TARASHA
EPISODE 19 A
***Twenty minutes later, with the receptionist, in
the junior Pharmacist’s office***
‘Do you recall any student that visited Dr.
Hammed last week?’ James began the
questioning section.
‘Student? Dr. Hammed rarely has visitors’ the
receptionist replied, narrowing her eyes, she
struggled to remember those who visited the
past week
‘But a student visitor was with him in his office
last week’ James pressed on. ‘Precisely on
Monday’
‘Yeah! That’s true!’ She exclaimed, remembering
a certain pharmacy student who visited. ‘There
was a Unilag girl who was here to see him last
week’
‘Who’s she? Was that the first time you saw her
here? Do you know what she came for?’
‘No, I saw her for the first time on Thursday the
previous week, she came asking about Dr.
Daniel Umaru and I told her that he doesn’t have
her time’
‘So?’
‘She was making trouble with me when Dr.
Hammed saw us, he then asked her to come
back on Friday to see him’
‘What did she want to see want to see Dr.
Umaru for?’
‘About the conference and I told her to check
our website for more information but she
insisted on seeing the Doctor’
‘Hmmm, the conference’ James glanced at
Segun who nodded; it seemed they were making
progress already. ‘Did you suspect anything
unusual about her?’
‘No, she was just a stubborn University student’
‘Nothing unusual happened when she was here?’
‘No except on Friday when Dr. Hammed slept
off during work hours, that was very unusual of
him’
‘He slept off after meeting with her?’
‘Yes, he slept off after she left his office and…’
she paused, she narrowed her gaze. ‘We had to
remind him about a lot of things when he woke
up’
‘How did you know that he forgot a lot of things’
‘I know’ she sounded confident. ‘For example,
he came to ask if some of our clients which he
was expecting to visit him came that day,
whereas they met him when he came, he even
followed them out to the reception when they
were leaving’
‘You saw him come down with them?’
‘Yes, he came down with them and went back to
his office with Tarasha’ she affirmed. ‘I was
surprised when he came down several hours
time to ask if I had seen any of the clients or if
they had call to inform us that they were not
coming anymore’
‘Interesting’ James nodded slowly, thinking
deeply about all he heard and trying to draw a
conclusion from it.
‘You said she is a student of Unilag, what’s her
name and what course does she study?’
‘She didn’t tell me’ the receptionist lied, not
remembering if the Unilag girl mentioned her
name. ‘But she’s a student of pharmacy’
‘Okay, thank you very much. We’ll get back to
you if we need more information and please,
don’t hesitate to provide us with any you
remember’ James concluded.
**5pm**
Benny grouched within himself as they drove
past the developed areas of Orugbum, he
glanced at the compass application on
Tarasha’s device; they were still on track, now
very close to their new lodge. He wondered
what kind of job they came to do, which
required a desolate place like this to work from.
At five pm, they finally got to the place which
the compass was indicating; it was a large
bushy compound, with a hold rickety house in
the middle. A water well with several green
plants grown on it was at the left side of the
house. They drove in through the widely opened
rusted black gate.
Cole and Aisha also drove into the compound in
a Benz after Benny brought the truck to a halt
at a far distance from the house. The vehicles
couldn’t go close any further because of the
thick bushes that had grown in front of the
house.
Tarasha was the first to jump down from the
truck, she placed her both hands on her waist,
turning round as she surveyed the place with
her eyes. She walked to Cole and Aisha,
demanding that the boot of their car be opened.
Her request was granted immediately, Cole
came out of the car to join her, Benny was also
trudging towards them.
Tarasha brought out three tools bags from
booth, dropping them on the floor. She opened
one which contained machete
'I believe you know the reason we need this now' she said smiling, motioning Cole and Benny to grab their tools.
'Make a clear path to the entrance of the house'.
Benny and Cole obeyed the order while Tarasha opened another bag, a bigger one. She brought out some satellite devices and scattered them on the floor, carefully selecting the ones she needed. Aisha came to join her.
'We've got no foodstuffs here, start making a list of everything we need. Someone would go to the town with you to get them' Tarasha said to Aisha.
She picked up another matchete and put some of the devices in an empty bag, then she proceeded to the various sections of the compound she had already selected to install the GPS and network devices, clearing the way with the matchete as she walked.
Tbc....
Previously on Tarasha Season1 Episode18c
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