The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 49

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 49

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Buba said;
“So where is the team now?

Do you have them with you?

How is the president?”

The voice rested a bit as the
room fell into silence while
everyone waited for the news
that was about to be told.

“We got to the team but we
could not get to them in time.

The Tetuans beat us to it and
they executed the President
and the whole team. None of
them escaped. I am sorry. We
do not have her body yet as
they were far behind enemy
lines when it happened but
we are awaiting orders to
press foward”

Ifeoma put her head on the
huge desk as she could not
bear to look up. Her eyes felt
heavy with tears and the
fatigue of the past hours all
weighed on her and she could
not imagine that it would end
this way. She could not
imagine that the president
would have died on her watch
after a mission that was
supposed to have gone
perfectly suddenly went
wrong and everything else
apart from the plan happened.

She raised her head and saw
that all around the room, eyes
were on her; apparently they
wanted a reason and
explanations but she had
none.

At that moment, she wished
she could say something in
her defense or at least, say
something intelligence but her
emotions had begun to fail
her and everyone could see
that she was not just scared
but was admitting failure. She
looked towards the Vice
Presidentand said in a shaky
voice;

“I am sorry sir, the plan was
foolproof and it should have
gone according to plan but it
was a failure and I take full
responsibility for this and
hence, I am stepping down
and resigning my position as
the Minster for Defense and
will subject myself to any
panel of inquiry that is set up
to investigate the actions of
the team which led to the
capture and eventual death of
the late Commander in chief”

The Vice President looked
around as he was taken aback
by her sudden resignation
and he said;

“I don’t know why you are
resigning to me Ifeoma, I am
not the president”

The Minister for Foreign
Affairs said;
“You are not the president yet
sir. In a case like you, you
should be sworn in as
President immediately”

The Vice President replied;
“We have not even settled the
issue of the dead President
yet. We need to get her body
back home and get ready for
her funeral and then we have
to break the news to the
press and everyone. How do
we even go about all that?
Where do we start from?”
Olaoye said;

“The first thing to do is make
sure the country is not
without a leader at this trying
time. We still have to decide
what to do with Lucas and
then we have to find out how
all these went this way”
At this, Buba said;
“Accept my condolences sir, I
believe I speak for everyone
here when I say, we are really
sorry about this incident and
we will do all we can to find
out what went wrong but for
now, you have to be strong as
the nation will need someone
to look up to”

There a murmur of approval
around the room as they all
agreed with Buba and
Olaofesaid;
“We better wake up the
Attorney General and the
Senate President”

The Vice President said;
“The senate president is on a
medical vacation remember”
“Then he better gets back as
fast as possible. You have to
be sworn in soon so we can
move on and you can be able
to take decisions that can
move us forward”

The Vice President got up,
walked around the room a
little and said;

“We need to get her body
back and then someone bet in
touch with the army down
there and tell them to be
ready for a full blown war.

Lucas will pay for this with his
life”
With that he walked towards
the door and then said;

“I don’t see the need for this
assembly anymore, the most
of you will probably be fired
or redeployed but let me
assure you, I intend to set up
a panel of enquiry into this
event and if anyone is found
wanting, that person is going
to pay for his or her crime”
and he walked out of the
room with guards and
bodyguards already waiting
for him.

The Commandant of the
Palace Guards, General Quadri
Muhammad got up and
walked behind the Vice
president and one after the
other, the room got empty
until it remained just Buba,
Kuyi and Ifeoma left in the
room.

Kuyi had barely uttered a
word since the news broke
and he still maintained his
silence until Buba said;

“I told you this plan of yours
should be revised but you
refused Admiral. You think
you are still giving commands
on your frigate but this is
something else. You should
have outsourced for men and
left this to the army. If that
happened, we won’t be in this
mess right now”
Kuyi said cooly;
“I don’t think this is a time to
be putting blames on anyone,
a lot of things could have
gone wrong and until we get
an investigation going, we
can never tell what actually
happened. And I trust your
men can retrieve her body
before the end of today, it will
be a shame to leave it lying
there”