national anthem that says
"The labors of our heroes past
-shall never be in vain". -shall never be in vain", uncle.
[chuckles] [in Yoruba] Prisoner.
♪Dey go, dey go, dey go well ♪
[sirens blaring, helicopter blades] [indistinct instructions on loud speaker]
Okay guys. That's my zonal commander.
Just take things easy. Stay where you are. I'll handle him.
-'tion, sir! -Mr. Manuel.
-Yes sir! -What do you think you're doing?
[spluttering] I was on...
just on the way to... to you, sir.
-On this expressway? -Yes sir!
You are a clear ten kilometers out of track of my home or office.
-Mr. Manuel, -Yes sir!
you're skipping town with escaped convicts?
Sir, this pathetic short criminal
deceived him with sharing some gold investments with him.
-[dramatic drum beats] -Oh, you think I didn't hear?
You think I didn't hear when he was telling you about some gold statue?
Some ancestral gold statue from Ilesha.
You think I didn't hear?
Sir, I wonder how a full grown adult like this
can allow himself to be deceived by these small time criminals,
telling him they're going to share some gold investment with him.
I called the boss immediately you left the premises.
I had to let him know
how you have defied all the vital codes in the code book, with your actions.
Let me have your weapon.
Bring it!
Take them away.
-Sir... -Alright, alright, hey!
Sir what? Take him in!
[reporters' indistinct chatter]
WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL MUSUEM LAGOS
[male reporter] In the nation of Yeye,
the unity is community affair...
[reporter] Not so many people from your humble background would
donate a billion dollars worth of anything to the government.
It's just so unreal.
Don't you need money?
[Wale] Well... new things will happen.
[male reporter] It's just unusual that young men like you
spend their NYSC years putting so much effort
to look for antiques. Such monumental ornaments.
[foreign TV presenter] We're going to turn to a story called, "Ten percent happier."
You gave... you gave away a billion dollars
to the government.
It's all for the cause.
[spluttering] Sorry, I just don't get it. Is there something we're missing here?
I am not excited that this was taken from the state of Osun and brought to Lagos.
Certainly, I'm not excited about the donation.
Now, the oil rich states
get 13 percent derivation of whatever resource
is gotten from their state.
Now, we the people of Osun,
we are asking that this belongs to us, either in totality or at the minimum
13 percent of the value,
which has been roughly put at one billion dollars.
With that kind of money, Biodun, I will pay salaries.
What's your family's reaction to this generous act of yours?
-[sobbing] -Well, new things will happen.
Adewale, [sobs] you're a star.
What has this boy done?
So, this is what you were doing,
and you didn't tell anyone.
Ah! I said it.
[in Yoruba] I said it. [in English] I said it...
that my son, my own son
[in Yoruba] my only darling Adewale Esho is never a rogue.
[in Yoruba] I didn't give birth to a thief.
We're going to test this in court
to prove that this belongs to us.
It should be under the control of the Governor.
In fact, it should be situated at the Governor's office.
But Your Excellency, your term is about to come to an end.
God forbid!
Have you not heard about tenure elongation?
[inaudible]
Seriously, I felt like shit. It was so freaking nasty.
-[indistinct chatter] -[TV reporter] Not so many people...
[giggles]
God damn.
[in pidgin] Look at this boy who made us believe we were digging to escape.
So it was gold you used us to dig for.
Samuel Okon,
your generations to come are cursed!
I will wipe out your generation.
That gold is my own.
I don't give any government any gold.
Samuel Okon.
Wait for me.
[in pidgin] I'm coming.
Ah! Doyin!
-Madam. Yes ma. -Bring my phone.
Let me call all my friends in the church.
Let me tell them to switch on their TV and watch the television
to see how my family is making history.
[in Yoruba] Where?
[in Yoruba] They've got a penalty and scored a throw in
[in Yoruba] Boom, boom, boom!
[reporters' indistinct chatter]
[doorbell]
[male reporter] The archeologists from...
You looked good on BBC. [chuckles]
-Papa. -You looked good on local television.
[chuckles] Thank you.
Bad good boys.
Well done.
Thank you, uncle.
[dramatic drum roll]
Hey!
I'm not letting go. This time around.
Oh you people are looking at us, ehn?
So if you ever think…
we will donate one billion dollars worth of gold to any government. Hah!
-[in pidgin] Are we mad? -If I hear...
[in pidgin] If we try it,
[in pidgin] God won't agree.
See.
Let me tell you exactly what happened.
After uncle here, the zonal commander and his team caught us
trying to escape from Ilesha prison,
the whole thing became a big issue.
But!
Each time anyone in the authority sector or the
top shot in the government heard the value of our
ancestral gold statue...
ha! [chuckles]
they instantly fall in line.
Uncle here, is one of them.
And er, my honorable minister for mineral resources, sir.
[laughs] He actually resigned because he feels getting this money here
is better than stealing from the government. Hey!
-Honorable, sir. -Ex.
[laughs] Wow.
And my uncle, Lanre DIG, sir.
Hey. He's a coded man.
And, uh, my uncle of all uncles.
-[head warder in Yoruba] Prisoner. -[in pidgin] Where's the money?
[both laugh]
You see, they are all part of our business plans now.
We're not greedy now, Chike.
-We're not greedy. At all. -Nah.
Because if this is what it takes to make well, then so be it.
So be it!
Kai! Hey!
You see when you have money.
You can negotiate.
So I negotiated for each and everyone that took part…
in the digging out of the gold statue.
And that was done quietly.
[afrobeat music playing]
♪ The gold is here ♪
♪ Celebrate ♪
♪ The gold is here ♪
[Wale] Our gold merchant partners are already back in Dubai.
[excitedly] So they sent a private jet
to fly us to Dubai.
We have arrived at the Big League.
[Chike in Igbo] God is good.
-[in Igbo] God is great! Safe journey. -[Wale laughs]
♪ The gold is here ♪ ♪ My baby, show me your true color ♪
[female laughter]
♪ The gold is here ♪ ♪ My man, show me your true color ♪
♪ The gold is here ♪
[Wale] I'm stepping, [comically] wo-yo, wo-yo..
♪ Celebrate ♪
♪ The gold is here ♪
[Chike] Hello lady, you're looking gorgeous.
Wow.
Hey! Hey! [laughs]
[laughs] Why! Why!
[air traffic chatter]
[Wale] You don't have a right to tell me that, you know.
[laughs]
♪ Celebrate ♪
-[Chike] Thank you. Cheers, my lady. -You're welcome.
-[Wale] Oh my God. -Kai!
♪ Alright, alright, hey ♪
[in Yoruba] How old is he?
I'm older than those boys. I'm as old as their great grandfathers.
So I couldn't be pushing anything with them.
It's simply because you're young in prison.
-That's why you talk. Young in prison. -Me?
Me? Young in prison.
In 1961...
do you know Patrice Lumumba?
when Patrice Lumumba was killed in Congo Kinshasa,
I was in prison in Umuahia.
From there, they took me to Ijebu Ode.
That prison in Igbeba, in Ijebu Ode,
I spent five good years there. Ehn?
After that... in fact, let me tell you.
When General Yakubu Gowon,
when he became the Head of State
and he came to Ijebu Ode
to launch, or to.. to launch that, em,
court, there in Ijebu Ode,
I was in that prison. It was from there they moved me to
Abeokuta, Oke-Igbehin.
I've been in prisons from many parts of West African countries.
From Mali to Ouagadougou. From Ouagadougou,
one time, we created problem in Ouagadougou. We ran to Morocco.
They caught us. I was in prison in Morocco.
Aikolo, Morocco. There's where we eat couscous
Morocco prison. There's where we eat couscous.
Do you know Fouta Djallon mountain?
That's Ouagadougou. I know the place in Ouagadougou.
It painted red color and they have brick walls inside.
-For me, it's back to back. -Really?
I go and come again. And I'm an international prisoner.
Have you been to a prison in the desert before?
There, we bathe in the morning with sand.
Sand. We use sand to bathe ourselves in the morning.
Ehn? You use sand to bathe?
Look, many times, several times, judges would be going round for
amnesty for prisoners and all that,
many times, I'm the one that always helps some prisoners to write their names
because I don't want to leave. When Chief Obafemi Awolowo in 1964,
that was the time they moved some of us experienced...
experienced prisoners to come to Broad Street Prison.
We were serving Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
I have... look, I have been
in prison before analog...
before analog age.
We would... people like us went to prison before analog prison.
So what they're doing now is digital prison. This Ilesha prison.
Where they allow prisoners to move about freely,
and they draw graffiti around the wall.
In our days, if we want to draw anything, we used cow dung.
-Cow dung, to dress the wall. -To dress the wall.
To dress the wall with our hand. In a normal country,
if not because of corruption,
they're supposed to have given people like us awards.
This Nobel laurels that Wole Soyinka took...
How old is Wole Soyinka? What has he done? Write a book?
We drew prison. And they never gave us anything.
It's the corruption of the world that caused it.We're entitled to Nobel laurels.
We'll be back!
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