The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 28

Episode 5 years ago

The Activist - Season 1 - Episode 28

☆☆☆☆☆

“Are you Mad?!” Dotun screamed at a surprised Shina. “Why did you behave like that? Don’t you know how important this test is?”

“I don’t know and i don’t care. Its not like I have all day to myself. I also have other things to do and i still find time to read.” Shina looked impudently at Dotun. “Go and read.”

“See this jew man! You no dey fear me?” Many students started to shift back, knowing Dotun had the capability to kill. Having someone like Dotun, a member of the Black Axe close was bad enough, having him as an enemy was almost unforgivable.

“I no fear you. Shey na only you get this ogba? You think say you fit show me because you dey cult abi? Na me go show you!” He snapped his fingers at Dotun. “You go soon sabi who be boss for this school.”

Dotun made a lunge at him, but Chuks came in the way of both of them.

“Make you stop am, una no dey look where una dey?” He looked sternly at both of them. “Don’t you realize that your comments are unwarranted here, that is apart from the fact that the university management is earnestly looking out for cult members and two of you have stupidly admitted that you are cultists? If any one goes to report to the management, you guys will be rusticated and that is worse than what happened in the hall today. Better apologize to each other and forget about what happened.”

They grudgingly apologized to each other but as soon as the crowd started to disperse, they called their respective cult groups.

They wanted all out action on each other!
Meanwhile, Chuks was gisting Tade and co about what happened.

“To make it worse, the two ediots were trying to fight infront of the whole class. If I did not stop them, they will be tearing themselves apart.”

“Hmnn, This cult thing eh, nawa for them oh!” Made said. “God forbid I join them!” Shittu swung his hand round his head and t----t it forward, snapping it in front of Tade.
“So na me go become cult member abi?” Tade threw his hands backwards towards Shittu and snapped his hands- a common sign which meant ‘ BACK TO THE SENDER’.
Both Shittu and Tade continued snapping for a while like little children who just heard about a devil in their midst, while Made and Chuks looked at them in amusement.

“Oya, make una stop am” Chuks said in amusement, after which he went to the back of the room.

A knock came through their door.
“I am looking for Tade.” A female voice said outside.

”Tade, your girlfriend is around.” Made said, looking around with a funny smile. Tade came in quickly and wore a shirt on his bare chest.

“I don’t have a girlfriend abeg.” He corrected Made. “I no sabi which kin babe dey come find me by this period.”
He opened the door and met Sophie.


**************************

Dotun paced around his room impatiently, waiting of the Capone to show. His incourse is at stake here and considering the result of the last incourse, he could not afford to fail this one. He could have called him again but knowing the nature of Capone, he decided against it.

Dotun, a 5’11 feet tall guy, was lean and thinly built, with a couple of scars on his chest. His face is as clean as a new stainless steel plate bar one long scratch on his cheek region, a result of a slightly missed target.
Despite his frame, he was the best hitman in the Black Axe fraternity. A criminal since he was in SS1, he was personally recruited by the current Capone, Scorpion even before he left secondary school. He is highly valued and publicly associates with members of his frat, regardless of what other people think.

He had a resume most professional assassins would look with green eyes of envy. Name it- from fellow cult members to Capones of lesser cults to local politicians to industrialists and movers and shakers of the society, to commissioners and ministers and governors, he had slain them. He had even killed a sitting president in Equatorial Guinea, a military leader for that matter. After that mission, Scorpion privately called him Dust, because his reach seemed to be immeasurable.

It was now this reputation that Shina and Dr Adewole stepped on. Of course, his education was bound to suffer if he engaged in his ‘specialized’ activities. However, Scorpion had told him to put off any plans to attack Shina, since he just joined the Ravens and they did not want an outright war with them. However Dr Adewole was going down, and going down fast.

Scorpion suddenly entered the room with one of his acolytes, simply called Jimmy Flow. Scorpion, a tall (6’3),muscular and extremely handsome guy, was very popular on his own right. A student of Psychology and a male model and entertaineur( an entrepreneur who organises fashion shows, music shows and the likes) was known as the new face of entertainment on campus. He was the one bringing the big shots in music like Wizkid, Tuface, Davido and so on. In a rural town like Ife and a local school (in terms of entertainment) like OAU, that was an awesome stop gap to the steady stream of church activities and boredom.

Yet behind that facade stood one of the most feared men on campus. Since Kareem and Terrible the former Capones of the Ravens and the Black Axe left, he and Nightcrawler have been the face of cultism on campus. Quadri ( Scorpion’s real name) and Chinedu ruled the underworld in Ife and almost beyond. The third name which is behind those two more due to his secrecy than anything else is Dotun aka Dust.

“Dotun, we don arrange that Dr of yours, cool down.” Scorpion spoke. “You need not to do anything else.”

“Eh? Scorpion no be so we talk na. Na proper silencing I wan do for am, no be say make im dey alive.”

“Quiet jare!” Scorpion bellowed, forcing Dotun to coil back to his shell.”Your blood too dey boil. Cool down.”

Dotun moved about angrily, not too satisfied with what he heard. “What did you do, sir?”
“We instructed him to swap your score with that of Shina, then make im remove that mark wey im put for your script. So na you go benefit from Shina’s work and I sabi say Shina work make sense pass.”

“Its not good enough, bros. The guy disrespect me gaaan and that useless Doctor dey fall my hand constantly. I go take action on them oh! I wan deliver…..”

Paaa! A hot slap landed on Dotun’s face giving the sound of Waayi! in his ears, taking his mouth with it. Jimmy pulled back while Scorpion, who delivered the slap looked at Dotun with red-hot eyes.

“Na me you dey followed yarn to like that? Abi na because I dey follow you gist you come feel say we be age-mates? Answer me!”
Dotun turned to face him, looking submissive but his eyes betrayed the pain and anger he had.

“Its not like that, na you no understand wetin I dey feel. That Shina dey feel say because dem bam am, nothing fit do am.”
Scorpion’s face then lightened a bit. “Dotun, Free that Lecturer. I get my persin wey dey mark im two girls. I don tell am say any fu*kup from im sode, those girl go drop like fruit wey don over-ripe. As for Shina, I don follow im Capone yarn and im don talk say im go discipline im persin. They strong pass us for now, but them sabi say we go both lose if we fight. So we go free that ish. Jimmy, let’s go.”

When they got to the door, Scorpion held the handle and waited. “Dotun, if the thing dey shark you wella, wait until you become Capone. At least make my time pass.” He then left with Jimmy in tow.

”Hello.” Sophie said to a stunned Tade, who could not figure out how she knew his room at the moment.

“Sophie, what are you looking for here?” Tade asked in surprise. “Who told you my room number or location?”

“Na wa o, see Jamb question! So I can’t visit my class rep again.” Sophie replied, as Made winked at Shittu and Chuks, making hand signs to intimate them of Tade’s visitor.
Tade turned back and gave Made a malicious stare, before moving outside and closing the door.

“Sophie, how can I help you?”
“Wow, am not welcome into your room? That’s a nice way to treat a girl.” She retorted. “You behave like a smirk nowadays, always behaving formal. What happened to the Class rep of Part 1? I can’t suddenly visit you unless I have an assignment to submit or a class work to do?”
Tade smiled, realising his folly. “Sophie, no vex. I am just wary. You can come in.” He was about turning back when she held his shoulder with her arm.

“Wary of what?”