Tarasha - Season 1 - Episode 107

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Tarasha - Season 1 - Episode 107

# season 1 finale #

Within a couple of hours Jefa spent in his apartment, he was able to rearrange and clean up the place. it was during this process that he remembered his mother’s diary and the picture in it, he tried to get it from where it was kept but then he remembered seeing it with his sister when she had come to get it at the hospital. He thought it was time to know more about those who sent his family packing from Lagos to Borno, he decided he was going to ask Tara about it when he saw her.
A soft knock on the door startled Jefa who had dozed off on the sofa, he rubbed his eyes with the back of his palm and got up immediately. The knock came again.
‘Who’s that?’ he asked, the only person he was expecting was Omotara but he still needed to be sure it was her and not any of his neighbours who would like to check if it was an intruder that entered into the house.
‘It’s me, Omotara.’ the reply came.
‘Okay, hold on.’ Jefa walked to the door and opened it. Tarasha walked in quietly and stood by the left side of the door.
Jefa closed the door and turned back, ‘I thought you were not going to come,’ he said, staring into her eyes.
‘Of course, you know I would come. What reason do you have doubt my words?’
Jefa sighed, ‘truly, I have no reason. I’m sorry,’ he said and proceeded to sit on one of the sofas.
‘You can go home now, it’s safe.’ she said. ‘I’ll be joining you later.’
‘Safe? Are you sure?’
‘Yes, I am. I’ll come and meet you later at home.’ she said and moved closer to him with a white nylon bag in her hands. ‘I bought you lunch on the way.’
‘Hmm… Thanks,’ Jefa said peeping into the nylon as he collected it from her.
‘You’re welcome,’ she replied.
‘Today, I thought Henry would be coming back home, I was planning to make dinner for all of us, a special treat.
‘Well, you can still go ahead and make dinner,’ Tarasha urged. ‘Henry would be fine.’
‘How would he be fine in the prison?’ Jefa asked in a pained tone. ‘I know what it is like to be a prisoner, so he must be as suffering greatly.’
‘Well, I’m going to see him now and I’ll make sure he’s granted bail, I’ll be coming home with him hopefully.’ she said.
‘Are you sure?’ Jefa asked with his face brightened up a bit..
‘Once everything works out well,’ she said. ‘So please go ahead and make your special treat for us tonight. Okay?’
‘Okay.’
Tarasha smiled and then turned, ‘I have to go now.’
”Ermm, I need something from you.’
‘What’s that?’ he turned back, thinking he wanted to request for money.
‘That diary you took from this table, I need to use it today.’
‘Oh! She widened her eyes.’ It’s okay, you’ll find it in between under your mattress, I’ve always kept it there for you.’ she said with a smile.

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‘Hmm…’ Chief Rikau had his chin in his hands as he stared at the pictures shown to him on the screen by Rex. ‘I know him, he must be the one behind Samantha.’ he added.

Don and Stainless continued to stare at the pictures without talking, even though they knew they got the wrong person but whoever the wrong person was; he was still their enemy since he lived in the same house as Tarasha. They had seen him come out from the gate and had taken several pictures of him.

‘What do we do with him?’ Rex asked Chief Rikau.

‘I don’t know yet, I’ll call the Vice President and we’ll decide together.’ Chief Rikau said as he got up from the seat and took out his phone. He walked out of the room and entered into another room where he was alone.
‘Hello Sir,’ Rikau spoke into the phone after his call was answered.
‘Chief Rikau,’ the Vice President replied from the other end in a gruff voice.
‘We’ve found out the person supporting Samantha Osman,’ he said.
‘Who is the person?’ Chief Elvis replied excitedly.
‘Danjuma Jeffrey, the son of Late Doctors Danjuma and Lydia.’
‘Oh!’ Chief Elvis exclaimed. ‘I thought you guys finished the whole family,’ he added in a tensed tone.
‘No, we only took the parents out that day and a little boy. The initial plan was for us to only take drop the parents.’
‘True, I remember! But which of the kids is now grown up enough to have the boldness to come for all of us?’
‘It’s their first son, he was one of those that were taken in for training into the then Haram group, he graduated and did his first two mission but only for him to come one day ,I think after he listened to some dumb preaching and tell us that all we’ve been saying are lies, that he was no more interested.’
‘Hmm, so you guys caused this problem.’
‘No, we caused it together.’ Rikau argued. ‘You financed us then.’
‘I never believed in your course, we only used you for political reasons.’
Rikau paused, it was hard to swallow the bitter truth, Chief Elvis had hit him hard with it.
‘But you still owe me your life,’ Chief Elvis continued after sensing that Rikau was hurt by his last words. ‘If I didn’t intervene, you won’t be alive today. You would have been sentenced to death.’

‘No, you didn’t do it for me, you did it for yourself.’
‘Shut up and don’t argue with me, I did it for you. I was in authority then and I could have killed you silently in prison but I chose not to, but I decided to reward you for your faithfulness to us.’
Chief Rikau was quiet.
‘I think we should have just wiped out the whole family that day, you know that was the main reason I called off the officers securing the town, their family was the main target of the day, we just gave you the opportunity to also use it for your course.’
‘No Chief, I agree it was also an opportunity for us that day but if we had attacked that family alone, it would have raised suspicions…’
‘But how come he’s still alive?’ Chief Elvis cut in.
‘He was one of the guys we set up for the soldiers to arrest, I think he was granted pardon after some years.’
‘And how did he know about all the Chiefs who sponsored you?’
‘He’s the eldest son and he could have known that his parents were running from you guys?’
‘Hmm… We have to do something quick about him and make sure he knows why we do it, make sure he dies a painful death. I don’t want to return and find him alive.’

**15 minutes later**
‘I want to go with you guys,’ Chief Rikau said to his assassins.

‘You may not need to, we could bring him here.’ Rex said.

‘I want to go and kill him in his house with my hands,’ he insisted.
‘If you insist,’ Rex said, putting on his hood to cover his face. ‘Do you want to come in with a covered face?’
‘No, I have a message for him, he has to see my face.’
‘Okay, we will deactivate all the cameras outside before you come in,’ Rex added. ‘But the cameras in will still be on, because they are made with high security. We’ll take out everyone we find in there.’
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