Oga Martins - Season 2 - Episode 8

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Oga Martins - Season 2 - Episode 8

If Deji were a stranger to Martins, he would have thought he ran a shrine in his apartment. His living room looked like it had suffered from a tremor, while the female who was lying in a pool of her own blood appeared lifeless. Deji was indeed full of surprises and if Martins had a premonition of the dangers that la!d ahead at Deji’s that night he would have opted to spend the night under the bridge at Ojuelegba instead. Walking into the apartment was much of a challenge to him since he wasn’t sure what he was walking into.
“Thank God Aisha called in to cancel our engagement, how would I have explained this to her?” Martins said under his breath
Again, for the second time in 48 hours Martins had found himself in a dilemma. He was having a hard time understanding why fortune was suddenly making faces at him at a time he was close to sealing the biggest deal of his life.


“Maybe all these things are happening because I’m close to my breakthrough,” he hoped.

He wished he had been in Deji’s house earlier; probably he would have been able to avert the ugly incident and subsequently the impending doom.

Based on Deji and Akon’s account on what transpired in the apartment that led to the blood-letting, Stella ought to be held accountable for the mishap that occurred while she was making an attempt on Akon’s life. However the only eye-witnesses around at the time of the crime were the two love birds, Deji and Akon. The implication of this is that the duo would have a hard time proving that they directly had nothing to do with it not even when the incident occurred in Deji’s house. Though Martins found their version of the incident believable, albeit the Nigerian Judicial System works in diverse ways that can make an innocent man confess a crime he never committed with aplomb and ingenuity.

“Akon, If Stella doesn’t make it out of this hospital alive, we will be in deep s--t” Deji’s proclamation diverted Martins thoughts to his friend.

Martins looked up at Deji from his seating position for a moment. Deji had been restless since they arrived at the hospital almost 2 hours ago and had not stopped pacing around the hospital’s waiting room ever since. After stealing occasional glances at his friend, Martins could tell Deji was more scared about the possibility of Stella dying in the hospital than been held for a crime committed in his apartment.

“If Stella doesn’t come out of this hospital alive then it would mean you guys have no case at all” Martins chipped in.
“Exactly bro…No one to prove neither of us stabbed her” Deji concurred

“Who would believe our story?” Akon added
“At least Martins does” Deji said while taking a quick glance at Martins to be sure he was right about him.
“Well, unfortunately he doesn’t work with the Nigerian Police force neither is he part of our Judiciary system. Deji, what if she even comes out of the hospital and fails to corroborate our story? Have you thought about that?”

“Why would she want to do that?” Martins quizzed them.

“ Of course to get back at us” Akon quipped
“She wouldn’t dare. Regardless of what happened back at the house, it doesn’t change the fact that Stella is a good person” Deji countered

“Oh so you know? You knew that Deji, yet you went on to betray her” Martins said disappointedly

“Martins please don’t start. Don’t get melodramatic here”


According to Deji, Stella had come uninvited into his apartment to confront Deji about his sudden cold attitude towards her not knowing that a rude shock awaited her. After finding it pretty difficult to come to terms with Deji’s deceit, infidelity and betrayal of their relationship, she had taken to attacking Akon -her presumed enemy, this was after an altercation with Deji had resulted in the violation of his living room. Martins thought for a moment what his testimony would be like if he was made to stand in the witness box as his thoughts trailed back to the discovery at Deji’s apartment two hours earlier.
“Deji, is that the body of a human being or an animal?”


“What kind of question is that?”
“Deji, you open up your door to me and the first thing that meets my eye is a bloodied female in your living room and you think you don’t need some explaining to do?”
“Please Martins don’t compound my woes, I’m trying to think straight here. Can you at least come in?”

“Come in where? You want me to walk into a murder?”

“Who said there’s a murder? Martins just because you now know I’m a wire boy doesn’t mean I’m also capable of murder, haba!”

“Honestly, right now I don’t know what to believe about you anymore” Martins said as he took a closer look at the body. “Please Deji tell me that person lying there is not dead”

“I don’t know Martins”
“What do you mean you don’t know?”
“Please just go there and see for yourself”
“That isn’t Akon, right?”

Martins finally walks cautiously into the living room as he draws close to the body.
“Stella? Oh my God! What happened here?”
Martins immediately goes on his knees as he bends over the body. He examines the body with trembling hands

“ Deji what are you still doing? Common let’s take her to the hospital”

Deji saunters to the dinning to get his car keys as Akon scampers into the living room carrying a bowl of water with some bandages
“Martins! Thank God you are here”
“And what are you doing with those? Does the person lying here look like she would need any of those?”

“I didn’t know what to do and Deji’s has not being of any help either. He’s been acting like a sissy”

“Martins, you sure she’s not dead” Deji interjected feeling embarrassed by Akon’s remarks

“No sir, she’s still breathing but she will be dead soon if we don’t take her out of here.”

“Can we at least try to stop the bleeding?” Akon asked

Martins tries to examine the knife wounds close to Stella’s chest region
“Gosh! This is deep! What really happened here? Who stabbed her between the both of you?”

“She did?” Deji replied
“Akon?”
“No, Stella”
“You mean she tried to commit suicide”
“She tried to stab Akon then she tripped and was fell by her own weapon”
“She fell directly on the knife” Akon added
“Please Martins can we just take her to the hospital first. We can go through the details later.” Deji said as his agitation mounts
“Do you drive well now?” Martins inquired
“Yes I do”
“You have your car keys?”
Deji rummages his pockets with his hands
“In my pocket”
“Then help me with the body, let’s take her in your car”


Within a minute the trio were on their way to the hospital in Deji’s new car with half-dead Stella at the back seat alongside Akon. Deji was behind the wheels while Martins settled for the passenger’s seat.

The loud noise from a siren at the parking lot of the hospital interrupted Martins’ thoughts. The Doctor who the trio awaited for over an hour finally makes his appearance at the waiting room as Deji immediately walks up to him.

“Doctor, hope she’s fine?”
“I’m sorry…em…em, Mr Deji but…em…”
The abrupt appearance of a nurse in the hospital who had raced alarmingly into the waiting room interrupted the Doctor’s discussion with Deji

“Doctor! There’s an emergency! It’s Senator Ibitoye”