Must Read: Honorable Secretary (18+)

Episode 6 years ago

Must Read: Honorable Secretary (18+)

“Thank you all for being so gracious. Now to get downstraight to business. My name is Japhet and for a couple of years, I’ve worked as the coordinator and supervisor for madam’s business interests in Abuja. I’m not sure I resigned properly from her employ sef, although I’m sure she won’t find it difficult accepting my resignation after this episode. In all that time I’ve worked with madam, she’s been a pretty decent human being, which begs the question which then makes you wonder why I’m standing here and holding this gun. Let me say here that’s it’s nothing personal, just business. I’ll leave the stage now for my new madam to come and finish the story.”Then he curtsied in Toyin’s direction and sat on the arm of the chair directly opposite Karishika, his gun still trained on her.

You could have pushed me over with just a finger. Toyin was the brains behind everything, Japhet’s new boss? Curiouser, curiouser.

She stood up and adjusted her dress a bit before she started talking.

“Good afternoon guys. I think it’s better I introduce myself first, to correct some misconceptions. My name is Laraba although I’m positive quite a few of you knew me as Toyin. Yes?”

She looked at me and Karishika in the eye, smiling beautifully. Now this was getting stranger than fiction. I’d been bleeping a total stranger all these while? I could only look on as she continued.

“Yes. Laraba is my real name, the alias Toyin’ was just to serve as cover which I needed to successfully carry out the mission I came to Lagos for. I used to live in Canada until I received a message from my Dad to return to Nigeria urgently more than two years ago. I came in to discover he had suffered a massive stroke, brought on by the knowledge that he had been defrauded in a mega business deal by a partner. He lost quite a lot in that deal gone wrong and when his health took a turn for the worse; he had no option but to bring me home to take care of him, as my mum had died years before. Since I was his only child, coming home afforded me the opportunity of learning a bit about his business. What I found shocked me to the marrow.

Dad was involved in a lot of things which I found disgusting to say the least. It was during that time I learnt that the person responsible for his stroke was a woman whom had somehow managed to romantically penetrate his defense and then caused serious damage from the inside. Not only did she take a huge amount of money from him, she also managed to cause him major embarrassment with malicious lies of him being a homosexual love-vendor, which she somehow managed to pass on as truth to the society, tarnishing his image.

I still would have stayed out of all the rubbish if she hadn’t inadvertently dragged me in. Riding in Baba’s custom built Range Rover on my way to the Airport to catch a flight back to my Canadian base, two masked men crossed me on the highway and opened fire on the vehicle. If not for the armor plated windscreen, I would probably not be here today. That incident was the spur I needed to get involved, I took it very personal.

Abuja being what it is, it didn’t take much to investigate and discover that this woman here had ordered the hit just to be sure that Dad didn’t make good on his promise to get his pound of flesh back from her. Using Dad’s network, I was able to engage Japhet here as an ally and he was instrumental in getting me a job in her company in Lagos, close enough to her so that I could pick up useful information. The aim was to get in, get what I needed and get out, but when madam took me into her confidence and started paying me extra to spy on you, I decided to stay and watch your back. I wasn’t going to stand by and watch her destroy another human being.”