Episode 3
St James hostel was a three storey ninety rooms capacity hostel adjacent his own hostel Victor’s Court. Almost seventy percent of the occupants were girls and he felt it was an easy picking for him. Moreover he knew girls always had money more than boys and so planned robbing at least thirty rooms. With the money and phones he would get, he felt he would be cashing out at least a hundred thousand naira.
Jones was used to being a one man squad. He preferred doing his things alone. That way his plans and secrets will die with him. So he wasn’t ready to add anyone in his night plans and st James hostel was a hostel he knew to the foundation. He knew all the rooms and the occupants and so had no difficulty marking out his targets.
At exactly 1am, hours later, he sneaked out of his room, scaled the fence and made his way to St James where he easily scaled the back fence, jumped into the hostel, climbed an empty tank and jumped into the first floor. Most of the room doors had no protector which made things way easier for him. Slowly he made his way to the electric control box and took out the light. Without wasting time, he barged into the first room where the frightened occupants jumped up with fear.
Flashing his hand touch, he barked at them to lie down as he ransacked the whole room as fast as possible. When he was done, rushed out of the room, ran to the veranda and fired two shots into the air.
‘’we are more than thirty and we are going to all the hotels around. Nobody should f**k up to avoid being shot’’ he threatened with a loud voice which could be heard in the dead of the night over a kilometer.
Even though by now almost all the students were awake, nobody dared to scream or even come out. But Jones was experienced enough to know that the police had already been notified and he knew it would take them nothing less than thirty minutes to get there and so still had enough time to go through the rooms he had in mind.
One after the other, he robbed the occupants, firing in the air occasionally. Twenty minutes later, he was done. Twenty rooms robbed.
With satisfaction, he scaled the fence, fired three shots , headed into the bush, filled with uncompleted hostel buildings and disappeared into the night.
