By Dare Afolabi
It had been two months since one of the worst Robbery Attack ever
recorded in the history of Mother crime hit the commercial capital city
of Warri, South-South, Nigeria. The attack which recorded the killing of
Fifty-Four people including Security operatives and Bank customers was
described as the most unfortunate event that shook not only the people
of that region, but the entire nation as a whole. The tragic event left
the various families of the deceased individuals grieving for the death
of their loved ones; while pleading to the government that the
perpetrators of the act be brought to book. The Governor of the state
headed to the plea from these pained families, thereby conducting a Mass
burial for the dead, and assured the families that the government would
definitely fish out the culprits stating that anyone of them caught
would be tied to a stake and sent to the great beyond.
Although, a member of the Gang was caught on that day of the operation
whose identity couldn’t even be identified as he suddenly lost his
ability to speak. This was the handiwork of General who made sure that
Stone do not say anything to the police torture unit that
institutionalized him in a solitary confinement. He was later beaten
severely until he passed away and his body thrown into an inferno.
The Bank attacked was almost in the blink of liquidation until the
federal government intervened and offered them a loan from the
federation account, so that they could proceed with business. The money
stolen was reported to be over 7 Billion Naira, but it wasn’t certain
whether the figure was altered to suit personal favours.
Coincidentally, the lady who was the only victim survivor from the
attack was a Reporter working with the State owned television station,
and she was now secretly working with the FBI/POLICE in order to nab the
criminals who nearly took her life.
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Jude had just had another heated argument with his ON/OFF girlfriend
Margaret. The cause of their crisis always revolved around her sleeping
with other members of the Gang. He had warned her several times to
desist from such act – of which she promised to change, yet was still
being intimate with General. On this day, he became vexed and decided to
cool his head off at a cinema by seeing a movie. Jude then made out of
his apartment shortly and went directly to his garage where his fleet of
cars were parked. Regardless of the big brand of cars which he had in
his garage, he decided to step out with his Toyota Camry vehicle. On
getting to the cinema, he was walking towards the Theatre after
purchasing the ticket, just then he received a text message from his
estranged girlfriend, Margaret. In the message, Margaret had informed
him that she was leaving his house and travelling to Abuja to return
back to Warri in due time and wished that he should have gone back to
his senses before she would return.
Jude was reading the message with excitement whilst paying attention to
his phone, just then, he mistakenly bumped into a lady and she
immediately fell to the floor yipping in pain. Jude was then instantly
full of apology as he helped raised her back to her feet. Their eyes
soon became interlocked, and then they froze admiring each other as
though their lives depended on it. The lady was a full-blown beautifully
created specie of human. Her eyes were as white as the cloud, and her
fair-in-completion sleek skin was glowing like the sun. Jude was
immediately lost in riveria as he could barely phantom when he broke the
silence and striked a convo with her.
“Permit me the honour of knowing your name ma’am..” Jude muttered
confidently still gazing into her eyes. Evidently, he was oblivious that
the lady before him was the same person whose life he helped saved at
the Bank when Preacher almost sniffed breath out of her.
“Uh! My name is Elo.” She managed to utter while curling her weavon
backwards. Elohor Emmanuel was one of the most sought after News
Reporter across Niger-Delta. Her findings had greatly influenced the
success of the Nigerian Army toward curbing the menace of militants
activities terrorizing that region. It became of – greater interest upon
her now that she was investigating another act of terrorism while
working as a secret intelligent undercover together with the police, and
especially as she was affected by their attack. Her role was to act as a
research observer; while her motive was to expose the criminals with
the aim of reporting their story, and also helping security operatives
to reduce crime to the bearest minimum.
“I’m Jude, you can call me Jude. Please forgive me, but I’m triggered to
know, why is a pretty lady like yourself would be walking all alone in a
cinema, or – perhaps, are you here with someone?” He enquired slightly
raising his eyebrows upward in a bid to appear more handsome. Jude was
instantly flirting with her. However, he wasn’t bad looking either and
he also had the structure of a body-builder.
Jude had built virtually every part of his body as he was Muscular, had
his chest pushed-up and a very attractive collection of biceps to match
with. He was also Heighten, Dark-in-completion and had full facial
beard. His appearance could best be linked to that of the Veteran
Noolywood actor, Desmond Elliot.
“Actually, I’m waiting for someone, my Elder brother. We were supposed
to see the movie together.” She lied. “Hmmm… Lemme even put a call
through to him now!” She said and quickly brought out her phone from her
handbag, and pretended to be calling her imaginary Brother. It was –
all an attempt to perfect her plan in order to avoid any suspicious
antiques.
After a while, she made a grimace look and then informed Jude that her
brother was caught up in a meeting at his work-place and would not be
able to show up anymore. She looked disappointed and slowly started
walking away in a dejected manner, not until Jude interrupted her and
said that they could watch the movie together; she succumbed immediately
and they started walking together into the theatre.
The dance movie started in due time and everything was going smoothly
until Elo started pulling some attitude. All of a sudden, she pretended
to be dozing off while resting her head on his bosom. Jude was quite
uncomfortable with such attitude of hers owning to the fact that he
barely knew her, but still, he let it slide and feigned ignorance.
After the movie had ended, they were dispatching from the hall, and
suddenly Elo developed cold feet. She was shivering and could barely
stand upright. Jude had supported her to walk properly as she felt it
was convenient to rest a huge part of her body on him. As though that
wasn’t enough, she lamented that she could not board a cab to her area
alone at that profane hour of the night due to high rate of crime
present there. Her excuse being that the situation would have been
better supposing her Brother came along.
Jude thought about her ordeal for a while and offered that she pass the
night at his place. She gleefully hugged him and showed appreciation for
his kind gesture. Not long afterwards, they made for Jude’s parked
Toyota Camry vehicle, but not after Jude had ushered her inside using
Chivalry. About then, he ignited the car and zoomed off almost
immediately.
Finally, they reached Jude’s multi-million Naira Duplex apartment which
he had all to himself, and thereafter, things started going against
plans.
…to be continued
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