Tarasha - Season 1 - Episode 31

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Tarasha - Season 1 - Episode 31

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Robin Kahn’s dead body was finally recovered
from the house where he was killed the next
day. It took seeing Greg’s dead body for James
to remember that they were on a mission to a
particular address before the wanted lady
attacked them.

James led a group back to the location on Gravl
estate that day and they entered into the
compound, finding Robin’s body laying lifeless
on the floor behind the ambulance. They
searched round the compound and even broke
into the house but found nothing else
implicating, except for some bullets and the
blood stained doctor’s coat found in the
ambulance.

The bullets and coat were sent to the forensics
team immediately for scrutinization while
Robin’s body was driven back to the
headquarters.

Still that morning, James and Sandra visited Dr
Hammed who had met in 2030 with Samantha
Osman in Derl Pharmacy to ask for a
confirmation if Aisha Bello was the same as
Samantha Osman.

‘They are not the same person’ Dr Hammed
replied their question in an angry manner. He
was tired of replying questions already, he had
had enough from the EFCC and his lawyer. His
plan was to rest and prepare for his court
hearing the next week.

‘Just take a proper look at it first’ James
insisted.

‘Am I a baby who doesn’t know his left from the
right? I said they are not the same’ the man
replied back stubbornly.

‘Sir’ James tried to calm the situation. ‘I don’t
mean to infuriate you. Well, maybe I should
show you one of her recent pictures, that one is
old and dated back to 2023’
James moved closer to the man with his tablet
and displayed some pictures for the man to
see. ‘These are her recent pictures on
Instagram and Facebook’ he said as he swiped
through different photos.

‘There’s no iota of resemblance between this
girl and Samantha Osman’ Dr Hammed stood on
his point. ‘Samantha looks more like a black
American and has a kind of mixed accent, she’s
certainly not the same as this’

Aisha’s eyes opened to see Benny pointing a
gun at her, her body which was previously stiff
immediately began to vibrate in fright.

‘Benny, what are you doing?’ she struggled to
mutter under her breath. She looked over his
shoulder and saw Tarasha and Cole standing at
the back, close to the entrance of the lab. Cole
hid his face immediately, after her eyes met
his.

Benny cocked the gun.
06/01/2031
**Maitaima, Abuja**
‘Nice to have you here, Mr Henry’ Sylvester
shook hands with Henry as he welcomed him to
their head office in Abuja.

‘Thank you sir’ Henry smiled, receiving the
handshake. ‘I’m happy to be here to work with
you sir’
‘Come in please’ the stout man adjusted his suit
trousers belt as he ushered Henry into an
office.

Mr Sylvester, the official in charge of the
security cameras system of whole nation had
been recently embattled with series of breaks
and attacks on their operations which always
resulted in assassinations.
The first time it happened was in November
2030. The security cameras all stopped
transmitting at the same time and for the same
duration of a minister’s assassination. Others
had happened after that, the latest was just one
week ago and it involved the death of United
States special officer, Robin Kahn and his team.
After fruitless struggles by all the software
engineers and officers to fix the loophole, Mr
Sylvester was forced to invite Henry George, a
young Internet technician, software and
computer engineer and transmission expert to
come to their aid.
Henry George, aged 26, was a renowned ethical
hacker who had saved the nation on a previous
attack by enemies on their security official
websites. Henry saved his country four years
ago when he was serving as a youth corper in
Maiduguri. His breaking of the limit brought him
fame and money as he was well sought for by
several organizations after his service. He
decided to settle in Lagos with his parents,
occupying a good position in a well respected
computer security firm.

‘Please have your seat, sir’ Sylvester motioned
him to the visitor’s seat.

‘Thank you sir’ Henry replied as he sat
comfortably into the seat.

‘I believe you’ve heard about the recent security
breaches we’ve had in our systems’ Sylvester
began before sitting down.

‘Yes. As a matter of fact, I’ve been trying to
work on it already’ Henry leaned forward,
placing his hands on the table. ‘But you know
there’s a limit to what I can do without having
permission from you to use your data’
‘Yes’ Sylvester smiled. ‘We’ll give you everything
you need to work with. We need to fix the
problem as soon as possible to avoid more
blames from the police’

‘I’ll work with the best of my abilities as long as
you provide every necessary data for me’ Henry
licked his lips as he replied, he felt uneasy.
He wasn’t being honest. In fact, he wasn’t so
sure if there was any more data to get from
them as he had already hacked into their
systems to derive information for his personal
investigation.

When the news of the security failure first hit
the news the last year, Henry had launched his
personal investigation immediately, being
curious to know the expert that was good and
bold enough to hold the nation’s security in
captive for hours.

Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t make much
progress like he thought he would. Every link to
trace the person behind the work was
completely blocked. He even tried to locate the
server from where the Health Minister’s
compromise video was uploaded from but the
result he got was an incorrect proxy and IP
address. Since then, he had concluded that his
failure to locate the source was due to lack of
complete data. But the data he needed was
sure not from this organization he had been
invited to work for, he accepted the invitation
with the hope that their influence would get him
the data from other organizations. He was
ready to break record.

‘Here sir’ Sylvester courteously handed a file to
Henry. ‘In it is all our codes and data that you
need, please we’ll like you to start work on it as
soon as possible’

Henry stood to take the file from the man,
smiling as he marveled at the man’s great show
of respect for him. The man was a married man
who was far older than him in age and
authority, so Henry felt greatly honored by his
attitude.

‘I’ll begin my work immediately’ Henry said as
they exchange a parting handshake.

11/01/2031
Their Bus got to Kubwa, Abuja at exactly five
minutes past nine in the evening and they drove
into their lodge by fifteen minutes past nine.
Their arrival attracted a lot of attention from
people around the house. The house had been
abandoned for over two years.

‘Hey! Wetin I dey find for hia?’ A Mallam walked
in after them as they drove in through the old
rusted gate.

Tarasha was the first to come out of the Bus
and walk back to the gate to attend to the man,
but she was helpless as she couldn’t
understand the man’s pidgin language until
Benny came around
‘Wetin I dey find for hia?’ The man asked again.
‘We came on a short business trip’ Benny
answered him. ‘This property has been sold to
us’
‘Who sell am for me?’
‘Where are the house and land documents?’
Benny turned to Tarasha to ask.
‘Is that all he’s saying?’ Tarasha commented as
she walked back to the car to get the
documents.
She returned a minute later and handed it over
to Benny who displayed it to the man and
spoke in low tones to the man. The man
walked away silently after nodding his head in
agreement several times to Benny.
‘He’s one of the security guards in the town’
Benny informed Tarasha as they walked back to
the bus to join the others offload the loads in
the bus.

13/01/2031
‘This bug is not a common one’ Henry said to
Sylvester as he examined a small black device
held up in his hands. ‘It is customized, I believe
the user manufactured it by him or herself’
‘So can nothing be done with this?’ Sylvester
asked in a pessimistic manner.
‘Of course, something can be done with it’
Henry answered with a mischievous smile.
‘What do you mean?’ Sylvester asked, confused
by the look on Henry’s face.
‘Is it not this device the police headquarters
sent from Lagos this morning?’ Henry dropped
the device on the table and sat in front of a
computer set.
‘Yes’
‘It might take us a little time before we come
up with anything useful to us about this bug. I
don’t want us to rush’ Henry said, typing in the
label on the bug into the Google search engine.
‘Ha! I don’t want us to spend too much time on
this issue, we’ve gone about six days already
without making a headway’
Henry paused and turned to Sylvester, he stared
into his face for a moment before speaking out.
‘Mr Sylvester’ he called. ‘Do you know the
history surrounding this bug?’ He raised a brow
as he asked.

‘Ermm… I know. You know, it’s just that the
government is putting a lot of pressure on us’
Sylvester stammered as he tried to convince
Henry.

‘Well, if they really want a quick job’ Henry
turned back to the desktop as he spoke, ‘let
them come and do the job themselves. I won’t
get myself killed stupidly’
‘I’m not saying we should work stupidly, I just
think we should work a little more faster’
‘I won’t work faster than this, I assure you’
Henry said boldly without turning to the man,
he was beginning to get pissed with the man
but tried to remain calm. ‘I won’t work like
Robin Kahn who was impatient and ran into the
waiting hands of the assassins, I’m wiser’
Sylvester did not reply anymore as he began to
reason with Henry, he remained quiet and
allowed Henry to continue his searching.
Henry silently read each of the search results
before clicking on the best option. He read for
few minutes and jotted some codes into his
notepad before getting up.

‘I have to get to a computer accessories shop
now’ He said as he picked up his bag and hung
it on his shoulder.

‘Ehen, Okay’ Sylvester got up too and set out to
leave the computer room.

** Twenty minutes later **
‘Seginet Computers’ Henry read aloud to
himself as he parked his car in the parking lot
of the company. He took a deep breath before
proceeding to the main building.

The company’s main building had four doors,
two for entry and the other two for exit. Henry
smiled as his Android device beeped. He took it
out from his bag, a red light pointed out from
the screen, slanting in an upward direction. He
took care not to look in the direction of the
light as he understood the message. His
properly designed app was just locating the
positions of the neatly hidden surveillance
camera at the door.

The door opened, allowing him to enter after
been scanned by the security system. He
switched off the device to avoid attracting
attention to himself as it would in no time begin
to make numerous beeps on locating the
cameras inside the building.

Computer accessories and softwares of
different kinds and uses were neatly arranged in
shelves at the different sections. Henry quickly
located the camera section and proceeded
towards the stand.

‘Henry’ he heard someone call. He turned back
to see the caller but found out that he wasn’t
the Henry being called. He hissed and turned
again carelessly to collide into someone.

‘Oh! Sorry’ he apologized as he bent to pick the
fallen contents of the fallen nylon bag. The lady
watched him in disgust as he picked up the
gadgets and returned them into the nylon bag.
‘I’m so sorry’ he apologized again as he handed
over the bag back to the lady. She gave him a
searching look before collecting it from him.
There was something familiar about the lady,
Henry thought as they both stood for thirty
seconds without moving. It wasn’t her face that
looked familiar, rather it was an atmosphere
around her, the scent of her perfume. He had
felt that atmosphere sometime before but he
couldn’t tell where and when it was.
He was also held spellbound by her beauty, her
charm was irresistible. Her face was neat with
no acne or pimple, her eyes were attractive and
too radiant to look at for long without falling in
worship. He had only one description for her, a
perfect African goddess.
He felt his body shiver as he ran his eyes
through her clean sexy legs. Her figure eight
was clearly displayed in the tight mini gown
which revealed her thigh down to her foot. His
heartbeat suddenly increased without him
knowing.
‘Be careful next time’ she said and walked away
from his presence, leaving him to stand
overwhelmed in the midst of other moving
people.

He stood transfixed for some more seconds, but
his brain was working perfectly well and quick
also. He had heard that voice somewhere
before but couldn’t remember where it was.
He turned back to see her just going out
through the exit and quickly followed after her,
abandoning his primary assignment.

She was already entering into her car when he
got out, he quickly ran towards her but she
started the car engine and began to drive
towards the gate before he got to her. He tried
to call out to her but there was no response.
Without thinking twice, he jumped into his car
and drove out of the gate, pursuing after her.
After minutes of trying to get her attention
through the side mirror, she finally stopped near
an army checkpoint and came out of the car.
The soldiers approached her immediately as it
was wrong to park at that place.
He drove closer to them and was still arguing
with himself whether to park also or just drive
forward when he realized what was going on,
but it was late already.
The lady had just finished explaining something
to the soldiers and two were signaling for him
to park with whips in their hands.
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