PART 12
“ I AM PRESIDENT MAMUD”
©️Opeyemi O.Akintunde
“ 321, 322, 323, 324..” Yenewa stopped abruptly. She could sense something was on her way few footcounts from where she was at the moment. She could smell fresh blood, she could smell a human body…” She knew danger was nearby.
She turned back and started counting backwards so she could get back to Oriel’s house.
“ Hmm… Hmmm…” She heard a low m**n.
“ My Head…!” The Voice sounded like that of a child…
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FEW HOURS EARLIER….
Sebrena had been running for few minutes. She was so happy and fearful at the same time. She couldn’t believe how she was acting like one of the characters in the movies she had watched.
Suddenly she felt it… She knew it was coming… She remembered her mother’s warnings but it seem it was too late for that.
“ Baby breathe slowly, stop jumping around..!”
“ Mum, I want to play like Minaya!”
“ You are not Minaya, and Minaya is not like you! You can’t afford to be out of breath, it will trigger your epileptic seizure.”
“ Mummy, why did God create me with Epilepsy?”
“ I don’t have an answer to that, but God permits certain things in our lives for his Ultimate Glory!”
Sebrena knew her epileptic seizure was coming….It hit her and that was all she knew.
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Yenewa felt the person m*****g must be in danger.
“ God! I want to be a Good Samaritan but please don’t let me regret it.”
Yenewa turned back again and started counting her steps, at 332, her leg hit something…
“ Are you Okay?” Yenewa said
“ No!, My Head hurts and it’s bleeding!”
“ Ok.. sorry… from your voice, I can tell you are a little child. How old are you and what are you doing here all alone?”
Sebrena suddenly realized she was blank. She couldn’t remember a thing or who she was…
“ Hello, are you still there?”
“ I cannot remember anything, my head feels cloudy!”
“ Did you hit your head on something?” Yenewa asked
Sebrena looked around and saw a big stone covered with her blood…
“ I think so, look at my blood!”
“ I can’t see…” Yenewa said with a smile
“ You are blind?”
“ Yes! But I can see with my ears, nose and my hands. Can you place my hands on your head…”
Sebrena put Yenewa hands on her head…
“ Your hair is soaked with blood and your face, even your cloth. Take off your cloth and put on my jacket. I need to take you to Oriel!”
“ Oriel? What is that?”
“ He is like my father but my guardian!”
“ Father!, Do I have a father or a guardian?”
“ I don’t know? I am sure when you rest for the night, you will remember all that happened to you by morning.
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“ What do you mean her body is no more there?” Ashkian asked Agnos in fury…
“ I just got there and can’t find the girl’s body, but her cloth is on the floor. Maybe a wild animal has devoured her”
“ Agnos, you have to find that body or skeleton and bury it. No one must trace her death to us!” Ashkian ended the call.
Mamud was calling Ashkian frantically, but Ashkian didn’t pick as he wanted to get his acts together.
“ Hello Sir, I am sorry I have bad and good news.” Ashkian said
Mamud knew what was coming. He started weeping. No one knew he wept in the corner of his room whenever Life hit him hard. He appeared always strong in public but he always had his crying moments where he questioned the God of his Mother, Minatu.
“ Speak on Ashkian!”
“ The good news is that the girl that was found dead was not Sebrena. The bad news is that Sebrena’s cloth was found in the forest. It is possible someone abducted her and is hoping to get a huge ransome!”
Mamud couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Sebrena wasn’t dead yet!
“ Ashkian, if you can find me my daughter, I promise to stop the closed border policy I wanted to implement!”
Ashkian couldn’t believe his ears, his plan had worked, but the problem was, the girl that was meant to be his bait was dead.
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Mamud had not seen Isire all evening. He decided to go see her in her room to apologize for how he acted earlier and to assure her Sebrena was going to be found.
He found the room half empty.
“ Sowak, Where is my wife and Minaya!” Mamud asked his wife’s head of maids
“ She left and asked me to give you this note!”
Mamud received the note with shaky hands…
“ Mamud, you are one mistake I made in my life. A wise man once said, Living with an angry man is like living with a house set on fire, sooner or later that fire will burn his loved ones down. You have burnt down Sebrena, I won’t stay and watch you burn down Minaya and I. I hope you don’t burn down the country too.!”
To be continued
