5:00 pm
Tony struggled to open his eyes and when he finally did, he jumped up like something in the couch bit his back “where am I? Where am I? Olinlin let’s go” Tony scanned the room in paranoia as if the man who tried to kill him was in the room. “Oga abeg relax… relax and talk to me” Olinlin tried to calm Tony down but when Tony turned the doorknob and realized that the door was locked, he panicked.
It took five minutes of serious effort from Olinlin to convince Tony that no one was trying to kill him “as you faint, dem bring you here and Emeka rush commot go call doctor” Olinlin explained, they were in an empty office.
After Olinlin’s desperate explanation, Tony sat back down on the couch he jumped up from earlier and burst into tears “Oga Emeka go soon come, abeg no cry… no cry” Tony was grateful to have Olinlin by his side. The day had been extremely hard on him and his was very close to giving up.
“Olinlin, my sister is dead” “Chai! Which time this wan happen? Now?” Olinlin was truly concerned for Tony’s current state “no…no… she died this morning” Tony could barely speak “and she died because of me… she died because of me” “na you kill am?” Olinlin asked calmly and Tony shook his head “then you no fit put that kind blame on top your head… na god bring am and na him carry am”
Tony was tired, he was emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted plus his arm hurt terribly, he could feel it throbbing from the cast; all he wanted to do was go back home and do right by his dead sister but current circumstances didn’t allow him. As he wiped his tears, all of a sudden he realized that he didn’t care about his job anymore. He came to the resolution that whatever would be would be.
“Olinlin, you remember the man wey I been dey point for reception downstairs?” “Yes, before you faint. The wan wey you talk say wan kill you” Tony nodded sharply “na em be dey drive the car wey jam me” “Chineke meh! E mean say true true en wan kill you” “yes”.
Tony went on to explain to Olinlin his beef with Mr. Henry and how it led to his broken arm “but you sure say na em?” Olinlin asked with anger in his voice “yes now. I saw his face clearly before the car hit me” “why you no tell me since make I lynch am, you come siddon here dey cry” Olinlin stood up and began to pace.
“No be the thing wey I dey try tell you since?” Tony was glad to see Olinlin angry for him “e mean say you no fit trust anybody for this place o” Olinlin stated and his words sent Tony into thoughts of distrust towards Emeka. “If that man dey here Oga Tony, e mean say that your oga don already know say you dey here and e no go tey before e come find you” Olinlin sounded wise beyond his education.
“As you see me so enh, I no care… I just wan go house. I don tire. To hell with everything” Tony replied “then make we dey go now” Olinlin opened the door “you mean say this door fit open since?” Tony walked towards the door with surprise “na you no sabi open door” Olinlin replied closing the door behind them.
The moment they stepped out of the empty office, Emeka appeared in front of them with the office nurse but Tony waived them away telling them that he was fine and just suffered a moment of panic attack. He told Emeka that he had a family emergency and would be back after attending to it.
“Take this, you will need it” Emeka said discreetly putting a Taser in Tony’s hand “It’s long range, you can shoot someone who is two meters away from you” “thanks menh” they shook hands and Tony left with Olinlin.
Outside the EFCC building, as they walked towards Tony’s car, Olinlin excused himself to go urinate while Tony waited in the car. A couple of minutes passed and Olinlin was not back… Tony waited for an additional ten minutes and when Olinlin didn’t come back, he went hunting for him.
He walked towards the back of the building towards a small bushy area, as he moved closer he heard the sound of two men fighting; it was Olinlin and the man who hit Tony with a car. Olinlin saw the man go towards the back of the building and followed but he told Tony that he was going to ease himself.
“Jesus what is this guy doing?” he went closer and saw that Olinlin was losing the fight, so he picked up a large stone with his uninjured arm and moved towards them like a cat waiting for a prey. He waited and at the right time and angle he hit the man at the back of his head with the large stone and the man collapsed.
Olinlin got up from the ground and they watched the man shake uncontrollably on the floor “oga wetin dey do am, why e dey shake like this?” “He is dying” Tony replied casually “Okay” Olinlin answered. They watched the man until he stopped shaking and became totally still. He was dead.
