The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 101

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 101

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“So what do you want from
me?”

“I think we should slow down
with the all out assault and
watch what happens first else
we might have a lot of dead
men littering the streets of
Abuja”

“Waiting means they can keep
gaining confidence and amass
support you know” Quadri
said “They might just make
this a total coup and d--n the
consequences”

“That’s if they have total
support of the military and the
next few hours will decide
that” Ifeoma said.

“Well, we could try getting in
touch with high ranking
officers we know and make
them see reason if they have
defected and if they have not,
we can call on them to go out
and condemn this”

Suddenly Ifeoma’s phone
rang, she looked at the
number calling her and
discovered that it was from
the office. She kept it on the
table and left it there.
Kuyi said;
“Answer you phone Ifeoma
and save us the noise”

“The phone is bugged and the
call is from the office, I don’t
know who it is or what they
want”

Quadri suddenly became
excited;

“Perhaps it is Buba and the
likes wanting to surrender”
“We can never tell until you
answer the phone Ifeoma”
Ifeoma carefully reached for
the phone and she tapped the
screen and the phone got
connected;

“Admiral Ifeoma here”
“Good morning ma’am, I have
a call from an the Air force
and they say they need to
speak to you”

“What base please?”

Ifeoma asked curiously
“They did not mention but
they said it is urgent”

“Okay just give me their
number and I will call them
right back from my location”
She grabbed a pen from the
table as the number was
called to her and she hung up
the phone. She looked up to
Quadri and said;
“Seems the Air Force wants to
talk, I don’t know what but
we can figure that out when
we call back”

She passed the paper she
wrote the number on to Kuyi
who went over to the controls
anddialed the number;

“This number does not belong
to the Air Force he said”
“How are you so sure?”
Ifeoma asked
“Because it is not registered
on my monitor, it is reading as
a number from the Palace
guards” Kuyi looked towards
Quadri

“I don’t know about it, I have
no links with the air force and
I can’t explain this” Quadri
shot back

The phone rang through the
speaker in the room for just
five seconds and a female
voice answered;

“Good morning, who is this?”
Ifeoma stepped towards the
controls and spoke directly
into a microphone there;
“This is the minister of
defense; you called my office
to talk to me”

“Good morning ma’am, this is
the presidential Guard air
support squadron: we just
watched the president’s
speech and we are asking
what we can do to help”
Quadri walked to wards the
microphone and said;
“You are air support right?
That’s good; can we be on to
your commanding officer?”
Ifeoma looked at him
confused but he signaled to
her to keep cool.

“Sorry, I don’t recognize this
voice”

“I am General Quadri
Muhammad; Commandant of
the Palace Guards”

“I am sorry sir but I am not
authorized to speak with you.
The president’s directive was
to deal with the minister
directly and no one else.”

Ifeoma cut in;
“You can speak freely please
go on and answer his
question”

“Our commanding officer has
been deposed and restrained
ma’am”

“Why did that happen?”
“He ordered us to stand down
and support the coup and it
did not go down well the rest
of us. That is not the top of
our worries, the problem right
now is that we have multiple
violation of the No Fly Zone
and some ground troops are
moving on the house. We had
reported this to the chief but
he ordered us to ignore. Now
that we know what’
happening, we need orders
ma’am”

Kuyi looked towards Ifeoma
and coughed a little which
told Ifeoma that he wanted to
add something. Ifeoma said;
“I want to put the Director of
the Military intelligence on”
Kuyi came towards them
saying;
“Good morning, I am aware
that you have a squadron of
fighter jets for air support
right?”

“Yes sir and they are getting
in the air”

“Okay, can you patch us
through with the jets; we will
need to see things from their
perspective”

“Okay sir, I am patching you
through to the captain right
now, he is in the air already”