Vengeance Mission

Chapter Seven ( the confession)

Chapter Seven

The Confession

One afternoon, Lanre was sitting alone for almost the first time on the campus because he was disturbed. He was thinking on how to change his course of study as a means of avoiding Professor Gbade, even when he resumes to school at the expiration of his six months suspension.

I hate being under any form of tension. I hate being hunted by anyone. For the past few weeks, I have been the subject for public discussion on the campus. I am totally fed up of everything that I am presently passing through on the campus.

Breaking away from my study groups and classmates may not solve this problem. Possibly moving close to Professor Gbade to further plead my case may not provide the much needed solution that will bring relief to my troubled soul.

No one around to provide healing to my soul. No one to stand by me, no one to encourage me.

I heard foot steps behind me and I looked back, the appearance of Bolakale from nowhere interrupted my thoughts.

Bolakale got a big stone close by, rolled it to sit beside me. He obviously knew I was disturbed. Cheer up guy, Bolakale said, your father was a very nice man. My father told me before I left home that your father helped him in a great way and that he would want me to do everything within my power to help his children too.

I was not so much interested in the story until he said, he was behind the revenge on my uncle, by razing down his ban and farmland, for breaking into our house and carting away our food items.

Bolakale looked into my face and said I came to this university to keep an eye on you against any maltreatment.

How do you mean?

He paused for a while when I came I needed someone very close to you, who would always let me know how you were faring on the campus without me necessarily moving too close to you. I found the person of my choice in Tola, I approached her and asked her to make it a top secret, that not even Seyi must know her mission with you. I promised to pay her big at the end. So what were you able to make out of all these?

Through her I was able to know when you were sad and know what made you sad. Tola already told me of professor Gbade's s****l advances to Seyi and long before he warned you publicly in the lecture theatre. I hate seeing people around me being cheated or being unjustly punished with great passion.

I therefore decided to puncture his four tyres and left a warning note with a scary logo of human skull and bones on his car's windscreen.

And the kidnap? Lanre asked while on his feet.

Sit down, Bolakale said.

You know, he is a stubborn fly, who will not heed to warning. He went ahead to threaten you, that he would send you packing from the university. If he is left to do that unchecked, then where do you go from that point?

No parents to plead your case. The students union is a toothless bull dog that has not been able to defend any student against any form of victimization or maltreatment.

So I had to show him.

Lanre said you mean you kidnapped his son and all that money? How did you do all these?

My boys did it, Lanre said, all for my sake, to defend me unknowingly? Yes, I will even do more for your sake.

Your own case is not the first of its kind on this campus.

When I came to this campus, I discovered that so many students were maltreated by lecturers without anyone to plead their cases.

I have had cases to deal with so many lecturers for victimizing students unjustly. If someone like me don't fight for them, no one would fight for anyone here. Most of the lecturers had been unreasonable especially those of them who womanize.

There are countless of innocent students who had been made to have extra year just because a lecturer felt a male student was dating a female student he (the lecturer) had interest in. It is not only unjust but ungodly too.

How do you manage to get wind of such cases, here and at the same time cope with your academic work? More than that, you are very sound academically. You just want to be human right fighter everywhere you go and even when no one was aware of your efforts?

I don't do it to be paid by anyone, but to help sanitize our Society from people who take delight in cheating others. I want oppression to end everywhere I find myself.

My boys wrote anonymous letter to warn a number of people including lecturers and even students against any form of cheating and injustice. They made anonymous calls, and for those who felt it was just an empty threat, they go to show such at night by beating them when it was dark.

Don't you take note that cases of students being failed by lecturers in the past two years have greatly declined on this campus? Because most of those involved have learnt their lessons in one hard way or the other.

How do you get your boys raised? I asked Bolakale.

He answered, people of like mind, you get to know them through their ways of life on the campus. People who hate cheating and injustice around them.

Just one more question, do you pay them for services rendered?

No, on the contrary, the case of professor was the first of kidnap in my life. We had never involved ourselves in kidnap before.

But why this? Because he was stubborn and I felt that was the only way to deal with him.

And what about the ransom you collected from him? Every of my team were lodged in a hotel in the outskirts of the town with the adopted boy. He was never tortured by anyone, he was properly fed. I paid for the hotel rooms for one week before his father settled the ransom.

And what remains from the ransom has long been paid into the school account on behalf of professor Gbade, to help him ease the loan repayment. I was reliably told he got the loan by appealing to the school authority.

Do you have a meeting place and when do you meet?

In most cases we don't have a meeting place but we have a meeting time. We don't meet physically, we hold online meetings via Zoom and Google meet.

If there was any need to meet physically, we announced it and no one dare come late to such meeting. Though almost all my team lived in the same room, yet we had never for once held any of our meetings in the room.

Why? Lanre asked.

You know my room was more or less a common room where students never stopped coming to, for solution to one academic problem or the other. Especially those in the sciences.

I can sense danger, I have to leave, Bolakale said and he left.

As he left, I heard a military voice from a far distance, "hold it!”

That did not stopped him from running very fast. The policemen shot sporadically into the air as they ran pass me. And the last thing I heard was help him; he was scared of the gun shots as I fell down.