The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 15

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 15

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Jeremiah Kuje; the Vice
president of the Federal
republic of Nigeria is a person
a lot ofpeople would call
intelligent even though he
does not appear to be the
most attractive. With a bloated
belly and flared up nose he
didnot allow those qualities
stop his carrer as a politician.

Prior to his appointment as
the running mate, he had
been a senator and he could
be remembered for his bright
or inspiring arguments. He
played his part in theelections
and got the president the
votes she needed. He came
from one the country’s top
names in regional politics and
when the elections came up;
his family had threatened to
support the opposition unless
one of them was picked for
an office. The party saw the
threat and knew that if the
family withdraws their
support, they might as well
kiss the presidential elections
goodbye and they bowed to
their demands. Most of his
speeches are written by him
and he rarely reads the as he
reads and memorizes them.

He rarely takes speeches
written by his aides as he
enjoys writing his speeches
and he is known by the press
as he is a delight to any
member of them who
interviews him.
He walked in with an
entourage of guards and
assistants and walked
towards an empty seat as
everyone stood up and as he
sat down, they sat down’
“So where are we right now?”
the president asked
Ifeoma replied;
“Good afternoon sir. Before
anything, I would like to ask
that your assistants wait
outside. You also would not
be needing your guards in
here sir as scary as this
situation is, this is the defense
headquarters and you are well
protected”

Buba looked around as slowly,
the entourage got up and
walked out with the exception
of two of them; his personal
bodyguard and his special
assistant.
“I am sorry, but you two will
have to wait outside. Thank
you very much” Ifeoma said
with authority as they both
made for the door.

Jeremiah started;
“Okay now can someone tell
me exactly what we intend to
do in this situation? How is it
possible that he could hold
the president hostage without
us even suspecting and how
are we going to give in to his
demands?”

Ifeoma wanted to reply but
Kuyi cut in;
“Well sir, we have just had
contact with the Head of State
of Tetuan and heard his
demands. I am sure you also
did as a recording was sent to
you and we are discussing the
right way to respond to this
taking into account the safety
of the president”

Jeremiah replied looking
towards Afe;
“So what do you think we
do?”

Afe said;
“There are a lot we can do sir.

We could give him what he
wants and pull out our troops
or we can tell him to go to hell
and tell him that if the
president is not released
within a time frame, we
would send our troops in to
get her by ourself. I personally
think the second option is a
lot better as our policy on
negotiations rules out the first
option”

Deliberations went on for
some hours longer and the
more they argued, the more
they realized that the situation
was something they had
never thought of and hence
had no immediately reply for.
While they were all confident
that they could not had
weapons over to a warlord,
the life of the president
seemed to be in the balance
and no one was willing to
make a call until Tope
Adesanya, the DG of the SSS
said;
“Ladies and gentlemen, this
event might have not been
envisaged but that does not
mean we should be clueless.

We have two choices but
there is still a third choice”
The room fell quiet and he
continued;
“If I understand this well, we
already have 7,500 men on
Tetua soil and among those
are men trained to battle in
extreme situations and also
intelligence officers. The
commandant of the Palace
guards has told usthat he has
some men around the Palace
there and I am sure the DMI
also does. I would like to
believe that right now, their
men has the palace under
surveillance which is standard
procedure before the
president even walks into a
conflict zone and with all
these, I believe we can take a
third choice. Wecould tell
Lucas Randolosema that we
have agreed to his demands
and we could send an
extraction team in their to get
the president out”

Afe replied;
“This sounds good but this is
not some militants we are
facing here were we can
easily outgun and your
hostage rescue team move in
and trap, we are talking of
invading the presidential
quarters of another country.
The chances are steep not to
talk of the chances that if we
fail, the life of the president
might be lost”

Quadri said;
“He might be right. There are
guards all around the Palace
there but gaining access into
the palace is not too difficult if
we can do that in secret and
we can have the DMI give us
support with their men down
there”