The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 21

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 21

Lucas survived as planned and
forged medical reports that he
sustained some injuries
during the attacks but the
opposition did not buy his
claim. They did not trust that
Lucas was not behind it or
perhaps people within his
own government who
wanted to take over from him
and so they attacked the
government troops more as
people rose up to take over
the positions of those that
were killed and the fighting
took a different dimension as
the opposition got more cruel
and did not spare the
government troops.

Lucas on his own side, got
better weapons for his army
and unlike the previous
government, he made sure
they got everything they
wanted and this worked in
his favor as the army were
better equipped and were
more prepared to follow
commands. There was
continuous bickering as to
what side was responsible for
the attacks during the peace
talks as Lucas denied any
involvement and the war
raged on with innocent
civilians mostly women and
children being caught in the
cross fire. The effects of the
war was not just felt in Tetuan
alone but soon it spilled into
the sub-region as civilians fled
the fighting and moved into
the surrounding countries.

These countries had to set up
camps and also guard their
borders as guns from Tetuan
found their wayinto their
country and increased crime
there too and so the Economic
Community of West African
States ECOWAS got involved in
the issue and started having
meetings with both parties.
The Nigerian government
observed that a cease fire had
to exist and they were
successful in brokering one
and they sent troops to
enforce it as both side kept
sneaking up and attacking
one another. The Nigerian
troops just had one objective
which was to stay between
the government troops and
the opposition until a lasting
solution was found.

The Nigerian president was
delegated by ECOWAS to help
find a solution and she met
with both parties frequently;
sometimes together and
sometimes alone. She took
tripsto talk to them in their
territories and everyone
thought the meetings were
going fine until Lucas
Radonsolema decided to up
the stakes and take her
captive in his presidential
palace.

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One hour after walking into
the briefing room, Izu, IBk and
the other 7 men in the room
which were drawn from the
DSS and DMI walked out and
walked towards a military
helicopter which was waiting
for them. During the hour
long briefing, they were
informed of the situation in
Tetuan and they were briefed
about the mission. It was top
secret and only a few people
would even hear about it if it
was successful. They were to
sneak into the presidential
palace in Tetuan and get the
president out.

Izu had thought the DMI
official telling them had lost
his mind when he mentioned
that they would be sneaking
into the presidential quarters
of another country and he
said;
“Excuse me but is the army
not more equipped to handle
such issues?”

The officer replied;
“You think the army is better
but the army is more suited
for ground assaults and not
moving into hot spots to free
hostages. This mission has to
go according to plan or we
might be in deep poo so we
need people who are
experienced in being discreet
and still as efficient”

IBK had hoped there would be
a talk about them saying they
were not interested but
nothing of that nature was
said. He had reservations
about going to Tetuan, and
sneaking into a presidential
palace seemed tohim like
something which was
impossible even though they
had the plans to the place and
the complete layout of the
entire palace. It just sounded
to him like a suicide mission
but he knew Izu and him
were probably familiar with
missions like that. They had
been involved in helping a lot
of hostages and sometimes
without the knowledge of
thecaptors so this seemed the
same way except that the
stakes were bigger and there
was no way they could afford
to make mistakes.

The Nine of them sat down in
the military helicopter as they
were introduced. 5 DMI
officials who were trained in
fire arms, explosives and
capable of getting in and out
of a lot of security situations
and the other two were from
the DMI and were involved in
the Militancy in the North east.
Apparently, everyone involved
had an experience of two
which made them stand out
even though they looked
ordinary. There was a woman
among them and she was a
DMI agent but she did not
look one bit scared. IBK had
reservations about her more
because he did not think
women had the strength and
perseverance for missions but
he kept the thoughts to
himself as they were hand
picked and if she was picked
out of the DMI, she hadto hav
some special qualities.

The team leader was an agent
who had worked in Tetuan
before as part of an
investigation to see how the
weapons were going in and
out of the countries and he
had also gotten some
Nigerian nationals out of the
country when they were
trapped along with two of the
members of the present
teamso he knew the terrain
and this time, this was more
of going back to somewhere
he was comfortable with.

They had gone through the
capital city and seen the
routes that they should take
and also the plans to the
presidential had also been
provided so they knew exactly
where to pass and how to go
through it.

They were to land on a
Nigerian warship off the coast
of Tetuan as they were sure all
aircrafts coming into Tetuan
would be monitored and from
there, they would get to shore
on speed boats and move
through the rest of the
journey.

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Ifeoma had decided she was
not going home until the
mission was over. Kuyi had
said she needed rest but she
could not sleep. Al her years of
training had not prepared her
for something of this nature
and she had no ideahow it
would go. She looked at the
watch on her huge desk and
saw that the helicopter
carrying the men to Tetuan
should be leaving any
moment, she had requested
that she addressed the agents
going but Kuyi had said it was
not so important.

He mind went back to Kuyi. He
was probably the most
dangerous person in the
country but he rarely showed
it. he has something
oneveryone and he knew
about everything. It is his job
to keep the military from
going off the edge and he is
feared for it. She in turn
respects him especially how
he seems to be in control of
everything. They had grown
closer since she was the
minister for defence and every
time the troops were going
out fora mission outside, he
always had information about
the country and always had
men on ground to provide
initial support and
information. Kuyi dealt in
information and that made
him dangerous.

She looked into the large TV
screen hanging on the wall in
a far side and the 4’O clock
news was on Channels
television and they were
talking about some bank
robbery in Lagos. They had
earlier spoken about a foiled
terrorist attack in that same
Lagos and she wondered how
the country came to a
situation like this. She walked
towards the television to
switch it off; she never got
used to the remote control
and she mostly had her
assistants operate it but this
time she walked over with her
phone in her pocket. When
she got close to the Television,
the screen got distorted and
then it rang.

She picked the call and a voice
said;
“Ma’am, they have left the
Abuja airport”

She replied with an “Okay”
but wondered why her phone
acted so strangely when close
to the television. Most times,
the phone gets no
interference but she ignored
and went back to her chair as
she drafted a mail to Kuyi