Garba had a straight look on his face when he spoke, then finally Garba had told him his finding, it was indeed powerful enough to bring the country to stand still. It was nearly unbelievable. John had asked Garba why he had decided to make the truth known. To which Garba had told him about his brother Yusuf who had just returned from the states for a break, having graduated from Yale university ,before ha was killed in the matiama market,Yusuf was all the Family he had left and how he wants to avenge his brother's death. when Garba spoke about yusuf, John had no doubt about all he had heard that night, he just needs proof, infallable proof that would enable him have something to work with,to which Garba had told him he was going to hand over the packages containing the whole proof he was going to need.
Everything about Garba as far as he could tell had been organised, as he never arranged a meeting in the same location twice,to John There seem to be a reason for all that Garba did, they were like clues and codes, codes!!!! john frooze at the thought, like he had been struck by drone.

Oohoh,this is getting boring

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I still like so please dont stop. Thanks again.

OMG!!! Where did this okolie guy go to? This suspense is killing

He was indeed struck but by the realisation of the means to understanding Garba's blood inscription. He looked at the picture again, this time he knew what language it was, it is a "cypher". 'The activity of making a message unreadable for others is called "encrypting". If you want to make the message readable once again, you have to do "decrypting" of the message.For both "encrypting" and "decrypting" you use the same code. This code is called a "cipher" this same very words of Garba came flooding into his head like a dam suddenly let loose.
Garba had choosen the pigpen cipher (also known as masonic cipher) it is a very simple substitution cipher, that goes back all the way to the 18th century. In "Pigpen" the 26 letters of the alphabet are placed in two grids. And With a-lot of other explaination he had given John a prototype.
John knew the key to decyrting Garba's last message is the prototype, he must find it now, but he had non-challantly droped the piece of paper somewhere either in his car or at the office, but he just cannot remember where exaltly. He must find it. The thought of returning to Larang's foods store where he parked his car last night, made every hair in his body to stand straight like an electricity pole.
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This's really getting more interestin wit a lota suspense. More greese 2 ya elbow mahn!

this okolie guy is good

Still following...

Okolie....Okolie....Okolie....How many times have I called your name!! hmmm . Please come back and finish this story oooo. Am so addicted to it now

Ali Kabiru, is a man who can be regarded as one of those who has seen it all in life, though from a humble background, His physical built depicts what a uniform man should look like, tall with an athletic built, not so handsome facially couple with the fact that he always have to “bone” to create an aura of a rugged and tough military officer. he was conscripted into the Nigeria army after the Nigeria Biafra civil war, where he served with the 35 artillery brigade, commanded by colonel Durojaye, whose unit were responsible for the fall of Ukwuta. he attended the army training and doctrine college Zaria, after which he rose to the rank of a second lieutenant in the Nigeria army. At the height of the cold war between the United States of America and Russia, Ali kabiru was among some of the few Nigeria officers sent to Russia by the military government to be trained by the KGB in the act of secret intelligence. He was also among the first barge of soilder deployed by Nigeria during the liberia civil war of 1990.

Now this is getting very boring...

alexola20: Now this is getting very boring...

as in.. @okolie, plz ginger us nw.

Abeg, stop this one sentence suspense u're dropping for someone.
Return here with a bang & kill dis suspense once & for all.

Returning in 1991 Ali was posted to the department of military intelligence DMI, where he rose to the post of a captain. He was later moved to the State Security Service (SSS) in 1999 after the transition to civilian rule. He served in the department for investigation and intelligence under the unit on survalance and cyber-crime division of the SSS, before retiring in 2007. Although he had a firm of his own He currently serve as the special advisal to the Alhaji Musa lamido the governor of bornu state. he had made a nice life for himself all over the years through legit and not so legitimate (every available) means that his positions had afforded him. He had a life some could only dream of, houses, car, firms of his own and luxury. He was truly living the Nigeria dream if their was any sure phrase. Yet he wants more, Ali will easily explain his greed as wanting more. Even though his yearning for more as he justifies his greed had him in this situation. But as far as this is concern he is ready to set that aside his personal reason for a collective victory if it ever comes down to that....

Before now Ali Kabiru knew little about john, although john had a striking personality and a reputation in his field as a journalist in Bornu state. Ali only knew John by reputation as a passionate brute journalist known for his indepth investigative style, and would stop at nothing to publish the truth. it was not so much a secret in the state that john was not known to play balls (compromise) as most journalist do. he most definatly would publish any story despite who was involve,

for two hours Ali had spent it thinking about John involvement with the Package. the more he thought of it the more he came to the conclusion that, John knew something about the package. He immediately went into the business of gathering information about John. Obtaining the information wasn't difficult for him. During his time as an analysist on survalance and cyber-crime division of the SSS , he had learnt the internet (social media) to be an investigator best tool at obtaining personal information. The Internet With more than 1,300,000 domains and bajillions of pages, is filled with information about people, businesses and topics of interest. People fill out different kinds of form on the internet thereby given away correct personal information carelessy. The difficult part is harnessing the information and weeding through the bajillions of pages of information to find credible and reliable information. But that was no problem for Ali, as he was far more experience in the trade. his searchs on the net display an article on John oki biography written after John an award of excellence giving to him by the north central region of the Nigeria union of Journalist, accessing the links to the post Ali was able to accessed John's facebook, linked along side his twitter,and email accounts. Within minutes Ali had obtained real time information and photos that would made Jack bauer and CTU in the popular 24 t.v series look like slow-pokes.

It was almost 4;30 am, Saving the information on his pc. he packed his laptop into its carrier, picking the rest his stuffs, he checked-out of the hotel.

Ali cutting off the line he had call on his phone, let out a small smile to his reflection in the rear view mirror of his car. "John you are a dead man", He said, and speed off.....

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The call he had just received, was code red in his book,he knew Ali wouldn't have called him if the situation was not as serious as he was told. His boys must have screwed up Big time. And now he had been called to clean up after them. After all he was the infamous EMIKU. If this get out that his operative screwed up, then his numerous client from the political class would seek for alternative elsewhere. He was not about to let that happen especially not with the elections year coming.

His real name had been his well guarded secret.EMIKU as he was simply known, runs a tight criminal gang of four. To him calling him a criminal was an insult. Since the title could be attributed to just any person in the underworld. And he was no ordinary criminal. He was the EMIKU (Angel of death). Hardly any high profile assasination on the political class without his involvement. He is well vase in his trade.he was also sophisticated,and well trained. he knows a thousand and one way to kill his victim without leaving a clue behind.Not that it mattered anyway, since the police investigation are always cosmetic in Nature. The police are always prone to concort a theory from thin air and the general perception that politician looting away national wealth for personal interest and such they deserve some kind of punishment. made his job even easier. After his dishonourable discharge from the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) he had found himself doing what he enjoys doing and that fetches quick money, Killing..... Beside it made him feel powerful. He rationalise his job by constantly telling himself that the equation would not be complete without tough guts like him, beside someone had to be the bad guy.

Pickin up his phone from the stool inside the room, he calls Bako his leuitenant,blacky and smith. he was going to dedicate his whole crew to make sure this ends today. Placing his 9mm pistole into a custom made concede compartment of his mini van he left for debriefing at Ali's where he expects to find the rest of his gang. His eyes focused on the road totally ignoring the blue lcd digital clock on the dashboard that read 4.35am.

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Nice work.

Awwwwww, I can't wait to hear more.....

Why did u stop naw?
My heart is doing tick tock tick.

Ali thought was occupied on how best to deal with the situation. He glanced at the paper containing the information he had so far gathered about John, and wished John relationship status had reflected married or any known relative, that he could hold in other to get John to hand over the package and subsquently eliminate him, as he believe John to be in possesion of it the package since it was found on Garba.

Ali's had planed the meeting with Emiku and his gang to be brief so they could have much time to wrap things up after ward.The only agenda had been putting an end to the situation. Ali, Emiku the rest of his gang sat across each other on the set of sofa .positioned in the sitting room of Ali's guest lodge,it was Ali's safe heaven for meeting shady characters. Ali comtemplate his responds if question about the content of the package arise, as he had never revealed the content to anyone before, and he was not about to, especially not with the men sitted with him now, He plans to ride on the knowledge of Emiku special interest in the situation due to the damage the situation could do to his business. As it could potentially have his political client seeking aternative, Esspecially with the election year approaching.

After playing the video from larang store, There was no doubt that Blacky and Smith the two who had carried out the operation had slipped. If Ali had not asked about the CCTV camera in the store, they wouldn't have know and the consequency would have been dissasterous. The video they had just watched suggests the man they had killed was not Garba accomplise. the look on Emiku face shows how much he blame his crew members that carried out the operation at larang even though the reason for the meeting was not for blame apportioning. 'And who is this man?' Asked Emiku refering to the man in the video recoding they had just watched. 'His name is John and he is our worst nigthmare if we dont stop him fast', came Ali's reply, as he launched into a quick narration of who John's was and how dangerous for him to be left loose after he had witness the murders and in possible possesion of the package. after his quick narration he Hands out copies of computer printout to Emiku and his gang. the paper contains John contact information (address) and a recent photograph of John,that Ali had lifed from facebook. 'We have to stop this man as soon as posible' Ali said,referring to John.

After much delibration and strategic discussion a plan was concieved, Emiku divided his gang into units. One to go to John's house while the other at the Thisday newspaper office where John works. Emiku will closely monitor police frequency so as they will be in the know if John goes to the police. None of them would rest not as long as John is a threat. With that the meeting was over

As Emiku and his gang left, Ali move to the next phase of the plan. He had to device a means to Keep tab and making sure that the outcome of this operation is favourable to him. He had be able track John's accurate location. most of John post on facebook had been from a blackberry device, so Ali immediatelydevuice a means to track John location through facebook, He would install an app on John's facebook that will tell him johns exact location since with blackberry BIS the phone is automated connected to facebook as long as the phone stays on.. Having already accessed the remote server of the punch newspaper office where John works. Using the I.P address on John's office computer,from there he reconfigure the computers and it router, enabling him use the system as admin from his laptop on a remote server, using a special passcode software to root out password, Ali retrieves John's facebook password. Logining in as John, Ali accepted Friends Density (Facebook App) that will enable him to visualise the geographical distribution of John in the form of a heatmap. Once signed up to the app at every 15 minutes john's approximate location will be updates on a simple technology similar to Google Maps mobile technology which determines where john is with the help of the cell phone towers. With that done, Ali reposition himself in preparation to start relay the information as it comes to Emiku and his crew, 'it almost over', he said to himself with a grin.

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Weldone! More power to your elbow.
Just keep 'em coming!

Thank you.....you still got me hooked

Okolie, pls come bk and continue this wonderful piece.

hmmm! is this a true life story? cause this story sounds real to me. hats off for you man!

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St.okolie where are thou, come and complete your work!

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words cant express hw sorry i am, the story is 99% complete. But i have been dealing with some stuff that i can even go into it's detail nw. I also fear that the gap is quite too long to sustain reader's anticipation that would have been lost somewhere in that long break.