Vengeance Mission

Chapter Eight (the questioning)

Chapter Eight

The questioning

Officers, try and give him first aid to bring him back. It's a shock so that he can enjoy fresh air. The inspector who led the team said bring and let's get him to the hospital we need him. The driver came with the police car took and Lanre who was still unconscious of what was happening around him. Straight to the emergency unit inspector John directed the driver.

He was brought out and the nurses immediately sprang into action to revive Lanre. Doctor Dipo asked what the matter was from inspector John.

He answered that they were trying to apprehend a criminal and his men had to shoot sporadically into the air to stop the criminal but unfortunately he didn't stop.

Doctor said it was just shock, he brought out the BP apparatus to check his blood pressure. It was high, that probably is the reason for his collapse. The doctor assured the police that he would do everything to bring him back.

He was given injection and drip was set on him. Go and sit down the doctor told inspector John.

He was offered a seat beside Lanre's bed because the police needed to keep an eye on him.

For the first time Lanre opened his eyes and looked round. He asked where he was and what he was doing there?

The nurse beside him calmed him down.

You are in the hospital, you will soon leave. You had a shock.

Why, shock from what?

Just calm down, the nurse tried to keep him on the bed.

He looked around the hospital and saw the policemen, the inspector seated while two others were standing.

What could they be doing around me? He imagined as he closed his eyes again. This he did for about 30 minutes before he finally opened his eyes and he was able to regain his consciousness.

Lanre said yes you are here for Bolakale.

As you can see I'm not Bolakale. He ran away when he sensed danger. I hate the sound of gun around me. That was the first time gun was ever shot very close to me. I hate it with passion.

Lanre faced inspector John again and said, since Bolakale was gone what do you want from me?

We just want to ask you some questions and we will leave you alone. We are not here to give you further shock. We want you to help us, will you be ready to give some information?

Yes I said without hesitation. I want to get out of this place fast. I can't talk to you here. Your drip will soon finish and you can be discharged immediately the doctor said.

At about 4 p.m. Lanre was discharged from the hospital and the policemen led him to his hotel to check his room for anything incriminating. It was only two of the policeman who were plain clothed that followed me to the hostel for the check. It was an embarrassment to see strange people coming into my room. My roommates had to go out to give room for thorough search. Of course, they showed me a search warrant.

They spent about an hour searching everywhere looking for what can implicate me. But as fate would have it, nothing that was capable of implicating me was found. No weapon, of any kind except common paracetamol.

Students in the hostel could not imagine the kind of embarrassment I received. Everyone said I had done nothing to warrant this treatment. Inspector John was satisfied with the search and he led the team out of my room and everyone including me went into the car.

As we went in, the driver was directed to drive to the office.

What for? I asked inspector John, just what discussion and questioning. We got to the police station.

Though not handcuffed but I felt humiliated to be found in the police station for the first time in my life.

I was brought before a very huge plain clothed officer. He asked me to move closer to him and have my seat. As I got seated, he ask me the name of my own secret cult.

I asked him what cult?

He asked what I had to do with Bolakale?

He was my course mate and we came from the same locality.

Is that all? He asked me.

Yes we were not friends and everyone knows that. I am easy going and I don't identify myself with any form of criminality.

Then what were you doing with Bolakale?

They were the one who kidnapped professor Gbade's son.

He confessed to me things he had done for my sake.

How do you mean, do you mean you were the one who asked Bolakale to kidnap professor Gbade's son?

I didn't do that.

Then what happened?

I was getting irritated by his question. He stood up from his seat and sat at the edge of the table beside me. Tell me why did he kidnapped the boy?

Professor, Gbade wanted to befriend a female student very close to me, specifically seyi, but she would not accept his advances. As a result he decided to fail me in two of his courses. I went to his office to find out reasons for my failure.

He told me in a plain language, because of my closeness to Seyi.

I told him Seyi was just my course mate and nothing more. But he promised to show me the way out of the University by frustrating me. He said it openly that he was going to deal with me in our lectures.

Bolakale would not like that done to me, so he decided to puncture Professor Gbade's vehicle tyres. And when he would not listen or desist from witch hunting me, Bolakale decided to kidnap his son to teach him a bitter lesson. Was it not with your consent that he did it?

No that was what he was confessing to me when you came after him. Can I get a bottle of cold drink around here? I put my hand into my pocket and brought out money for the Coke I wanted to drink.

He took the money from me and called an officer to go and get me a bottle of Coke. With great haste he came in with a bottle of chilled Coke in his hand and he handed it over to me. I opened it and began to seep it.

He asked me to tell him how I knew about his gang and their mission.

I told him they meet online on Zoom and Google meet.

Do you know any member of this gang? He asked me again.

I don't know any one of them, I answered him sharply.

He told me he was determined to put an end to every form of victimization and molestation on this campus by all means.

How has he been able to do that?

His boys wrote letter warning erring lecturers, some they beat up to stop them from their maltreatment of innocent students. Through his activities there has been a bit of sanity in the way some lecturers behaved on this campus.

Who assigned him that role?

Not minding his question I continued. Extortion of students was disappearing, harassment of students was ending on the campus. Bribery and corruption gradually came to an end.

Shut up he said and stood up. Do you mean you were supporting Bolakale doing this evil?

Do you call all that I had said evil?

I did not say that, but has the university ever told him that they approved of, of his activities?

No but all the students were happy about it. You can imagine that Professor Gbade accused me of kidnapping his son and I was summoned to the Senate. I appeared before the Senate, gave them great evidence that proved professor Gbade guilty. Now as I talk he was on six months suspension.

He asked me again what justification do you want to give for the kidnap of professor Gbade's son?

Bonakele confessed to me that the kidnap of professor Gbade's son was the first in his life. That he did it because professor was stubborn, and was not ready to change. Making students weep, students being failed and made to spend extra year. And lots of other vices being perpetrated by him and some other lecturers.

Inspector John said, I could go for the main time so I walked out.

As I was about going, I received a call that made me happy and the hope of becoming a medical doctor was not only being restored but the hope of my family being able to live a good life. It was a call from Mrs. Lambe promising to continue to be of help to us just as his late husband has been. This really made me glad.