Joy was so scared that her heart pumped like
a
pumping
machine, she had different questions racing
through her mind
like Who were these people? Where are they
being taken to? What do they want from
them? Why were
they the chosen ones?
John noticed that the bus suddenly slowed
down and took a turn,
now there were off the tarred road, he knew
because he could tell from the buses sound
and movement, he heard
one of the armed
men talking about how much they will be paid
for bringing ten
people, one of the men said If na 100,000
naira
per person then e mean say na one million
naira we dey collect,
now John knew
where they were being taken to, they were
going to be sold by the
armed men to ritualists who would pay them
100,000 naira for each of them, TJ’s worst
fears were
confirmed as he also heard
their conversation, is this how his life is going
to end? He
thought, the bus had continued along the
rough
road for 30 minutes where it had taken
different turns
than they could count,
they drove for another 20 minutes before the
bus finally came to
a stop.
They were there, John thought, they
were at the place where their lives might end,
their blindfolds
were removed and
they were ordered to get down from the bus,
as they got down lo
and behold they were in the middle of
nowhere
inside a very thick forest, right in front of
them stood an
uncompleted building with
hefty and heavily armed men, they were about
7 in number, one of
the guards said they don come o, the leader of
the armed men then ordered them to line up in
a straight line
and move into the
building, John wondered how any human
being
in their right
senses would think of building a house in
such a
thick forest in the first place, as they were
moving into the
building, John
noticed that a car was parked beside it, it was
a Range Rover
SUV, John quickly crammed the number of the
vehicle AA 885 AKD as they were about to
enter into the
building John thought,
was that the last car he was going to see?
Well if it was, it was a
nice one .
They entered the building which was dark and
damp and smelled
of death, escaping was not an option as they
were surrounded by
hard looking, heartless and hefty armed men,
they were lead to a
dark room they called the dungeon, where they
were chained. TJ
said to John ‘on the bright side we’ll pray to
God for forgiveness
and end up in heaven ‘ prayers! John hadn’t
thought of that, he
began to pray to God for forgiveness, he asked
God to find them a
way out of this smelly, dark dungeon, he had
not finished praying
when one man walked in carrying injections all
filled with a
substance that neither of them knew about,
the man began to
inject each of them with the substance, as he
was injected, John
began to recite psalm 23, he had not reach
‘thou anoint my head
with oil ‘ when he suddenly felt dizzy, as his
eyes were about to
close the last thing he saw was Joy who was
already unconscious
To Be Continue
To Be Continue
