The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 84

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 84

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Bill Clinton drive Abuja has
housed the Air Force base in
Abuja For a long time
Although it is not fully a
complete base with a landing
and takeoff strip, it has a strip
behind it hidden to almost
everyone for emergency lift
off. The air base was used
basically as a means of
housing the Air force
personnel..

Most of the jets are positioned
at the military wing of the
Nnamdi Azikwe airport but
the strip at the base was
maintained for reason alot of
people do not know of.

Airplanes rarely take off or
even ad everyone was not
bothered but people always
wondered why the strip was
always kept in shape and
once a while, the air force
lands jets there to see how
test the conditions of the
strip. The jets take off almost
immediately without doing
much on the ground.

The strip was always
undergoing cleaning and
maintenance to make sure it
was in great shape and a
small hanger is kept there. The
hanger although was in great
shape, it was always empty
and no one was seen there.
The area around the strip
itself is restricted to even the
most senior officers of the
base itself and they all keep
off curious asmost people are
when they first arrive at the
base of the strip, they get
bored eventually when
nothing significant happens
there so when on this Friday
morning, they heard sounds
of an approaching airplane,
most people just ignored it
and went about their normal
activities.

The airplane was tracked
somewhere else in Abuja. The
airport is divided into the
civilian wing while the air
force themselves have a base
there for their jets. The air
force wing has a complete set
of monitoring equipment as
they have a division which
was responsible for the
security of Aso Rock itself.This
division maintains and
enforces the “No Fly Zone”
around the Presidential Villa.
They are maintained as part of
both a wing of the Nigerian
Air force and the Palace
Guards with more than ten
jets mostly the newly acquired
F32 jets. They also make sure
that the air space around the
jet is free any time it takes to
air.

Captain Olaiwola Eze is the
leader of the squadron of jets
around on the base and every
morning, they take their
planes to the air to test the air
worthiness of each bird. Every
day to them is a potential war
as they always have to be
ready to take to the air in case
there is an attack on the villa.
The September 11 attack on
the Pentagon had ensured
that their importance was
moved higher which meant
they had their own landing
space and a complete hanger.
They also had a series of
engineers but most of all they
had complete access to the
Tower at the airport itself and
the satellite coverage of
NIGCOMSAT1 that the base
uses.

Olaiwola or Lai as he is fondly
called had been off duty the
whole night but spent the
night in the base since he
would be flying early in the
morning. He did not need the
authorization of his
commandant to tell him to test
his bird anymore as it had
become routine for him forthe
past twelve months and he
was suited upand ready to fly.

He already knew he would be
going with two of his team
and it would just be the
routine and boring take off,
testing of the weapons
aboard the planes and then
land. Then it is back to waiting
around for an emergency that
never happens. It is a boring
job but it enables them sit
around all day, work out and
play games. Little work,
serious pay: that is what they
call their job description.

He drove to the hanger seeing
men scattered all around
doing maintenance or
something else in the still dark
morning and he wondered to
himself;
“We do all this for one person
and one house. Funny thing is
that, the president might not
even be home right now”
He saw one of the other pilots,
got out of his car and he
shook his hand saying;
“Dude, where is Ayo?”
“Ayo is already in his bird
waiting for us. Seems he did
not get any sleep last night”
Olaiwola said;
“We need to get that dude a
girl; his dedication to work is
amusing. Inspiring but
amusing”

They both walked into the
hanger as they saw Ayo
coming towards them taking
off his flight jacket
Olaiwaola said;
“Ayo, why are you removing
your jacket? Are you done
already?”

“Good morning captain” Ayo
said as he saluted him
“No point saluting me, we are
the same until someone tries
to play with our jobs, then you
have to follow anything I say.
So why are you taking off
your jacket?”