Deep into the darkness of the road, maestro’s land cruiser SUV had been dashing through the night in the company of his convoy. Maestro was headed for another meeting with the elders. He had called for their attention once again. The chaos that were now befalling him and his business had turned him to be very uncomfortable. Most of them had been coming from things that had no control over but the elders do. They could stop being lenient with Nadia and call her to order so he can avoid a territorial war. Well it seemed like they were way past that now ‘this war can longer be avoided’ maestro thought to himself.
Maestro realised that the vehicle was now running slowly. Seemed to him like they had arrived their destination, well at least, so he thought.
The deceleration of the vehicle had progressed consecutively till it finally halted to a stop. “what happened. We aren’t there yet” maestro questioned , now realising they had not stoppe
The convoy of vehicles arrived at the Hotel de Continental , or as the crime lords called it – the continental ground. This was where the elders had created to settle the business disputes amongst criminals in the city. The building where they had their last meeting with Nadia and maestro that didn’t end so well. The Building was located in a five hectare compound filled with low cut grasses.. the passageway into the building was a 15 meters tarred road with rails on both sides that ran with it down to the building entrance. The building was three story landscape and had tinted glasses strategically placed all over the whit painted building walls.Maestro and his crew had walked down the passageway down to the entrance where they were met by the guards who stopped and required them to check in their weapons.‘NO WEAPONS ON CONTINENTAL GROUND’ a big sign read boldly above the door. It was bold enough for any well sighted person to read so the gua
The convoy of vehicles arrived at the Hotel de Continental , or as the crime lords called it – the continental ground. This was where the elders had created to settle the business disputes amongst criminals in the city. The building where they had their last meeting with Nadia and maestro that didn’t end so well. The Building was located in a five hectare compound filled with low cut grasses.. the passageway into the building was a 15 meters tarred road with rails on both sides that ran with it down to the building entrance. The building was three story landscape and had tinted glasses strategically placed all over the whit painted building walls. Maestro and his crew had walked down the passageway down to the entrance where they were met by the guards who stopped and required them to check in their weapons. ‘NO WEAPONS ON CONTINENTAL GROUND’ a big sign read boldly above the door. It was bold enough for any well sighted person to read so the guards need no explanatio
The saint Theresa Montessori school located in lagos was as huge as any other flagship school in the city. It was a three storey building on an eight hectare piece of land. The school as usual, was open to it’s student from Mondays to Fridays from the time 7am to 5pm daily. On this particular Monday though, the closing bell had been heard ringing from inside the building and all the students were now seen to be rushing out of it. Several students had been directed straight to the school bus which waited right outside school and the some of the other students who were privileged to have their private vehicles waiting on them outside the building were equally escorted by their teachers to the vehicles. Victoria madinni, an eleven year old girl was one of these few privileged girls. She had been waiting at the school gate for her mom’s driver and body guards who were always waiting outside the gate to pick her up by 5pm everyday Her teacher who stood in the wait with he
The fact that BJ had waited in the stand for questioning by his own lawyer in the courtroom had been challenging enough for him to handle. The bizarre situation was one he knew was possible but never anticipated he would be in.He had now immersed himself in the comfort of the silence that ensued right after the lawyer had dismissed his questioning.“no further questions your honour” the words he just heard his lawyer , Barrister Williams speak which set down a soothing trail of calm down his spine. ‘finally’ he thought ‘ this nightmare is over’ he was on the watch of the for the judge’s lips to move and give a final response to dismiss him from the stand. However the judge got to disappoint him with his response“does the prosecution wish to examine” he said.The nervousness that once glittered in BJ’s eyes once before back when he was first called out now resurfaced once again.
Nadia madinni had been in a serious state of panic ever since the news of her drivers disappearance and daughters abduction got to her hearing. She was having a hard time believing that something like this had the likelihood of happening. The security of family members from the interference of rivalry in her line of work was usually ensured by the elders who controlled the affairs of interpersonal conflict in their crime network. However, she knew that her breaking out from the organisation and her recent display of disobedience would account for some kind of payback but she was not expecting it this soon, nor was she expecting it for her your daughter to be used as bait.She had been waiting patiently for a call from whoever was responsible ever since her bodyguards informed her about how her drivers vehicle was intercepted and commandeered by a group of unknown hoodlums and the driver along with it.Nadia had now grown furious and paranoid as she kept pac
Uphill the mountains of the city, above a misty soaked atmosphere that aroused as a result of the morning dew. Maestro waited in his usual black leather jacket and mask on, with zeke standing by his side, both enjoying the humid wetness of the dew on their skin. There were two other black vans vaguely seen waiting behind them with two heavily armed guards each standing by their side. The men were all black suited wielding tech 9 Machine guns in their arms.That made seven head count up top the mountain , even though it was difficult to see or count in all that misty air that cloaked them all.Maestro looked down on his watch as if he was waiting on someone who was being late . he stared at zeke who for some reason had a mask on as well this time around.Zeke nodded his head and turned his masked face downwards to his right breast pocket to bring out his burner cell phone.He handed the burner over to maestro who looked at the screen and saw the number dia
In the courtroom , B.J had left the witness stand and was now sitting with his lawyer back at his seat . they stared and listened in silence as they awaited the final verdict of the Judge who was found to be still scribbling down some notes on his bench.Nena as well was found seated alongside Lucile who was also silent as she stared at Nena do her own. writing down in her notepad on the table.The silence in the room was soon cut short soon after as the judge called B.J to stand up and receive his verdict.BJ stood up and then the Judge began to speak.“the verdict!” he began, hitting the gavel on his desk. “ It seems we have reached a climax here as we have all heard diverse perspectives of the story from both parties here, the prosecution and the defendants. Now in as much you both have made very compelling and commendable arguments, there is still need for Justice to be served and upheld.” He now sat upright and adjusted his gl
The aston martin vehicle had now been driven for a couple of minutes with Nena behind the steer wheel. Lucile sat quietly beside her in the passenger seat holding tightly to herself as the vehicle drove at over a hundred kilometres an hour, clearly exceeding the speed limit.She wondered what had gotten over Nena to get her driving like that. She stared at her cousin in astonishment as to how and where the young lady had learned to drive like that .“aunty Nena” she cried out “please slow down a little” she pleaded, obviously concerned about both their safety.Nena on the other hand , didn’t seem to have interest in paying any attention to little miss Lucile’s concerns. she apparently happened to be on that speed consciously and purposefully.She slowly increased the acceleration of the vehicle with her feet completely thrusting down the gas pedal flat.Lucile lay back tightly to her seat , firm
It was a hot afternoon on board the virgin Atlantic airplane fight 227. Lucile Johnson was seated in the first class section of the flight staring at the clouds through the window. She wondered how far long it would take before she got to Lagos. Nena had invited her over for the face identification Daniel cross. It was such a big news to her when she received the call from Nena Daniels, her aunt, confirming that the person who she was engaged to was indeed a criminal as she had earlier warned. Although it was sad that her aunt had to go through the trauma of processing the news of a cancelled engagement, she was indeed very delighted to see that the truth had finally come to light and Daniel was in her custody.Daniel, Someone who they had spent the last five years trying to find with all the resources her father could afford at the time. she indeed pondered on how Dani had managed to stay hidden under the radar all this while. Now, she had to see him for herself and believe it for r
The company outside of maestro’s building were getting noisier and noisier by the minute but was soon put to silence the minute the director put up his megaphone to his mouth and spoke. The large sound from the speaker overwhelmed the atmosphere of the whole compound as he began saying “maestro, we know you are in there. You are heavily surrounded. You can step out now with your hands behind your head and we can make this whole process easy for the both of us”.Apparently, Nena had called Director Gambo when she stumbled on the ugly truth that her lover and fiancée was the infamous maestro they had been looking for. Although, she left that part about her relationship with him out when she was giving him the details of her discovery. Everything but that little bit of information.She originally just asked the director for backup to the house address and didn’t agree to say what for until the director forcefully insisted and she realized she had no choice but to give him something. “m
Maestro retired to his apartment for the day, grateful for how the day had gone. The good news of Madinni’s execution had brought much delight to his heart. Now half of his problems were solved. All he had to do now was usurp the control of the distribution of product in her territory and still maintain order with the elders.He drove in his vehicle into the compound, pulled off his mask and stepped out of the vehicle with zeke by his side as they stepped into the apartment. The gatekeeper informed him that his fiancée was in the building and he immediately became nervous. He knew she had a spare key to the apartment but she wasn’t always fond of trooping in this regularly.Even if he was purportedly engaged to the woman, he wasn’t exactly comfortable with that especially now that he was about celebrating Madinni’s demise.He hurried up, thanking his stars that he was lucky enough to have removed his mask in his car.He was mostly fond of keeping it on these days, mostly because his
On the Lagos - Badagry highway, Nena’s Aston martin sedan vehicle was cruising on 150mph as she sped back home to Dani’s apartment for no reason in particular, except from the sole fact of clearing things up and making sense of everything she had just learnt about her fiancée.‘no it can’t be’ she thought to herself. ‘all these can’t possibly be true’ she thought further ‘dani may have done some wrong and rough things in the past but not this. No this is too much. I need to get home and try to make some sense of all these’.She finally approached the apartment and parked her vehicle just outside.She rushed into the building and up the stairs. Into the room. There was no one home at the moment so she decided to use the opportunity of the privacy to do something she hadn’t had the time to do before; For the first time in the duration of her relationship with Dani, she decided to snoop among his things.She ransacked the room starting from his wardrobe. She brought out all the boxes s
‘WE NEED TO TALK’ . Nena kept looking sternly at the message from Lucile on her phone. ‘ I had already sent her a photo of Dani, what could she possibly want this time’ she thought. She looked to director Gambo who obviously had no interest in what she had going on especially now that he had dismissed her and terminated her appointment on the task force.Moreover, he had more important things to worry about at the moment.The news about the interception of his team was devastating enough. At this point he was confused; this was a major setback for the maestro investigation. He walked with Jasper back into the interrogation room to further discuss their next plan of action after the unfortunate development. Nena tried to ignore the text from Lucile but then again, Lucile gave her a call instead. “goddamn it” Lucile exclaimed as she picked the call “Lucile dear, this is so not the right time for this. You should really call back later”.“oh no aunt, you should really listen to me th
The four horsemen had been a lifelong contract assassins that had worked for the BMA discreetly for years. They specialized in killings of high tier Targets . Maestro only contacted them on special occasions for special missions and this situation with Nadia Madinni definitely fell under that category.He couldn't think of a better time to call them than a time like this. Zeke who he had ordered to place the call had done exactly just that and sealed the deal with them.A man named Ivanovic had been the one to receive the call and transacted with him. Ideally, they were to pay their dues through the continental coin; a secret currency devised by the elders to aid the discretion of transactions for criminals in their community but due to his recent problems with the elders, maestro had ordered zeke to offer them payment in cryptocurrency.This new development was strange to the hearing of Ivanovic who initially protested at the proposal. He was afraid of getting into any trouble with
Up in his office, maestro stood quietly by the side of window with a glass of rum in his hands, slowly turning the 1965 scotch whisky around the meniscus of the glass as he watched his staff work ardently in his drug production facility.They had been working harder these days to keep up with the high demand in the streets. A demand that aroused due to Nadia's to sudden disappearance. Ever she was apprehended a void was created in the market and maestro took the opportunity to fill in that void.there were no longer restrictions from the Elder's who normally would've rendered their objections by now. Apparently they had bigger things to worry about at times like this.Yes, times like this meant business was good for maestro but on the contrary, he did not feel good at a time like this. He was more worried about the danger that lay ahead now that he knew Nadia was about to slip up and expose his full working operation to the cops and to the whole world.He looked at all he had accomplis
Back at the police station. Director Gambo had been furious all morning. He had been trying to get a hold of Nena on the phone but she had not been available. He was even more furious now that he saw her walking into the building. ‘this lateness is unacceptable’ he thought to himself as he walked angrily to meet up with her. “where have you been” he yelled “I have been trying to reach you all morning. What is wrong with you, young lady”“I’m so sorry director. I am actually inexcusable today. I promise it won’t happen again” “like hell it won’t” the director revolted “This is unacceptable. I have had just about enough of your indiscipline. I am taking you off the case”“what?!” Nena exclaimed, obviously surprised at the director’s rash decision. She understood he was angry but taking her off the case made no sense actually.. she had contributed immensely to the progress of this case up till this point, or at least, so she thought. Nevertheless, it made no sense taking her off the
Lucile Johnson was in her bedroom when the message came into her phone. She reached for the phone on her bed and opened it up. It was the photo she requested from her aunt Nena.The photo of her supposed fiancé. She opened up the JPEG file excitedly but the image that appeared after the file had downloaded left her in utter shock. The face on the image was surprisingly familiar. This was a face she knew all too well and the shock she felt now was overwhelming. She quickly dropped the phone and buried her awestruck lips behind her palms. “oh my god’ she thought aloud “could this really be? After all these years? He has shown up again?” the questions kept on flashing through her mind as she remained astonished at the turn of events.This was a blast from the past, one which had come rather unexpectedly. “I need to inform aunt Nena” she thought, as she picked up her phone to dial her Nena’s number again.There was a beep at the ring, indicating that the line was busy. Lucile reached