Episode 3

“Will you two at least keep quiet and think of
how these recent
insurgence can be stopped. You are here
making noise.” Clement said
angrily.
“Sorry sir.” Ngozi apologised while Okoro
mumbled some incoherent
words to himself. This was why She hated him
with passion, his pride and
ego are always getting better of him.
Just then Clement’s phone rang.
“Excuse me please.” He said cutting Burahimo
who was about saying
something short.
The other four police officers couldn’t make
out what was being
discussed on the phone but they knew as
soon as he ends the call,
they’ll catch up with the gist.
“Take it.” Clement threw his car key to Okoro
who caught it mid-air
even though he was caught unawares. He
gave his colleague an askance
look.
“Your attention is urgently needed at the
headquaters. Get the car
and go there at once with Ngozi. Its likely you
get the finger print
results too.” Clement explained.
Clement explained to Okoro who stood up and
made to exit the room
much to Clement’s suprise. Okoro was known
for his inquisitiveness and
questioning ability. He won’t go on an errand
unless he ask certain
questions that has been answered to his
satisfaction.
He unlocked the car and hopped into the
driver seat while Ngozi sat
beside him. He drove out of the Area F
premises.
Five minutes into their journey, Ngozi has
busied herself by burying
her head into her phone doing only God knows
what. While Okoro was
shaking his head to an imaginary music. The
silence that ensued inside
the car is killing and Ngozi was forced to
break the silence when she
couldn’t bear it anymore.
“Am sorry about what happened the other
time.” She said
apologetically.
He smiled to himself, he just achieved his
goal. All his life he has
never said sorry to anyone. Not even his
disciplinarian of a father.
He’ll rather die being punished than say sorry.
Fifty yards away from the headquater’s main
building Okoro matched
the car brakes and it came to a halt.
“What’s this about?” Ngozi asked angrily as
she picked her up phone.
“You don’t see what am seeing.” Okoro
replied.
“Fill me in please.” Ngozi pleaded.
Okoro picked his binocular and looked
towards the police station
building, Six armed men walked into the
building with guns hung on their
shoulders.
“There is fire on the mountain.” Ngozi said as
she opened the door.
“Where to?” He asked.
“Those people inside are in danger. They need
our help, you know
they would be caught unawares.” Ngozi
replied.
Okoro shut the car door forcefully from her
grip and pressed the
central lock which got all the doors locked
firmly.
“What’s this all about?” Ngozi asked.
“You still have a pretty bright future. Don’t get
yourself
killed.” Okoro warned.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
INSIDE THE POLICE STATION
“You guys stay here while I go in to get this
business transacted.”
One of the men who was dressed coporately in
a white t-shirt and a pair
of black jean trouser.
The man walked into the police station and
got the the counter post.
“Good morning. Please am here to see
Sergeant Habeed.” He said to
the constable he met on duty.
The constable picked the intercom and
punched in some numbers.
“You may go in.” The man walked into
Habeeb’s office, an office he
shared with other sergeants like himself.
Few seconds later, the constable at the
counter was hit on the head by
a bullet and he fell down. Every other
policemen in the premises at the
time of the gunshot all trooped out to attack
the unknown gunmen but
while a few got shot and died, few other were
injured and a considerable
amount weren’t hit.
The gentleman who asked after Habeeb took
the emergency exit and
landed behind the station fence where his
colleagues were waiting for
him. Together they all drove away rejoicing.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
“They went this way.” Ngozi who saw the men
drive out of the police station said to Okoro
who ignited the car engine and drove towards
where Ngozi pointed.
Ngozi’s phone rang as the got to the main
road from the utarred road that linked the
police backyard to the main road.
“Hello sir.” Ngozi said to Burahimo.
“The headquater just got attacked. Report here
immediately if you are safe.” Burahimo said.
“We are currently on the trail of thos men as I
speak with you.”
“You and who?” Burahimo asked.
“Okoro.” Ngozi replied.
“With no backup? Get yourselves here in the
next ten minutes.” Burahimo ordered and the
line clicked dead.
“What’s next?” She asked Okoro who was half
listening to her conversation with her boss.
“We’ll get to the end of this one.” He said as
he stepped on the accelerator and the
terrorist’s van came into view from afar off.
–to be continued–

Episode 4

Chief Obi Patrick descended the stairs into the
living room where two
of his business and politics friends were
seated. The two men, Prince
Ogunsakin, a former executive governor of one
of the south-west states
and Andrew Gulak, a three time presidential
aspirant who has lost all
three times at the general election.
“Good morning Chief.” The two men greeted.
“How you doing this bright morning?” Patrick
asked.
“We are good sir.” The two men replied.
“Hope no problems? Why are you here?”
“Sir, we are here concerning the death of
Kingsley.” Gulak said.
Chief Obi Patrick motioned him to keep quiet.
“Lets go into my study where no one will hear
us.” Chief Patrick
said leading the way and his visitors followed
him.
+++++INSIDE THE STUDY+++++
“kingsley remains our only opposition in the
oil and gas sector.
You know how stubborn and adamant he has
been on the latest request we
submitted to him.”
“What request is that?” Gulak asked.
“So you don’t know? We only requested for ten
percent of the oil
revenue budget to finance the party but he
refused. Now he wants a
senatorial ticket and he is almost getting it.”
Chief Patrick explained.
Gulak knew only few of the party’s activities
and policies because he
just decamped from the opposition party when
he discovered he’ll never
win the presidency while in the party. But
joining the ruling party, he
knew he won’t get the presidential ticket but
he has been assured of the
vice presidency. Chief Patrick has promised to
axe the current vice
president few months to the election.
“With Kingsley dead now, who is taking his
place?” Ogunsakin asked.
“According to the news I heard yesterday, his
deputy, one woman from
the east will assume the office temporarily
before the president
nominate a new candidate.” Patrick replied.
“And women from the east are difficult to
control.” Gulak said.
The three men continued to make plans over
the upcoming election.
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Five girls were seated in their room getting
dressed for a birthday
party. The girls, Dayo, Dolapo, Tola, Chioma
and Hadiza are in their
final year in the Lagos state university.
“Hadiza, why are you looking gloomy?” Tola
asked.
“Deoye asked me not to go to that party.”
Hadiza replied.
“Who is Deoye?” Tola asked.
“My boyfriend nau.” Hadiza replied.
“Oh! sorry. I thought you guys have broken
up.”
“Why will he ask you not to go to the party?”
Dayo, a computer
science student asked.
“He said it is dangerous for me.”
“How come he knew that?” Dayo asked.
“He gave no tangible reason.” Hadiza replied.
“Babe, abeg free yourself. Nothing do you.
We’ll all stay together
throughout the party” Chioma, an Igbo girl
studying English said
assuringly.
With these the ladies trooped out of their
apartment and boarded a cab at the bus-stop
that conveyed them to the venue of the party
outside the school.
+++++++AT THE PARTY++++++++
As the party progresses, everyone was having
fun and music was being played by a disc
jockey who is expert at what he does.
“Baby lets talk outside.” A guy said to Hadiza
as they were dancing and she obliged since
they couldn’t hear themselves properly inside
the party.
They went outside and started talking.
Dayo’s phone vibrated, she checked it and
discovered she has a message which reads,
“You persuaded her to go with you bah? I’ll
get you killed.” From Deo.
Dayo knew Deoye was a dreaded cultist in the
school. And messing around with his is as
dangerous as messing with a lion.
She quickly exited the hall and went in search
of Hadiza whom she saw when she left the hall
with a guy. But she met the shocker of her life
when she got outside.
–to be continued–