Tarasha - Season 2 - Episode 240

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Tarasha - Season 2 - Episode 240

NIS UNDERGROUND FACILITY

‘What are you doing bro?’ Dan asked Dave as he walked into the office. He had a pack of fruit juice in the nylon he held.
Dave was engrossed with something on his phone. He looked up after Dan’s question and adjusted his seating position. ‘I’m still on break, so I’m taking out time to read some interesting stuffs.’


‘Interesting stuffs like?’ Dan asked as he settled in his own seat.

‘Action stories on Youngicee website,’ Dave replied him and continued with what he was reading.
‘What’s the website?’
‘Bro, just type in Youngicee stories into Google search.’ Dave snapped and gave Dan a warning look.

‘Hahaha, am I disturbing you?’ Dan laughed as he stared at Dave who continued reading on his phone with a serious expression on his face. ‘Well, I’ve got your favorite juice here.’ Dan said as he opened the fruit juice pack. He took out a cup from his locker and poured some of the juice into the cup. ‘This is so cold,’ he said and raised his cup temptingly for Dave to see. He gulped down the content of the cup halfway and released a deep breath to show his satisfaction. He looked at Dave and Dave was still engrossed with his phone, his attempt to distract him with the juice hadn’t worked. He dropped the cup of juice and took out his phone quickly, he needed to make that Google search and see what was keeping Dave so glued to his phone.


Dave was still reading when Inspector Dakolo called his phone. He hesitated for a while before answering.
‘Hello Dave.’
‘Good afternoon Inspector.’
‘Do you have any of your colleagues who got the news of Eze Okafor’s kidnap this morning?’

‘Eze Okafor?’ Dave squinted, trying to recall if he had ever heard of the person or the name.
‘Yes, the late minster of health’s elder brother. I just got the news from Inspector James that he was attacked by Samantha Osman on his way out of his house in Nnewi this morning.’
‘I’ve been quite busy and I haven’t heard of it yet. I’ll find out and get back to you.’

‘Please do.’
‘Shi*t!’ Dave cursed and sq££zed the phone in his hand. He bit his lower lip as he closed his eyes and shook his head gently from side to side. ‘Dan,’ he called.
Now Dan was already being engrossed with the same thing which had taken Dave’s attention earlier.
‘Dan,’ Dave called again. He got no response. Dave sprung up to his feet and proceeded towards Dan table. ‘Dan, Samantha Osman is still in Anambra.’
It took sometime for Dan to assimilate the words spoken to him. He took his eyes off the phone for a second and stared at Dave.

‘How do you know?’
‘I just got information that she attacked someone this morning.’
‘Who?’
‘Eze Okafor. I don’t really know him but I heard he is the brother of her first victim, Nnamdi Okafor.’

‘So what do we do?’
Dave stared in silence for a while. Then he returned to his seat and dialed a number on his phone.

‘Good afternoon Agent Godwin,’ he greeted first.
‘Good afternoon, I was just about to call you.’ Agent Godwin said. He paused for a second and released a breath. ‘Samantha Osman was spotted at Nnewi this morning.’
‘Yes, I just heard about it and that’s why I’m calling. Who did she attack?’
‘Dr Eze Okafor, he was on his way to a conference. She took him forcefully right on his street.’

‘Ermm… I don’t still understand how it happened.’

Agent Godwin explained to him how the man drove out with two other people and how she attacked them as captured by the Security cameras.

‘So she killed the two men and dropped Eze Okafor in an uncompleted building?’
‘She did not kill the men, she shot sedatives into their bodies. And we cannot really tell what she did to Eze Okafor. Except for some little bruises, the man is fine. He woke up some minutes ago but couldn’t remember anything and the substance benryl was detected in his blood which further proves that Samantha Osman was the attacker.’
‘Wow! So what have you been able to do about it?’
‘Very little, she planned it well and had a good escape plan. She rented two vehicles for use from different rental services and escaped through a village which had no coverage of the Security cameras, she left the vehicle used to take the man in front of the building where she dropped him and left the second one in the village without driving into any popular route which had cameras.’
‘So she’s untraceable now?’

‘We’re still tracing her by asking questions from the villagers. From what we’ve gotten so far, I believe she changed her clothes and the disguise before leaving the village.’
‘Did the cameras capture her face?’
‘Yes, her face was captured, the same disguise she wore at Crescent Moon Hotel.’
Dave sighed, ‘That’s untraceable.’
‘Yeah but I believe that we would still be able to deduce some important things from interrogating Eze Okafor after he’s fit enough, even though he does not remember his encounter with her. You should also provide us with anything you think would help us.’

‘Sure, I’ll get back to you if I find any information that’ll be useful.’
‘So what’s the plan?’ Dan asked after Dave ended the call.
‘I’m still thinking,’ Dave replied. He closed his eyes briefly and took in a deep breath.
‘I think we need to go, there are a lots of questions to find answers to.’ Dan suggested.

Dave also knew they had to go to Anambra but his main challenge was going there with this partner of his, he knew there was no way his activities wouldn’t be monitored by the chairman.

‘Okay, you should inform the chairman and let’s take the next available flight.’ Dave replied and picked his phone again. Something popped into his mind just as he unlocked it, he now remembered where he saw the name ‘Eze Okafor’. He minimized the dialer and navigated to the main menu, he located the email application and clicked on it, he searched for the email he received from the drug agency staff less than twenty four hours ago. He located it and opened the attached document, there he typed in to the search box the name ‘Eze Okafor’. He saw it at last, Eze Okafor was the one of the Ministers of Health during the years of the fake drugs reign.
The drugs list Lizzy had sent to him which looked like nonsense was now making sense. He picked his phone up again and opened his chat application. He sent a message to Lizzy.


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BASE B
Control room
‘I just sent them to your mail, you can check it now.’ Cole said into his phone.
‘Okay, what about the hotel room I asked you to book?’ Tara’s voice sounded in reply.
‘I booked for rooms in two hotels, one close to the airport and the other in the GRA where Garuba Ahmed lives.’
‘Hmm, keep both reservations, I’ll use the one close to Garuba Ahmed for now.’
‘Okay boss, I’ll send you the address immediately.’
Cole ended the call. He opened the messaging app and typed in the address of the hotel copying from the computer screen. He clicked on send and dropped the phone on the table. He took out the other phone from his pocket and unlocked it. He scrolled down the notification bar, there was already a message from Patricia as expected. He clicked on it.
‘Can’t we just stay overnight there?’ the message read.
‘Not today dear, I have some work to do very early here tomorrow morning.’ he replied.
He dropped the phone on the table. She was offline, so he wasn’t expecting her reply immediately. She had sent the message which he just replied about an hour ago but he didn’t bother to check it because he did not want distraction from Tarasha’s task.
They had planned to meet at his apartment that evening. He was supposed to pick her after work. They had earlier discussed that they would spend the night there but Cole had sent a message to change the plans after Tarasha told him that she would begin the work proper in the early hours of the next morning.

His phone beeped. Her reply had come in earlier than he expected.

‘Can’t you leave very early tomorrow morning?’ Patricia had asked. She was now online.

‘No dear, you don’t understand.’ Cole typed in. A good lie popped up in his mind and he continued to type, ‘A foreign company fixed a meeting with me by 10pm EST and I still have to prepare before the time of the meeting.’

‘Oh! Okay then, why don’t we just reschedule?’ her reply entered.
‘No, we don’t need to, we can still meet briefly tonight.’
‘No, we won’t meet tonight anymore. You have to prepare for your meeting and represent us well,’ she sent with a grin smiley.

‘Okay babe, I’ll call you when you close from work.’
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‘He says he has a meeting with some foreigners by 10pm EST tonight,’ she typed and sent to Dave.


‘Hmm…’ Dave sent in reply adding a smiley with a thinking expression.


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THIS WEEK’S QUESTION .
From today’s episode, If Cole was truly supposed to have a meeting with foreigners from Nigeria. What time will he connect to them from Nigeria?