The Bonny Island Massacre - S01 E28

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The Bonny Island Massacre - S01 E28

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 28

Among the three masked men was the one who had attacked Yvonne at her birthday party. He was an assassin and got calls from top politicians to assassinate their enemies. When Daisy called him, the job had been simple; kill Danlattu, one of the AFC politicians and drop a strip of Yvonne’s clothe at the scene of the murder. He had succeeded in getting a strip of Yvonne’s clothe but to kill Danlattu had been the problem because, he had expected that the man would go to a secluded area to make calls as politicians were wont to do, but he had stayed put, enjoying the party. He was surprised when the guests who ate the cake had started vomiting blood. He had looked angrily at Daisy, thinking she had mistrusted him and made contingency plans, but he was surprised to see that she had ate the cake too and was vomiting blood like the rest. Then he had thought that she had an antidote, but he was surprised that she laid helpless on the floor. Then he had realized that someone else had poisoned the cake, he didn’t believe for once that it was the celebrant. He knew those who had killer instincts the first time he met them, in Yvonne, he had seen a childish innocence.

So when he had gotten a call from a government official who was in the inner circle of the president, and given the video recording, he had understood everything. His instructions were to mutilate Mira and leave her to die a slow painful death. They were still at beating, they would still get to raping her, and then they would begin to cut her. He smiled a wicked, dark smile as he looked down on the bloody Mira, in a very small part of him, he felt pity for her. When Mira was weak and bruised, the three men took turns to rape her continuously. When she fainted, they would pour cold water on her, and when she was revived, they would continue.

Mira: “Oh God, I know I am a sinner, I know that Yvonne probably went through more than this because of me, but please help me, have mercy on me, the pain is too much” she cried, as the men thrust into her.

When the men were exhausted, their leader who was the masked man at Yvonne’s party took out a Swiss knife and began to make long marks on Mira’s face. When they saw that Mira was no longer moving, they bundled her into their car and took her to the roadside and dumped her body. Their purpose was for someone to find her, but no one would know why she had been attacked.

Cars passed by and they saw the body by the side of the road, they concluded that it was just another runs girl that has met her waterloo. But one man stopped because people were already gathered around her. He was a doctor and he believed that even a dead body had a chance to live again. So he rushed to the bloody mess and knelt beside her. He bent close to her nose, and could not hear any breathing. Then he grabbed her wrist and felt for a pulse, it was a faint flicker, Mira was almost crossing the threshold between life and death.

The next day while the court convened, Femi was released from detention after he had agreed that he was not the one who poisoned the cake. He went home dejected and helpless, his father could not recognize his son when he saw him.

Femi’s father: “Femi! What happened to you?” he bolted out of the couch when Femi staggered in. He looked haggard and it had taken a history with the airline to allow him a space on the flight from Abuja to Port-Harcourt.

Femi: “The NSS had me” he said and collapsed into his father’s waiting arms, as he began to weep with so much grief.

“Yvonne, I don’t understand how our life got so messed up. I tried to help but I am not strong enough, I am so sorry. But I know what to do, if they hang you, I will kill myself. If we cannot be together in this life, then we will be together in the life beyond” He thought this as he wept.

Femi’s father had never seen a man so broken before and it ached his heart that it was his son. He berated himself for being a bad father to Femi, he had allowed his selfishness hurt his son.

Femi’s father: “I am so sorry Femi, I might not be your biological father, but I love you more than life itself. Please let me help you put your life back together. Please Femi, allow me be a father to you” he said in a broken voice that was clogged by emotions.

Femi: “It doesn’t matter anymore” he whispered, barely audible.