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Update 1

Preface

Roberto Bonifacio was bent on retrieving the diamond; he was ready to do anything to get back what belonged to him. He would not let Antonio down by letting it go. He would not rest until he felt he had truly avenged his son’s death. Even though about five people had recently been killed in the bid to get back the diamond, still the object was still hidden somewhere. There was no doubt that a lot more people were going to die before he finally got back what belonged to him, and he had no qualm whatsoever about that. He had set a series of plans in place; plans he was sure would yield him absolutely profitable results.

There was only one person in the entire world who knew the location of the Boniface Diamond, and the person was already in jail. To hell with the justice system; no prison in this country was going to stand between him and his avenue to get back his diamond. They are all monkeys, anyways, he thought to himself. Offer them the right bananas and they will be eating from your palms. An average citizen of this godforsaken country has no loyalty to his nation. With money, and money alone, you can rewrite the constitution of this country to whatever suits you.

Although Roberto Bonifacio had spent over thirty years in the country, he still loathed it and all the people in it. The only thing still keeping him in the cesspool of a country was the diamond. If he could have his way, he would burn down this country and the people in it. The stench of corruption that oozed from the annals of this supposed nation was enough cancer to the world. This was a nation that was not supposed to stay on the map; in fact, the entire continent should be wiped out. If he was the leader of the free world, his first public assignment would be to wipe off the Dark Continent. God didn’t create the world for humans with black skins. They are only good for slavery and inhumanity. Even here in their country, he held some of them as slaves – with money, he was able to buy the dignity of the youths.

Now he had dozens of men doing his bidding. He had pulled trained killers from the army and had subjected them to work for him. when one of them died, he was immediately replaced with another. Roberto never considered any one of them anything but tools, disposable tools. Whenever the tool became rusty, he didn’t bother resharpening it; instead, he would discard it and pick a new one. All of the men working for him were expendable. They were thugs anyways; why should he bother himself about them. A few of them had been killed when they attacked the bloody Peter Black and his wife, and he didn’t bother about them. A month had gone by since the incident and other mercenaries had taken the place of the dead ones.

Since the arrest of Peter Black, Roberto Bonifacio had tried to locate every place he thought Peter might be hiding the diamond. First, his men had searched the house Peter and his wife had occupied. They had ransacked everywhere but found nothing remotely close to the gem. Then he had ordered his men to exhume the corpse of the deceased wife. He had a strong feeling that the diamond had been hidden in the grave of the woman named Maria.

The men had gone to the cemetery in the middle of the night. They had paid the security officer manning the necropolis a substantial sum of money he couldn’t refuse. They had located the grave where the woman had been buried. The four men dug for two hours, came upon the decaying and disfigured corpse. They searched the casket, then the corpse itself. They turned it around, felt the entire body but didn’t find what they were looking for.

On their way back to their master, they planted a bullet into the head of the watcher of the ghost town and retrieved the money they had given him. Roberto had given them strict instruction that they must return with the money if their search yielded nothing positive.

“Then there’s only one thing to do now,” Roberto had told the men.

“What is it, boss,” said the leader of the thugs. “Tell us anything and we’ll carry out your order.

“A piece of juicy information just got to me,” the old man smiled. “This is definitely going to yield something positive. Finally, I would be getting back my diamond.”

“Tell us, boss. What do you want us to do?”

He was silent a moment. “It’s classified information. Only a few people must know about it. I want only you in this room with me.” He turned to the other men and said, “The rest of you should get out right now. I’ll call when I need any one of you.”

When the men had departed and he was alone with the leader of the gang, Robert rose up and bolted the door shut. Then he returned to his seat.

“You must not tell anyone what I’m about to reveal to you, Uche. It’s an order.”

“Okay boss.”

“Now have your seat. You shouldn’t hear this while standing.”

“Okay, boss.” He sat down slowly, his curiosity highly piqued.

“I recently received a piece of information about Peter Black’s child.”

Uche frowned. He didn’t seem to understand what the old man was talking about. “Peter Black’s child? I don’t seem to get what you’re saying, boss.”

“Apparently, Maria gave birth to a baby boy.”

Uche frown deepened. “I thought she died with her pregnancy.”

“No, she didn’t. That’s what the doctor said, but it’s not true. Maria gave birth to a child before she died. The truth has been kept a secret by her and a few other people.”

“And where’s the child now?”

“Officer John Balewa has him.”

“I don’t think that’s true. Who gave you this information, boss?”

“The doctor himself?”

Uche smiled. “Then it’s true. When did you learn about it?”

“Two days ago,” answered Roberto, “Even Officer Balewa himself didn’t know that he’s keeping the child of the thief. He thought his wife gave birth to twins.” He chuckled. “How stupid could he get?”

“What are we going to do with this information?”

“This information is gold. I paid a huge sum of money to get it. I’m going to utilise it well, trust me.”

“Are we going to tell Officer Balewa about the child?”

“Oh, no. That’s not it. He doesn’t need to know anything.”

“Then what’s the plan?”

“In a week’s time, we will set in motion something incredible. You are going to use one of your men. This is what he’s going to do – he will locate Officer John Balewa and kill him.”

“You want my boy to kill a police officer?”

“Exactly.”

“Why?”

“It’s for the greater good. You see, after killing Officer John Balewa, he must surrender himself to the police.”

“Wow!” Uche seemed gobsmacked. “That’s suicide. He will be killed. No one kills a police officer and stays alive to tell the story, especially in this part of the world.”

“No, he won’t be killed. I will make sure of that. I have people in high places; although he may have to spend the rest of his life in jail.”

“So, what’s the point?”

“He will be placed in the same prison as Peter Black,” explained Roberto, “That’s the most important part. Right there in prison, he will tell Peter Black that I know about the existence of his child. He must reveal where he kept the diamond within the week or his child would be killed.” He laughed. “There’s no way he would not give up the location of the diamond when he knows that the life of his only child is threatened. Isn’t that a perfect plan? Tell me it’s a brilliant plan.”

“It’s brilliant,” nodded Uche, although he still carried a doubtful expression on his face. “But do we have to kill Officer John Balewa? Does my boy need to go to jail? Why don’t we send someone to pay Peter Black a visit and pass the threat to him?”

“I considered that, of course. But you see I’m merely going to kill two birds with one stone. Officer John Balewa killed a lot of my men during the shootout. He put himself in the middle of this. I’m not going to let that go. He has to die not only for killing my men but also for standing in the way of retrieving my diamond. This had nothing to do with himself but he had to interfere. For what? Because he’s a police officer? An unranked one at that.”

Uche shrugged. “I heard he would be promoted next week for helping to catch Peter Black the thief. The promotion was long overdue but he swore that he would not take it until he brought down Peter Black. I heard he would be taking the position of his deceased father-in-law, the same man you shot dead.” He paused and then added. “Don’t’ you think we have taken a lot from the man already? The parents of his wife were killed by you. Do we have to kill him too?”

The old man glared at the thug. “What the hell are you saying? Whose side are you on? Aren’t you going to avenge the deaths of your boys that got killed by that? I expected you to be thanking me. This plan should from you. I can’t believe you are defending that pathetic policeman.”

Uche bowed his head and said, “Sorry boss.”

“Good. You have to select the boy you think can carry out the mission without fail.”

“How am I going to tell him that he would have to spend the rest of his life in jail?”

“Oh, come on, Uche! Try to be smart for once. You’re not going to tell him that, of course. What you will tell him is that I’m going to take care of it. Lie to him. Tell him he won’t go to jail. Promise him a huge sum of money after the mission. What he needs to know is that as soon as he has passed the information to Mr Black in prison and the diamond has been retrieved, he would be granted furlough.”

“Furlough? What’s that?”

“He would be granted permission to leave prison. He won’t have to go back. He would be released.”

“You can make that happen?”

Roberto threw his hands in the air. “Of course not! Jeez! All these are the lies you will tell him. He would be a martyr. He’s not coming out of jail, Uche; at least not alive.”

“Not alive?”

“You really didn’t think I would allow him to stay alive after completing the mission. As soon as the diamond has been retrieved, I would bribe some of the wardens to beat him and Peter Black to death.”

“So Peter too would die after giving up the diamond?”

Roberto scoffed. “Not only Peter, Uche. A lot of other people are going to die. No one goes against me and stays alive.”

“You’re going to kill more people?”

“At least four other people are going to die.”

Uche opened his eyes wide. “Four? Who are those?”

“Who do you think?”

Uche slowly stood up. He spoke slowly too. “You are going to kill Peter Black’s child even after getting back the diamond?” It wasn’t really a question. It was an acknowledgement of fact.

“Exactly.”

“But he’s just a baby.”

“I don’t care. I will kill the two babies, then I will have the woman – what’s he name? – Aha, Rhoda Balewa, the wife of Officer John Balewa – I will have your men rape her brutally before ordering her to be killed. When I leave this country, I am going to leave carnage behind. The Bonifacio name would be feared in ten generations to come.”

Uche bowed and said, “Yes, boss.”

Roberto Bonifacio guffawed like a madman.

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Thanks for your steadfastness, brother. I knew I could be frustrating with my updates sometimes. I apologise.

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