The city of Lagos, Nigeria was oblivious to the tension mounting in one of the most exquisitely furnished suites at the Oriental Hotels in Victoria Island that cool evening. The residents of the West African business city hurried about to their different destinations and would never know what the men in that hotel were discussing.
The council members of the Blood Brotherhood had all been informed of the death of Cathy McBride, their former leader. Most of them had heard and watched it through CNN even before the news was officially relayed to every member of the council by Abubakar, who had taken up the mantle of leadership temporarily, with the untimely exit of their former leader. Nobody had argued his qualification for the position, it was not the time for such and nobody really cared
