The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 6

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 6

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“I did not call you about the
robbery Ibukun, I called you to
inform you that you have
been summoned to Abuja by
the director himself. You are
to report to Abuja today and
as a matter of fact,
immediately. Seems
something very urgent came
up”

“What can be more important
than making a very huge gun
running breakthrough sir?”

“I don’t make the rules young
man, you are wanted in Abuja
immediately and he even said
there is a plane waiting for
you at the Lagos airport so
that should tell you that this is
top priority”

Then the line went dead. He
did not understand what the
director who he has never
met would want him but it
sounded too urgent to be
ordinary. A plane waiting
forhim means he was wanted
immediately and he had no
time to waste.

He turned his ignition and
started driving towards
Maryland. He would make an
exit there and head for the
airport but still he wasnot
happy about leaving his case
behind to chase some case he
was not sure he could help
with.

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The sun was coming out on
Ponle street Egbeda. The time
for the weekly sanitation had
passed and the few shops
here had opened. The whole
area was more or less a
residential one hence there
was less trading and most of
the residents had gone to
their various places of work.

Primary and secondary
schools were also in session
so the school kids had gone
to school leaving the street
sort of deserted. The street
was nota really long one as it
had just 20 houses on either
side.

A transformer stood about
midway into the street and
the street had been tarred
during the administration of
the former governor, Bola
Tinubu. Life here was quiet
and it rarely saw violent crime.

It was not a really rich
neighborhood but most of the
residents were middle class
who worked most of daylight.

Where the transformer stood
could be called midway into
the street and a bumb divided
the street. Upwards towards
the end of the street was an
area popularly called “Ponle 1”
because most of the richer
people stayed there and the
area was filled with flat and
an estate of is also built there.

The wall of the estate is long
and gave the impression of an
official complex but it was
residential. After the estate
was an hospital and a set of
duplexes. The road upwards
led to Ikotun road and on the
other side of the road stood
Gowon estate which is one of
the largest government
owned estates in the country.

On the other side of the bump
however werehouses which
are not a fanciful as the
others. Most of them are one
room apartments but they are
really cleaned and this part is
fondly called “Ponle 2”. But
even with this demarcation,
the residents live in peace and
apart from the rare menace of
armed robbersis was
common in most parts of
Lagos, everything went well.

Cars are parked along the
road since it is wide; it caused
no problems to the inflow of
traffic. The other side leads
directly to Fajumobi Street
which isa link to Micoom bus
stop and which lies on
Akowonjo road.

The only resemblance to any
official complex on the street
is a warehouse which has not
been used in a long while. The
owner had built it and hoped
to rent it out but the place
where is is situated has no
economic value and no one
came to inquire about it for
yearsuntil someone came a
year ago and the owner was
more than happy to rent it
out.

What they stored inside the
warehouse was no business
of anybody and goods were
usually brought in with vans
while workers there rarely
came to work. One a week,
someone would just come,
open the gates and disappear
into the place and everyone
assumes that they came for
inventory but in the past few
weeks, there had been an
increase in the activity at the
warehouse as workers
worked there round the clock
and what was more strange
was that the workers rarely
mixed with the residents on
the street. A Toyota Hiace
brought them in the morning
and took them home. Some
people once even said some
of them slept within the
warehouse itself.

This Thursday morning, a car
was parked some distance
away from the warehouse
andit just stayed there. There
were two people inside the
car and they engaged
themselves in a conversation
between themselves. To
everyone passing through, it
looked innocentenough as
they did not do anything that
should arouse suspicion from
anyone and occasionally, they
looked up in front of them as
if they were expecting
something to happen.

They were there for some
minutes and then acar pulled
out of the compound which
housed the warehouse. The
warehouse had its own gate
so there no doubt to where
the car was from. The car
drove forward and oneof the
two men who sat beside the
drive spoke into a radio he
held;
“A car with a single passenger
and registration number
AH777FST just pulled outof the
warehouse, should we follow?

Please advise”