The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 12

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The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 12

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Sunday and Dotun eyes met, one with aggression, the other in slight fear. The tension was unbearable, that even the senators felt it.

But it was just for a minute.

Dotun quickly took charge and walked towards Sunday and hugged him, surprising the senators.

“You know him?” Senator Durojaiye asked Sunday who nodded.

“He is my Capone”
Gasps of Ooh escaped their mouths as they marveled but at the same time understood the situation.

“Let’s celebrate this!” Senator Alimi said, as he turned to the intercom to order refreshments

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Tade arrived home to meet a completely empty house, save for the gateman.
Father must have left for those midnight shifts. Thought he should be beyond that. He mused, before going to his room to drop his luggage.

It was not up to ten minutes when he heard his father’s car arrive. He quickly went to the sitting room to greet him.

Only to meet his father and mother together.
His heart was fluttering at the prospect of them coming together but their faces were telling a different story.

While he was still guessing, Wale opened his mouth.

“Tade, sit down there.” Tade quickly found a cushion to sit and waited for his parents to speak.

“Tade, what have you been doing in school?” Wale asked, his eyes squarely focusing on him. Clara was also staring at him, her disposition one of scrutiny.

Tade looked at both of them questioningly. “I am studying Law in school, sir. He answered with a straight face.”

“He is not asking you what course you are studying, he is asking you what you are doing in school, because you seem to be distracted.”

Tade looked at them with surprise, knowing that he has been doing well in school so far.
“Mummy, I don’t understand you at all.”
“Okay, let me break it down for you. What connects you with cult groups? ”

Tade shut his mouth, his teeth clenched and his disposition edgy. He was expecting some backlash.

He was not wrong.

“Stop looking at me like that and answer her question!” Wale roared in anger. “What have you been doing all this while? Answer me.”

Seeing that Tade was a bit shocked at his behavior, Wale pushed further. “So you think that we will not know, abi?” Wale asked. “That you have joined all those cult groups in school abi? Upon all we give……..”
“I did not join any cult, sir!” Tade answered, trying hard to control his anger.
“Then why are we receiving death messages about you?” Clara asked, sympathy running in her veins. “See them.” She said, displaying the messages on her phone to Tade.

Tade looked at the phone and found out that not only were his parents right, but that the senders obviously knew his identity and connected his brother’s history to it.
Tade on seeing this, became dumbfounded. His parents, noticing his change in emotions, also kept quiet. So for a while the house was quiet.

“Tade, please tell us the truth,you know we are doing this because of you.” Clara said, putting her hands on his thighs. “We don’t want anything to………”

“Woman, stop begging him!” Wale found his voice. “If he does not want to speak, he is leaving this house this very minute!”

At that moment Tade stood up and walked into his room. Not long after that he came out again with his bag.
“Sir, if you care to know, I joined a group that fight against cultism on campus.” He started. “I know that there is a lot of history about that but I don’t bloody care. I am going to do it my way and that’s final.”
Wale looked at him with raw anger. “What did you say? Have you forgotten that you depend on me for school fees or for your allowances? How dare do you speak to me and your mum that way? Don’t you have respect for your parents? Can’t you be…..”
“Please,Please,Please, Stop it!” Tade cut him in mid-sentence. “Why are you behaving like you have the right to control me? You that never took out time to talk to me, to know me, you now come here and start talking nonsense about respect and all that ish. Abeg, abeg, give me space!”
After saying that, he took his things outside, Clara watching in horror while Wale was daring him. It was until he refused to use the cars available but opted for public transport that Clara went to meet him.

“Tade, please don’t do this to us.” She said, tears running down her cheeks.”We are your parents, its natural for us to react the way we did. Please don’t go. ”
Tade looked at her and felt some pity. However he was determined and soon stopped a taxi.

“At least tell me where you will stay?” She asked. Tade refused to answer her but rather faced the taxi driver and gave him directions before zooming off.

“Clara, let him go, that’s his luck.”
Clara turned back and walked to her car, then changed her mind and charged towards Wale, delivering him a present which was a slap.

“Woman, what’s the meaning………?”
“Will you stop been arrogant?” Clara cut in. “It seems another woman has given you another child, but that boy is my only child left! You think I will watch him go into a perilous situation?”

“What do you want to do?” Wale asked. “Its not as if you could stop him when you went after him.”

“That’s your excuse, eh Wale?” Clara asked. “Am sure you have another child somewhere.”

“The boy is determined to die. Why bother yourself? Isn’t this how Andrew carried himself too?”

Clara walked back to her car, dejected. “Nothing must happen to that boy.” She said. “Nothing, I repeat.” She entered her car and drove off angrily.
As soon as she left, Wale made a call. “Sonya, please be coming now and bring two of those your friends.”

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The new session woke up with a buzz in its head, as the news of Wande’s sentence streamed through.

That success propelled a windstorm of change, one that Rachael started. Before anyone could say Jack, cultists in action or oppressing others were been caught and dealt with.

It was first unclear who was doing it exactly, but it was not long that names started to fly out. Names like Rachael, Rose, Williams, Kunle and Tade. Tade was one of the students who mobilized others in response to any cult attack. He was already becoming popular among the students, with the opposing side, which were the cults just watching quietly while making one or two attacks on selected few students.

It wasn’t all success, however, as the Student Union President, Taiye Comfy, was one of the cult members, specifically a remnant of the recently destroyed Ravens. However, things were to change quickly.