Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 79

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Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 79

9:31am
‘That’s the car!’
The police hilux screeched to a halt just behind the entry empty Rover in front of the uncompleted building. The officers behind jumped down from the van and began to surround the building. Two officers checked the rover and discovered that it was empty. The one who seemed to be the leader of the group of nine signalled to the officers and directed those who were to go to the left and those to the right of the building. He signalled for the remaining two to follow him into the place.


They walked into the building tactfully and carefully with the leader directing them. They did not have to go too far before they found the man. He was la!d on a plank in the passage just after the place meant to be the living room. He was deeply asleep and unconscious of his environment. His black suit jacket which had been taken off his body was on floor by his side and covered with dust. His shirt was halfway unbuttoned and his tie loose, only his belt and trousers were firm.
‘He’s still breathing,’ the leader said to the other two after placing two fingers on the man’s neck to observe. ‘Go into the other rooms and see if she’s still around.’
The men returned to the same spot a minute later without finding anything. Their leader had gone to get other officers to move the unconscious man.
‘What do you mean you found nothing around? She couldn’t have gone far,’ the man said as he cocked his gun and moved further into the uncompleted building in the direction the other men had just returned from. He got to the exit of the building leading to the backyard and looked out from there. The place was full of bushes but there was a path at the left side leading away from the place. Two of the men he had directed to go the left were returning from there.


‘What did you find?’ he barked at the men.
‘Sir, it leads to the village.’ one of them replied him.

‘She couldn’t have gone far, I’m sure she left when she heard us coming. Her car is still at the front,’ the man said, vibrating on a spot. He turned back swiftly and proceeded to the spot where Eze Okafor was laying previously. The man had been carried away before they got there but two officers were still standing there. ‘Let them take him to the hospital right now for quick treatment,’ he said, facing one of the two men. ‘You should reach the office and get another vehicle ready for the rest of us. We have to comb the bushes and the village too.’


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Rex halted his car just beside the bush. He could see the wide roadway created in between the bushes, tarred although with so many potholes already. He clicked on his tablet’s screen again, the backlight came on. He scrolled through the selection of footages on the dashboard, he selected the last one he had watched. Samantha’s car had entered through that roadway and that had been the end of the video coverage. The path and the village it led to had no security cameras installed.


Rex thought for a moment on the next step to take, whether to go in through the path and start trying to locate the car since he knew Samantha drove in a rover or for him to just turn back since she was already ahead of him.
He took in a deep breath and took off his seatbelt. He opened the car and stepped out, he stopped to stare around the area before he closed the door. Every other motorist and passers-by were minding their businesses, so he journeyed into the roadway on foot.
He placed his gaze on the floor as he walked and tried to observe on the tarred road the signs of the vehicle tyres that passed recently, the road didn’t appear like one that was being plied by vehicles frequently.
Just as he took few steps in, he noticed a vehicle coming towards him, it was a police vehicle. He continued walking in and this time faced up as he knew turning back at that moment would call for suspicions from the policemen. He never knew that the police had gotten to the place before him, he had met some at the scene of the kidnap and thought that it was the only place they were. He also had not been viewing the live stream from the NSCC cameras, instead he had focused his streaming on the past minutes which recorded Samantha’s movement and drive to the place.


The police vehicle passed by his side and Rex made sure he took a very good look. He saw the man he had come for lying unconscious at the back seat. He had recognized him by the trouser and the dirty suit jacket hung in the van behind, he had seen the man putting on the clothes in the footages. He knew it could only mean two things; either Samantha was done with the man or the police had stopped her.
He made sure the police hilux was gone before he turned back. He took out his phone, the Inspector General was already calling.
He made sure the police hilux was gone before he turned back. He took out his phone, the Inspector General was already calling.0
January 18, 2018 at 9:07 am #1163992 Reply
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‘I thought the both of you implied that she was working with this doctor,’ Rex said into his phone as he entered back into the car.
‘Yes, that’s what it should be because from what the Vice President said, Eze Okafor is the only one who has access to the information she’s threatening him with and he’s also the only one who knows where the sealed documents are.’ the Inspector General replied.
‘If they are working together, why should she kidnap and leave him in an unconscious state like I just saw the man?’ Rex asked, changing the phone from his left to the right hand, he pulled the seatbelt on with his left hand.

‘I don’t know, maybe something went wrong between them.’
‘Nothing went wrong, she met him on the road and took him forcefully from his car and she also came for him this morning.’
‘But if she doesn’t work with him, how then has she been getting the information she’s getting against the Vice President?’
‘That’s your question to answer,’ Rex replied.

‘Rex, but did you see her face? Are you sure it was her?’
‘I’m sure it was her and if it wasn’t her herself, it has to be someone from her team.’
‘So you didn’t see her face?’
‘I saw the face, it wasn’t Samantha Osman’s face I know, it was the face of the lady that battled Agent David James in that hotel.’
‘That is Samantha, she was disguised then.’
‘I know the visible face is a disguise, but we can’t be sure of who’s wearing it. From a closer look today, I observed that the disguise may not be that done by makeups, it might be a skin mask.’
‘Skin mask? I never heard of that, are you sure of what you’re saying?’
‘No one can’t be a hundred percent sure until the face is touched. I only considered it being a skin mask because it changed a bit the shape of her head, but that could also means it’s been worn by a different person.’
‘What do we do now Rex?’
‘Well…Let’s see what I can do.’
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11:15am
Tarasha stared at her wristwatch again. The time was running slow and she wanted to be out of there as soon as possible. She had finished her task so quick and was lucky to get a flight to Kwara State where the holder of the sealed document was. She knew nowhere in the state but was sure that moving around would not be difficult for her because of the several mobile and internet tools available for her use.

Her phone began to ring. She uncrossed her legs and took out the phone from her jacket. She took a brief look at the rest of the people in the airport waiting room with her before she answered.


‘Hi Cole, what’s up?’
‘Boss, I just saw your text message. What are going to do in Kwara State?’
‘The document we need is there,’ she replied.
‘Okay, what would you have me do for you?’


‘Just the usual things, get into their NSCC connections and get ready to monitor while I’m working.’
‘When would the actual work begin?’
‘It can’t start today, I still have to make a survey. Let’s say we’d work from the early hours of tomorrow morning.’
‘Okay boss, I’ll be ready for you. I’ve also got some news for you.’
‘What’s that?’
‘I dug out some good facts about the Inspector General already, we’re ready for him, I’ve sent all you need to know to your email address.’
‘Cool… I’ll download now and read while on my flight,’ she replied.
‘I’ll update and send as I get more, I’m still working on it right now.’
‘Okay, but I won’t be able to respond to the other emails until after the flight and when I settle down. This particular airline does not allow for the use of cellular data during a flight.’
‘You can check it at your time boss.’
‘Okay, stay in charge Cole.’
The call ended. She took another glance at the wristwatch, it was now five minutes left to board. She unlocked her phone and refreshed the email application. Cole’s message appeared on top and another one under it. The second one was sent from the email address 47tarasha@nefary. com.
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