******ABBEY******
.
I was roughly pushed into the station and
led to counter there was about seven
Policemen on counter, where I was
interrogated, they were about to start
questioning me when Grace and Pesman
walked in, they went straight to counter to
hear what I’ve to say and to know the type
of crime I accused of, but deep down in me i
strongly believed I’m innocent on this, all
this must be a set up so, I have to be extra
careful between Don and Jay.
.
Police: ***Faced me*** what’s your name?
.
Abbey: My name is Ola Abbey
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Police: ***Pointing at the elderly man*** Do
you know this man?
.
Abbey: This is the first time am seeing him
.
Police: I know you’ll deny ever knowing him,
at exactly 10:05pm you and your robbery
gang went to his house you collected his
phone and money, but you later
threw your cap at him because you believe
law hand cannot reach you
.
Abbey: What did you just say? I robbed
who? I said I don’t know him and this is the
first time I’ll ever set my eyes on him
.
Police: Calm down, immediately you and
your gang robbed him you removed your
cap and threw it at him that he might
wanted
to be looking for you, I can see you ain’t
afraid of being caught
.
Abbey: Am very sorry to say sir, you don’t
know what you’re saying, because this is
the same cloth I wore yesterday and I don’t
put on any cap, all what you’re been saying
is really surprising me
.
Police: Perfect! Either I know what am
saying or not everything will be clear to you
now ***He bentdown under the counter
and brought out my cap*** Who is the
owner of this cap?
.
Abbey: ***I was surprised to see my cap
with the police, I take very long look at the
cap to be rest assure its mine*** This cap is
mine honestly have been looking for it for
the past two weeks now, I washed it and
drying it in our
compound but it went missing
.
Police: Nice you want to prove stubborn and
smart abi? You want to cover your story
afterall we have enough evidence here to
pin you?
.
Abbey: I didn’t cover anything, I don’t know
who took this cap
.
Police: Anyway do you know this two guys
(Pointed at Jay and Don)
.
Abbey: Like money
.
Police: You know them like money?
.
Abbey: Yes I do
.
Grace: ***She has been crying by this
time***
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Police: You firstly robbed them before you
proceeded to this Man’s house
.
Abbey: ***I was totally shocked to hear Jay
and Don were robed*** I know nothing
about this
.
Police: But your cap was found in his house,
who took it there?
.
Abbey: Someone else might took my cap and
use it just to put me in trouble
.
Police: are you suspecting anyone?
.
Abbey: Not really
.
Police: ***Faced the elderly Man*** You said
they were two that robed you?
.
Man: Yes ofcourse
.
Police: ***Pointed at Abbey*** Does this
young Man among them?
.
Man: Seriously speaking I can’t say because
they were on mask so, I cannot recognize
them but one of them has the same height
with this young Man
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Abbey: Father don’t put me in another
trouble I don’t know you nor your house
.
Police: It ok, Abbey
.
Abbey: Yes
.
Police: You said earlier that you know this
two young men very well like money?
.
Abbey: Yes I said so
.
Police: What is the relationship between the
three of you?
.
Abbey: Nothing much we are just a rival and
one of them has once wounded me
.
Police: Business rival?
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Abbey: No we are fighting over a woman
.
Police2: ***Whispering to the first police
who is interrogating me*** It might be set
up once they are rival
.
Police: I’m also smelling it as one (He
whispered back)
.
Police2: Carry on sir
.
Police: Who is the woman you’re fighting
over?
.
Abbey: She’s even here with us ***Pointed
at Grace***
.
Grace: ***With eye full of tear*** am here
sir
.
Police2: Interesting this is more than
robbery case, I think we’ll see the truth now
.
Police: That aside, we’ll have to go and check
your houses one after the other we might
find something useful and to also check the
robbery scene
.
Pesman: I think that would be better
***Before I can say jack D.P.O Ibrahim
(Tola’s father)
walked in with full smile on his face, you
don’t need a physic to tell you before you’ll
realize he was extremely happy that
morning, his smile was replaced with frown
immediately our eyes met***
.
Policemen on counter: Good morning sir
.
D.P.O: morning Relax ***He faced
Pesman*** You again? I know you cannot
escape my punishment, what brings you
here again?
.
Me: *** Stupid man, am not a criminal*** I
came to see a friend
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D.P.O: All your friends are criminal definitely
you too must be a criminal, show me your
friends to know who you are, who are you?
.
Me: A gentle man
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D.P.O: ***Faced the police on counter***
What happened to his criminal friend?
.
Police2: ***He Explained everything to
him***
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D.P.O: Then what step have you taken?
.
Police1: We are gonna check their houses sir
.
D.P.O: ***Faced the elderly Man*** do you
have the original receipts of your phones
and any other necessary things
.
Man: Yes I do, everything is intact
.
D.P.O: Go and search their houses and report
back to me, and we are having visitor today,
one intelligent officer just been transferred
to our station
.
Police: Yes sir! ***Four policemen,
Jay,Don,Abbey and the elderly man went out,
leaving Grace and Pesman behind, D.P.O also
left for
his office***
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******PESMAN******
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Grace: (She faced me after Abbey and
Policemen left for house search) Pesman am
really scared what’s going to happen now?
.
Me: Don’t be scare dear, your man isn’t a
criminal, I believe someone took his cap and
used it to rob, it must be Jay and Don
.
Grace: You know I told you and Abbey that I
don’t trust this two guys the day we went
for your jamb result
.
Me: Its true you said something like that
.
Grace: Am scared because police might not
saying the truth
.
Me: Believe me dear if this case is going to
be though I’ve someone I can call
.
Grace: I don’t know what’s keeping you
from calling him, you have been mentioning
calling him since morning but you couldn’t
.
Me: Let us hear the feedback first, I ‘ll call her
.
Grace: Thank you dear
.
Me: You welcome, Let go to my house I don’t
feel comfortable with this D.P.O
.
Grace: Your house is far from here and you
know we have to be here waiting for them,
let’s stay outside
.
Me: I don’t want that D.P.O to see me again
.
Grace: Let go to my house then, my house
isn’t that far from here
.
Me: That would be better I need to leave
here ***Grace and I headed to her house
from station***
***
******GRACE ROOM******
I was seated by the edge of her bed, while
she also seated on the chair facing me, with
worried looks on her face.
.
Grace: God please save Abbey from this
predicament
.
Me: Amen ***I took my phone, log in
Facebook to wipe time***
.
Grace: Abbey is going to be suffering for the
crime he didn’t committed, my boyfriend is
not a thief oh my God!
.
Me: Let them come back from house
searching so, we’ll know the next step to
take ***I have 3 messages, 21notifications
and 4friends request on Facebook, I read
the messages check the notifications and
accepted the friends request, but as I was
about to accept the last request something
caught my attention, I saw “IBRAHIM
ADENIKE” wants to be your friend, I went
through her profile and discovered she was
Tola’s sister.
Immediately I accepted her request she sent
me message because she was online “Hi
Pesman this is Nike how are you doing?”
but I couldn’t reply her text because I wasn’t
in the mood for chatting***
***
******40 MINUTES LATER, POLICE
STATION******
Grace and I made our way to the counter,
luckily for us the police team that went for
house searching just returned, one of them
went to D.P.O’s office to notify him of their
presence, few minutes later D.P.O came out
of his office.
.
D.P.O: You guys are welcome, what did you
found?
.
Team leader: Sir we searched this Man’s
house and we discovered he was truly
robbed, they entered his house through
fence, we saw their footsteps when they
jumped down from fence, and we saw this
sim certificate it might be useful ***he
brought out sim pack, but what suprised
everybody including all the policemen they
went on searching together was nobody
knew when he saw the sim certificate and
he didn’t tell anyone about it,. All of them
later concluded that the sim certificates
might be the elderly Man sim because it was
found in his house***
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D.P.O: Let me see the sim certificate
.
Team leader: ***He handed Airtel sim
certificate to him***
.
D.P.O: We’ll do the needful investigation on
it, what did you found in their house
***Pointing at Jay and Don***
.
Team Leader: Nothing sir, we didn’t see any
traces in their house sir
.
D.P.O: What of acquaintance (Referring to
Abbey)
.
Team leader: He shown us where he dried
his washed cap before it went missing, we
also checked his house but we couldn’t see
anything implicating sir
.
D.P.O: According to your report this elderly
Man was truly robbed but this young two
men I’m not sure of theirs
.
Jay: Our house was robbed, they collected
our phones and money
.
D.P.O: Where is the receipts of your phone?
.
Jay: I bought it fairly used when I visited
lagos
.
D.P.O: And there is no trace in your
house, like breaking of your door or even
footsteps and so on
.
Don: Yes! We are the one that opened the
door for then when they knocked
.
D.P.O: ***Pointing at Abbey*** keep him
inside cell
.
Abbey: But why sir?
.
D.P.O: Do you want to know? You’re the
prime suspect here because your cap was
found
in this Man’s house
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Abbey: I wasn’t the one who robbed him
.
Grace: ***She busted in tear***
.
Jay: ***Finally our plan is working***
.
Don: ***Jay na bad guy o, he make sure he
puts Abbey in trouble***
.
D.P.O: Keep two of them inside cell too
.
Jay: ***He was like are you out of your
sense***
.
D.P.O: But let their cell be different from the
suspect
.
Don: ***He regrets involved in this act with
Jay*** But we are here to report a case, you
don’t have any right to detain us, this is
Injustice
.
D.P.O: Two of you have a story to tell, its
obvious you know a lot about this issue, I
will hear your version of story when we are
done with our investigation
.
Jay: You can’t just deny us freedom this is
trash
.
D.P.O: ***Face the elderly Man*** Sir you see
police are working round the clock to
eliminate bad eggs among us, I want you to
be rest assure that everything will be in
other, you will have to drop your number
with our PRO, we’ll give you a call whenever
we need your help, your phones and money
will be recover for you soon, thanks for
cooperating with us you can take your leave
and be expecting our call
.
Man: Thank you officer, I can see you’re a
nice Man you know what you’re doing, may
almighty God increase you in wisdom
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D.P.O: Amen
.
Man: Am very grateful and I’ll be expecting
your call sir ***He drooped his second
number and left***
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Abbey, Jay and Don were put behind bar
while Grace and I left the station with
disappointed look on our faces, on our way
home I called Madam Hadiza and explained
everything to her, I knew she would be of
help
.
To be continued