LIFE IMPRISONMENT 6
WRITTEN BY: GRACE OLAYEMI
The past few weeks had been hectic and busy for Mr Emmanuel and the entire Force. Seven men from the Intelligent Unit were sent to the station and they had been working together with the other policemen to apprehend Danger. They strategized, did a lot of stake-outs in order to get a clue on where Danger lived and what he looked like. They checked the possibility of the vicinity where he could be living through the previous records of where his kidnapped victims had been released but the data was not adding up.
“There is a smart brain behind all these operations,” one of them remarked and the others couldn’t agree more.
They continued to study the record about his previous operations to discover his personality, methods and various things. They called people that had witnessed his operations in the past to answer some questions. Some were co-operative while others hurl insults on the entire Police Force for being useless to the citizens.
Many nights and days passed and what they could gather about Danger were still not substantial enough.
“How come there is no record of him being caught before?” One of them asked after another long day of planning, brainstorming, investigating and researching.
He seemed like someone with an high connection with influential people in the society.
“Yes, the people that knew him said he started as a political thug.”
“Wow! Can they describe how he looked?”
“They’ve already done that but the description is not vivid enough to sketch a portrait.”
“Don’t be too hasty in arriving at a conclusion. Let’s call the sketch artist and two or three of those persons that know how he looks like and see what comes out of it.”
They all agreed with that decision and immediately sprung into action. They were able to get a rough sketch of what Danger could possibly look like and they circulated it all over the country with an awesome price for anyone that had any information about him.
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Danger and his guys laughed when the sketch was displayed during the evening national news.
“Is this how I look?” Danger asked rhetorically and they all joked about the sketch.
“Should we cause another trouble?” Danger asked excitedly and most of the guys shook their heads in fear. They were all getting paranoid at how Danger was becoming too reckless and they knew that sooner or later they might come face to face with their greatest fear which is getting caught by the police.
“Let’s just lie low. This new SP is not taking things easy at all.”
“We should not be careless at this time or act stupid at all.”
“See this chicken o. Na English you dey speak. Boss, let’s cause trouble again.”
The guys seemed to be evenly divided and the argument became heated to the point where they were almost slapping one another.
“Have you lost your senses?” Trouble screamed and they all kept quiet and apologized in low tones for disrespecting Danger.
“I was just thinking you guys might want to get that little change the government promised to give anyone that has any information about me,” Danger said after they had all calmed down.
“What do we need 200k for?”
“Let them give it to their hungry citizens.”
“They are yet to pay their workers and they want to give anyone with information about Danger 200k.”
“This government is a joke!”
“A bad joke! If I may add. They just want the attention of the citizens. They want them to think that they are really working hard to get us.”
“If they are working hard enough, they should have known that Danger lives adjacent to a police station and also has another house at the G.R.A. But they are not smart at all.”
“Don’t say that. They are smart but not as smart as our boss.”
They began to eulogize Danger and he became puffed like a flour mixed with yeast.
To be continued…
