Shadows of the Green - Season 2 - Episode 14

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Shadows of the Green - Season 2 - Episode 14

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Oluwo held the blade, it would be better to
end the shadow than to end the Green, the
baby’s blood would cleansed his sins and
killed the shadow. He was bitter, he was
about slaughtering his first grandchild but it
was what he had to do to save his daughter.

“Adunni.”
“Sir…”

“Let’s do this, you hear me? It’s for your on good. I’ve few moments to spend but I
wantus to use this baby’s blood to cleanse
yourself and your daughter.” There was
silence, they could hear the sound of a door
creaked.

“Were you expecting someone?” Miss
Eyiwunmi asked.

“Maybe it’s Gori… But don’t you think it’s too
early?” Sangoyode entered.
“…and what are you doing here?” The
puzzled old man asked.

“Do you think this place is somewhere you
can just go in and out anyhow?” Miss
Eyiwunmi added.

“Baba!”

“Don’t baba me… Do you think I have your
time?”

“Oluwo..” They all turned to where the voice
came from, Oluwo staggered backward
while miss Eyiwunmi ran for covered.

“…what is happening?” The confused
shadow asked as he stepped inside.

“Gori Fatoyinbo, you asked to know who the
leader of the Green is, isn’t it?”

“…and what the hell are we doing here?!”

“One of these two is the leader of the
green?” Sangoyode said pointing his
thumbs at Miss Eyiwunmi and Oluwo.

“I don’t understand…” Gori picked his phone
and dialled a number.

“Hello… Solo! Bring your men to the said
location!” He ended the call.

“Baba Oluwo… Good to meet you again…!”
He stretched his hands for an handshake.

“Cut it there, stupid boy! Poor you!” Oluwo spat.

“Baba, OK…OK… I’m sorry I have not been checking in you or redeeming my pledges…

I’ve been busy dealing with the useless
Green…”

“Don’t ever! I repeat… Do not ever call my
fraternity useless! What do you want?” He cut in.

“Oluwo… I don’t understand you…. How…
How…”

“How what?” Oluwo laughed. “You’re just a
bright candle that cannot see it’s bottom….
Stinky fool…” He cursed.

“Wait oh! I’m not getting it… Do you mean
you have a hand in all that has been
happening in our school.”

“Before nko?” Miss Eyiwunmi chuckled.

“Mother-in-law… What…”

“What is what? Ehn… Gori… Can’t you just
leave me and my father alone.” She adjusted the baby she was carrying.

“Ugh… Wait o… Is that not my child?” He kept
his phone in his pocket and moved closer to
Miss Eyiwunmi.

“Stop there! A dog that enters an Ogun
shrine belongs to the god of iron! You’re
just a toothless dog, Gori. Oh, you thought
you killed Ken abi! Like you are a powerful
man…ehn… Let me tell you this, I killed that
idiot myself, after I got the b-----d
hypnotised, and he killed himself, you now
think you’re revenging his stupid death. You
are making the same mistake Ken made, and
I’m going to kill you the way I killed him.” He
stepped backward, took two shawls, tied
one and gave one to Miss Eyiwunmi.

“I’m fully prepared for this day… You fool.”

Gori knew he had been played, the same
man who initiated him had played him, he
got the picture… Oluwo was his worse
enemy.

“What are you doing here with my child?” He
turned to his mother-in-law.

“Your child, my grandchild?” She scoffled.

“Give her to me.”

“Stop kidding yourself! She is our item of
sacrifice and I won’t blink a second to slit
her throat!” Oluwo threatened.

“Your own grandchild! You want to kill your
own grandchild for a stupid confraternity?
What grandmother are you?”

“I can do anything to save my own
biological father!” She barked!

“Oh! I can get a clearer picture… Oluwo is
your father, Tiwa is oluwo’s granddaughter
and our baby should be his great
grandchild! What sort of wahala is this? Let
me tell you this, my own child can never be
an item of sacrifice for you dumbasses!”
“Watch me!” Oluwo brought out the blade and moved closer to the crying baby. Gori removed his belt and threw it on oluwo’s
shawl and both disappeared immediately.

“Where is my shawl?” Oluwo was fidgeting
already, his shawl was his source of power
and he couldn’t risk it for anything even at
the point of death.

“Your shawl? It’s here…” Gori replied
sarcastically pointing towards the flames of
smoke.

“Ahhhh!” Oluwo exclaimed, without his
shawl, his doom was near.

“Now, give me that child to me!” He said authoritatively. Miss Eyiwunmi crawled to
where he stood and handed the baby over
to him.

“Now, both of you should go on your
kneels…” They obeyed. He turned to
Sangoyode. “…and you too, foolis man.” He
obeyed immediately. The VC entered almost
immediately and on sighting the woke
scenario… He knelt without been told. Gori
sighed.

“He sighted a plastic chair at a corner and
sat on it, brought out his pone and dialled
Godwin’s number.

“Tell one of the policemen to come inside
together with Solomon and others.” He
disconnected the call.

“Oluwo, who is the leader of the Green?” He
leaned backward, crossed his legs and held
his belt in a twirl, he flapped the belt and on
sighting the belt, Oluwo began to talk.

“I… I… I am the founder of the Green…” He started. “I created the deadly group in
revenge of the death of my beloved and only
son.” He sobbed, Miss Eyiwunmi blew her
nose too. The VC exchanged a confused
glance with Sangoyode and Gori.

“I had two children all my life! Adunni and
Akanji who was murdered to clean the poo
these men and some students committed.”
He pointed towards the VC.

“I don’t understand you, sir! I don’t even
know you buh I can recognize your voice
from the strong room… I don’t understand
all these!!!” The VC knew they had been
playing fast one on him.

“My wife died while giving birth to Adunni,
leaving behind two children… I cared for
them through my farm and IFA business. I
was a white herbalist till the painful death of
Akanji in 1981. He gained admission newly
and I had to sell my plot of land, my
farmland and my house so he could go to
school. His deadbody was brought back
home two days after resumption.” Miss
Eyiwunmi sobbed louder, blowing her nose
and cleaning her eyes.

“…when I asked what happened to him, I
learnt four young lecturers and some
students were involved in robbery and at
the verge of being caught, my innocent son
who saw them was killed so as to clean all
links with which the could be caught…. It
was painful..” The VC remembered the
incident, himself, John, Yusuf, Akin and some
students had gone to rob some group of
people, the police got wind of them and as
they were trying to escape by seeking
covers under a rock, a village boy with
luggage’s had screamed on sighting their
weapon calling the attention of a police
officer.well, they killed him and after some
days,the father had came and pointed them
out but there was no evidence but he had
promised to cone after them that year, but
none of them took it to heart not after the
Green came and they became powerful..

“I stopped being a white herbalist, burnt all
my charm and went to collect power from
laalu ogiri oko through the ogboni
confraternity. I had been killing innocent
children through these foolish men who I
had been manipulating… When Ken came
into the picture, I used him to rape and
harrass the seven men but when you came,I
knew you possess more spiritual powers,
you’re gifted, sent by olodumare himself. I
wanted to change your mission by using to
revenge ken’s death but the more I tried,
the more it became entangled.you cannot be
killed by anyone… Please forgive me…” He
pleaded.

“You’re just a shameless man… Revenging
the death of your son by killing thousands
of innocent ladies? By forming up a
fraternity made up by evil men who killed
your son? You’re heartless and ruthless…
These men are even strafing your said
daughter! All those men were s------g her
and you’re aware!”

“S------g her? Ngbo, Adunni?” He faced
Miss Eyiwunmi who looked down
immediately. “Ah, Adunni, see where your
promiscuity landed us!”

“So Eyiwunmi is your daughter?” The VC
asked.

“Yes, and she has been working together
with me by managing the fraternity with
me. We attended most meetings together or
she come alone… That was why no one
knew who the leader was till now”. He
explained further.

” ah! We have been fooled!” The VC raised his hands, the NTA cameraman brought the
video closer to the VC while other watched
from afar.

“So how does Sangoyode came into the
picture?”

“He is one of the foolish people I succeeded
manipulating. I, as a stark illiterate and my
daughter who had a school cert are ruling a
whole school and when we discovered he
was a perfect fit, we chose to use him to
rule the whole state… We made him the
deputy but we are really in charge of this
state… It can never move forward … All the
money he though he was making were
papers, Yoruba call it ‘agbana’, we spend the
real money…” He added, Sangoyode watched
the old man in amazement, no wonder the
best he had achieved was a new model SUV
and a filling station after spending six years
in office.

The door opened and two people entered,
Tiwa and Gori’s mother.

“What? Goriola!!! Gori, this is your father?”
Two eyes meet, she could remember
everything now, he impregnated her…