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Short Story: GOLD OR CRUDEOIL? (Wurà tábí Epó rọ̀bì?) By: Lawal Sultan


Episode 4

The Ag. I.G ordered for the best brains of the intellegent unit to help further the investigations at his office with all hands on deck after series of examinations one Inspector G. Ajagunna begged to think outside the box, I read a lot he said, permit me to reflect one of the words of my favorite infant writer (Lawal Sultan), he said "do not judge a book by it cover but rather by it forewords." Inspector Ajagunna proceeds to state that although the introductory page of the diary comprises of the deceased personal information but the puzzle (CPJ,SW) that ends the quote that followed therein should be solved to unravel the codified pieces of the diary which should be helpful in the case at hand. Interesting ("Life is indeed two (2) sides just like the abiku stories in CPJ,SW) how can this be solved?.

How can we go about this asked the Ag. I.G, why not let's try and assemble a league of writers or readers they might see what we are probably not seeing , what are we not seeing that they would see majority of the officers protested, when does it becomes the work writers to be involved in investigations of criminality they asked but the Ag. I.G reluctantly accepted to let Inspector Ajagunna have his way but on the condition that no further time will be wasted. The Inspector put a call through to his said favourite writter Immediately, he said he is not in town but would assist by sending a league of writers and they should be able to do justice to the case at hand since the officer refuse to explain the situation on phone.

The following day came and all the officers working on the case as well as the Ag. I.G were on seat very early and after a while the  junior officers led in a team of writers been led by Atrocious_Striker which included Magic Pen, Leo Zhimple, Tychicus and others. The officers explained the delicacy of the case at hand and they immediately open to the introductory page, on seeing Tychicus reacted they are indeed two famous story of Ogbanje (Abiku) one by Wole Soyinka the other by Jonh Pepper Clerk  other writers agreed on the correctness of what Tychicus said, but how does this relates to the CPJ,WS in the qoute asked Inspector Ajagunna who other officers has allowed to run a one man show due to their lack of trust in the process by  folding their arms, Atrocious_Striker smiled and responded why has the person written the writers names backward, he went further to state CPJ is John Pepper Clerk backward same as SW for Wole Soyinka backward, this is getting more interesting the Ag. I.G relished.

Inspector Ajagunna noted that he has picked out at random 3 other qoutes from the diary for examination, you can proceed commanded the Ag. I.G, the first quote was "A moment of gratitude shows a different in your attitude"- WB. That's the words of Bruce Wilkinson as  Leo_Zhimple cuts in, the next one reads "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."-SW, they all replied in chorus that's the great William Shakespeare, the last one reads "What a man can be, he must be."-MA. The last  one took few of their time as they all differ on the author as they weren't sure, some said it should be Anton Wilhelm while others claim it's a bit theological in nature and should be the words of Mathew of Aquasparta. 

Why not let us call Sultan Lhamz suggested as others also agreed it will be a nice idea, Inspector Ajagunna took permission and called Sultan with his phone to tell him what was at hand he replied that the qoute belongs to Abraham Maslow in his self actualization analysis. The writers left but had already established the fact that Ola wrote names backwardly in places where she codes her writings, now the puzzle at hand is how to solve the R.A-G.I.D in the last note this will give us D.I.G A.R if we rewrite said Inspector Ajagunna, the Ag. I.G checked through his system to access the force database to inquire into details of past and present D.I.G's to see which of them have such initials he found D.I G Abdullahu F. Roqeeb, D.I.G Junaid A.F and D.I.G A.Raji, a background check was later conducted to know which of this has a connection with the deceased. What next?

Watch out for Episode 5


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