Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 135

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Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 135

Location: President Emeka’s living room, Aso Rock, Abuja.
Time: 8:25AM
‘Chief Elvis, I would advise you as a brother to quit the presidential race,’ President Emeka was saying to his Vice. ‘The party members are not happy with the way you’ve constantly been in the news, and now you’re being heavily investigated by the police, it might be difficult for you to even win the primaries and that would be a disgrace to you.’
‘Thank you sir,’ Elvis Richards replied. ‘But I still think there’s enough time to redeem my image. I don’t want to step down, if I do I would be giving the enemies easy victory and that’s what they want. All these false news going round against me are been pushed by the enemies to disqualify me from becoming President.’
‘You don’t seem to understand, there’s no one backing you anymore, even Chief has said you can never win the coming election.’
Fear gripped Elvis Richard’s heart as he heard Chief being mentioned. He knew the Chief that was being talked about; the same cruel Chief who slept with his wife. Even though he hated the Chief with all his might, he couldn’t but admit that the Chief was unarguably the oldest man who still had a say in the politics of the nation, with many political aspirants always seeking for his approval.

Elvis Richards didn’t expect the Chief to support him anymore even though he held the belief that the man would not know about his involvement in the death of the children.
‘I don’t think it matters, Chief Afeez is just one man. He can’t stop all others from supporting me,’ Elvis Richards said stubbornly even though he knew he lied.
President Emeka shrugged. ‘Well, if you decide to go ahead, I wish you well but I have to tell you now that you don’t have my support.’

Elvis Richards flashed a quick look at the President, surprised that the man could say that straight to his face.

‘I just wish that after the investigations are done, we’d find none of the accusations against you true. If we do, I’m sure you know they’ll be no soft landing for you. The international community is involved in this already,’ President Emeka said.

Elvis Richards remained quiet. He felt threatened by the president’s words but he refused to be afraid, he was sure he would find his way out of the situation.
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Location : Lagos
Now clad in a white shredded jean trouser and a navy blue top, Tarasha sat in front of the main computer system watching some video clips and renaming them. The full Inspector General’s confession video was close to two hours and she had cut it into four different parts of about twenty five minutes each which she planned to upload on different days and had created a new YouTube channel for the purpose.

She minimized the video clips folder and switched to the running chrome browser, she had already opened some websites on different tabs on which she read different blog accounts on the new development on the Inspector General’s health.

The liquid she had passed into his body through the intravenous fluid mechanism contained the virus of a deadly disease which begins to manifest few days after the virus enters into the blood. The liquid was prepared in such a way that when it enters into the blood, it becomes one with it and could not be cleaned by taking any other liquid or medicine to wash the blood. For the virus to be taken out of the body system, the blood of that person had to be drained completely to the last drop.

She closed the tabs on the browser until she was left with only two tabs, she typed in the admin URL to her blog on the first tab and typed in the website of her email service provider on the second.

She switched to the first and entered her log in details before switching back to the second, the email was logged in already. She had new messages. She quickly scrolled to the email that caught her attention more, a reply from the Nefary Queen in the US. She clicked on it and it loaded fully in two seconds.

The mobile device hasn’t been claimed by anyone yet and would be transferred soon to the lost item store. There are very little chances that she’d ever return to get it
Tarasha could not give an instant reply, she wondered what else to do to track her mother. Stephanie claimed not to know the woman’s residence in the white man’s nation, and the woman may never go back to claim the device just like the queen suggested, she probably never knew where the device fell off. It would mean Tara had to do more than just tracking from Nigeria if she ever wanted to see her mother again. She would have to travel to the US herself, and that could only be after the mission was complete.

‘Cole, has she called again?’ Tarasha suddenly turned to Cole who has been seated with her in the room busy with a different computer system.

Cole turned to her, wondering who she was talking about.

‘Patricia,’ Tarasha clarified after seeing his confusion.
‘No, she hasn’t.’
‘You should call her this afternoon,’ Tarasha said.
‘Okay…’ Cole replied in a low voice, with a not too confident tone. He wondered what she was trying to do.
‘We need to take care of that flop now, soon we’d be going after the Vice President and it could affect us if we don’t take care of her first.’
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3 Hours Later
Location: Vice President’s Quarters, Aso Rock.
‘James, how far have you gone with your plans?’ Elvis Richards asked his faithful son.
‘So far so good, I’m still trying to clear your name first. We’ve gotten a man who would take responsibilities for the death of the doctors. He would claim that he was sent by Samantha Osman.’ James replied.
Elvis Richards smiled at the brilliance of James. He was glad James was now on his side. He remembered the James used to be on the side of Justice and truth but it had all changed within a short time, James was now covering up his sins instead of letting them open.

James on the other hand was only determined to see Chief Elvis Richards go unpunished, if that could be the only payment he could give to the man who was cheated by life and by his beloved trusted wife.
‘Sir, what’s the relationship between you and Madam Henrietta?’ James asked. He had a file in his hands and in the file were pictures of the Vice President and Madam Henrietta walking out of an aircraft.
‘That lady…’ the Vice President took in a breath. ‘To be honest, she was my side chick. I met her for the first time while I was still working in the police force, it was in a brothel. I started visiting there regularly when I saw her there, just to sleep with her but she left the place after some time and I didn’t see her again until some years after, then she was working for Lewis Andrew George’s family and was running the IJMB program.’
‘So what else is between you guys?’
‘Nothing more, we’re more like friends right now and she called me after a long time recently. I invited her to join me for a flight from here down to Lagos.’ Elvis Richards replied.

‘Isn’t it connected to the case between you and Lewis Andrew George?’
‘No, that case has been long forgotten.’
‘And do you know anything about her disappearance?’
‘No, I don’t have anything to do with her and that daughter of Lewis.’
There was silence for close to a minute.
‘Inspector Dakolo is in charge of the missing persons’ case of Stephanie George and Mrs Henrietta. He found out through his investigations that the woman is now in the US. She was taken out of Nigeria with a hidden identity but she made the mistake of purchasing something with her former credit card. She’s been spotted in the US already.’
‘Well, that’s proof positive I know nothing about her disappearance.’
‘Inspector Dakolo is trying to find out the connection between you two and that was the reason he called me yesterday.’
‘But how did he find out she made use of her credit card?’
‘He contacted the US security who had the credit card details before and he was alerted when she used it.’
‘Hmm, that guy is intelligent.’ Elvis Richards commented.
‘Yes, I worked under him for sometime.’ James said.

There was silence for another minute.
‘James, I hope your siblings are well protected.’ the Vice President asked.
James raised a brow, ‘You mean your other kids?’
The Vice President nodded.
‘Yes, they’re fine. I ordered them not to move around too much and they’re also being watched by the police.’
‘Good,’ Elvis Richards took in a breath.
‘I’ve got to go now Dad, I’ll see you later.’ James said as he got up on his feet.
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