TARASHA
EPISODE 39B
the news the last year, Henry had launched his
personal investigation immediately, being
curious to know the expert that was good and
bold enough to hold the nation’s security in
captive for hours.
Unfortunately for him, he couldn’t make much
progress like he thought he would. Every link to
trace the person behind the work was
completely blocked. He even tried to locate the
server from where the Health Minister’s
compromise video was uploaded from but the
result he got was an incorrect proxy and IP
address. Since then, he had concluded that his
failure to locate the source was due to lack of
complete data. But the data he needed was
sure not from this organization he had been
invited to work for, he accepted the invitation
with the hope that their influence would get him
the data from other organizations. He was
ready to break record.
‘Here sir’ Sylvester courteously handed a file to
Henry. ‘In it is all our codes and data that you
need, please we’ll like you to start work on it as
soon as possible’
Henry stood to take the file from the man,
smiling as he marveled at the man’s great show
of respect for him. The man was a married man
who was far older than him in age and
authority, so Henry felt greatly honored by his
attitude.
‘I’ll begin my work immediately’ Henry said as
they exchange a parting handshake.
11/01/2031
Their Bus got to Kubwa, Abuja at exactly five
minutes past nine in the evening and they drove
into their lodge by fifteen minutes past nine.
Their arrival attracted a lot of attention from
people around the house. The house had been
abandoned for over two years.
‘Hey! Wetin I dey find for hia?’ A Mallam walked
in after them as they drove in through the old
rusted gate.
Tarasha was the first to come out of the Bus
and walk back to the gate to attend to the man,
but she was helpless as she couldn’t
understand the man’s pidgin language until
Benny came around
‘Wetin I dey find for hia?’ The man asked again.
‘We came on a short business trip’ Benny
answered him. ‘This property has been sold to
us’
‘Who sell am for me?’
‘Where are the house and land documents?’
Benny turned to Tarasha to ask.
‘Is that all he’s saying?’ Tarasha commented as
she walked back to the car to get the
documents.
She returned a minute later and handed it over
to Benny who displayed it to the man and
spoke in low tones to the man. The man
walked away silently after nodding his head in
agreement several times to Benny.
‘He’s one of the security guards in the town’
Benny informed Tarasha as they walked back to
the bus to join the others offload the loads in
the bus.
13/01/2031
‘This bug is not a common one’ Henry said to
Sylvester as he examined a small black device
held up in his hands. ‘It is customized, I believe
the user manufactured it by him or herself’
‘So can nothing be done with this?’ Sylvester
asked in a pessimistic manner.
‘Of course, something can be done with it’
Henry answered with a mischievous smile.
‘What do you mean?’ Sylvester asked, confused
by the look on Henry’s face.
‘Is it not this device the police headquarters
sent from Lagos this morning?’ Henry dropped
the device on the table and sat in front of a
computer set.
‘Yes’
‘It might take us a little time before we come
up with anything useful to us about this bug. I
don’t want us to rush’ Henry said, typing in the
label on the bug into the Google search engine.
‘Ha! I don’t want us to spend too much time on
this issue, we’ve gone about six days already
without making a headway’
Henry paused and turned to Sylvester, he stared
into his face for a moment before speaking out.
‘Mr Sylvester’ he called. ‘Do you know the
history surrounding this bug?’ He raised a brow
as he asked.
‘Ermm… I know. You know, it’s just that the
government is putting a lot of pressure on us’
Sylvester stammered as he tried to convince
Henry.
‘Well, if they really want a quick job’ Henry
turned back to the desktop as he spoke, ‘let
them come and do the job themselves. I won't get myself killed stupidly'
'I'm not saying we should work stupidly. I just think we should work a little faster'
'I won't work faster than this, I assure you' Henry said boldly, without turning to the man, he was beginning to get pissed with the man but tried to remain calm. 'I won't work like Robin Kahn who was impatient and ran into the waiting hands of the assassins, I'm wiser'.
Sylvester did not reply anymore as he began to reason with Henry, he remained quiet and allowed Henry to continue his searching.
Henry silently read each of the search results before clicking on the best option. He read for few minutes and jotted some codes into his notepad before getting up.
'I have to get to a computer accessories shop now' He said as he picked up his bag and hung it on his shoulder.
To be continued...
previously on Tarasha Season1 Episode39a
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