The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 17

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The Activist - Season 2 - Episode 17

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She ran hard until she stopped at Sports Hall.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you?”The male porter asked her, concern written over his face. Kike ignored him and ran to Room 112, Block W. To the excos room.

“Please I want to see Judith!” She kept saying while knocking, disturbing the whole block.

“What’s it?” Judith, the hall president asked.

“I see cult guys! I see cult guys!! I see..m…” Kike said, panting and pointing her hands everywhere.

“Lady, take it easy.” She said, dragging Kike inside.

Once inside, Kike calmed down and told her everything that happened.

Judith quickly called Dolapo and within five minutes, he was in the hostel, listening to a shocked Kike’s explanation.

“Don’t worry, I know what to do.”

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Kike ran from there and went to Moremi,burst into the hall and went straight for her church excos room.

As she got there, she narrated her ordeal with her church president who was called Peace, but she included an important detail.

“When I was running, I saw Bro Made’s Identity card.”

“How do you know it was his own?”
She brought out the card.

“Ah! So you waited long enough to carry his card!” The roommates shouted.

“No, it was just hanging, so I snatched it.”
“Aunty Peace, please let’s pray for him, I feel that they want to kill him.”

“Hmnn, Kike, wait here.”
Peace walked out for what seemed like a minute and came back.

“I called to Holy Ghost Fire Prayer team. Let’s meet them at White Wall now!”
Peace and Kike then stormed out to Sports complex, specifically White Wall.

Tade woke up suddenly, alerted by the sudden flow of water on his face. As he tried to survey the area, he realized that it was unusually dark and that he was bound.

“He is awake.” He heard from somewhere in front of him. The earnest darkness helped to shield the identity of the speaker.

“Make we drag am jare.” Another voice said and soon enough, hands held him to pull him up. As he thought of at least offering some resistance, he casted it out of his mind because he thought of being beaten up and did not like that thought. Moreover her wanted to know where he was going to and what happened.

Soon enough, he felt some warmth, which was a sign that he was at least near fire, yet it was still as black as before. It was then that it occurred to him that he was blindfolded. How he failed to realize that was a mystery to him, although he now remembered that he was knocked out and kidnapped, probably with Williams.

Rustles were heard around him as some burdens seemed to be dropped quickly. He moved his head in a bid to see who it was and cursed the person that blindfolded him.

Suddenly different chants was been heard from a distance, slowly filling the air and making Tade to cringe. It was cult members, he realized and he knew it meant something bad to him.

It meant trouble.

“Remove that thing comot their faces!” The blindfolds were removed and Tade could see that he was in the midst of students activists, who were bound like him. He could see that Williams was among the bound students, but was surprised to see Made and Korede among them since they were not involved in union activities.

He surveyed the environment and notice he was in a big clearing, big enough to host a party. The thicket around him made him think that it must be in a deep part of a forest, surely outside OAU and probably beyond Ife.

Turning to the front, Tade could see a lot of cult members, so many that he could not count them. His rough estimate gave a cult strength of about 300-400, though that estimate was understandably inflated.

They were quite young, probably newbies brandishing cutlasses, although a few of them were with hand-held guns.

They stopped stopped the chants and their leaders came to the fore, Tade looking out for Dotun but surprised not to see him or any of the others that he knew.

“So these are the ants that you could not deal with alone?” Kareem asked, looking at the bound students.

“Who is Tade among them?” He asked, forcing a couple of hisses and hateful kind of murmur. Tade concluded that as one of the faces against student cultism, his name was not liked around here.

“Who is Tade?” Kareem asked a second time, facing Taiwo who immediately pointed at him.

Kareem walked forward, making Tade to guess what he wanted.

Twack! Tade’s ears started to ring like door bells that have lost control and were ringing endlessly. Despite the sting of the slap, Tade remained resolute, something which forced a leering smile from Kareem.

“This guy get liver gan!” Kareem stated. Then facing Tade, he looked at him squarely in the eye.

“Do you know who I am?”