Tiit For Tat - S01 E47

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Tiit For Tat - S01 E47

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 47

The Horrors Of The Cobra Cell .

Readers’ Discretion Is Advised.

Some Scenes In This Episode contain Graphic Description of Violence.

•Torture•

I felt a heavy punch landed on my face followed by another then another, then series of punches plumetted my face. I felt different kinds of strong hands giving me blows, heavy monstrous blows.

I absorbed the pain. It sunked deeper into my skin and it was excruciating.

Blood was oozing from my mouth and nose. My strength suddenly left me.

“Are you ready to talk or do you want more of this”

They brought a container of water and place it on a table in front of me.

“Where are the girls”??

“Kill me, I don’t know their whereabout, kill me” , I shouted at him

They pushed my head into the basin of water. My breathing was fading gradually.

My legs and hands shook so vigorously. They pulled my head out of the water..

“will you speak now” he said, I remained quiet ..

Where are the two girls?”

“I don’t know!!!!”

One of the gangs told Zolabin something. Then Zolabin smiled. He ordered his men to bring something. A fair lady was brought into the room. My eyes widened as recognition dawned on me.

CASSANDRA!!!

She couldn’t shout because her month was gagged with a piece of cloth. Her hands were tied behind her back. When I called her name, her facial expression said what her mouth couldn’t say. She was really surprised.

The men never relent in torturing me. Cassandra was forced to sit on a chair to witness how I was tortured. Her legs were tied to the chair too.

One of the men brought a rope and passed it through a hook attached to the ceiling. My hands were tied behind my back with part of the rope. The rope was looped around a hook that hung from the highest point of the ceiling.

It was pulled from the other side.

The intention was to hang my hands from the ceiling, with that so that my toes would barely touch the floor.

I was hung from that hook. The bruises inflicted on me began to ooz blood. It trickled down to my leg. It wasn’t long before my legs got swollen.

It lasted for six hours. I did not drink water or use the bathroom.

Cassandra was watching me ,crying hysterically. Her voice, muffled by the gagged cloth in her mouth.

I was starving and my stomach churned out of hunger and began to ache. As if that was not enough, I was stripped naked. The room was very cold. It was no wonder I began shivering to freezing point.

At the sight of my male organ, Zolabin laughed.

Zolabin couldn’t help but smiled.

Wow, You are “too Big.”

He then clapped for me as my “thing” dangled freely in the air like dangling modifiers.

I’m sure the ladies like your ” big man” it gives them all round satisfaction, you know, it reaches every depth and tickled very corner of their private chamber.

He turned to Casandra and said, ” Dear , am I telling lies?”

I am sure sure you have experienced it over and over again so share your experience with me.”

He asked his bodyguard to remove the gagged cloth from her mouth.

As soon as the cloth was removed from her mouth, Cassandra shouted loudly, “MIKE, I AM SORRY FOR LISTENING TO MY DAD AND ALLOWING MORRISON TO COME IN BETWEEN US. I’M BACK NOW. I’M ALL YOURS. DON’T….”

Zolabin ordered his men to put the cloth back into her mouth.

Zolabin stood up and said, I SAID IT, YOU SEE!!”

He was so excited , happy and full of himself.

I could feel the pressure in my arms because the load of my whole body was pulling me down since I was suspended in the air by the rope.

I knew I was getting close to my breaking point.

Torture day 2

My torturers kept torturing me for hours …. From all the beatings, I learned that sleep meant pain.

I was subjected to brutal beating, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, auditory overload, rectal rehydration, waterboarding and stress positions, as well as other forms of treatment designed to humiliate and degrade me.

After hours of torture, I was put in a cell or rather, it was a “grave.”

with the name ” the COBRA CELL” engraved on its door.

As they dragged me to the cell, Cassandra kept crying.

The prison was basically a

warehouse with a high ceiling. It was divided into two sections. One section consisted of interrogation rooms. Another section contained cells where prisoners were held.

I couldn’t see anything. There was an opening that was about 5 cm by 20 cm below the door. That’s it.

It was only for ventilation.

There were metal bars through the opening. Perhaps they thought I could escape through the 5cm-by-20 cm opening.

The entire building was dark. Inside the room it was dark.

There was no light. When they want to enter the cell, they use a headlamp or a flashlight. I would not have known what the room looked like but for the flashlights they used. I would see what’s right next to me. Otherwise I learn by feeling.

There was no music, only the annoying howling of mad dogs. Perhaps, the dogs were mourning or crying for me since they couldn’t fathom why a fellow human being would treat another human being like trash.

Torture day 3

In my dark room , I wailed. It was a

a prolonged cry of distress and anguish. I may not see my Sister again. Far away I could hear rock music, ugly and horrific.

The cell was virtually empty. There was nothing in it except a small mattress and mice. Everything else was a regular floor. What stood out to me was the bathroom that I would use, which was a bucket. I would remove the lid, and the smell would fill the room.

Torture day 5

I was hung from the ring which was fixed on the ceiling in different positions. I suffered from it a lot. I was hung for long periods and I was in tiring and exhausting positions. I slept while my hands and feet hung from the ring. The guard would pass by here and use his flashlight to see that I was awake and not asleep.Everything, every section of that room, told a story of great suffering.

The water that I used to drink, wash and use for the bathroom was two small bottles. Each bottle was 1.5 litres. Three litres a day I would drink, wash my face, that was it. They didn’t give me clean water, but a metal jug filled with dirty water.

Zolabin’s men obviously had no red lines.They could do anything – hit, kill, they could do anything.

This is what was scary about that place. There was no limits, there were no standards as far as how these people would act. No one was holding them accountable. Even the law enforcers were in their pockets

I know exactly why they were treating me like that. They want to

to break my spirits and willpower so that I would reach a point of personal deterioration and lose hope for everything.

With that I could tell them the whereabout of my Sister and Gina . For Gina, I don’t exactly what prompted her to kill Jackson and how it happened. For my Sister, I would rather die than betray her. This criminals had networks in other countries even Ghana . The moment I told them where my Sister was, they would catch her.Throughout my torturing time , Casandra was brought to witness it.

Torture day 6

On the 6th day, Cassandra wasn’t brought to witness my torturing. What the thugs didn’t know was that I could have cracked long ago but the sight of Cassandra always give me hope and the determination to endure all manner of pain so that she would see me as a knight in a shinning armour.

***

But how did Gina manage to shoot Jackson and what happened after that ?

You remembered the incident where Jackson aimed his pistol at Gina, saying, “Till we meet again in the afterlife, it’s bye for now.”

Then there were gunshots.

“BANG!!BANG!!!BANG!!!!,” followed by the falling of a body on the ground. As you may have known by now, it wasn’t Gina who was shot. It was Jackson.

When he aimed the pistol at Gina , he didn’t know she secretly hid a gun she found in his room in her pocket. When he was talking about meeting her in the afterlife, he lost his concentration a bit. Gina saw it as an opportunity. It happened in a flash. She took the revolver quickly and shot him at point blank range. He fell down and died. She took her money and ran away.

Gina Egukwu knew the gang would be looking out for her after that incident so she went into hiding. She saw the breaking news on Galaxy TV that a man was shot at Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos named Jackson.

She prayed to God to forgive her.

She knew she had to right the wrong she had done to Cassandra. She told herself she needed to find Mike and tell him what happened.

Gina remembered she took Mike’s number from Cassandra’s phone when she asked her to charge her phone for her some few months ago using her power bank since NEPA ( National Electric Power Authority) made a light out.

She tried to call Mike but his line was not going through.

On the third day, she met someone who looked like Tife. He was on his way to see someone. Gina excused him. He turned and looked at her closely. Then he shouted, Gina!! What are you doing here?”

Gina also shouted, ” Tife, Why are you in a military Uniform?”

They went to his house. He told her he joined the military through the help of Nixon. She asked him who Nixon was and he told her Nixon was Cassandra’s brother. He further elaborated Nixon rescued him the day Zolabin’s gang ambushed them when his father asked for his transfer from Gina’s Hospital of work ,St. Paul Missionary Hospitals to St Nicholas Hospital

Suddenly Gina felt guilty. She had been the brain behind that operation too. Now she was the brain behind Cassandra’s abduction too.

It was a difficult confession but she confessed everything to Tife that she was the one who told the gang about his transfer as well as Cassandra’s abduction. Tife was disappointed in her.

Tife was very angry with Gina. He saw her as a traitor. To think she was the one who told Jackson and his men that they had been transferred from St.Paul Missionary hospital to St Nicholas Hospital made him even madder. Tife knew he could have been killed by the gang in that operation.

Now Gina was the cause of Cassan

dra’s abduction.

He felt like killing her with his bare hands. Unable to control his anger, he told her to leave, even calling her a traitor.

***

Then his phone rang. It was Nixon. He was disturbed. He said Mike called him a few hours ago saying Cassandra had been kidnapped. Nixon said to Tife that he asked Mike to come to his residence but he failed to turn up. He was worried and decided to go and search for him. He called his phone but no one picked it. He said he went around the border to look for him but to no avail.

Nixon told Tife that when he was returning home, he saw a mobile phone on the ground and he picked it. He said he saw a missed call on the phone’s notification panel and the missed call was his. He then realised Mike had been kidnapped too.

He asked Tife to help him find Mike and Cassandra. It was at that moment that Gina become useful. Tife reasoned that If Gina knew Jackson’s house, then the kidnappers may have hidden Mike and Cassandra there or at least to Some where close to that vicinity.

Left with no other viable lesson, Tife called Gina back. Gina was happy. He told her Mike was kidnapped too and asked if she could assist him in rescuing them since she was the architect behind the capture of the first victim.

Gina said to Tife she was more than willing to help him. She knew Jackson’s Residence. Tife suggested she took him there. Quickly they drove towards Jackson’s Residence in Tife’s new Honda Civic.

She sat beside him and showed him the direction to Jackson’s Residence, a mansion that held the secrets of her romance with Jackson and more importantly that witnessed her betrayal of Cassandra.

When they reached there they monitored the movement of everyone coming in and going out but more importantly they focused on the front gate.

The first two days , their surveillance yielded no result.

On the third day , Gina saw a white sedan car pulled up in front of Jackson’s Residence. The gate automatically opened and the car entered the house. It didn’t come out until the next day.

To think she slept in Tife’s car with him till the next day was simply unimaginable to her.

The next day , they saw the white sedan car drove out of the house again. Tife suggested Gina stay close to Jackson’s residence or hide somewhere in order to checked what happened next while he, Tife followed the white sedan. Gina alighted from the car and hid somewhere.

Tife followed the sedan until it stopped at another residence. He was curious to see the one driving the car.

To his amazement, it was one of the gangsters who kidnapped

him when he was transferred from St.Paul Missionary hospital to St Nicholas Hospital.

He entered the residence. A well built man in his late thirties came out and meet him.

He called Nixon immediately and told him he knew where Mike and Nixon’s sister might be. He also called Gina and told her to wait for him in his house .

She waited in the house for so many hours but Tife wasn’t coming.

She went back to her hideout after converting the money into E- Cash. Tife told her Mike’s phone was with Nixon which make it easier for her to transfer the $ 2000 Dollars she took from Jackson, her betrayal money, into Mike’s account. At least that was the best thing to do for him after betraying his girlfriend.

” He deserved the money more than me.” said Gina.

Though Tife told Gina to wait for him in his house he didn’t go home the previous day because he didn’t want to jeopardise the operation. Gina had proven to be unreliable

He met Nixon and they planned the operation together. They used a drone to do a meticulously surveillance of the entire mansion.

That drone was a special type which couldn’t be easily detected by a CCTV camera or any other surveillance device. After the aerial surveillance, they drew the map of the house, the various rooms ,

roadlinks, guards protecting the various rooms, entry points , their routine etc.

Gina called Tife and told him she had gone back to her hideout since she was now sidelined in the operation. But who cares? After all, she’s a traitor!!!