Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 100

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Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 100

7:23 PM

‘Boss, I’m ready,’ Cole said into the mouthpiece hung around the second button on his shirt.

He was in the control room alone. The main computer system was already set up and the apps were running. It had taken him an extra fifteen minutes to set up after getting to the Base.

On the computer screen, a live stream was running. A well lighted one storey building was being shown. From the outside look of the building, one could tell that the top and down floors were designed as two separate flats.

Cole moved the cursor until he located Tarasha. She was dressed in a blue native top and a black skinny three-quarter shorts and had a small black bag strapped to her bag. She had a pair of special black trainers on her feet. He also noticed that she was lightly disguised with tribal marks on her face. He couldn’t but commend her silently for coming up with the idea to look like a native.
‘Can you see me?’ Cole heard Tarasha’s voice sound in the earpiece.
‘Yes, I can see you.’ Cole replied. He watched as she turned and looked around for some minutes and then she finally rested against the wall.
‘I can’t see the cameras because of the darkness of the day, locate the non visible areas of the cameras and get back to me immediately.’

‘Okay boss,’ Cole replied and got to work immediately. His fingers worked so fast on the keyboard and soon the live streamed video began to go in a rotational direction.
Someone knocked on the door.


Cole took a glance at the door. ‘Who’s it?’ he asked in a loud voice.
‘Nicholas,’ he heard the voice reply.
‘Come in.’

Nicholas entered into the place and proceeded straight towards Cole. ‘I’ve gotten the NSCC web account you asked me to get,’ he said and stopped beside Cole.
‘How did you get it?’ Cole flashed a look at him.

‘I paid a top official and he gave me his account details,’ Nicholas replied.
‘Hope the top official doesn’t have your own real name and details?’
‘No, he doesn’t.’
‘Okay, send the details in a notepad file to me.’ Cole said, hoping to conclude with that. He continued with the work on the computer but noticed that Nicholas was still standing behind him. He turned to him and raised a brow.

‘You’ve not given any further instruction,’ Nicholas said.
‘Further instructions pertaining what?’ Cole asked, squinting at his face.
‘We really don’t understand why we had to come to take you to the vehicle rentals firm and back putting on disguise.’
‘That’s done already,’ Cole replied and turned back to his work. ‘There’s no further instructions to be given for now. I went out to get some information and knew I could be possibly seen by someone against us, that’s why I needed the car rental company and the disguise. That way, no one would be able to trace my movement after driving into the company.’

Nicholas raised his brows in realization and nodded gently before walking out of the control room.
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LOCATION: MOWO, BADAGRY
‘Just keep moving now, I’ll tell you once you come in sight.’ Tarasha heard Cole’s voice in her earpiece.

She obeyed his instructions and moved away from the tree, she proceeded towards the gate of the building on a straight line from where she was previously standing.
‘I can see you now,’ Cole’s voice sounded as she got to the gate.

She looked around carefully. People were all around the area. A lot of women seated in their various shops and stores and others walking with bags returning from their places of work. Even though no one seemed to pay attention to her, she knew the neighbours and shop owners close by were watching her but just keeping quiet to see if she would do any thing suspicious.

She didn’t waste any time but pushed the pedestrian side of the gate and stepped into the compound. The gate, an old fashioned one creaked out loud as she closed it back. She stopped on a spot for a second to look around the place. She could approximate the distance between the main building and the gate as twenty two metres. The house was a very big one but the remaining space at the front of the house was also large. There were also spaces between the building and the fence at both sides.

She proceeded straight towards the main door of the ground floor. Someone stepped out through the door as she got halfway and stared at her from the balcony. He closed the door and stepped closer to the tip of the balcony, waiting for her.

‘Can you see the front of the house?’ she said in very low tones as she proceeded.
‘Just the front of the house, I can’t see the verandah fully but now I see a man standing there.’

‘Good evening sir,’ Tarasha greeted.
‘Good evening Aunty, are you looking for someone here?’ the man replied in a not-too-friendly tone.

‘I actually saw the to-let signpost outside the gate and I came to find out details about the house.’

‘Which To-Let sign post are you talking about?’ the guy asked with a frown.
‘It’s outside, resting on the fence beside your gate.’ She replied.
‘And you are sure it’s this house?’
‘Yes.’

The guy stared at her with suspicious eyes for a moment, then he turned back and opened the door, he poked his head in quickly and called for someone to join him. Thirty seconds later, another man joined him in the balcony.
The new man was built heavier compared to the first one who was only tall but slim. He looked more vicious and impatient.
‘This lady says there’s a sign post outside the gate,’ the first man said.
‘What sign post?’ the heavily built man asked, with his eyes still fixed on Tarasha’s face. He slowly turned his face to his partner while the partner was answering.
‘A sign post advertising vacancy,’ the first man answered.
‘Vacancy here?’ the heavy man turned back to Tarasha, narrowing his gaze.
‘Yes, it’s out there by your gate side.’ She replied confidently.

The heavily built man stared at her for some seconds. She looked confident and harmless at the same time. He examined her face and noticed the tribal marks on her cheeks, it looked exactly like those of the indigenes of the land. ‘Why don’t you go and check what she is talking about,’ he said to the first guy.

Tarasha kept a smile on as the first man walked past her. She didn’t move her gaze from the heavy man’s face who was also staring at her. She stepped closer to him and put her hand on the handrail which demarcated the balcony. Her eyes wandered for some seconds and she saw some movements at the window side. She knew some of the other men were now aware of her presence.

She heard the sound of the gate opening. Then she turned back to the man and looked directly into his eyes, ‘So which one of the flats is vacant?’

The man widened his eyes, wondering what kind of stupid question she asked.
‘Are you alright? Can’t you see we are just trying to confirm what you’re talking about?’

‘Oh! Sorry, wrong question. I wanted to ask which of the flats you kept Chief Nonso Onwuli.’

Before the man could come to himself, she attacked him with a short knife from her bag, driving it into his chest. He tried to resist by pulling her hand off but she was stronger than he expected. She kept twisting the knife hard into the left side of his chest, inflicting pains all over him until the whole knife with the handle got in his chest. He fell to the floor unconscious but she dragged him up and pushed him towards the door.
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