
Wura episodes 9-12 recap: “Mum, somebody wants Femi dead"
In Wura episodes 9-12, Femi replies to his mum, “I have choices, oh,” when she berates him for complaining about the job Wura gave him. He isn’t going to work because he doesn’t like the job, but she reminds him no one loves their job. The truth is he can’t appreciate the job because it came freely to him.
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This scene says many things about the boy; he is greedy, lazy and entitled! Wura hates this about him — it disgusts her. She wonders how a sweet and industrious woman like Labake could have birthed such an entitled man. But who is Wura kidding? She and Femi are greedy and entitled people who come for nothing and believe they should own the world; she might not be slothful, but they are cut from similar cloth.
Actions beget consequences, though, and Femi learns you don’t go around fire and expect not to sweat.
The break up
Lolu serves him breakfast, but it wasn’t unexpected. Femi has been behaving weirdly since he started blackmailing Wura. His presence at the mine makes the young Adeleke uncomfortable; he wants PDA despite being aware Lolu isn’t open about his sexuality. Mandy doesn’t stress Lolu like this, she has her issues, but she loves and cares for him less selfishly. He wants to do better by her too.
“I cannot keep lying to Mandy,” he explains. “She loves me, and I love her too. She deserves better, and I need to be better.”
Femi doesn’t accept it. He calls him a coward. “So, you'd rather lie to everyone else about who you truly are?” he queries. Lolu won’t be blackmailed. He knows his family isn’t ready for him to come out and he doesn’t have to live by his sidepiece’s terms and conditions.
Femi is hurt and sulks for days, but like the great Afrobeats fortune teller once remarked, everybody must chop breakfast. It’s his turn.
The burning body
“My house is on fire,” Labake laments to her madam. They were checking out houses. Wura had promised to buy her one, and the list comprises beautiful homes. Labake likes a particular one with a big tree in front of it. She fantasises about drinking tea under the tree and gossiping with her friends. A simple form of enjoyment for a simple woman.

While discussing with Wura, a call comes in. Her current house is burning. They, alongside Lolu, quickly hurry to her place. The fire is intense, and Femi is trapped inside it. The entire village tries to put it out, but the fire is beyond buckets of water.
First, a break-in, now a fire outbreak; somebody clearly wants to harm Labake’s household. Lolu, forever a sweetheart, senses something is wrong. He remembers Femi gave him a letter in case something happened to him. And while he can’t put his finger on what it is, he knows there is trouble.
Tumi is on to something
The opening scene where Wura sets Tumi ablaze indicates the latter will become a thorn in the former’s flesh, so much that she must be eliminated. After all, that’s what Wura does: she kills and destroys.
So far, Tumi has only adored her, but a letter her father left behind shakes her perception of Ms Adeleke. She is leaning more toward her elder brother’s view of her as the devil. According to the letter, Pa Kuti visited Wura before somehow ending up at the river — a fact Wura never mentioned.
Tumi wants to know why. Something big is on the horizon, and she will figure it out. Watch new episodes of Wura on Showmax, Mondays to Thursdays.
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