Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 80

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Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 80

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Abuja

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE .
‘Come in sir,’ Chief Rikau said into the door bell mic as he watched the Vice President at his office door from his computer system.
The door opened and the Vice President stepped in leaving his escorts at the reception.
‘Sir, you should have called me to meet you outside.’ Chief Rikau said, looking up at the man’s face.


‘I’ve got little time to spend here IG, I just had to stop by because of the several missed calls I got from you. I hope there’s no problem,’ the Vice President replied as he sat in the visitor’s seat. The Inspector General was seated behind the table on his office swivel with the empty wheelchair by his side.

‘Rex claimed that Samantha Osman got to Eze Okafor before he did. Eze Okafor is unconscious now and in the custody of the police.’

‘I don’t understand, ‘ the Vice President shook his head. ‘I explained before that Samantha must be working with Eze.’
‘No sir, it appears like she got the knowledge of those documents from someone else, and this morning was just her first encounter with Eze.’
‘But…’ the Vice President appeared to be short of words. He tightened his fist on the handle of his walking stick and took in a deep breath. ‘Then, what did she do with Eze?’
‘We can’t tell yet, Rex has just located the hospital he was taken to but hasn’t been able to find out his state.’

‘This is quite unbelievable, I just hope she doesn’t have access to the sealed document before us.’
‘I do hope so too.’
There was a brief silence.
‘IG, what about the other candidate I asked you to start investigation on?’
‘Uhmn…’ Chief Rikau’s eyes moved to and fro for a second. Then he struggled to get on his feet and walked to the cabinet by the left side of his office, wincing his in pain as he did. He drew out a file and then returned to his seat.

‘Your leg isn’t that strong yet, I think you shouldn’t put pressure on it yet.’ The Vice President advised out of sincere concern.
Chief Rikau sighed. ‘I’m tired of using the wheelchair, I have to exercise my legs sometimes just like the Doctor advised,’ he replied as he opened the file.

‘But just let it get more stronger first,’ the Vice President advised.
‘Here, this is the list of everyone who has declared their interest for the office of the president,’ Chief Rikau said, turning the file to the Vice President.
On the first A4 sized paper in the file were passports of different men arranged orderly and their full names written below each passports. There was a total of nine passports.
‘These nine are vying for the position of the President?’ Elvis Richards exclaimed as he scanned through the paper.
‘Yes, but of course not all of them would make it through the primaries. We decided to narrow down our investigation on just three of them first,’ Chief Rikau said.


‘Garuba Ahmed must be on the list in focus, he’s a very good friend of Eze Okafor and he’s a serving senator.’
‘Yes, he’s the first on the list, followed by the Benue State Governor and Nonso.’
‘Nonso…’ Elvis Richards muttered under his breath and stared blankly for a moment.
‘Isn’t that Onwuli’s brother?’
‘Yes, but I don’t think they were blood brothers. I heard Onwuli helped him to stand when he had nothing.’
‘I heard so too. And he was also the one who welcome Gabriel from prison.’
‘Yes, Gabriel was Onwuli’s friend and I believe he only did it for Onwuli’s sake. Ever since then he has refused to associate himself with the ex convict and doesn’t even know his whereabouts.’


‘Yea… It’s a pity that the only help he could render to Gab was to smuggle him into one underdeveloped country.’
The Vice President chuckled, ‘No one wants to help a failure.’


There was a pause and a brief moment of meditation. A serious look formed on Chief Elvis’ face. ‘Sometimes, I just do have this feeling about Gabriel coming back to the country.’
‘I don’t think he would, the people have not forgiven him for the crimes he was convicted of yet.’ Chief Rikau said. He stared at Elvis Richards face for a while, he could see that the man was in deep thoughts and probably worrying about the possibility. ‘Sir, but do you think Gabriel could pose a threat to you?’
‘I think he woulf love to but I dispossessed him of everything he could ever use against me.’ Chief Elvis replied.
‘And you think he can not have these documents Samantha has too.’
‘Nobody had the documents in possession, she got it from the drug Agency database.’
‘What I mean is, isn’t it possible that he’s the one supplying her with information or even sponsoring her?’
‘I don’t think he has the capacity to sponsor Samantha Osman but I can’t still say for a certain. You know we’ve considered this before and from our findings, Gabriel is still hiding in a far country. And even if he was around, he could have given her these deep secrets, he wasn’t too informed of most of the deals.’
‘Did he come out of prison to meet any of his resources?’


‘No, of course not, that’s an open secret. He had nothing to hold on to when he was released,’ Chief Elvis said and let out a sigh. He felt a bit of guilt for Gabriel’s plight. He remembered that he and Gabriel were one of the closest amongst the seven of them at some point. They had been so close that they saw each other almost every time, of course until their interests began to clash.
‘But what about this Nonso?’
‘You need to investigate him too, in fact you need to investigate all of the nine aspirants. I don’t suspect Nonso, he doesn’t have enough money to tackle me. I’m even surprised that he wants to run for the office of the President but you still need to investigate him and do it deeply.’


‘And what do you think Torwua Adasu and Garuba Ahmed?’
‘The two of them are prime suspects. Torwua was a friend of Onwuli and Gabriel too, I don’t trust him. Garuba as you know was the Inspector in charge when we were being accused of fake drugs importations. He told me after being vindicated by the court that day that I would not go scotfree as long as he was alive.’
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