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Episode 12

“Is that the baga?” General Obianodo – Mrs Theresa’s husband and late Ijeoma’s father – barked on seeing me.

“Yes sir,” the officers replied rising to their feet to drop a salute.

The general acknowledged their salute and continued with his question.

“You mean this is the baga?” He asked again to be sure the answer he got was authentic.

“Yes he’s the baga sir,” the officers replied again.

“Mr. Man I learnt you were the one that killed my daughter right?” General Obianodo asked staring aggressively at me.

“I didn’t kill her sir,” I stammered trembling.

“Meaning that you’re indirectly calling me a liar right?” He asked.

“No sir, I’m not sir,” I replied still trembling.

“We will get to iron that out when we get to the division headquarter,” General Obianodo declared.

He signalled the policemen to move me to their vehicle parked outside and they obliged immediately.

The power of money was still at work and the policemen remained loyal.

My eyes opened when we got outside and saw a military vehicle filled with about six heavily armed soldiers waiting for us to come outside.

I instantly urinated in my boxers without knowing.

It was the moisture I felt afterwards that informed me that I had urinated on myself.

The police officers pushed me inside the military vehicle and General Obianodo and his wife, Theresa Obianodo entered their jeep and drove infront leading the convoy.

The miltary vehicle followed behind.

Inside the military vehicle, those army guys beat me black and blue.

By the time we got to the division headquarter I was almost passing out.

They pushed me out of their vehicle and brought water for me to drink.

“The punishment for killing my daughter is instant death,” General Obianodo declared as soon as I was pushed out of the vehicle.

With the last puff of breath I had, I begged.

“My friend shut up,” one of the army men barked at me and hit me with the butt of the gun. Then they dragged me towards a building which I didn’t know anything about.

My heart thumped wildly within my chest and my tension grew as I concluded within myself that they were dragging me to the building to kill me.

“By the way, what’s the baga’s name?” General Obianodo asked as I was about to be pushed into the building.

“Onose sir,” I shouted with difficulty.

The General stopped abruptly.

It seemed like my name rang a peculiar bell in his head and he had to stop those dragging me.

“Which Onose,” he asked.

“Onose the son of Oghenevo,” I replied. “But my father is late now.”

General Obianodo kept silent for some seconds in deep thought.

“I know your dad,” he revealed shaking his head emphatically from side to side. “Your dad and I fought in the great gulf war but it was very unfortunate that he was hit by an enemy bullet and died on the spot. How come you got yourself in this mess involving my daughter?”

“Sir, she came to deliver an information to me and after that I saw her off to the motor park. I never knew the accident was going to occur,” I explained.

General Obianodo shook his head in thought.

“Release him,” he commanded his men at once…


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