PART 23
“ I AM PRESIDENT MAMUD!”
©️Opeyemi O. Akintunde
Isire heard the door opening…
“ Is this your definition of Love?” She said as Hidoko stepped in
“ Love is protecting someone you care about!”
“ You are not protecting me, you are keeping my daughter and I hostage… I need to go find Sebrena… You promised you will find out what you need to find out about her disappearance but I haven’t heard a word since…”
“ My Private investigators are still on it… Isire , I am sorry for keeping you here… but I can’t let you go back to Mamud!”
“ Why? He is not a beast, he just has anger issues and I have been managing him for years…”
“ Isire, listen I will let you go back to him, if I see that he changes, besides there is a lot of conspiracy against him and I don’t want you caught up in all of that!”
“ What conspiracy?”
“ I heard the political elders want him impeached because he is not dancing to their tunes and these people are not nice…Isire, I think your daughter may have been kidnapped by these political juggernauts…”
Isire’s world came crashing…
“ What do they want?”
“ If Mamud is not careful, he may be assasinated soon. The political elders only used him to get their independence from Iskelon knowing how close he became to the Iskelon government. The plan was for him to seat for 4 years and brush him aside, while they put in their own Man…So this hardness he is showing doesn’t count before this people…!” Hidoko said…
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Yenewa counted her steps to the stream hoping the stranger would still be there…On getting there, she tried smelling if someone was around but all she smelt was fresh dew…
She decided to sit down to relax her tired legs… She heard approaching footsteps… running ruthlessly towards where she was … Fear gripped her heart as she searched for where to hide…
Mamud got to the spot and didn’t see Yenewa…
“ Where are you? Blind girl where are you? I need your soothing palm, my heart feels it’s about to explode… Why was I created with this kind of heart? Why? I can’t withstand evil and yet when I try to destroy evil , I end up doing more evil!”
Yenewa came out of hiding…
She heard the deep pain in the Stranger’s voice… Mamud turned back sharply…
“ You are here!” Mamud ran towards her without thinking and in the process he forgot about the Pit Yenewa warmed him of…..
Arrhggg….
“ Oh my God, what wrong? Did you fall into the pit?” Yenewa said very concerned
“ Yes! Oh my God! How do I get out of here…!” Mamud screamed from below…
“ Be calm… I will figure something out!”
“ Figure something out? You are blind…” Mamud said with irritation and anger in his voice
“ Blind but not stupid…!” Yenewa said, a little pissed at the insult the stranger threw at her.
“ Get out of here and tell someone to bring me out of here… Tell them it is president Mamud!”
Yenewa’s time stopped ticking….
Every thing went on standstill… The air stood still…
“ Who did you just say you are?”
“ You heard me, I am the President of the Federal Republic of Nirato, President Mamud!”
Yenewa stepped back in fear and instant hatred engulfed her soul….
“ Hey! Blind girl where are you going? I know you are overwhelmed at knowing you spoke with the President but get over it and….”
“ Overwhelmed? You must think highly of yourself… Overwhelmed ! No! Rather I am angry, irritated that I ever touched your body, you beast…and Murderer…”
Mamud became immediately quiet, He was shocked she knew anything about his murder of Sowak…
“ It was a mistake… !” Mamud said
“ Killing a young boy like you was a mistake?”
“ A young boy? Blind girl I don’t know what you are talking about?”
“ Fila, back in the Fifth state … Does that ring a bell…!”
“ Fila? You knew him?”
“ He was my brother!”
Yenewa rushed away from the stream running all the way back to her house….
Mamud screamed for her to come back but no one could hear him… He was in a pit in the middle of nowhere…
To be continued….
