Back home in Lagos, Maestro was fully busy at the warehouse. He had a lot of work to do in catching up on all the lost time that Nena’s unanticipated presence had cost him when she was around. He reckoned he had to handle the Nadia situation more closely as well as be more prudent with his future actions since he was now on a close leash from the NDLEA’s RICO investigation.
He had driven straight to the warehouse and was welcomed by a series of questions and bad news from zeke – his loyal assistant
“good morning boss. We have been expecting you since yesterday boss
“I know” maestro replied “what’s the development
“we had a situation this morning. One of our boys on the twenty first street downtown in Ikeja, was gunned down.
“what ? who? “ maestro asked furiousl
“it was. It … was” zeke stuttered with the respons
“who zeke! Who!”
<The board room of the NDLEA Is located in the upper East end of the last floor of the 20 feet building. Officer Jasper had just been summoned in there by the very stern faced Director Gambo.Jasper was panting after running all the way from his office to see why the director was calling.There had been serious speculations about when the next raid on the said location jasper presented in the last board meeting.Director Gambo had been waiting patiently for the a date on when the raid would be finally organised“I don’t understand why it is taking much time Jasper” the detective began as soon as Jasper stepped into the room. “how long would it take for you to assign units on that location where they traced the SUV to”“sir” jasper began to reply with a face that gave out a countenance of confusion. “ I thought it was ola’s job to send units there since you made him head of the execution team from
The raid. It had never been easy going on a raid in the city with officer Ola. Jasper always found it difficult to accommodate Ola’s brandish nature and claim for authority whenever they went out on such raids. He hated the fact that they had even made him team leader on the field and more so , he hated the regular Lagos traffic and being stuffed in the van as they drove through it all. The van was a white 2010 dodge sprinter. It had the ability to run from zero to a hundred and 80kilomeeters an hour in just 4800 seconds but this swift moving ability was of course hindered by the heavy traffic the vehicle commuted through. The van had a conducive capacity but for some reason, the operation had decided to assign way too many agents for the raid and now it was congested, making it hard to move or breathe. it had made the drive a very difficult and uncomfortable one for Jasper who had kept on staring at Ola furiously. Ola had noticed the at
Alone in his cubicle and the production warehouse, maestro was looking frantically at the flash drive he had in his possession. He had just requested his pc from zeke a few moments ago and as requested, it was brought to his office desk.He opened the laptop computer and powered it up, observing patiently as the windows presentation worked it’s to the desktop background on the screen. He quickly inserted the drive and tried to open it up. A pop up notification came on requesting for the four digit password code. at this point, maestro was disappointed but although not surprised. He had expected some sort of security protocol on classified information for a criminal investigation. He tried a few alpha – numeric entries and they didn’t seem to work. He decided he shouldn’t try anymore before he crashes the drive permanently. He had a few ideas about people who could easily bypass the password authentication through the use of brute force technology.
Located on the ground floor of the garage floor , the underground vault was placed at the far east end of the building , left to be controlled by a circuit board that was placed on the wall. The staff lady with the wrench who had been working over there earlier when the NDLEA agents were around, now returned to her post but this time, strangely she wasn’t there to work as ususal. She dropped her wrench on the vehicle that was parked in the corner and went straight the aesthetic looking circuit board that was placed on the wall. . she reached there and began smiling to herself as she thought of the ludicrous explanation she had given to the agent who asked her what the circuit board was exactly functioning for.‘OBD stabilizer my ass she thought to herself as the length of her grew wider. She reached for her pockets and brought out a walking talkie and began speaking to it. “this is fox five at garage station 2. All ready to open vault. Aw
Nena entered her bathroom in a rush, not wanting to leave another moment to be wasted worrying about her situation on the hotel bed. She had been laying there for the past hour since she checked in . she had been too exhausted from the trip and more so, disturbed about misplacing her flash drive and all the documents it contained.She feels she had been distracted . she feels she had been careless.. sometimes Nena gets to forget that she is only just human. She tries to take the whole world on her bare hands. She had felt that she needed a shower now and laying on the bed with these thoughts weren’t helping at all. She walked into the bath tub in the bathroom and stepped into it fully immersing herself in the pool of cold water it contained.She dipped her whole self in it for a couple of minutes then raised her head slowly to rest on the ceramic framed bars of the tub. She left her eyes closed as she let herself dive into a little trance to distract
Deep into the darkness of the road, maestro’s land cruiser SUV had been dashing through the night in the company of his convoy. Maestro was headed for another meeting with the elders. He had called for their attention once again. The chaos that were now befalling him and his business had turned him to be very uncomfortable. Most of them had been coming from things that had no control over but the elders do. They could stop being lenient with Nadia and call her to order so he can avoid a territorial war. Well it seemed like they were way past that now ‘this war can longer be avoided’ maestro thought to himself.Maestro realised that the vehicle was now running slowly. Seemed to him like they had arrived their destination, well at least, so he thought.The deceleration of the vehicle had progressed consecutively till it finally halted to a stop. “what happened. We aren’t there yet” maestro questioned , now realising they had not stoppe
The convoy of vehicles arrived at the Hotel de Continental , or as the crime lords called it – the continental ground. This was where the elders had created to settle the business disputes amongst criminals in the city. The building where they had their last meeting with Nadia and maestro that didn’t end so well. The Building was located in a five hectare compound filled with low cut grasses.. the passageway into the building was a 15 meters tarred road with rails on both sides that ran with it down to the building entrance. The building was three story landscape and had tinted glasses strategically placed all over the whit painted building walls.Maestro and his crew had walked down the passageway down to the entrance where they were met by the guards who stopped and required them to check in their weapons.‘NO WEAPONS ON CONTINENTAL GROUND’ a big sign read boldly above the door. It was bold enough for any well sighted person to read so the gua
The convoy of vehicles arrived at the Hotel de Continental , or as the crime lords called it – the continental ground. This was where the elders had created to settle the business disputes amongst criminals in the city. The building where they had their last meeting with Nadia and maestro that didn’t end so well. The Building was located in a five hectare compound filled with low cut grasses.. the passageway into the building was a 15 meters tarred road with rails on both sides that ran with it down to the building entrance. The building was three story landscape and had tinted glasses strategically placed all over the whit painted building walls. Maestro and his crew had walked down the passageway down to the entrance where they were met by the guards who stopped and required them to check in their weapons. ‘NO WEAPONS ON CONTINENTAL GROUND’ a big sign read boldly above the door. It was bold enough for any well sighted person to read so the guards need no explanatio