The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 124

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 124

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Dare looked up in amusement at
the voice he heard over the
speakers in the room. He
triedhard to make out the voice
but it did not match any. The
accent was Nigerian and
mostimportantly, the voice
seemed to know him from the
DSS as his designation was not
something everyone has access
to and his number can only be
gotten from the DSS itselfbut he
did not say anything and he was
hit again by the same guard who
said;

“Are you deaf?”
Kuyi looked at Ifeoma and saw
that she did not react this time
and he spoke again;

“Can we please refrain from
hitting him? I don’t want him
blacking out and to be honest, I
don’t like your electric shock
therapy being used to jolt him
awake”

The guard seemed to flinched a
little and he walked away from
Dare as though if he was closer,
he might not be able to resist
hitting him again
Dare looked up as though he
would see whoever was talking
to him. Whoever it was could see
him through some cameras in
the room. He is used to the kind
of interrogation from a distance
but not associated with a chair
and he had never being the
recipient.
Kuyi spoke again;
“Agent Dare, I think I can call you
Dare right?”
Dare nodded

“Okay, good that you are
responding to me”
Dare’s voice came through the
speakers. The voice was weak
and showed that he was trying
to show it off as strong. It
carried pain,anger, bitterness
and confusion all rolled up in one
sentence

“You seem to know who I am
but I don’t know you”
“Okay, fair enough. My name is
Kuyi Aliyu Director General of the
Directoral of Military Intelligence
and I am here with the Minister
of Defense”
At the mention of these two
names, Dare’s head dropped the
little distance he could afford to
drop it while restrained in the
straps which held his body to the
chair.
“You are supposed to be part of
a team on anassignment to
Tetuan for something important
Dare, what happened to the
mission?”

“I am not at liberty to answer
that question sir” was his reply
“You are not at liberty to reply? I
am going to need you to tell me
why agent”

He kept quiet for a while and
then he said
“Does it really matter?”
Kuyi wanted to say something
but he say Ifeoma walk towards
him and he kept quiet. She said;
“This is Admiral Ifeoma
Nwachukwu, agent I am aware
of your present predicament but
you need to understand that you
are held in Tetuan for a reason
you might not know”

“And what’s the reason?”
“Lucas Randolosema, the Tetuan
president has been murdered. He
was found dead on a roadside
some minutes ago and they did
you are part of a team that did it.
Under these conditions, you will
not be treated as a prisoner of
war but as whatever it is they
like and they can continue to
torture you until they get tired
but if you talk to us and we
understand what is happening,
we might be able to get you out
and bring you back home”

She paused and so her words
can sink in and she continued;
“We need you to tell us
everything that has happened
and what plans it is that you
were hatching else we won’t be
able to negotiate arelease for
you”

Dare raised his head slightly and
said;

“I am a DSS agent ma’am, I am
trained in interrogation and your
words about helping to realease
me are not something I believe
somuch. You just want to hear
what I can tell and you would
leave me to their mercy”
Ifeoma said;

“Why would I do that? Whether
we like it or not, you are a DSS
agent and you were on a
sanctioned mission by the
Military, you might have deviated
but you were following orders
and the worst we can do to you
in a dishonorable discharge but
as the situation stands, you are
being held for taking part in
acoup that killed their past leader
and also destabilized their
country. Out r diplomatic powers won’t come into play and you’d be left all
alone to face the consequences
but if you talk to us, you will be
released to our custody and we
can talk about a reduced jail term
for you”
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There was some silence now. Kuyi looked at the screen and he could notice that Ifeoma’s words were having the desired effect on Dare. He went into a thoughtful gaze but that was not his concern. He knew the agent would sing, if the Tetuans could not, he could.He would pay a visit to his home and hold his family until he gave him something but he was not sure about what Ifeoma said. Dare’s actions have could only be described as treason and he would most definitely be hanged but not she is talking to him like they could make a deal and life would go on as if nothing happened which could not be allowed. If Dare was released by the Tetuans, he would be coming straight into the custody of the DSS, but since the crime was done outside the country, the DMI would be in charge of the case and Ifeoma had no right to promise him anything except of course she was doing that just to loosen his tongue which was difficult to determine as she had gone through so much, it was difficult to read her emotions. The silence went on for some time and Kuyi saw that Quadri was beginning to get uncomfortable with it, he must have expected the man to be broken already and he would have been spilling his guts. An interrogation was not something he envisaged. Of course he has his methods of getting information and they were basically the type of stuff the Tetuans are doing but he had a twisted sense that only the Nigerian military should be allowed to that to a Nigerian hence his initial outburst and Kuyi could understand that sense of protecting your own even if you want to kill him with your hands. They did not wait so long as Dare started talking; “I was approached by the Director of the DSS, he asked John and I to meet one of his men just after we were briefed about the mission to Tetuan and we were to ensure that we gotthe president out and then lead the team intoa trap and they will be finished off there” Ifeoma took a deep breath and said; “How did you know where to meet up with the team and how did you know the way? You have never been to Tetuan before” “The reason I was brought into the team was because I am an expert in studying maps and I tend to recreate entire cities in my head. I was shown where and where we will assemble and the rest was easy. We carried miniature transponders so our locations could be monitored at all time.” Kuyi came in, “So you played along until you got the president?’ “Yes sir” “How about the helicopter? The president was supposed to be on it, how come it was blown?” “The whole plan was to kill the president and make it look like it was done by the Tetuans so we could not kill her with the rest of the team watching. We could not also risk having a gun fight with the remaining members of the team so when the helicopter was called for, John sent a signal to the team waiting in the dark and they shot it down but they did so a little bit too early and the president was not aboard yet and in the commotion, John took out the batteries in the central communicator so communications was impossible. We then had to lure them into the city itself was the team where waiting and we tried to executed them there but we ran into an ambush by the rebels and the slipped away. We were in the middle of the fight withthe rebels when the Tetuan army swooped in on us” “Okay, that’s gotten but what happened with Lucas?” Kuyi asked “He was never in our plans, infact I only heard of his death after I was caught and brought here. I had no idea he was to be killed or what his mission was, we were just told to frame him up and make it look like he orchestrated the president’s death” Ifeoma said; “So if I am getting you right, you are telling me that you don’t know about Lucas’s death?” “Well if I was never a party to that and I don’t know what happened; there might be another team out there who did it but I was not among”