September 13, 2024
“KINGSHIP OF EVIL” by Saffiatou Joof.
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The Kingship of evil: Corruption, kidnapping, cruelty, and ultimately gang violence.
Amie Njie came to struggle in the hard way, she was the maid at the president palace, got male twins (Van and Eve) who were born out of wedlock and immediately sold to a different parent who had been hidden from the public. Fanta adopted the babies that knows less about their roots, the two brothers took a journey to find out the truth. The president’s palace would crash and Betty knows their secrets. The twin brothers would grow up to be soldiers, but later, Van with his only brother, Eve, will become bloody.
KINGSHIP OF EVIL
episode 1
THE PRESIDENT PALACE
It’s exactly 3:00 am, when Amie requested to visit the restroom. She was sweating profusely with a lot of pressure on her abdomen. In a pool of blood, the contraction began. Attach at the gate, her bodyguard stands steadily with his assault rifles AK47 well armed. The old woman who hosted Amie during the difficult moments look at her emotionally as she was very young and don’t understand what to do with her pregnancy.
Amie came from a very humble background, she lost her both parents, adopted as a young girl by a pirate Caribbean white man that travels across Africa. She knows nothing about her roots. And having that opportunity to work at the palace was among her dreams. But her biggest mistake was when she trusted a woman who works very innocently into the palace.
She usually dresses up in her tall beautiful apron, she is slime with her pointed nose, sparkling African lips, her waist was very seductive, dark in complexion and has that shinny blunt hair. And it’s very difficult to see her in tears, she has that beautiful attractive smiles that could light up a dark room.
The woman she trusted her life is a big mafia. She came from Mexico, born in the Gambia and brought up in Jamaica. A well-educated woman, whom nobody argues about her richness and had her special apartments in the Gambia, while some people rumored that she sells good yams and coconuts (cocaine cracks).
The kingship of evil has been divided into sections within the palace, and each member has a gang that works in a triangle format, but the main palace is in Nigeria.
Previously,
THE KINGSHIP OF EVIL
episode 2
THE SOLDIERS
The soldiers at the camp have heard of the attacks from the palace. They claimed that there are groups of soldiers that had staged a coup d’eta. The telephone rang, one of Amie’s cousins was called by a particular state guard to tune the state TV and he informed her that Amie was nowhere to be seen.
“ I am nervous that she might be murdered during the attack instead I have limited time to talk and currently on state duty. Please don’t call back this number “, he said.
The international press took the news,
“ Good morning from the BBC. There was an attacked at the main palace of Nigeria by some groups of soldiers and currently people are panics over the heavy gun fires.
We understand that Mali has been sending warnings to the soldiers for them to be on standby and guard their territory. Tensions are really high, but we are monitoring the situations. We contacted Lamin, a reporter from the Gambia, to give us news briefing because he was at the palace conducting interviews with the President before the shooting started”.
“It’s exactly 11 hundred hours, when the soldiers attacked the camp and brought down some snipers on the top pavilion,” Lamin reported.
“The commander in chief is monitory the situations as they patrol with their heavy weaponry machines. As we speak, the President went to his underground bunker and there are arrangements on the way to update the public what had really happened and how many soldiers are being captured,” Lamin choke a bit.
“ Besides, the silence has indicated a terrific atmosphere and the entire country has been stage on Coffee time. While in the other part of the country, there are special forces, that are well-trained by the president, and they have arrested some soldiers in connection to the Coup. They begged and claimed of being completely clean, but people rumored that one of them was found death with his wife on the bed. These are developing stories” he said with sadness.
“As the president was preparing to give his speech, he collapsed from the podium and the whole situation got worse. A protocol among the bodyguards did that move because he knew that the letter was poisoned. And if he inhales it, that’s over for him. The telephone lines were tapestry busy and the control room was messy”, the reporter told the BBC news anchor.
Betty, whom Amie has really trusted with her life, appears to take up the responsibilities. She moves the guards and ordered the vice president to have a special chat with her. The vice president responded that we can’t talk here when our president is currently sick, we need to set up a cabinet meeting and find out the issues. Who is betraying us? He nodded his head and went out.
Betty was a very brave, smart and intelligent woman who runs many cartels farms.
The idea was to murder the president, but it has failed. She must try to discredit the aims of the investigation team or else she would be arrested and executed.
Preciously the kingship of Evil.
episode 3
THE DETECTIVE UNRAVEL THE CRIME SCENE
His name is William, an honest detective known for his commitment and seriousness. He mistakenly step on Betty’s toes. “ Oh, you hurt me so badly”, said Betty. William replied, “ I’m sorry young beautiful woman”. This is her usual means of strategies to distract William and gaining his attention.
She spreads her hands and said, “but that’s fine , how may I help you ?“.
As William steadily and quickly responded, “watch your back when walking young woman “.
They exchanged greetings nicely and proceeded. Betty kept walking ahead and then slowly turned into a private room. William walked through the next door to talk to the security for access to the private room of the president who was in bad condition.
“I was informed sir, there aren’t entry point or access”, the guard replied and nodded his head. William was able to convince him, then he kindly called for Deddy to accompany him at the private room discussion.
“ Did you met with Betty? She was ever since acting suspicious, and I want you to invite her for an interview “, Deddy emphasizes to William for Betty to be arrested and sent for questioning. He never trusted Betty because he believed that she has that nasty behavior and leave a lavish lifestyle.
“Well, it would be very difficult for now because she is handling an important role in this investigation, our focused should be the bodyguards of the president, how did they handle that paper? Until it gets to the desk of the president without any surveillance detecting it.
I heard that the security team have checked all the cameras and no evidence was found. Then, we must take our time before arresting them for questioning ”, said William.
The news spread like wildfire, and everyone was waiting for the press released from the palace. Some are complaining, others are nervous. Family’s started calling each other asking if the president was death or alive. William drove 300 miles to get to one of the closest protocols of the president. Whose story was shocking?
In surprising turn of events, William saw a young boy coming at the house of the late protocol and greeted him. He called him and said,“ what’ s your name and who’s your father? “.
The little boy hugged him, and replied, “my dad was murdered during a firing quad and my mother was left with two of us at the house, I went out to buy bread for my brother”. Then tears rolled down on his cheeks. It appears that the little boy recognized William quickly.
The boy was named after Abdul, the great prince of Fema. He seems very calm and sad. They walked with the boy to the house and advised him to stop loitering around because some areas in Nigeria are filled with rich people and the distance of their house are far apart from each other. At times people would be kidnapped without anyone noticing.
A voice echoed, it was the detective teammates that called him out.
“ William, we need your intervention, you’re wasting more time out there ”.
And he assured, “I am coming, wait for a minute”. He wrote his telephone number and address and advised the boy to keep it. That someday, it might be useful.
The tales of terror occurred in the whole streets of Abuja, a small town known for gang’s notorious acts. The gangs have terrorized that area and from the car there comes the inspector general of police, Modou. Who gave instructions on the search for the missing person, that escape from the crime scenes? William questioned the identity and rushed with his team to the office. He found some members of the gang details were displayed for questioning. The guns, drugs and other items which were mark as exhibits.
THE DRESSING ROOM,
episode 4
Previously, the kingship of evil.
The room temperature was so high, Betty decided to undressed and take a rest for her next day at work. As she slammed her door and jumped on the bed. A sniper from the ceiling fly over her and requested some confidential documents. She has an idea about the documents but refused to speak.
“ You can kill me, I have no idea what you’re talking about, I drove miles away from the office of the president and I have no such things “Betty began begging for her life.
The sniper first gun shot came through over her head and hit the walls, she dived on to stray her gun and fired shots five times. That exploded the head of the sniper. She quickly pulled over his weapons and made a phone call.
“ They wanted to eliminate me, please rush right now and pick me at the KFC bus stops,“ Betty hangs up. Quickly took some items from her room and left her house.
As the steering wheels of her BMW made sounds from the district with perfect streetlights. Furiously arrived at the bus stop and couldn’t find her partner. Upon seeing him at a distance, she smiles and look very ready for the game. Detective Modou open the front door for her, and she boosted into speaking how disappointed and betrayed that she had felt. Her tears started dropping on her cheeks, while Modou keep his eyes on the street to avoid another terrible encounter.
“ I have sacrificed everything that I had to clean some wounds of chief, he got nothing to pay me, rather a well-organized stage murder, to wiped me out and tomorrow be the headline for the newspapers,” Betty breaks down and screams for Modou to stop the steering wheels of the car. Her tears rolling down on her chest.
Out of anger, and curiosity, detective Modou questioned her further, “Oh, you work for a company different from the office of the president.” She kept quiet for a while and asked him to shut up. “ Continue driving” she ordered.
They reach at their new hotel destination that detective Modou booked ahead. Woke up in the morning and took shower and went straight to office.
THE HACKING BUSINESS
Episode (5)
Previously, the kingship of evil.
“ That’s essentially impossible,” said Sonia after a reality check.
She troubleshooted to understand much about his computer that refused to load. Instead, called out for help. She doesn’t comprehend what Aswan wants to accomplish.
Aswan has that hacking skills and had obtained his Master’s degree in programming at the university of Harvard. But he likes to play around with women emotions.
Sonia had been warning him to change, but he doesn’t have that listening ability. The lady that he started moving with has downloaded some sensitive files from his laptop without his notice, and it appears that Sonia came inside the apartment unexpectedly.
She immediately stopped, walked outside to check the rooms. Everything seems quiet and simply, the parlor cottons window moved, and she senses that someone was here. She started calling his phone, but Aswan didn’t pick. Everything began to confused her.
“ Oh yes, why did you have to be here at this time of the night? I have being quite busy with my family issues and I went outside to get some fresh air. The park was very lively, and I wish that you were with us,” Aswan said.
In astonishing contrast looks of her face, Sonia paused, “wait a moment, do you know why I came here? In fact, I found your computer hacked, it seems someone was in your room.”
He ran to check out the details and saw all his important files were missing. Shocking that he was, he turned to Sonia to explain his recent experiences and ordeal with his girlfriend. Whom he met from the university of Harvard during his studies.
He told Sonia, “A month ago, I have been receiving her calls, that she was working at an enormous company but refused to answer details aside. Lets surprised her tomorrow. I know her addressed”.
Sonia suggested that they have to meet with their boss to explain their issues. They agreed on time while Aswan began to survey his laptop. Check all the areas that the individual was browsing and find out the files that are downloaded. Someone knows about their missions, and it’s all already bad for him because he might be fired.
“ I felt disappointed and flabbergasted, you cause all this drama to us, our boss won’t ever trust you again. You knew that I have a problem with Tailow, and I doubt if he would even help anymore in this case. Unless I offer him something to change his thoughts, you have to choose between maintaining our jobs or being fired”, Sonia scolded him and shouted into his ears. “I swear if you made me to lose my job, I will eliminate you,” she said.
Previously, The kingship of evil
episode 6
BANQUET PARTY
“ Do you know that Zambia has the most beautiful water falls in Africa, oh, I forgot the Zambezi River, very attractive for tourism. I can’t wait to watch them display their cultural settings. We must visit the urban beaches and explore more after our mission” said Betty. Modou didn’t agree with that, he swiftly said to her,“ You forget too soon, my only dream is to go back to The Gambia. It was my best experience. Their women are wonderful, the sun and beaches are compared to none. They’re the smiling coast of Africa”.
The morning looks bright in Zambia and the five-star hotels were fully booked, a beautiful place to spend the holiday with the family. It was summer and Sonia had to travel with Aswan for a business mission.
Modou and Betty were part of the invited guess. With the welcoming crowd of different representatives throughout Africa. It was the annual business conference of Africa and Zambia was the host country.
Government officials and dignitaries were all set for the great night. It was the kind of event that brought the tourism industry alive. The dinner night was hosted with laughter and enthusiasm of griots and guitarist. The sound of the balafong, as poets, made waves into the hall. The colorful looks of special African outfits, while Betty was on a different mission, a well-planned assassination to eliminate Robert, her boss.
She dresses majestically like a single lady on a chessboard. “You looked beautiful like a berry fruit,” said Modou. She smiled back and looked ahead towards the high table. The moment Sonia saw Betty, she rushed to the toilet to texts Aswan.
Aswan was smart when he decided to follow Sonia’s directions, and he said, “Betty is here and if she recognized you, everything that we have planned shall spoil, you’ve been her greatest rivals in this industry. We have to do certainly to distract her.”
After they have done their homework and get onboard to greet her.
A minute later, Betty felt furious and upset. As to why Aswan was looking at her intentionally. She said to Modou, “I don’t understand why his eyes are all set on me. Our mission must not fail and we have to report the next morning. I’m only waiting for Robert to appear, and it shows no sign that today didn’t look good on him.” Modou like to smile when Betty speaks because he knows her level of capability and decided to nod his head attractively.
As Robert entered the hallway. Betty at a distance stood up from her seat and greeted him. Aswan could felt the smile of hatred and anger in her. But revenge is a piercing peal of orange juice that she wasn’t in haste to execute. She waited to toast her glass in amusement.
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