Tiit For Tat - S02 E15

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Tiit For Tat - S02 E15

Read Story: SEASON 2 EPISODE 15

Plan For Rescue

~~In Nigeria~~

The rescue of a person who is assaulted or restrained of his liberty , without authority of law is not only morally but legally a meritorious act; for everybody is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins,robbers,ravishers, kidnappers or ruffians of any kind.- Lysander Spooner.

[Mike's Point Of View ]

It was a miracle we have been through case #5. It proved to be very dangerous and deadly.When ever I remembered the timely intervention of Tabuki,I was forever grateful. He arrived in the nick of time to teleport us home.

As you were aware of, we had finished exacting vengeance on those who abused my gang members in the past. Now that I had finished with case #5, I had to focus my attention on the next task. Task#3.

For some unexplained reasons, I knew the next task would be very daunting, tough and deadly. I knew I had to removed that premonition from my mind and focus on the task ahead but it was clear that my trepidation of the next task couldn’t be hidden.

Some of my boys had been monitoring Zolabin for some time now. We tried to set him up with a woman. Through her we got to know he may be hiding my girlfriend on a certain island but she couldn’t tell us the exact island because Zolabin was tight lipped on it.

Well, that was comforting, at least we had a glue to start from somewhere.

There were two things that made the case more nerve racking. The first one was the issue of love. The victim was the love of my life and issues of love could be highly sensitive and dangerous.

The second issue was strategy.

The victim was the last hold Zolabin had on us and if we could rescue her ,then Zolabin could not use anything to manipulate us into submission again.

With a level playing ground , we would have no need to check our back when we met him face-to face ,arm to arm.

Leo , my personal advisor,saw the look of concern and trepidation in my eyes and suggested I should not go on the next task. He said, when the going get tougher ,I could veer off the plan and compromised the safety of the group. “Mike, you are our boss. Allow us to do the work for you.”

“Well Leo, I agreed with your analysis without any equivocation but I’m afraid I have already made up my mind to go.”

Leo looked quite disappointed.

I was disturbed by Leo’s statement after I have overridden his suggestion. He said, “Well,you are the Boss.I can only advise you. You can choose to take it or leave It.”

It hurt but I had made up my mind.

I acknowledged the fact that he was highly concerned about my safety but I humbly turned down his suggestion.

Task # 3 was very very important to me,ranking only next to task#5. This task was very important to me because of two main reason.I knew turning down Leo’s suggestion may be unwise but I want “the lady” of my heart to see me as her saviour, a knight in shining armour.

I see myself as the central figure in this all- important rescue operation and if I failed to go along with the rescue team, she would forever see me as a coward. Surely, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to prove my eternal love for her.

I would rather risk going and die as a hero than stay behind and live as a coward.

Tom Robins said, “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

Having been fired with that powerful Quote I was poised to go even if it means hurting Leo a little bit.

I don’t know where exactly she was but our secret female agent said she was on an island.

The hard truth was we were planning the whole operation based on assumptions. I shuddered to think that we would expend all our resources on nothing.

Quickly, I pushed that pessimistic thought out of my mind and decided to focus on the positive.

I told the Tat group that the whole operation was based on an assumption that She was kidnap

ped and kept as a prisoner on one of the islands in Nigeria. The biggest question was, even if my hypothesis was true, which of the islands was she?

Nigeria has many Islands.Places like Lagos, Rivers and other lower ends of the Niger-Delta with close access to rivers and oceans, allow for the natural or artificial formation of Islands. Some of the islands in Nigeria included Abagbo Island, Andoni Island, Banana Island,Bonny Island,Brass Island,Ebute-Oko Island,Eko Atlantic,Gberefu Island,Iddo Island,Ikoyi,Nsutana, Parrot Island,

Lagos Island,Ogogoro island,Snake Island,Takwa bay island,Tincan Island and Victoria Island.

We were lucky enough for at least one thing.

The city itself sprawls over main islands: Lagos, Iddo (now attached to the mainland), Ikoyi (now attached to Lagos Island), and Victoria (now the tip of the Lekki Peninsula); because of land reclamation efforts over the years, some of the original main islands are no longer true islands.

With this in mind, We planned the operation meticulously, every small detail carefully considered because it was a matter of life and death.

We realised there were about 18 islands in all. Now, using the island map of Nigeria, we grouped the islands into Three Categories based in their location and proximity to each other. We thus have Category A islands, Category B islands and Category C islands and Category D islands.

Each Category consisted of at least 4 or 5 islands.

After that we considered the size of the Tat gang members. We were 30 in all. The executive members were 14 and the non executive members were 16.

Out of the executive members, Tife had been called to duty. “Eheh,” that reminded me. I have to check up on him to see if he had come back from his duty and possibly joined us in the operation. Apart from him, the accountant, the treasurer, the ICT Analyst and lawyer couldn’t follow us on the operation. That left us with nine viable members.

The nine(9) viable members of the executive group added to the sixteen non -executive members summed up to twenty five.

With these , we formed four groups each consisting at least five (5) members. Each group is assigned at least a category of islands to search.

Automatically, I became the coordinator of the groups but to lighten him a little bit, I asked Leo to help me.

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After making groups and assigning them the islands, the right ammunition and communicative devices, we reached a consensus that we needed to be communicating with each other to ensure harmony and coordination. In addition, one group could reinforced the other if the other group was in trouble.

After careful planning, the group underwent a drill assessment to ensure they were physically fit for that operation.

Having proven themselves to be up to the task, they were all poised to go. Weapons,maps, high tech Communication device ready.

With Persephony in the control room, monitoring our movements and using satellites to pre-inform us before we reached certain areas, and me giving the commands, we have nothing to fear. We were set to go on the rescue mission.

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To Be Continued..

What happened next?

What is happening to Rosaline?

Will the rescue mission be successful?

Watch out for EPISODE 16