The Bonny Island Massacre - S01 E25

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The Bonny Island Massacre - S01 E25

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 25

The NSS did not tell anyone that Femi had confessed to the crime, not even the President. So the president was hell bent on making Yvonne pay, nothing but death could atone for the irreparable damage her act had caused the Party. He had however found out that Mathias was not aboard the plane. His conscience cried over the 100 people that died for no reason, but he silenced it. They were collateral damage. He was glad however that finally they had been able to stop Mathias.

He walked over to his desk and grabbed the envelope brought by one of the NSS agents. It had been taken from Mathias’ desk at the dead of night. He opened the envelope and saw that it contained a CD plate.

“What could this prove, that Miss Ngegwu is not the criminal?” he wondered as he slotted the CD plate into a player.

What he saw confounded him, he stared in disbelief. Yvonne was not the culprit after all. But unfortunately, the world could not see this, no one should find out that Yvonne had been wrongly accused and all she had gone through, was for naught. No, that would end my presidency, the same way our chances at the polls have been taken away by this crime. There were other ways to make the real culprit pay, but as for Yvonne, it was unfortunate, but there was no other choice, she had to be sentenced to death.

He picked up the envelope and threw it into the fireplace where the housekeeper had just made fresh fire to wade off the cold. He watched the fire leak at the edges of the envelope and before long, the fire had consumed the envelope.

“Now, no one will know that Yvonne is innocent” He thought. It was a relief to know that his friend Raji Lawal had not betrayed him. But then, why had he written that statement? He was puzzled by this, so he picked up his phone and called the DG of NSS.

Yvonne sat in the front row with Mathias, she thought of what Mathias had told her and realized that someone badly wanted her to hang for this crime.

Mathias: “I kept that envelope before I slept, I had not even looked inside. The investigator told me that the video shows the real culprit and it is not you. He said, it had taken him instinct to check for cameras and when he found it, he had to look for where it goes to” Mathias had tried to explain the missing evidence to her.

The investigator had found that the recording was inbuilt inside the camera, and somehow whoever installed cameras in the house, had forgotten about them. He had taken the one in the kitchen and given to a technologist who extracted the tape. Mathias had waited to get to court before opening the envelope, he wanted to make sure the judge was the one who opened the envelope. Unfortunately, when he went to his desk the next morning, the envelope was gone. He had gone berserk, hoping that it was just a dream, but until now he had not woken up.

Mathias just stared at the government prosecutor as he thrilled the crowd with his stories of how Yvonne became a tool in the hands of politicians, just because she wanted to rule her domain. He even told them that she also killed her rival, Daisy, along with the politicians in one fell swoop. The audience in the courtroom ate his words for he was a great orator and Mathias knew that they believed everything he said.

Mathias: “What is the government playing at?” he asked rhetorically. Yvonne just kept mute, she was tired of thinking, she had left her life in God’s hands and was ready for whatever came out of this tribulation. She remembered a passage in the bible which said “Even when you walk through fire, I will be there with you”

“Perhaps God will go with me, even to the hangman’s noose. My only regret will be, not knowing my father sooner” She locked eyes with Mathias and then she suddenly hugged him. She could not stop the tears now, as the sobs made her shudder. She cried out.

Yvonne: “I forgive you for abandoning me, I forgive you and I wish we met sooner. I don’t know why you decided to abandon me, but I know you would have made a great father” she sobbed.

Her foster father, Prince Ngegwu, who was sitting behind them, watched them with surprise on his face. Realization dawned on him when he remembered that Mathias had asked him when Yvonne was born.

“It is the reason he is fighting for her. So he is the father of a woman such as Yvonne” he thought regrettably, despite all that had happened, he still wished he was the biological father of Yvonne.

Yvonne’s cries had disrupted the Prosecutor’s speech, and everyone stared at her. The judge looked at them with an angry frown, and when Yvonne did not let up, he banged the gavel.

Judge: “Order in my court” he yelled.