Betrayal (Episode FIVE)


FREE CHURCH HEADQUARTERS- IN THE MORNING

Inside the church office, on the notice board, appear the pictures of a top government bureaucrat pinned on it. Edwin is still working on his computer stuff. He takes a short break by relaxing in his office chair. Then, he picks up his eyeglasses from his handbag and puts them on. He continues typing on his computer while eating popcorn.

Edwin: (In a surprise) Yahoo! I made it, I have managed to steal a wireless network from a local Indian firm in the neighborhood.

Jane: Ouch! What is the use of wireless here? Are you planning to hang put your clothes? That cheer got me thinking that maybe you have invented an ATM or a money-making machine.

Ian and Robert started looking at one another and laughed out loud

Ian: Congratulations! Edwin, but it seems today you have met your fellow idiot, Jane. I don’t know who is going to keep another fellow grounded.

Robert: Sure

Jane: If I am a female idiot, you are a male idiot. This idiocy must have come from our parents’ genes.

Ian: It seems like you have no clue about literature.

Jane: (Surprised) Where is it? (Trying to look everywhere to find somebody called literature)

Ian, Robert and Edwin start laughing so hard.

Jane stands on her chair trying to show up her physical prowess 

 Jane: See this hand is so tough can it can lift a 20-litre water bucket.  

Edwin: I am not sure. But maybe you can lift one without water in it.

Jane: You ugly man? What are you saying?

Ian: Sit down, please, my dear sister, and continue with the accounting stuff. I know you are a very good accountant, though without professional training.

I step in to calm Jane down. Finally, she gets back to her accounting tasks. I help Jane examine her accounting books, which are well written and organized. There are tables showing dates, descriptions about payable and receivables, savings, etc.  Looking at Jane’s good Job performance, I was so encouraged. I believed that our plans were achievable.

Edwin: Hey! Ian, have a look here

Robert suddenly stops dealing with pictures pinned on the notice board; He too gets closer to Edwin.

Edwin: I managed to track the phone conversation made by the top government bureaucrat. OK! Help me get a SIM card. I want to make sure that we track his conversation all the time. 

Robert returns to his table, quickly picks up his phone and hands it to Edwin.  Edwin takes the SIM card and inserts it into the device that looks like a card reader. He does that very carefully. He later ejects the SIM card and gives it back to Robert for inserting it back to his phone. 

Edwin: Please insert this SIM card in your phone and switch it on. In addition, make sure you are not using that phone number to make or receive calls. OK?

Robert: Yes, brother!

Not long after that, Robert receives an SMS

SMS reads: “The car has been repaired and I am coming to pick you soon” It’s from the personal driver of the targeted boss (Top government bureaucrat)

Robert: Hey guys, I want to go out there. I will be back to you soon.

Roberts puts on his coat and leaves the place

Robert: Taxi! Taxi! Taxi! (Robert waves to call the taxi driver) I want to go neighboring street

The taxi driver picks up Robert and rides to the neighboring street, where he drops him 100 meters away from where the targeted government bureaucrat lives. Robert consults his co-workers, Doja and Sobba.

Robert: Hello, Doja,

Doja: Hello! I am getting you very well, what’s up?

Robert: Check your messages now; I hope you are with Sobba.

 Doja: Yes, brother, we are preparing for that  

Robert: Cool! I have sent you some money to cover the costs of this mission.

Doja: Thank you, boss.

IN OFFICE-AT NIGHT

Robert enters the office while showing signs of tiredness; he sits in his chair while taking a deep breath.

Ian: I am truly sorry for the tiresome, Robert

Robert: Thank you! Your intelligence officer is really tired but has come with lots of information about the targeted boss.

Jane: I know that, but can you please come closer here so that you can report to me your daily expenditure? I would like to record them in our financial books before I leave the office.

Robert hands all the receipts to Jane

Robert: You gave me 400,000/=Tsh and I have spent 320,000/= Here are the receipts for some of my purchases, here are the SMS showing mobile banking transactions. However, some of the places, like local restaurants, do not give the receipts. Finally, here is the 80,000/= Tsh. remaining amount.

Jane receives the receipts, the remaining amount and the mobile phone from Robert while showing satisfaction with what Robert has presented.

Robert: Dear Prophet Ian, the assignment was very challenging, but we tried harder to succeed.

We planned the mission for about 45 minutes, developing various strategies on how we were going to get into Boss’s house and creating a prophetic message that was going to be delivered to him.

INSIDE THE BOSS’S HOUSE- EARLY MORNING

I headed to Boss’s home by taxi. After getting to his house, I knocked on his gate to find that the house is heavily fortified.

Security guard: Hey! Young boy, how are you?

Ian: I am fine (While weaving my right hand to them)

Security guard: What can I help you?

Ian: I need to see the Boss

The security guard picked up his phone and called someone inside the house. While he was talking to his phone, I received an SMS sent from Robert.

SMS: The boss has a kid with a concubine outside wedlock, and the kid is so sick. We hacked this information from the Boss’s phone conversation with his concubine.

Security Guard:  Boss said that he had no appointment with you, nor does he know you. 

Ian: Look, I am God’s prophet and I have come here to do his good will for humanity; neither do I have ill intentions.

Security Guard: I command you to depart; otherwise, you are going to face my fury.

After a brief interaction with security guards, I realized that they were really poor and they were addicted to alcohol. I had to work on a conventional wisdom that a poor person cannot be convinced of the word of God unless you cater for his needs. And that was something to start with.

Ian: Guys! Come here, please. Do you know that your boss is in serious trouble now? Can you call him, please? Just tell him that I have brought a prophetic message.

Security Guard: Get the hell out of here; do you want to get us fired?  

I took 30000/= Tsh out of my wallet and gave it to them. The security Guard immediately called his boss, as I instructed him.

Security Guard: Hello, Boss. This prophet suggests that he has a very important message for you.

Boss: You idiot, I have told you that I am very busy now; just chase that guy away.

Ian: Tell him I have a very important prophecy about the sickness of his child.

Security Guard: He claims to have been sent by God to tell you something about your son, who is seriously ill.

Boss: Um! Ouch! Ouch! Which son? Please bring that guy to me.

Security Guard: Yes! Boss

The Security Guard seems to have been shocked because they know that there’s no sick kid inside the house.

                                         INSIDE THE BOSS’S HOUSE (SITTING ROOM)                         

Inside the boss's and his family, his wife and their daughter are watching television.

Boss: Hey! A young boy has a seat (while showing great contempt)

Ian: I am not going to sit down. I would like to speak to you while I am standing. It’s just protocol.

Boss: Oops! Does that mean that the message is so urgent to the extent that you can’t afford to get your ass down?

Ian: God spoke to me last night and said that he has been angered by your evil.  You are soon going to face his wrath unless you repent and follow his ways.

Back in the office, people were dying with laughter as I was hearing them using a device that was placed in their left ear.

The boss was shocked by what I was telling him and stood in terror, though he kept insisting on his innocence. He finally turned to his wife and daughter, asking them to leave the sitting room. The boss’s wife and daughter left the room immediately, but to me, that was the first sign of victory.  

Boss: I will kill you. Do you get what I am saying? Are you a con man?

Ian: I know that killing someone isn’t a strange thing to you. In fact, you are the one who killed John Kitara, Madam Loveness and Asifiwe Mkinda. The surprise to me is that you decided to kill them because their good job performance was considered to be a threat to your position in the office.

I continued (now with a very low voice) God is not your grandfather to the extent that you can tell lies to him or entice him with your money. Those lies can only succeed with your wife and daughter, but never with God. Unless you repent of your sin, your son will surely die.

Hearing that, the Boss got mad. It was a good time to communicate with my team. Robert started feeding me with more intelligence information through the device that was hidden in my ear.

Robert: Hey! Mr. Ian, the boss, has received a new SMS from mineral dealers thanking him for helping them avoid paying taxes. They therefore have deposited 30,000,000 Tsh. token in his bank account.

Boss: How did you get to know about the kid, you bastard?

Ian: Who is a bastard between you and me? Try to check the new SMS that has been sent to you; then you will tell who is a real bastard.

The boss picked up his phone while reading his new messages. Robert was also reading to me what was written so that I could read with the boss. The boss was so terrified to see that I was saying what he was reading on his phone without even looking at it.  This time, he got very mad at me.

Boss: Oops! You demon, can you say again what is written in this message on your own?

Ian: (Repeated) Thanks, Director. Everything has worked perfectly, and we have deposited a token of appreciation into your bank account. SAM

The boss stands up while struggling to get off his chair, but fiercely comes after me.

Boss: Who are you? I will kill you nooooow! (This time he started crying like a baby)

Ian: Holy blood will prevail even after death, as God’s prophet, my flesh will be renewed again for eternity, but you will face the wrath of God. In fact, your son is already in critical condition.

 At that same exact time, the boss received a phone call from his concubine

Concubine: Hello, Honey, our son is seriously ill; we are in the emergency room now at the hospital.

Boss: Ok! I am going to come now (He replies in a very low voice)

Ian: Please, you need to say goodbye to your wife and tell her exactly where you are going now.

Boss: Ooh! Why me? Why this?

He sat down on his sofa like breathing so slowly

Boss: What shall I do now? Tell me, prophet.

Edwin: (He gives me the answer using the device placed in my ear)

Ian: That is an awesome suggestion (whispering to the microphone placed in the collar of my shirt)

I turn to the Boss and ask him to kneel down for the prayer, and we ask for God’s mercy.

Ian: Ooh! Lord, may you hear your faithful servant.  Ooh! God, why has this child become ill?

Robert communicates something to me.

Robert: In the hospital, we have our team working on the kid; they have injected him with anesthesia.

Ian: Ooh! My lord, let me know the exact time when this kid is going to recover.

Robert: Just after half an hour, He will be fine.

Ian: Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayer. Thank you….., Oriya baba Oriya baba

Boss: Amen,….Amen

I instructed the boss to call his concubine and tell her that their son is going to recover after half an hour. Once the son is awake, she must take him home and give him a drop of Panadol. I am sure the kid will be fine and but you will need to talk to her later.

The boss picked up his phone and did as I instructed him. As he put his phone back in his pocket, I commanded him to call his wife.

Ian: Call your wife here

The boss was so shocked that he wanted to reply to something, but I continued

Ian: Call her now, before I take even tougher measures against you

Boss: Hello, my wife

Wife: Yes, my husband

Boss: Please, can you come here?

His wife arrived while so scared and carefully looking at her husband

Ian: We have to go to your husband’s office. Your husband is in serious trouble now, but God is also determined to help him.

Wife: Ooh!  Hallelujah, thank you, prophet.

The boss started to settle emotionally and sat down. His wife prepared tea for us. I take tea to congratulate myself for a job well done.  But Edwin started his ridiculous comment on the device. 

Edwin: Hey! Fake pastor, what the hell are you doing? You don’t have time for tea now.

I didn’t reply after taking my tea, and we went to the Boss’s office. 

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