DaHub Episode five (Finale)

Episode five (The Motive)

Bimpe, Kike and Frank were the major leads of the Police in connection to the killing of Alexander Peters on that Friday. The police had them all arrested believing that they had information that was relevant to the investigation. 

Bimpe had been under surveillance for quite a number of weeks and she had not exhibited any character that could insinuate anything suspicious, she went out and came in like any normal student for weeks not until she was spotted with a guy who apparently wasn’t a student. He was quite tall and had tattoo on him, he had a fierce look, the kind of look that spelt trouble. Not only was she with this guy but they were having an argument that felt like they had a deal that went bad so the police decided to move in the following day and bring her into custody. 

Bimpe was interrogated by Detective Maya, she accused her of being a slut and a desperate whore who would go to any length to get what she wanted, Bimpe didn’t even deny all that because she knew it was about the scandal in school which had at this time subsided but left a trail that connected it to a murder. 

“You are right about my questionable moral standards and I know I am all what you said but I am not a murderer” she said close to tears.

“What was your relationship with Alex and how did he get your nude pictures”? Detective Maya asked.

“Alex was my classmate, he somehow said he was getting revenge and that was why he uploaded my picture online. I didn’t send it to him; it was frank I sent it too. He must have stolen it from frank or that fool gave him or something. I just don’t know all I know is that, I hate him for what he did but I wouldn’t kill him. I can’t hurt a fly I swear”

“So you gave your pictures to frank who happens to be your what? Boyfriend?”

“No, it was just some silly thing I did with him while I was bored that day, nothing more”

After much questioning, detective Maya was able to deduce that Frank actually said he was going to take care of it. Joy, her roommate also confirmed the statement and she also claimed that the guy the police saw her with was just a dude from Lagos who she hung out with and who later knew about her scandal thereby leading to an argument on that day before she was arrested. Bimpe was a slut who had a motive to kill but had left everything in the hands of Frank who she believed caused all the mess in the first place. Hence the police had nothing on her.

“I just lost a best friend and now I am in custody for his murder?” said frank as he was about to be interrogated in a dark room with almost no light in it. He was arrested at almost the same time with Kike. Frank was confused because he was sure he had convinced the police that he knew nothing about the murder but his words didn’t go well with the man standing right in front of him, giving him a look that could make any grown man shit in his pants. Detective John wasn’t convinced after Bimpe’s interrogation, his conclusion was that Frank knew about the murder or was the murderer.

The detective explained to him that Bimpe’s testimony brought him into the equation; Frank on the other hand was shocked and sad because he didn’t know how much his words could come back and hunt him. The detective continued by telling him how people in the hostel validated Bimpe’s claims due to the loud argument they had over it which showed that they were not in good terms before his death. Frank then decided to calm down and started talking.

“Alex was like a brother to me, that night when I left Bimpe’s apartment I didn’t go home, I went to a friend’s place to crash. I couldn’t stand Alex because I felt my so-called best friend was a monster and he just irritated me but after some days I went home, we fought and said things we didn’t mean but I swear I didn’t kill him. He just helped me out of some deep shit I got myself into so why would I hurt a friend like that”

“Which deep shit was that” asked the detective.

Frank was a little hesitant but he told the detective everything after being threatened.

“Well sir, some guys were going to hurt me one night and it was close to the hostel that very night. We were just coming back from a bash and they double crossed us, Alex paid them off but I was the one owing these guys, it was quite a bad scene that night but I swear it had nothing to do with drugs or any of those stuffs”

“Okay, did anyone from the hostel see you guys that day?”

Frank thought for a while and responded, “I think Mike saw us, he had this crazy look but we just ignored him but I am telling you, it wasn’t those guys. They don’t even know which hostel we live in because other hostels are beside ours”

“This mike guy, who else among Alex’s friends knows him?” 

“Kike is quite close to him, Alex used to talk about his Jealousy. I guess he likes Kike, who wouldn’t, she is quite a catch”

“Sure she is” she smiled and continued “You will have to remain with us for a while until we can validate your statements”  

From the findings of the detective, Frank wasn’t much of a suspect but someone who had no clue. So it was down to Kike who they perceived was hiding some things.

She sat down in that familiar dark room and wondered what the police had on her, soon the detective walked in and sat right in front of her.

“How well do you know Alex young lady” before she could respond he showed her the video made by one of the staffs in the eatery they went to that night before Alex was killed. It contained his proposal and her acceptance. Right there she started to shake all over and the detective held her hands.

“If you want to help this guy you call your love, you need to tell us everything you know about him. We know he told you a lot and trusted you so you are a major piece in this puzzle to track down his murderer” he said with a mild voice. “So speak” he sternly said and let go of her hands waiting for her to speak.

In tears she said “I am sorry I didn’t tell you about our relationship, I was scared it would lead to more questions”

”Alright we want to know everything he told you about everyone including Bimpe and Frank”

Kike told the police that the revenge Alex was getting was based on the fact that during the party two years back, Bimpe who he asked out in their first year and got turned down, humiliated him by taking pictures of him drunk and showing it to ladies in the class so he vowed to get back at her all those years. She told the detective other things too. Also, concerning that night, when she was asked if anyone saw her with Alex she said it was Mike only. Now Mike’s name came out in two different interrogations, she then explained her relationship with Mike which validated the statement of Frank about him being spotted that night with Alex by Mike. Just when the detective was about to proceed with further questions, detective Maya came in, and whispered to detective John’s ear. He left almost immediately and when he got to the reception it was Hon James and Kemi who wanted to speak to the detective.

James had always liked Kemi who he usually referred to as first lady. Just that afternoon, while Kemi was praying for her friend, he came to her room to pay a visit which Kemi saw as a disturbance, but when he saw that she was very sad he told her that he had an information of national security in his hand and for the very first time since he had been in that hostel, he was going to be useful.

“James? Am I right?” said the detective with a rather firm look

“Yes sir, politically and socially known as Hon James of the federal republic”

Sounding impatient the detective responded “I don’t have time for your bloody jesting, why do you want to see me?”

Kemi pinched him in the back and said “James, talk joor”

He then wore a more serious look and said, “I Know the killer, I just confirmed it”. Kemi looked at him in shock.

The night Alex was murdered, James who lived alone, for obvious reasons, felt his room was hot that very night so he came out to get some fresh air.  just few feet away from his room was Mike’s room and he noticed that he wasn’t in his room because the door was locked from outside, so he just stood there in the dark and was chilling. Not quite long, he heard a sound but was unsure of what it was so he felt it was probably an animal or something that dropped but he didn’t go in yet. Few minutes later, he saw Mike enter into his room in haste but he didn’t see him because it was dark so James hid himself and about 30seconds later, Mike came out with some things in a black bag but he suspected that they were bottles because when Mike wanted to close the door, he heard the sound when the bag shook. However because James was too tired to follow him, he just entered his room and forgot about the whole night.

“So why haven’t you said anything all this while?”

“I needed to be sure so I started blackmailing him, I sent a message to him telling him that I saw him kill Alex and he responded in fear. However, he wasn’t really forth coming until I told him that I was going to tell the police then he said he wanted to negotiate”

James called Mike right in the presence of the police and he sounded scared and he admitted to killing Alex; that was enough evidence to nab him. It was as if James single handedly got the murderer. There was no doubt about the killer now, James’ proof was very Lucid and substantial so all that was needed was to arrest him.

On getting to the hostel, Mike was apprehended trying to escape in a disguise of going to his uncle’s house in Lagos for the weekend. Now why and how did he commit the crime were the questions on the minds of Frank, Kike and everyone who was caught up in the middle of the whole mess?

Mike was the son of Chibuzor Obi who was one of the staff of Zen oil, the company in which Alex’s father was an executive. He was a junior employee and was down below real relevance in that conglomerate, Zen group of companies worldwide, which had her office in Portharcourt, Nigeria and its Global Headquarters in Sydney Australia. Some years back there was an investigation carried out in the headquarters concerning some of their staff in their African branches who needed to be promoted to join the office in Sydney and when the recommendations were complete, Mr Obi was short listed but when the final list was submitted he was sidelined. He confronted one of the board members of the Nigerian office, Mr Peter who told him that he didn’t feel he was up to the task and hence replaced him with a new employee, a lady who just joined the company barely two months back. Mr Obi was heartbroken and when he kept challenging the board, he was relieved of his duties and later arrested for fraud related offences. It was more of a person beef between Mr Peters and Mr Obi and Mike knew his father was framed. Mr Obi who was terribly dejected and died in prison in just less than 3 months after he was sentenced. Mike had always wanted Mr Peters to pay but he didn’t know how until he discovered just some months back that Alex was the son of the same man that took every hope of a bright future away from their family .Coupled with this, he saw that Kike, the lady he loved was also developing interest in the son of this same wicked man, he began to nurse a terrible rage in his heart and vowed to kill Alex before his family would take something else away from him. So on that night he saw both of them kissing and knew it was either then or never so he followed him to the front of his room, hit him with the base of a Mc dowels bottle and stabbed him from behind then pushed him from the top of the building before he could react. Even if Alex had survived, he couldn’t have recognised the person who did it because it happened so fast. He carefully broke the bottles and placed them beside his body after empting the content on his lifeless body.

After Kike heard his statement, she couldn’t stand it, she passed out, and it was terribly heart breaking to think that it was the same monster that committed the crime that had been comforting her all the while. However Mike still claimed that he loved her, well, she made it clear when she woke up that she never wanted to set her eyes on him again.  Kemi, praised God for the prayers came through because from all indications, if James had not seen him that night and had not also followed up with the investigation, he would have never been caught and wrong people would have gone down because the police were almost concluding that Kike and Frank conspired to kill him. It would have destroyed Kike if the word was let out to the whole world. When Mike was asked about the writing on the wall, he denied ever writing it, he said he planned it in a way that he was never going to leave any clue before the crime so he wasn’t foolish enough to write it. Whatever it meant and who whoever wrote it became a mystery no one could crack.

After his trial, Mike was sentenced to 30years in prison having pleaded guilty. He never felt remorse for the crime he committed because he felt he only got even but he felt remorse for failing Kike, a lady he would never stop loving.

Kike and Kemi, became best of friends and Kike became more serious with her relationship with God. Frank turned a new live after that incident and also became friends with Kemi and Kike . After their graduation, some years down the line, Frank and Kemi got into a relationship and later got married. Kike got a scholarship into NYU, and it was there she met an handsome God fearing Man who she got married to, the couple now live in Toronto Canada and have two Kid. Well, Kemi and Frank have a son and they visit Kike and her hubby anytime they are in Canada holding a conference. Frank is a public speaker now and travels around the world with his wife, Kemi. Much wasn’t heard from Bimpe again after graduation and Hon James, well, I leave you to make your guess about him.

THE  END!!!.

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