3pm, Same dayMr Sylvester finally returned to the office several hours
after he left with no explanation. Those who had seen
him leave said that he left with Henry E.G who had been
handcuffed by a Special police agent and led out of the
building. Rumours began to fly around immediately. Few
minutes after the Agent had led Mr Henry away, a Lady
who was one of the occupants of the office where
Kimberly was had gone out for a short break and heard
the rumour. After spending more than the duration of
her break period, she returned to tell the other
occupants of the office what she had heard. How the
special agent took away Henry in chains with Mr Sylvester
pleading to get an explanation from the Agent. They said
the Agent insisted that Mr Sylvester had to come to the
police office if he wanted to know anything about the
matter.
Different versions of stories were cooked up
immediately, especially as the event occurred few
minutes to most of the worker"s official break time.
Some people said that Henry E.G had used his wide range
of knowledge to defraud the Central Bank, some said he
had hacked into the country"s Treasury system and
redirected some of the monies to his account while some
said that he had stolen money from the NSCC. All these
stories were unconfirmed yet, but still spread around
rapidly because the gossipers needed something to feast
on. Only Mr Sylvester who went to the police office and
Kimberly that Mr Sylvester had mentioned the matter to
had an idea of the real cause of his arrest.
"Welcome sir," Kimberly could hear her colleagues in the
office greet in unison. She raised up her head to see who
they were greeting, it was Mr Sylvester walking towards
her without responding to the greetings from the other
staffs.
"Sir," she said softly as he got to the front of her table.
He sat on the empty seat and let out a deep breath. "
Kimberly, how are you?" He asked in a fatigued tone. His
countenance clearly showed that something was wrong.
"I"m fine sir, I"ve checked your office and I found out that
you were not around." She replied.
"Yes, I went to the police office with Henry E.G. He was
accused of being an accomplice of Samantha Osman,"
Sylvester said to her in a low voice, he placed his elbow
on the table and buried his face in his palms.
"Samantha Osman? What"s the basis for their allegation?"
Kimberly asked.
Sylvester raised up his head. "He accompanied a lady to
late Chief Jubril Lawal"s party recently, I never saw that
lady but I"m aware that they were friends and most likely
lovers, they both stayed in the corporation"s house for a
couple of days."
Kimberly took in a deep breath and stared into the air,
she knew the police was closing in on Tarasha already.
She was sure that Henry would confess to knowing her
once he faced the Nigerian police torture. She had learnt
about their method of forcing out truth from their
suspects and she was sure that Henry would not have the
skin for it. She even wondered why Henry had not told
them everything about her already, why did he have to
be arrested by the police. What she thought before was
that he had already told all he knew about her to the
police.
But she was the one who made the fatal error. Henry was
supposed to have been killed already but she left him
alive for some reasons which was inconsistent with her
mode of operation. It would take much more effort now
to clear Henry and the mess he had created and was
going to create.
"So the police alleged that the lady is Samantha Osman?"
Kimberly questioned.
"Yes."
"Hmm…" She heaved a sigh and then folded her arms.
After some seconds of silence, she turned the laptop to
Mr Sylvester. "Here"s the report for the job you
requested."
Sylvester looked at the screen immediately and
continued scanning through the report for few seconds,
reading the words under his breath. "So, it"s a Canadian
number truly?" He commented after reading it.
"Yes." She replied and turned back the laptop to herself.
"That"s means Mr Henry was right about it," he said.
"Please print out the report, it would be of advantage to
us and Mr Henry."
"Alright sir," Tarasha said and bent to pick up the cord for
the printer. She plugged it in and tapped the shortcut for
print on the keyboard. "Sir?" She called after sending the
doc.u.ment to the printer.
"Yes," he answered, the tone of fatigue still sounding in his
voice.
"Do you really think that Mr Henry did help the a.s.sa.s.sin
to murder Chief Jubril?" She asked in a concerned tone.
"I don"t even know what to think," he sighed and rested
back. "I don"t know what to think. I"ve always felt Mr
Henry"s pa.s.sion to put an end to the a.s.sa.s.sinations by
our input as the NSCC, so I don"t believe he would help
the a.s.sa.s.sin but with this strong claim by the police that
one of the a.s.sa.s.sins was seen with him, I don"t know
what to think anymore?"
"Hmm…" Kimberly inhaled deeply as she collected the
printed doc.u.ment from the lady who brought it to them.
She stared into the paper for some seconds before
handing it over to Sylvester. "Would he be granted bail?"
"I"ve contacted a lawyer on his behalf, I"m sure he cannot
sleep over in the police cell tonight. He"ll be granted bail
but the Agent said he"ll be placed under close watch. He
told me to advise him not to play any tricks."
"Is it that serious?" Kimberly widened her gaze and folded
her arms as she rested her back.
"Yes, something that involves the a.s.sa.s.sin group
Samantha Osman leads is serious. Another thing the
Agent made mention of is that Henry may be a member
of the a.s.sa.s.sin team."
"Hmm… What a pity!" She exclaimed in a really pitiful
tone. "That means that he would not be free to move
around anymore."
"Yes, his movement would be restricted and he"ll be
followed everywhere. Even in his house, he"ll be
monitored." Sylvester replied.
"Yes, so he"s staying in his home tonight?"
"Yes," Sylvester answered with a slight groan as struggled
to stand up from the seat.
"His house…" Kimberly repeated severally under her
breath. That was all the information she needed to have,
she just wished that Henry wouldn"t have spilled out too
much information before the police grants him bail.
"I"ll be leaving in fifteen minutes time sir." She announced
to Sylvester who was about to turn and take his leave.
"Oh!" He turned back slowly and sat back. He stared at her
face and put on a smile. "Thank you for your help Miss
Kimberly." He said.
She smiled like a child without saying anything. The man
took out his wallet and phone from his pocket. He
dropped the phone on the table and opened the wallet,
he then counted ten thousand naira and took it out. "I
learnt that you have a car," he said as he returned the
wallet into his pocket.
"Yes, I do," she answered, a little hesitant.
"Okay, you can get fuel with this," he said as he handed
her the money.
"Oh!" Her eyes lit up with gratefulness. "Thank you sir, "
she said as she took the money.
"You"re welcome." He replied with a smile of satisfaction,
glad that she was happy to receive his gift. "I have to do
some work now," he said as he got up.
"Alright, till tomorrow sir."
"Bye."
"Bye sir." She said she watched him leave, he had
forgotten his phone on the table. The eyes of the other
people in the office turned to her as Sylvester walked out
of the place. She ignored them and turned back to the
laptop. The smile on her face totally disappeared
immediately.
She closed the laptop after shutting down and
disconnected the power cord. She then picked the phone
which Mr Sylvester had forgotten, it was his most used
phone where he received both business and personal
calls. She swiped it open and opened his call settings
hurriedly. After scrolling through for some minutes, she
minimized the program and opened Xender, an app for
transferring files. She took her own phone and opened
his Xender on it too, she connected the phones and then
transferred into his phone another app. It entered within
few seconds and she installed it immediately and made
the settings to track his phone calls, she then hid the app
and refreshed the phone memory. She straightened her
cloth and got up from her seat, wanting to go to Mr
Sylvester"s office to return his phone but the man walked
back into the office just in time.
~
Fifteen minutes later like she told Mr Sylvester, she was
out of the main building and was proceeding to where
her car was parked. The first thing she spotted when she
got there was Henry"s car, parked at the opposite
direction. He must have seen her car, she was sure. That
was the goal for bringing the car anyway, to make him
suspicious about her presence there and begin to try to
find her, then she would lure him into her a trap. But
with the new turn of events, that strategy would not work
anymore, she needed him to be unaware of her presence
now, she wished she had never brought her car. But she
still had nothing to worry about, there was always a plan
B.
The device in her bag began to beep loudly as she moved
closed to the boot of her car. She gave an evil smile, she
knew that Henry wasn"t going to leave without doing
anything when he sees the car. She brought out her
device and checked the notification, she silenced the
alarm after dismissing the notification. She returned her
device back into her bag before searching around the car
for the tracker that had been placed there.
After five minutes of futile search, she took out her
device again and clicked open the app which notified her
of the tracker"s presence.
"Basta*d!" She cursed under her breath as she began to
scan the body of the car with her camera. Scanning the
outer body didn"t yield the result, so she began to scan
under the car. That was when she located the tracker,
installed somewhere close to the tyre. She pulled out the
tiny device and dropped it on the floor. She cursed Henry
in her mind again before proceeding into the car.
As she drove out of the compound, she spotted a police
vehicle entering into the compound. She drove away
hurriedly, something had to be done about Henry that
night. It had to be that night.
~~~~
Sylvester had barely settled in his office when his phone
rang, he checked the screen and the caller ID displayed
was the police office.
"h.e.l.lo," he answered the call.
"Mr Sylvester, I"ve sent some boys to your office now and
they are already in the compound. They have a search
warrant with them, I"ll like you to cooperate with them
and lead them to Henry E.G"s office." Agent Dakolo"s voice
came through.
"It"s okay sir." Sylvester ended the call with a sigh of
frustration, he buried his face in his palms and let out a
deep breath.
He suddenly remembered something and picked up the
phone again. He dialed the police office.
"Any problem Mr Sylvester?" Dakolo answered the call.
"No problem sir," Sylvester replied. "Like I told you
before, the result for the reinvestigation of the number
was supposed to be out today. It"s out already, I"ll send to
you the doc.u.ment through your boys."
"Okay, but what was the result?" Dakolo asked.
"The number is Canadian."
Dakolo gave a very short but threatening chuckle. "Mr
Sylvester," he called in a low voice but rigid tone. "Don"t
get yourself into trouble trying to help out a suspect," he
warned.
"No," Sylvester said with fear in his voice. "I"m not trying
to help him out. I wasn"t the one who did the job, I"ve
never done that kind of job. I gave it to a capable person
who doesn"t even know Mr Henry personally."
"I hope so, because if I find out that you"re trying to help
him, I"ll make sure you get into trouble with him and I
a.s.sure you it won"t be easy to come out of it." Dakolo
said, still in a threatening tone.
"No, nothing of such sir."
"If that"s the case, send me the doc.u.ment then."
"Okay sir." Dakolo said as he ended the call, his doorbell
sounded immediately. He checked his computer screen,
his expected visitors and his secretary were at his office
entrance. He picked up a bunch of keys and a card from
his drawer, he also took the result doc.u.ment and folded
it into an envelope before getting up to join them.