PART 7
“I AM PRESIDENT MAMUD”
©️Opeyemi O. Akintunde
Mamud and Sebrena got down from the vehicle and walked towards the private garden. Isire had packed some food for them. One of the aides carried the food basket in an attempt to follow them…
“ Hand it over?” Mamud said
“ What ?Sir?” The CSO replied
“ I won’t be needing you all, I want to have a private time with my daughter, Just two hours…” Mamud said
“ Sir!, I am sorry I can not leave you to be alone by yourself!”
“ 321, I appreciate you but I will be fine. I have no enemies, besides Nirato is a safe place. I am the first president after our independence, do you think or know anyone who will want me dead?” Mamud said.
321 shook his head in the negative…
“ Not anyone I know sir!”
“ 321, For almost 2 years, since the transmission from colony to republic, I haven’t had time with my family. Today I want to do a bit of catching up with my daughter.. And I wouldn’t want any distractions.”
“ Ok Mr President … We all will wait outside the garden for you!”
“ Thank you!” Mamud turned to go with his daughter, then his phone rang!
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“ Pick up, please Mr President, I know you don’t have this number, but please pick up” Bereto said pacing up and down.
Bereto had gone back to his phone few minutes after he left initially…
“ I am sorry Father, I left one of my phones behind” Bereto had said
Ashkian suspected foul play but he let it go…
Bereto had gone to his room to playback the recording…
“ 321, I need you to loosen your security protocol, a group of men are coming to Mamud….. No… I don’t plan on killing the first president of Nirato… Exactly, his daughter, I heard they are going on a picnic… That’s why you are my man, you always get what I want before I even stress myself to spell it out!”
Bereto had dropped his phone…
“ Father wants to kill Mamud’s daughter? And they are out on a picnic?” Bereto said loudly…
“How on earth am I going to speak to Mamud… 321, the President’s CSO is in this plan with my father! Can anyone be trusted in Nirato, ugh…” Bereto knew he had to think fast…
He knew his father’s plan was simple, attack Mamud’s heart by killing his daughter. That would weaken him and make him rethink his dedication to the country.
Bereto picked one of his Father’s numerous SIM packs coolvalstories he used in sending anonymous messages. The lines could not be traced to him, as his friend in the Iskelon Goverment who was in charge of the Telecommunication company of Iskelon had given him those UNTRACEABLE Sim packs.
“President Mamud please pick up…!”
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Mamud was about to pick up the call when 321 spoke…
“ Speaking about distractions, I could answer your calls for the next 2 hours!” 321 said smiling. “I always turn off my phones on sunday when I am off duty. Sir, the moments I share with my daughters on those sundays are unforgettable”
“Hmm…Well , Thanks for that!” Mamud handed over his phones to 321. “How old are your daughters?”
“ 10 and 6, Sir!” 321 replied and in the process without Mamud noticing he pressed down the “Shut down” button of Mamud’s phones one after the other.
“You should bring them over some time to come play with Sebrena and Minaya!”
“ They are not in Nirato!”
“ Iskelon?”
“ Yes Sir, Nirato doesn’t have the best educational system for now, but thankfully with you at the helm of affairs, things might change!”
“ Hopefully, that’s if Ashkian gives me the chance!”
“ Ashkian?”
“ Yes! He doesn’t believe in my Closed Border System. I believe if we pump in more resources in our educational system and bring back most of our Iskelon trained Professors to invade the educational system, we will produce a new breed of scholars, engineers, doctors, lawyers who will serve our nation . What has been happening for years is that, the children of Nirato go to Iskelon to study and once they are trained by Iskelon, Iskelon will retain them. employ and exploit them. They pay them good money which is not be up to what they give their Iskelon counterparts, give them Iskelon citizenship and by virtue of that, they stay there forever. 321 is that not us losing out?. 321, ,you know I worked in the house of the Iskelon President as a cleaner for 4 years , the things I found out is what fuels my passion for Niratonians.
321, Niratorians are endowed, but Nirato is not benefiting from that endowment, rather we are given mirrors in exchange of food and drinks like our fore fathers….”
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“ Switched Off….” Bereto felt like pulling Down the whole building. The 3 phone numbers of the president was switched off…
“ Who else can I call?” Bereto kept asking himself…
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“ Approaching target….” Agnos said as they drove close to the private elite garden. “All arms ready?”
“All arms ready!”
To be continued
