TARASHA
# EPISODE31A
The next day after the Governor’s death, a
curfew that lasted for three days was declared
by the acting government. John Obiano
recuperated quickly and was able to speak with
Officer Dakolo the next morning. He told the
police of how Desert Reporters’ representative,
Samantha Osman had interviewed him about two
weeks before the assassination and also
promised to be at the airdrome on the event day.
Other questions were also thrown to John which
he gave clear and precise answers to, not
withholding any important point from the police.
‘What did the attacker look like?’ Was one of the
questions Dakolo asked
‘I can’t really picture her face anymore but she
was nothing less of a monster’ John didn’t
hesitate to give answers. ‘I think she painted her
face with some substances to make her
unrecognizable’
The answer of the Assassin’s look he gave was
no different from what the other surviving
victims gave; the surviving air attendant had also
described the assailant as a monster with
different skin colours, the minister of aviation
also gave a similar description. Only Jude had a
different description; but it was an obvious fact
that the description given by Jude was only a
detail of the disguised form of the criminal.
Dakolo was also able to fathom how she
escaped; the criminal must have switched her
uniform with the second air attendant’s own.
Then she tied the dead body of the Governor and
the attendant together after which she released
their bodies from the plane and allowed them to
freely fall.
Another visit to Onne revealed more details; one
of the village’s young girls was found by some
policemen after the Dakolo left on the fateful day
of the assassination. She was tied half Unclad to
a tree in the bush, an air attendant’s uniform
was also found on the floor beside her. The
victim was confused as to how she got there
when asked, that was after she had been given
medical attention. The medical personnel that
treated her confirmed this; he said that there
was a sign of a tiny piercing on the lady’s neck,
meaning that she was injected with an unknown
substance, most likely a sedative.
Dakolo proceeded at once to visit the Desert
Reporters’ Rivers head office with some of his
men, in a bid to arrest Samantha Osman but the
management of the news media vehemently
denied having any journalist in Rivers state who
bore the name Samantha Osman. They also
denied having any interview with John, they said
he didn’t honour their invitation and even showed
the police their twitter messages as a proof.
‘You mean you invite people for interview using
twitter?’ Dakolo had asked.
‘No,we requested for his number but he refused
to share it’ The manager replied him.
‘But how then do you explain this ID card that
was found in the plane?’ Dakolo demanded,
bringing out the card from his pocket.
The manager seemed speechless for a while as
he stared at the ID card, he looked at his own
card and all the features present on his were
present on the strange ID card also. There was
also no difference in the materials that were
used to make it, the ink used on each line were
of the same colour, the dimensions of the fonts
of each word and the card as a whole were the
same.
‘We don’t have any one here who bears this
name?’ The manager mumbled to himself, giving
Dakolo difficulty in hearing. ‘Where’s the
passport photograph on it?’ He asked the
officer.
‘We found it like this, the picture had been
broken’ Dakolo replied.
‘I believe this is fake’ the man said bluntly.
‘Fake? But there’s no difference between it and
the one you’re putting on’ Dakolo retorted.
‘The culprit must have produced it’ the man
bounced back. ‘I told you that John did not
accept our invitation, so how could we have sent
someone to interview him?’
Dakolo got up from the seat, he bent over as he
looked at the man sternly. ‘If we ever find out
that you’re helping a criminal, your organization
would be brought down’ he threatened before
walking out with his assistant. They returned to John Obiano to get more answers from him but the answers they got only spurred more questions. John had also presented proof of the twitter messages. He showed them how he sent them his mobile number but they decided to continue communicating with him on twitter. He also showed them how they fixed the interview for a specific and at a particular cafeteria.
This situation made the police invite both parties for questioning at the same time and that is how they found out that they had been both played Bubba internet trickster, their messages had been interjected and changed before it got to the receiver.
All efforts made together help from the twitter administration proved abortive as they insisted that nothing of such happened in their platform.
They stood on the ground that the users of the accounts must have sent it themselves or revealed the passwords to the culprit unknowingly.
tbc.....
previously on Tarasha Season1 Episode30b
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