The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 128

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 128

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Kareem had stood and
watched the presidentmake
her speech and somewhere in
himself, he found more
strength in her than he
expected. He imagined what
she must have gone through
in the past hours and he
wondered if he would ever be
able to go through all of that
and still maintained his cool.

He wondered if the stakes
were high, he would be able
to deliver what leaders were
made of and also be able to
be what and who the people
expects from a leader.

He saw her go to the podium
and address a nation about
an issue she did not totally
understand or prepared for
and the most amazing thing
was that she pulled it off
beautifully and did not even
make any error. There were a
few signs of fatigue on her
faceand sometimes her voice
dropped but never did she
lose the strength in her
resolve or didshe showed
weakness which would
suggest that she was not in
control of the situation even
though he knew the control
hung in thebalance and
anyone could have it. He was
surprised and thankful that
the nation could have such a
leader and saw what the
voters saw in her when they
voted her in as president.
All that was minutes ago and
he sat down in a room in his
office right next to his own
room which he gave to the
president to use so she can
get some rest and he
wondered when he would get
the phone call he had been
waiting to receive for a long
time. He had expected that
Ifeoma and the other military
guys would resolve the issue
fast andget it over with so he
kept vigil over his phone so as
to be sure that when they call
that it is done, he would be
able to breathe easy.

Immediately the president got
off the podium, his official line
went off in a ringing frenzy as
everyone wanted to know
what was happening. He had
to switch it off and then his
personal line rang and it was
his wife

“Hello” her voice came over
the phone showing that she
was quiet unsure of what she
wants to ask

“Hello sweetheart, how are
you?” he replied trying to
sound as casual as possible
“I just watched the press
briefing: is it true?”

“Yes it is true but everything is
under control and I am fine”
“Are you sure everything is
under control? Do we need to
be worried?”

“Sweetheart, just be there for
the kids, nothing is going to
happen. Just that there might
be some more security people
coming over to look after you
and they probably won’t allow
you go to work or allow the
kids go to school but that’s
just until we are able to bring
this thing is over so don’t
worry”

“If you say so dear” she
answered and her voice
started shaking
“I have to go right now, there
are a lot of things I have to
take care of here so I will get
back to you later”

He hung up wondering if it
would really be okay. He
directed peter to send security
to hishouse as he
remembered that Ifeoma’s
daughter was abducted and
was glad to hearthat Peter
had done that already
Peter had taken over security
of the entire building and
together with the rest of his
men had put the governor’s
office on lock down and even
the street that lead to it was
kept under and closed to
everyone. The workers who
worked at the governor’s
officewere all turned back
home as the security forces
assumed another turn
towards them. this was no
more the Governor’s office, it
was state house.

“How did we come to this?”
He thought to himself.

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The Lagos police was
probably the most equipped
in the country and since the
state had put in special funds
to finance their operations,
they had better crime fighting
equipment and as soon as the
president stepped off the
podium, the Mobile
policemenat the barracks
opposite the governor’s office
spurn into action, manning
the streets and making sure
nothing evaded their sight
allowing not even a
detachment of the Army
through.

Kareem sat watching the wall
that separated him from the
most powerful person on the
continent and could almost
feel the tension around his
house. He could feel the eyes
of the whole world turned on
his little street which did not
really get on the news much.
He feared to put on the
television as he feared what
they might report so he just
sat down on a chair and
waited: hoping that very soon,
he would hear some good
news.

Across the hall, he knew there
were guards everywhere:
Peter had told him that they
were sending every member
of staff out including the
cleaners so as to be able to tell
who they can trust or not.
Peter seemed to have
changed from the security
Kareem directed around as he
took charge of everything. All
that was done already and he
simply sat down waiting and
hoping that something would
show up when a noise jolted
him out of his thoughts.