Blood And Thunder

Episode 10

‘Luke I have a job for you” Zeus said after the practice ‘What’s the job?” “I want you to take a man” Zeus said; they used the word ‘Take’ instead of ‘kill’ “Alright, what are his details” “Everything you need to know is in here” Zeus said handing him a file and Luke collected it… Luke had to take the file home and go through it. Gen. Tanko Abdul Kareem is a major general who was trained in Zaria and in 1984 he was made a captain over a troop of soldiers who went to war. He’s 62 years old and is married to Mrs. Rashidat Kareem and have three children; Abdul Salam Kareem, Suleyat Kareem, Suleiman Kareem. He will be present at the Independence Celebration this Saturday; it would be the only chance to put him down. Friday Night, 7:00am Luke was the airport to catch a flight to Abuja and by 7:45am his plane was in the air and by 08:10pm he was in Abuja. He logged in an hotel and in his hotel room, he planned his attack wisely, he then opened a Lead briefcase to reveal a dismantled sniper gun which he assembled to check if anything was missing before he dismantled it again and put it in the case; as strange as it may sound he was so happy and couldn’t wait for tomorrow… Eagle Square, Abuja… 10:30am Luke arrives at eagle square with a Taxi, carrying a black school bag at his back, he was wearing a red sweater with a hood and a white trouser, he pays the driver off and then walks towards the entrance where he sees soldiers searching properties of individuals, he stopped because he knew they’d search the bag he was carrying.

He looked around thinking of what to do when he saw a 3G network mast some distance from the square so he walked towards it; he saw people hanging around but he walked closer; there was a fence round the mast and a gate so he walked in without minding the people and no one was paying attention.

He walked to the back of a big generator, then opens his bag and brought out a binocular and then hanged it on his neck then backed his bag and went under the mast and started climbing the ladder within until he got to the top; although he was afraid of heights but summoned the courage to go that high.

He was having problems looking down but he then gained a balance at the top then took his binoculars to his eyes and looked into the square “God damn, how am I gonna find one man amongst so many?” he thought to himself as he looked but he then decided to look in the position of the president so he turned to another part and looked where the president was and saw the president there, then he started searching for his target; there were so many people behind the president so he looked carefully and after 15mins of searching he found the target “Gotcha” he said and hanged the binocular before opening his bag to bring out the sniper and started assembling it and after the assembling he then screws a silencer to its fire hole. He then cocked the gun and aimed for his target, he zoomed the sniper’s binocular and got a close view, it took him a little about 5mins to find the target again but finally did. “Good” he said as he closed one eye and had his hand close to the trigger but he didn’t shoot just yet because everywhere was calm as the soldiers were displaying and after 15mins the soldiers started hitting their drums loudly. Now he aimed for his target; his hands were shaky but he was patient and he over came after 15secs. He held his mark on the target’s head and as it became stable he fired at the target and the bullet hit the General in the eye and he jerked back on his seat; the bullet went through his eye and came out at the back of his head and entered somebody’s arm behind him. Luke cocked the gun again and aimed at him and gave him another shot in the heart. He had successfully killed his target and scattered the event as soldiers started moving in position to protect the president and others and moved them out the environment. Luke dismantled his sniper and put it in his bag quickly with his binocular and started climbing down the mast and before he got down everywhere was already chaotic as soldiers had started shooting to dispatch the people from the square. Luke got down the mast and went to the back of the generator and waited for 10secs before going out the gate; people were running aimlessly out the square, he then sees a man come in front of him and entered a power bike and started it but he immediately hit the man with his bag on the head and he fell off “Sorry about that” he said and got on the bike and turned and drove off as people quickly gave way before they die…

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED… ……………………………………………