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Guy, na so life be? I have almost begged you to come and check my story so that I can have your opinion and learn, yet na conman style you dey use for me. Okay oh!

Baba Oluwo's house was surprisingly located in Mayfair, in fact, it was one of the good-looking buildings there, with the sides of the gate decorated with what looked like gold-like lion heads, though in truth it was just a concrete make-over with a touch of 'gold' paint. The gates were huge and black, a side gate appearing at another part of the gate. A gate man waited there patiently and came out as soon as they knocked.

"Ta ni yen?"( Who is that?)

"Awa ni." (Its us.) Mayowa answered

"Ehen, ta le bere?" (Ehen, who are you asking after?)

"A bere Oga Seun." (We are asking after Oga Seun.)

"Okay, e yin ni omo akeko." (Okay, you are his students.)

He opened the gate and allowed them in. Mayowa did not ask for directions as he was familiar with the place, he just greeted the man and passed a little 'sum' towards him. The gate-man collected it and smiled hailing them. As soon as that was done, Mayowa moved without hesitation to his destination, the others following him.

Baba Oluwo's flat was neatly decorated, with a wonderful Brazilian rug meeting them at the entrance. As custom, everyone removed their shoes and entered. Once inside, they meet a different rug, this time that of Persian origin. The house was lined with marble and the floor was lined with the same material. At the centre of the sitting room, flanked on three sides with cushions and upholstery was a glass table with artifical fruits on it. The interior certainly did not looked like it belonged to a poor man.

As Sunday and Taiwo marveled at the house, Baba Oluwo came out of his room with a Polo shirt and a Calvin Klein jean trousers. He looked so young like he was at his mid-thirties. Sunday recognised the face as one of the lecturers in Physics department.

"Goood afternoon sir." Sunday said, bowing down. He had almost failed the man's course, but when he related the situation to Dotun, Dotun told him to keep calm. The next thing he saw was a 71A besides his name. Now he knew what happened.

Mayowa looked at Sunday like he just shot him and turned to Baba Oluwo. "Sorry Baba, he is new to this place."

"Its okay, I know him before, he took one of my course last semester. So I hear that Dotun has been arrested?"

"Yes Baba, we came here to continue from where he stopped."

"Are you sure that you are ready for that? Its not just any preparation. Dotun was already half-way. The good thing was that he does not need to be here to complete this part of the preparations, he already had you guys in mind."

"We are ready sir, thank you sir."

"Oya, follow me." He led them to a corridor and to the room at the farthest part of his flat. Normally the door will lead to the back of the house. But he did something a bit strange.

He knocked on the door three times before entering. Sunday thought maybe a female student was there- knowing that he had no wife.

As soon as he opened the door, they could see the back of the house, so they all followed him out. However, they did not land at the back of the house, rather they were in a forest, Baba Oluwo's clothes were changed to a red wrapper and a black cover cloth, he was holding a stick and was looking very old. Sunday also noticed that all of them were suddenly wearing red trousers.

"Welcome to the gate of hell." Baba Oluwo said solemnly

"Nifemi, where are you coming from?"

She looked surprised and a bit disappointed at the question.

"Am coming from the hospital, Wale. Where are you expecting me to be?"

Wale looked a bit surprised, then he realised what was running in her mind and smiled. "I did not mean it that way, Nifemi. I meant that you left the house like this and you are returning by 10pm. I am a man and will soon be your husband, yet I feel that I may be starved everyday. Mind you, am also a doctor."

Nifemi heaved a sigh of relief and then walked towards him, placing her hands on his shoulders. "Oko mi, my husband, you know that I work a lot in that hospital, am the best hands and legs they have, so I will be late."

"That's why I said that we should get a house-help who will be taking of the house, even if I have to eat outside the house."

"No!"

"Why are you so strongly against this? We need a house-help here!"

"I insist that we don't need a house-help. I will find a way around this."

"Hmn, okay. But tell me why you are against the idea of a house-help."

"I have seen what a house-help can do to a peaceful home," She started. "Many house-helps enter the house and take over the man. Many others destroy the lives of the children by either poisoning their minds against their mother or kidnapping them. With all the kidnap cases in this country, I don't want any stories with my kids."

Wale burst into a serious fit of laughter."Looking at you right now, someone will think that we have three kids between us!" He said between chuckles.

"Now, Now, don't be melodramatic about this issue. We don't have kids yet and a good house-help will never poison any kids mind. As for stealing me away, that will be a tough one. Besides, you should not be the person to be saying all this, considering your history," She snorted at him. "See your mouth! What we both know is that am not lying."

He laid on the bed and eyed her. "I will leave it to you."


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The news of Dotun's arrest unsettled the rest of the Made Men. Sunday in particular was not used to the sudden change in plan, considering he was new.

"We have to choose a leader until Dotun comes back," Mutiu started. "I elect Mayowa."

Nobody spoke against him or contested the decision, so Mayowa was chosen.

"I will take over this meeting and subsequent meetings until Dotun comes back. I will also work with Scorpion on how to free Dotun. But we have to continue from where he stopped. Mutiu, what do you have pertaining Ronke's family?"

Mutiu laid down everything he knew about her family, including her father's oil wealth and the three alfas and two voodoo priests protecting the family.

"So what's your analysis, Mutiu?"

"We can touch a couple of the members for now, but we will need to protect ourselves and then engage the babalawos(voodoo priests in Yoruba) before we attack any of them."

Mayowa was deep in thought, "Sunday, I guess you have something to report too."

Sunday then gave his account of what happened between him and Soji, including the shootout and his discovery of the phone, showing them the phone.

"It is locked so I can't say what's in it yet."

Mayowa collected the phone. "Hariz, go to Majek and unlock this phone. Sunday, Mutiu and Taiwo will follow me and go to Baba Oluwo. Have I forgotten anyone?"

Nobody said anything. "Then let's go."

They dismissed, with Sunday following Mayowa and co. As they approached a foot path, Sunday looked at Taiwo and asked him what they wanted to do at the Baba's place.

"We are going to insure our lives for our assignment." Taiwo told him.

"What assignment?" Sunday looked at Taiwo with surprise.

"What assignment do we have? Ronke's assignment of course!"

Sunday was waiting in the rendezvous point with Taiwo and Hariz. They all had received a strange text from Mutiu telling them to meet here. They were suspicious of the motives of Mutiu, so they took their guns with them.

"Where is he?" Taiwo asked out of desperation. It was almost an hour after they had arrived, yet Mutiu had not arrived. Meanwhile Hariz was calling a certain girl telling her that he was gonna to be late.
"Na wa o, you don arrange one babe already?" Sunday commented, looking at Hariz incredulously. "Wetin you dey use them do?"
"Wetin dem dey use babe do, Sunday?" Hariz asked back.
Sunday was about replying when he saw someone approach from the darkness. Considering the fact that it was 8 in the night, they drew their guns. As far as it was not their member, they will kill the person.
Fortunately for them, it was Mutiu who was coming with Mayowa and Soji.

"Where is Dotun?" Hariz asked curiously. "What's happening?"
"You kept us waiting." Taiwo pointed out. Sunday just stared at them, arms akimbo.

"It was necessary," Mutiu started. "I had to discuss with Mayowa on what next to do. Mayowa will explain better."
Mayowa cleared his throat. "Dotun has been arrested."



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Nifemi walked into the house elegantly. She had at last the kind of person she wanted. All her life it had been one unworthy man to the other. The slick, well-dressed men she met were after flings and ran at every chance of commitment. The others had either being too old or too poor to handle her. One was too young: just 25 years of age. It was after this one that she met Wale.

Call her desperate, she won't care. The fact that he was married before and that she was actively taking part in the breaking up of a marriage did not disturb her. In this age, if you are incapable of keeping a man, another woman will teach you how to, she thought. She did not believe in Karma, at least not in this case.

She walked in the bedroom to meet a sulking Wale.

Sunday was waiting in the rendezvous point with Taiwo and Hariz. They all had received a strange text from Mutiu telling them to meet here. They were suspicious of the motives of Mutiu, so they took their guns with them.

Where is he? Taiwo asked out of desperation. It was almost an hour after they had arrived, yet Mutiu had not arrived. Meanwhile Hariz was calling a certain girl telling her that he was gonna to be late.
Na wa o, you don arrange one babe already? Sunday commented, looking at Hariz incredulously. Wetin you dey use them do?
Wetin dem dey use babe do, Sunday? Hariz asked back.
Sunday was about replying when he saw someone approach from the darkness. Considering the fact that it was 8 in the night, they drew their guns. As far as it was not their member, they will kill the person.
Fortunately for them, it was Mutiu who was coming with Mayowa and Soji.

Where is Dotun? Hariz asked curiously. What's happening?
You kept us waiting. Taiwo pointed out. Sunday just stared at them, arms akimbo.

"Come, which kin play be that? I no like am oh!" Made protested.
"Its just a feeling I have." Chuks defended himself.
"That kind of feeling is not good." Shittu said with some calm.
"Its from the police station abi?" Tade asked.
"You felt it too? I think something is amiss. I mean, why do I feel that we are being deceived?"
"Yes, something like that."
"What are you guys trying to reason now?" Made asked. "Dotun is in prison, nobody knows your involvement in this case, so where is this 'death' thinking coming from? Stop am oh, stop am!"
"If anyone dies, it will because of this your talk-talk." Tade teased
"Wetin you cook?" Chuks asked. "Am very hungry."
"See your head like hunger." Made replied. "How you no go hungry when you dey think crazy things."

Two police officers stood on the road, waiting for someone. Soon enough, the person they were waiting for came around.

"How did it happen, Moyo? I thought those two officers had the brains to watch a simple house." The DPO asked, announcing his arrival
"It seems like they were murdered and properly disposed of by whoever killed them."
"Who came to report the incident?"
"An old man." Moyo replied.
"Where is he?"
"He is inside the building. We found him hesitant to speak initially but he reported what he knew." Moyo stated confidently.
"And what did he know?" The DPO inquired.
"He said that he was not sure who the people that killed our men are or what they wanted, but he said that they entered a particular room and scattered it, likely looking for something."
"How does an old man know that they were after something?"
Moyo shrugged his shoulders. "He said that they specifically asked for the person's room and then went in there. He was sure they were not armed robbers."
The DPO bowed his head in thought. "Can I speak with him?"
"Yes sir."

LarrySun, Kayemjay, una no dey try oh!

"No." Sunday answered bearing a smile. "We just want to collect something from someone. Where is Soji's room?"
Its over there. The shaky finger pointed to a room three doors away from the main door. Sunday move forward pushing the door wide enough for the man to pick the other two young men.

Once inside Soji's room, Sunday ransacked it, looking for the phone. After going through his school bag, Sunday's attention moved to the traveling bag. As he kept searching the bag, his frustrations grew and it was not long before he start to thrash the place. Unsatisfied with his search, he was about leaving when he noticed a USB cord on the bed, covered by the bedclothes. He quickly removed the clothes to reveal a Blackberry Q10 charging with a power bank.

Smiling, Sunday picked the phone with the USB cord and the power bank and left the room. There was more work to do.




After seeing the DPO, Tade and Chuks went straight to the hostel, where they discussed recent events with Made and Shittu.
"Shebi I said that you should report to the police?" "Shey you see how e turn out?" Made started at Tade.
"Where were you when we went there?" Tade replied. "After all the mouth of going to police, you no come show."
"We get school work na, we no fit come show solidarity. Besides, no be we get case with police?" Shittu replied.
"So na me and Chuks get police matter abi? Oponu!"
"I hear you. We sha dey busy."
"Na lie, una just get mouth! Fear no gree make una show."
They argued back and forth but Chuks remained quiet.

"Chuks wetin do you?" Shittu asked.
"I feel morbid."
"Mor-what?" Made said.
"Morbid, like I will die very soon"

Tade and Chuks soon came to the station to meet an elated DPO, who became more elated with the recent evidence Tade brought to him.
"How can I get it?" He asked Tade.
Tade looked around for a moment and then stared at his phone- a thought came to his mind.
"Sir, let me look at your phone, it has bluetooth?"
He nodded and then shook his head. "I don't really know. Its you guys that are in touch with these kind of phones."
Tade held his phone and checked out the features- and the DPO's phone had a bluetooth feature. He quickly connected the two phones and transferred the video.

"Its there sir." He told the DPO.
"Good. Now that we have Dotun, we can interrogate him and get the whole scope. At least that's what I hope."
"Yes sir." Tade and Chuks chorused.
"You guys can go. Your parts in this case is over now. You have proved useful, but I can't involve you any further. Just trust the police to handle this."
Tade and Chuks bowed their heads and left.

They had it on the back of their minds that it was not over.



Sunday looked at the bodies, a frown on his face. The fool wanted to run, so annoying. He did not know that he had contingency plans. Sunday anticipated this kind of scenario.

Mayowa and Taiwo walked towards him. "This could have become messy."
"Yes. Its good you came at the time you did, if not I would been in a tight corner."
"And your cover would have been blown, Sunday. Let's clear up this area."
"Its already cleared up. This area is empty." Taiwo looked around. "These bodies will speak volumes of what happened here."
"That's why we have to clear this area first." Mayowa spoke.
They quickly carried out their plans, lifting the dead bodies and placing them on a bush path. Then Sunday charged towards the building, Mayowa and Taiwo waiting for him outside.

"Who's here?" He banged on the door. "Better open this door before I break it." The door refused to give way, rather it stood firm fulfilling its duty.

Sunday looked at the door, his contempt tearing the door in his mind. He decided to give the inhabitants another chance.
"Open this door! Open it unless.........."
The door creaked slowly, revealing an elderly man.
"Please, don't rob us."

"It seems like you don't understand my question. What were you two discussing?"

"We were discussing politics, please." Soji almost cried. He could not believe that danger was so near all this while.

"Eeeh?! Oya, where is your phone?"

"Its in my room now. I am charging it when I went to...."

Another slap landed at his already hot cheeks.

"Who asked where you were going to or coming from? If you don't understand simple english before better understand it now. I ask all the questions and not the other way round, you understand?"

"Yesss-s Sir!" Soji stammered.

Sunday unbound him. "Now we are going to your room," He said forcing a smile. "Don't play any funny games unless you want to die, you understand me?" Soji nodded his head.

"Now stay here." Soji walked some distance and made a call. After discussing whatever it was, he walked to Soji and led him out of the bush towards his compound.

The two guys walked on until they got to buildings and streets, the 'modern' part of Akrabata. As they got there, Soji swallowed heavily.

As soon as they sighted the two policemen that were watching over Shodipo's house, Soji dashed off, running towards them. Sunday ran after him and the two officers, who were initially oblivious of their existence, noticed them running.

Sunday quickly pulled out his pistol and tried to aim a shot. That alerted the policemen who drew their weapons out, with the aim of taking out Sunday.

Three shots rang out, but the wrong men fell down.



As soon as Tade finished with Chuks, the DPO called him.

"Good afternoon sir." Tade said.

"Good afternoon. I want to see you immediately. Can you find your way to the station?"

"Yes sir. I found another evidence incriminating Dotun sir. Its a video evidence." Tade said.

"Good. Very good. We have arrested him!"

"Really?" Tade feigned surprise. Then I will be coming now.

"Okay, do quick. I will call Chuks and tell him to come, so don't bother about that."

"Okay sir."

"Tade, before you cut the phone hear this; come alone! Make sure nobody is following you."

"Yes sir." Tade wondered why the sudden warning.

While Chuks was trying to fathom what was happening, Tade called him.

"Chuks, Chuks, can you come right now?" Tade said.

"Guy, I dey come now. Dem don arrest Dotun!"
It was Tade's turn to be surprised. "Dotun? When? Where? How?"

"I was in the department when they carried him. Where you dey?"

"I dey department and go come hostel now."

"Make we meet for there."




"Eh?"

"What did you tell that other guy?" Sunday asked, slapping him twice. Soji yelped, inducing another slap from Sunday.

"Shut up there!" He barked. "If you shout again, this cutlass will be touching your cheeks!"

Soji was shaking feverishly, obviously induced by that slap. The tree which he was bound to affected his back, making him to be scratching his body. Little drops of water was already dropping on him, a harbinger of rain.

"Sir, we just discussed politics."

Another slap followed.

harjibolar10:
says who?

Says somebody
Will try and update tonight.

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