“Who is that?” Sophia asked.Sophia withdraw when she heard the statement. She tweaked her head behind and gazed at what she meant. Madam Akwete lifted her hand a bit to signify what she meant.“That’s Herbert Halloway. The man I just told you that I and my colleagues were investigating. We’ve began now it has been quite a while and we are almost done.”Sophia said and began ambling back to the parlour. She was seriously famished and couldn’t wait to have the food in her belly. It had been a while she ate traditionally made food and the way she was walking could tell a lot about her longings for the food.“Come back here,” Madam Akwete said.“What’s it mum. That’s why I don’t want to come here in the first place. You ask questions a lot. I am hungry,” she lamented lingering at the step connecting the dining room and the parlour. Madam Akwete’s eyes was still glued on the photo as she was talking to her.Madam Akwete remained quiet and didn’t utter a word as she went to the parlour to
Sophia was and tears kept falling off her eyes. Madam Akwete struggled to console her. After a few minutes, she came back into her senses. She seemed to have made a conclusion about it.“Mum. I have heard you. Stop crying.”“Are you going to save your father?” Madam Akwete asked again.Sophia didn’t give a response. She kept her eyes glued to the phone and was going through it. Madam Akwete had no idea of what she was doing despite stretching her hand to take a glimpse at it. Sophia was trying to get in touch with Herbert Halloway through chat on the WhatsApp. He wasn’t online and ASO made effort to phone him but he wasn’t picking. She became frustrated, amidst that, he came online and give response. That was Sophia best moment since entering the home. She became eager to disclose some stuff to him. She was typing when she resuscitate the need not to have the conversation typed because it could be more dangerous and ill fating. She demanded if they could talk on the phone and Herbert
Later in the night, Herbert Halloway touched down in Surulere and he began to have the reminiscent of the past and how he began before building one of the biggest drug empire in Mushin. He was directed through the route by Sophia and she dropped at the bus stop at the middle of the night where Sophia went to pick him.Madam Akwete was seated on the sofa in the parlour. She hadn’t slept since they had been expecting Herbert Halloway. She took a nap when Sophia left to pick Herbert Halloway and when they entered hearing the creak of the door, he woke. Herbert Halloway was startled at first seeing her. She seemed familiar but Herbert Halloway was struggling to recognize who she was. Madam Akwete face maintain its resemblance right from when she met Herbet Halloway.“Herbert!” Madam Akwete said.She walked gently to him and hugged him. Herbert Halloway was still looking confused.“I am Akwete whom you saved and flee many years ago when the police came after you.”Herbert Halloway widened
Madam Akwete’s heart was gone that she almost fell to the ground. She was beginning to lose consciousness as she was having a turning eyes. Sophia shifted nigher to her because she knew her condition especially hypertension.“Boss. This girl is a police. You mustn’t allow her and her colleagues to take you down. If you move your hands, I will shoot you,” Shane said.“Shane calm down. That’s what brought me here and we’ve settled it. Please, bring down the gun,” Herbert Halloway said with her two hands up.Shane brought down the gun with his eyes glued on Sophia. Herbert Halloway sat him down and they al sat down. Shane wanted to talk but he seemed uncomfortable and insecure due to Sophia. Herbert Halloway from the way he was looking around.“Sophia is my daughter. She alerted me to return to Nigeria after she finds out and she had disclosed everything to me. How have you been?” Herbert Halloway asked.“I have been fine, boss. I and Jamy had been working clandestinely investigating the
“Yes, she is. Although it was a long story but that’s for another day. Tell Timothy to withdraw his men and the cabinet should report to Yaba. We’ve got a new strategy. What we needed to do now is to distract them so Herbert Halloway, Sophia and his wife can make it out of the country,” Shane said.Jamy was kinda confused by the whole idea and some part of the statement. He had no choice than to succumb since he was the one spying. Jamy picked his phone immediately and gave the information to Timothy so everything would be rounded up before dawn.At dawn Detective Sam and Solicitor Olumide were at the police station waiting for Sergeant Clinton who went to Sophia’s home at the Maryland. She was the only one who hadn’t picked their call. Detective Sam aim was to protect her having got the information that they couldn’t find Herbert Halloway in the hotel where he was lounging in the United States.Detective Sam had the feeling that he had been aware of everything which was the reason he
Detective Sam had returned to the strategic room when Sergeant Clinton and Supernumerary Cynthia returned from Surulere. When they entered without seeing Sophia around them, he knew that an heartbreaking news was about to be broken.“Where is she?” He asked.“We couldn’t find her. The most surprising fact is that we saw her mother’s home opened and no one was inside,” Sergeant Clinton said.Detective Sam went on his toe, “wait. You mean you reached there but saw the doors opened and no one was there?”“Yes. No one,” CynthIa answered.Detective Sam exhaled and walked to the wall looking at it in a serious thought.“Is the commissioner aware?” Sergeant Clinton asked.Solicitor Olumide gave a response shaking his head. Amidst the silence and intense thought, Detective Sam’s phone rang, the name on the screen wrote “Sophia,” it was Solicitor Olumide who was beside the phone that first caught sight of the name of the screen.“Is this not Sophia?” Solicitor Olumide picked the phone and gave
Jamy, Shane and Timothy were in their apartment after dissolving the cabinet to go their respective way but promised to get back to them once everything gone back to normal. At the moment it was tensed that Timothy was scared of being traced to the residence which would eventually marked their end. He wasn’t comfortable with the fact that Shane and Jamy had been faking the kidnapping of Supernumerary Sophia which would certainly intensify the police search.“Shane. I think you should commence preparations on finding a space closer to the castle where you will be spying on the Castle. We have to ensure that Herbert Halloway fled completely maybe after that, we can also fled.”Shane didn’t welcome the idea because he was already known by the two major policemen and he wouldn’t be risking engaging in kinda stuff anymore.“I can’t do that. That’s dangerous to myself. What will you now be doing?” Shane asked.“We have to divert their attention until Herbert Halloway reached his destination
The police commissioner recently invited them all to his office after the information she got from the immigration office that Herbert Halloway had entered the country. He was in his office when they touched down at the early hour of the morning. The police commissioner had been having a tough time trying to find a solution to the disappearance of Herbert Halloway.“They are here,” one of the police officers told the commissioner.He went on his toe immediately and went to meet them in the room where he ordered his men to house them when they arrived. The reception wasn’t as cool as before when the mission was going well, it was a tense one that even water, they weren’t offered.“Herbert Halloway is currently in Nigeria according to the information from the immigration office. We have to intensify the search. So what do you have to say?”There was a silence. While the police commissioner was looking at them yearning for a response he noticed that the Supernumerary police weren't compl
Detective Sam entered with the escorts that he was given. The commissioner was in the office when he heard the serene being blown. He was curious and he paced out. Reaching outside, there was also ambulances entering the compound behind the first two escorts. He stood at the corridor as they drove to the car park.Detective Sam led other police officer he went to Yaba with to where the police commissioner stood. They saluted.“We met some corpse in the building when we arrived there. Among the corpse is that of the resigned Supernumerary CynthIa,” Detective Sam said.The commissioner’s face changed. He was awed by the statement. He walked to the ambulance. He began to look at all the corpse.“Who are those males?”“I think that small boy is Cynthia’s brother according to Herbert Halloway’s men. They only killed the female and kidnapped the male. So I think her presence was requested before they can release him unfortunately, they killed both of them.”“How about the other two?”“I kno
When Detective Sam would wake up in the morning. He saw a number of missed calls from the police spy he privately kept on Cynthia. He was surprised and prompted to stand up from the bed. He phoned him back and he was told to come out. He changed from the lingerie she slept with. His wife wasn’t on the bed, perhaps, she might have gone to get what they would be eating for breakfast.Detective Sam walked to one of the police officers guarding their room.“Where is my wife?” He asked.“He went to use the toilet.”Detective nodded and walked back in. He initially wanted to change his dress but not finding his wife prompted him to walked to the police officer guarding his room. He changed his cloth and went to the room where his private police spy told him to come.“What’s wrong? I slept off completely last night as a result of the stress I have been subjected to for the past couple of days,” Detective Sam said.“It is the recently resigned Supernumerary Cynthia that you told me to keep an
That night, Cynthia was tied to another chair beside her junior brother. She was surprised. Jamy had also disarmed Shane and Timothy. She left them all until the morning and he woke them all. When Shane and Timothy woke up, they were surprised to see themselves in handcuff. The face of the day was clearer and he also untied the cloth he tied on Cynthia’s mouth.“What’s going on?” Shane asked tweaking his head around.Shane was already struggling to remove the handcuff while Timothy was already left emotional and didn’t know what Jamy was up to. The gun he saw in his hand wasn’t a typical gun. He knew that Jamy was up to something.“Jamy!!! Why do you put me in an handcuff?” Shane asked.“Jamy, please. Release me. What do I do?” Timothy pleaded.Cynthia was there gazing at his brother who was already losing consciousness. Cynthia began to cry. She knew she was helpless. She didn’t inform anyone before coming because she knew how despicable Herbert Halloway’s men could be. He did everyt
Early in the morning, Jamy woke up to brush his teeth and wander the environment. He knew he would be leaving soon. His mission in the compound was about to be completed. While walking back in, his phone chimed. He thought it was a message from the customer care as usual, he didn’t have the intention to check the message. While walking past the phone, he saw the title of the message. It didn’t seem to be a message from the customer care.When he grabbed the phone, that was when Shane and Timothy drove into the compound. They had woke up earlier and went to the nearest joint to get their breakfast. It seemed they weren’t interested in the cooking anymore perhaps, the time it consumed and lack of cooking skill.Jamy was reading the message she received referencing to his WhatsApp. It was from an unknown number. He went to the WhatsApp and saw some images sent. He flipped through it and read everything. Timothy and Shane entered saw him glued his on the screen of the phone.“Can you beli
Detective Sam chose to break the protocol and employed the preferential means to have the attention of the police commissioner. When the police commissioner entered the guest room where they were directed to. He was awed seeing the faces of some of the officer. Especially on the face of Agnes, the sign of tears were still lying on her cheek despite Alice effort to clean it.“What’s wrong? Why do you all look moody?” The police commissioner asked.Detective Sam was expecting one of them to talk because he believed his face didn’t seem like one. None of them talked, they were also expecting Detective Sam to talk because he was always the one who did have initial conversation with the commissioner in any of their visits being the leader of the team.“Herbert Halloway’s men did as they said on the phone the last time Cynthia’s phone rang when we were here,” Detective Sam said.The police commissioner tried to remember until his psyche went to the threats that made him sent his family back
Detectice Sam and Sergeant Clinton were seated in the strategic room. Detective Sam told one of the police officers to go and invite the supernumerary police to the strategic room. Detective Sam knew that they would have already been demoralised by the event that they might even compromise resigning.Jessica and Alice held each of Cynthia and Agnes. Cynthia was the most devastated. Her two brothers were leaving with their parents before their death three years ago in a ghastly accident that took their lives. It was the saddest day of Cynthia lives that she went on two month vacation from work to heal from the trauma she suffered as a result of their death.Since the death of their parents, Cynthia had vowed to ensure that he protected both of his siblings and have them the best and she never let them down. She ensured they were admitted into the course of their choice in the prestigious university of first choice, the University of Lagos. Hearing the death of Regina happened to bring
Early in the morning they had reported to work. Detective Sam and Sergeant Clinton retuned to work together. They had been communicating with police commissioner and some other team member would join them in couple of days to intensify their communication with the police across the country and also the immigration offices at the border of the country.They were in the office when Supernumerary Agnes walked in depressed and sobbed. Detective Sam and Sergeant Clinton was having a clandestine conversation when she entered. They were having a discussion concerning a spy they thought were among them because Sam had been struggling to know how Herbert Halloway learnt of the whole thing.“What’s wrong Supernumerary Agnes?” Sergeant Clinton asked.“They have killed my parents,” she said.“They killed your parents? Who?”“Herbert Halloway men. I am certain of that. They have killed my parents.”Detective Sam and Sergeant Clinton were quiet and gazing at each other. A few minutes later, they we
When the undergraduate where entering Timothy caught sight of the lady and have the signal to them. They saw her and marked her face. They waited until a few minutes 5 PM when the class ended. They tracked her and invited her out of the crowd of students.“Hello, how may I help you?” Regina asked.“Well. We are making some research and we contacted your aunt, Supernumerary Cynthia who directed us to you. We’ve been trying to reach her when we arrived in the school premises to get across to you but it seems she had been busy so we find out way here,” Shane brought out the faked approval papers from the police commissioner.Regina was a fair lady and kinda tall. He had an uncanny resemblance with her aunt, Cynthia but she was the opposite in terms of shape. He was thin and had a flexible body with a simple face that seemed very soothing from distance. Her book was on her left hand and she bade her friends who ran out of time waiting for her.She was already convince with the fact that t
Late in the night, Jamy, Timothy and Shane left home at the dark hour and drove to one of the address they got from Sophia’s home. Jamy was really curious and wanted to reach the Cynthia’s address because it seemed very familiar. When they reached the house, Jamy came down from the car and they looked at the house.“I thought as much. This was the street, I do pass. I grew up on this street in Ikeja where I school and the transportation minister also has one of his house on this street,” Jamy said.“So what are we going to do now?” Shane asked.“We make enquiry about that lady, Supernumerary Cynthia.”Jamy walked forward tweaking his head around. He saw a young lady that walk out of the gate.“Hello!” He said.The lady stopped and tweaked her head behind. Jamy walked towards her.“Good Evening, sir,” the lady greeted.Jamy nodded, “I want to make enquiry about someone.”“Go ahead.”“Do you know a police officer that lives in this compound?”The lady nodded, “yes, I do. Miss Cynthia.”