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Solanke junction is a very busy place both day and at night where different kinds of trucks, trailers, buses and cars spare parts are sold. There happens to be also a large workshop for automobile repairs, this makes is it to be a centre of attraction to all.
Baba kayode is a popular vulcanizer at the road side along solanke junction. Having spent over twenty years at this popular junction, he happens to be friends with everybody with his popularity, people called him "baba foga" as it was written on the facing board of his shed where he rest during the hot day. He lives in a small remote village very close to the quary with his family of seven. Kayode being the first born, he's parent spent most of their daily earnings on his education and that of his siblings.
Baba kayode being a poor man uses the local method of vulcanizing in patching tyres rather than making use of the mechanized method. He burns fossil fuels to harden the two surfaces that as been well prepared for patch. He often complain of heart pains, inability to breath properly and severe coughs but then he uses locally produced herbal medicine instead of seeking proper medical care.
One day, he got to work as usual then someone came to him with two pairs of deflated tyres for repair. while he was working on it, suddenly he collapsed as a result of heart failure and was rushed to the hospital. When been diagnosed, he was told he has cancer of the lungs due to constant inhale of fumes from fossil fuels not just from his local vulcanizing method but also from the environment where he works. In a space of a month, baba kayode cancer case becomes more critical, later he was transferred to specialized hospital for better treatment but it was too late, he died two days later.
Kayode and his siblings were left to face the horrible reality of not having a Father all because of his ignorance to the effect of such deadly fumes.
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Word counts:- 350
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