Episode 5
“Hakym, did you notice that cream coloured
car has been on our trail
since we left the police station?” Don, one of
the gunmen asked one of
his colleagues seated at the back of the van.
“You don’t mean it!” Hakym exclaimed.
“What’s the matter?” Kelvin who was behind
the wheels asked.
“See that cream coloured car on our trail.”
Hakym pointed.
Kelvin looked through the rear mirror.
“Eh! This is my brother’s car. This is the end.”
He matched on the
accelerator and the van barged forward.
Moving at its fastest pace.
+++Inside Clement’s car
Okoro was trying hard to keep up with the
blue van as well as trying
not to make his speed suspicious to the
occupants of the van. With the
latest development he knew his cover has
been blown because with the way
the van sped off, he has been seen. He
increased his speed too but the
van was miles away from him.
“What’s the problem?” Ngozi asked as soon as
Okoro swerved off the
road to join an untarred road which the van
went through few seconds
ago.
“Sincerly speaking I don’t know.” Okoro
replied.
Okoro continued to pummel the car along the
deserted road.
“I think its the fuel.” Okoro replied.
“Fuel? How come?” Ngozi asked looking at the
fuel meter to see it
blinking a red light.
“What do we do now?” He asked.
“I don’t know. The neares petrol station is over
hundred kilometre
away from here and no car seems to be
passing.” He replied himself.
Just then a motorcyclist came passing with a
sunshade covering his
eyes. They both stopped him and he obliged.
“Please take me to the nearest feeling
station.” Okoro pleaded.
The bikeman urged him to mount the bike and
rode off the bike leaving
Ngozi who is scared of staying alone in such a
deserted place.
She removed her phone but the service was
very bad, so she couldn’t
make calls or recieve any.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
++BACK IN AREA F-COMMAND++
Burahimo was loosing his temper and Mike
was trying to calm him down
while Clement was making a call.
“Habeeb, report reaching us now states that
Okoro and his partner
followed the gunmen that attacked the
headquarters. The took the route
that led to the boarder. Get two teams and
provide backup.” Clement
ordered.
“Right away sir.” Habeeb replied and sent a
message accross the
police headquarters requesting for eleven men
who will make up the two
teams.
+++In the deserted road++++
It over twenty minutes since Okoro left with
the bikeman and there
has been no trace of him or the bikeman. No
other vehicle has passed
since Okoro left and she is begining to feel
uneasy and scared too.
“I pray nothing happens to him.” She said as
she got down form the
car and went to stand in the middle of the
road with her gun firmly held
and her sense of alertness activated.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The bikeman took the turning by the left at a
junction marked with a
sign post Khal corp.
“Excuse me. Is this the way to the gas
station?” Okoro asked.
“I think you should shut up.” The bikeman
warned.
Okoro sensing danger at once jumped down
from the bike and rolled on
the floor. He removed his gun and just when
he wanted to cork the gun,
five armed men came out fom inside the bush.
“Pull the trigger and consider yourself a dead
man.” One of the
men warned as he shook the bikeman who
drove off through the pathway.
“What do you want from me?” Okoro asked.
“You bloody policeman. Pick him up.” The
man ordered as the
remaining four men carried him. Suprisingly,
he offered no resistance
and he calmly let them carry him and off they
went in the direction
where the bikeman had gone.
Okoro was praying in his mind as he was
being carried into the deeper part of the forest.
Just then he started hearing voices, percieving
smells of marijuana and burning flesh. They
came into a gathering of men who all had
guns hung on their shoulders jubilating as
they roasted a big antelop on fire.
“Who is this?” One of the men, an half caste
asked.
“A policeman on our trail.”
“B—–d.” They yelled at him as they threw all
manner of things at him. They kicked him
before he was carried away. He was brought
before a big gate which adorned a very big
mansion, a warehouse in the deepest part of
the forest.
“So something like this existed here.” He
wondered but he didn’t let his current
situation disturb him. He knew if he was to
get out of here alive, he needed the help of his
colleagues so he took time to take note of
strange and things that could speed up his
escape.
–to be continued
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