Life imprisonment Episode 12

LIFE IMPRISONMENT 12

WRITTEN BY: GRACE OLAYEMI

Mr Emmanuel sank into his seat after receiving a call from the head of the team he sent to stake out at Danger’s house. Danger and his boys were not in sight and the guys wanted to know if they should retreat. He gave them a strict command not to even think of retreating until the team that would take over from them arrived.

He finally understood why the CSP was angry with him and he knew he had to call him back to apologize and explain that they had started working on means to rescue the children. The number of the missing children had been gotten and their parents had been assured not to panic as they would ensure that they bring their children back to them in one piece. The CSP’s call came through to Mr Emmanuel’s phone and he answered immediately.

“Report to my office now!” The CSP barked and the line went dead.

Mr Emmanuel left the station and headed for where the office of the CSP was located. He entered the office and was welcomed by the angry faces of various heads of different arms of the Armed Forces and also people from the secret mission and private agencies. The case with Danger had become a national scandal and they knew that that was their only chance to save their faces from the grievances of the citizens.

“Have you seen this?” The CSP said immediately Mr Emmanuel entered and a video was played on the screen. That was the most devastating and heart-rending video Mr Emmanuel had ever watched. He was shocked, confused, sad and at a point he couldn’t even state how he felt. The video lasted for about six minutes but he felt his eyes budging out and his ears wearing off as though he had been staring at the screen for hours.

“I’m sure you haven’t seen it even though almost every citizen in Nigeria had watched it. You are more incompetent than I thought. No matter what happens even right under your nose, you always seem to be the last to hear of it,” the CSP ranted on and Mr Emmanuel knew he was right and he had every right to call him names and if need be, hang him on a stake. He had failed in his duties and he deserved to be penalized.

“You shall be relieved of your position once this case is solved. We are here to plan on how to save those innocent children before the 48hours ultimatum elapses. We are not going to succumb to cheap blackmail. We are taking down that fool and also rescuing those children.”

“The head of the Intelligent Unit already mapped out a beautiful plan to achieve our aim and all I want him to do now is to read out his plan so we can see if there would be a need to add one or two things to it.”

The head of the Intelligent Unit read out the plan and they all agreed to it. Immediate actions began as a call was placed to the operator of the social media platform which Danger used to post the video. They knew it was against their policy to give out the private information of their users to anyone but because the case was of national importance, they compromised.

The information from the network provider were incoherent and it was discovered that they had opened the account with false details. The next line of action was to trace the location of the IP address used to post the video. Experts were contacted and work began in earnest.

Mr Emmanuel received the news that there was an explosion at Danger’s house and most of the police men sent there died while a few escaped with serious injuries. They were taken to the hospital for treatment and the news travelled like wide fire that Danger’s house had been blown over and many policemen was killed.

“It seemed like the police are now helpless victims of Danger’s craftiness. Who would the citizens turn to for help?” The newscaster said sarcastically and all eyes turned to Mr Emmanuel.

“You didn’t get a warrant for his arrest. What gave you the right to siege his house?” The CSP asked with anger oozing out of his being. Mr Emmanuel could not say a word as he bowed his head in shame.

“We have to prove to them that we are not helpless victims of Danger!” He said and prompted the guys that were working on tracking the location of the IP address to be fast about it.

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Danger checked the time again and he was surprised that they had not heard anything from the government. It was 48hours already and he wondered why they were so complacent and had not even reached out to them at all.

“I know this government care less about her citizens but never have I ever imagined that they would be this unresponsive. Not even a word from them,” he verbalized his frustrations and his guys also knew how he felt. They were tired of staying at the warehouse and needed to go back to the city to refresh themselves.

“I don’t think they are not doing anything at the moment. My instinct tells me that they are probably planning to attack us,” Tiny said.

“That is not possible!”

“They would be risking the lives of these children if they tried anything funny.”

“But this is already one hour past the ultimatum and they’ve not reacted to the video. Even people from other countries have been calling the government out to rescue the children but they have refused to reply.”

“Let’s find out what is going on.”

Danger opened his phone and tried to access his social media platform where he posted the video but it had been closed and he could not access it.

“These people are playing a fast one on us,” he said angrily and showed his guys what had happened.

“What do we do now?” Trouble asked as Danger fumed about.

“Let us carry out our threat,” Danger said angrily.

“Then what do we gain from that?”

“Respect and fear! That is far better than any amount of money. They thought we won’t be able to do anything if they didn’t reply us. Let us surprise them.”

“Check if the video is still there?”

One of the guys checked and discovered that the account they used to upload the video had been removed totally and the video was nowhere to be found.

“Can you see? They are loosing the fear of Danger. Let us bring back that fear.”

They mixed a substance with water and gave it to all the children to drink. He had the pleasure of watching everyone of them breathe their last. After that, they loaded them into sacks and stuck the bus with them. They waited till it was midnight before they drove the bus out of the bush, straight to the government house and dumped the bodies few meters from the gate that lead to the office of the governor of that state.

To be continued…

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