The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 9

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 9

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“Was that supposed to
happen?” John asked as they
watched the car tumble and
fall in front of them.

Izu said;
“That was not the plan but we
did get him to stop didn’t we?
And that was the goal”

John parked the car about a
hundred feet away from the
car as Yemi also pulled up
beside them. the police trucks
were arriving at the scene and
they parked behind them and
the John looked beside him
and said,

“What do we do now? We are
not sure the driver is alive or
not. And he might want to
detonate the explosives if we
approach him. Are you
hearing this command? What
should we do? Wait for the
bomb squad?”

John had barely finished
when Izu went out of the car,
pulled his gun and walked
towards the car whose tires
were still rolling.

The car had hit the ground
upside down and the belly
was up. Smoke was coming
from its exhaust and no one
could tell if the engine was still
running or if the driver was
conscious.

John saw his partner get
down and he called out to
him;

“Where do you think you are
going? That car can explode
at anytime”

He looked beside him and saw
that Yemi was also out of his
car but made no attempt to
approach the vehicle in front
of them. Izu looked back
towards them and said;

“There is a chance he had
been knocked out by the
crash, if we decide to wait
here and wait until we are
sure, we might be giving him
time to recover and he might
just detonate the IED. I will go
up to the car and check while
you guys stay back and keep
the perimeter”

“D--n it Izu, this is not time
to be a hero. You could be
blown to bits”

Izu heard but was already
walking towards the car but
slowly. His gun was drawn
and his hands held them out
in front of him as he reached
the back of the crashed car.

He moved sideways as if he
was walking away from it and
walked more cautiously this
time as he approached the
driver’s side of the car. He got
the driver’s side and he
noticed that there was no
movement, he looked back at
his partner and saw that
everyone was out oftheir car
and were watching him
nervously.

“They must think I am
extremely brave or really silly
for doing this” he thought to
himself.

He moved directly in front of
the driver’s side and bent
down with his gun till drawn
but this time with his right
hand as he out his lefton the
ground to support his body.

The driver had passed out
immediately the car hit the
ground as a result of shock.

The driver was not wearing
the seat belts so the air bags
were not activated and he had
hit his head around the space
above him. When the car
landed on the ground, he hit
his head on the roof of the car
and he slumped on it but
gradually, his consciousness
started to come back.

The first thing he saw was the
light from outside the car,
there was glass fragments
from a mirror of glass that
broke all over him and blood
seemed to be dripping from
his head and nose. He closed
his eyes again as the world
seemed to be upside down
and he shook his head in a
bid to clear it a little.

When he opened his eyes
again, he saw that the light
coming in from the window
was partially blocked by an
object he could not
immediately make out. He
focused on the object and
found that he was looking
into the nozzle of a State
issued 9mm and a voice rang
out;
“Put your hands where I can
see them, you asmuch as
think of doing anything silly, I
will bepumping hot pieces of
lead into your head”

Fifteen minutes later, the man
had been pulled out of the
car; the bomb squad were
already working on getting
the bomb out of the car while
a truck had been parked by
the LASTMA official to move
the car off the road once the
bomb squad was done with
the IED inside.

“That was a very dangerous
thing you did back there”

John said to Izu when they
had put the driver in a police
van where he was guarded by
half a dozen heavily armed
mobile policemen and waiting
for him to be transferred to
the SSS holding facility in
Ojota.

“It was dangerous but
someone had to do it. if we
had waited for the bomb
squad to arrive he might he
detonated the bombs and we
would have lost a potential
bird.”

Yemi cut into their
conversation;
“Do you think any of the
people caught will talk to us
about their activities?”

Izu said,
“I know a very good
interrogator who can make
anyone sing like a canary once
he gets a hold of him”

They were still discussing the
incident when Izu’s phone
rang, he picked it up and the
number was that of the
Operation director and he
answered;
“Sir, you could have just
spoken over the radio. What is
going on”

The reply was fast;
“Hold on, I am putting you
through with the deputy
director in charge of the
south west. He seems to have
some information he
wouldlike to share with you”
“Okay, No problem”

The voice of the deputy
director sounded more like
that of someone who was
hurrying somewhere he was
late for and he was quick to
Business business

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“Agent Izu where are you
right now?”

“Ikeja sir. We just arrested a
man who attempted to drive
into a mall with his car filled
with explosives and secured
the whole place”

“Good, congratulations on
that but I am afraid I will have
to pull you away from that
now. You are to get to the
Lagos airport right now and
get on a plane heading to
Abuja within thirty minutes”

“is anything wrong sir?”
“it is a matter of extreme
urgency and I don’t think I
need to remind you to keep
this to yourself. There is an air
force jet waiting for you at the
airport to take you and
another agent to Abuja and
you are expected to be on it.

The plane leaves in thirty
minutes so I advice to start
moving right now. you don’t
need to park anything and
this is a military plane so there
is no point dropping your
weapon, just come as you are
right now”

Twenty five minutes later, Izu
found himself walking on the
tarmac of the domestic wing
of the Lagos towards a
Boeing jet that sat on the
runway. Just one thought had
ran through his mind as he
drove towards the airport;
“What could be so important
that I had to be dragged away
from one of my biggest cases
yet? It is either someone
wants to stop the
investigation of something
big came up. Either way, I
guess I will know when I get
to the airport.”

He was not expecting to see a
jet waiting for him there too.

He was told by the deputy
director that a jet was in
standby but he took it that it
was a commercial flight but
when hegot to the airport,
security personnel were
already waiting for him at the
entrance and they led him
directly the tarmac. The door
to the jet also doubled as the
stair as he paused,took a deep
breath and said a quiet prayer
ashe got on the plane. He
when he got to the top, he
looked inside and saw that it
was empty except for
someone sitting in one of the
seats, the pilot was standing
at the end ofthe stair dressing
in Air Force uniform and
greeted him;
“Good afternoon sir, I am the
pilot, if you would please take
your seat, we should be
taking to the sky immediately”
and with that, he locked the
door and walked into the
cockpit.

Izu looked at the other man
seated in the plane just as the
man turned around and
sawhim

“Agent Izu, so you are the one
who had kept me waiting all
this while”

Izu recognized the face well,
IBK was once his partner but
they were separated when
IBK was transferred to Osun
on some Narcotics case.

“If memory serves me right
Ibukun, you are supposed to
be hunting down crackheads
in Osun state, what in the
world are you doing in
Lagos?”

“I was on some gun running
case and the investigations
brought me here. Then I got a
call and I found myself in this
really comfortable jet. Who
would have thought the SSS
can provide such means of
transportation”
“Well no one would have
guessed but the sudden call I
got is worrying to me. I just
stopped a suicide attack”
IBK sat up when he heard
that;
“Did you say suicide? And I
thought I was having all the
fun when I walked into a
bank robbery in ketu, I know
you won’t be able to tell me
the details but that is some
major stuff. The crime scene
in Lagos is moving up don’t
you think?”

“Yeah moving up but we are
being summoned far away
from it. What do you think this
is about?” Izu asked
Ibukun was about to answer
when the pilot appeared and
told him to take his seat as the
plane was about to take off.

He strapped himself to a seat
and seconds later, they heard
the twin engines come alive
as the plane made its way
done the runway and into the
sky.

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