Detective Rod looked at Elba for the second time. He was getting closer to the big picture. The phone Elba used to communicate with the Jumbo Quadrant was nothing else but her Infinix Hot 8 . Now look, the Jumbo Quadrant was the biggest underground assassin-agency known widely for their mode of killing their enemies. They could strip you naked and burn you in the public before the presence of all and nothing could be done about it. Maybe, Winnie Maurice was the enemy of the Jumbo Quadrant. Even if she was, they could've killed her as they used to instead of kidnapping her. This put him into a much more complicated thinking. He analyzed and tried to connect the dots between the chef's story and this present revelations.
"Sir the forensics team are here" . At the mention of forensics team, his adrenaline gave him a boost, but he managed to suppress it. It has been long he hadn't heard from them.
"What made you guys take long?" he asked thus facing them.
" We found a lead, and we were into the lead"
"Are you sure it is a valuable lead that would lead this investigations in a progressive path? "
" Depending" one of them said. Their leader brought out a flash drive and handed it to Detective Rod who plugged it in his laptop.
"We traced the tyre marks and according to sources, it was a Toyota Condor" one of them explained.
" Wait did you just say a Toyota Condor? "
" Yes" . Detective Rod smiled now. He had reached there already. Their leader brought out his mobile phone and showed him some pictures.
"This is from the CCTV footage, thanks to the IT department. This is the pictures of the men in the car at 3:45am and at that time there was a huge sac in the car"
"A sac? "
" Yes, thanks to computers and technology, the sac looked like one used by GCO for packing chicken feathers . And the people in the car, though dimly revealed but their faces recognizable were Johnson Miller Kano and Matthew Ilo"
Boom! Investigations over. He had caught the real culprits. He remembered his interview with the old woman.
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" I wouldn't practically say I woke up exactly at 1am, but I do set alarm for myself to check up on my chicks" she replied.
" What is the time range for the alarm." Detective Rod asked.
" It's every two hours starting from midnight" she replied
" Okay, go on"
" So when I woke up, I went towards backyard to check up on my chickens. Upon reaching there, I discovered that a black Jeep was already packed there. Two men were carrying a long sac as they put it in the booth of the car." Detective Rod adjusted his sitting position as to fully digest the facts presented to him.
"What is the name of the car that was parked?" he asked.
" Em I don't know. My husband is a car dealer and he knows much about cars."
"Can you describe the car?" her husband asked .
" From the sounds it made, I knew it was manual. And it had a humpback at the back, because it's booth was too large" she replied.
" Sounds like you're good observer " Detective Rod said.
"Yes, I was too close to the car, liked they were right in front of me"
" Did they notice you" he asked.
" I think no" she replied.
" What car is it likely to be?" he asked turning his attention to the old man.
He was still in the imaginative world but was jolted back to reality by Detective Rod's question.
"Humpback at the back....., black and it's a jeep. Hmm"
" Too hard for you to fathom" Detective Rod asked
"No, the car is likely to be none other but a Toyota Condor" At this, he typed on his tablet, Toyota Condor.
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Now he understood the game. Johnson and Matthew kidnapped Winnie on behalf of Elba and kept her somewhere else where no one could find her. And they're using her to blackmail Moses. Perhaps Elba may be right.
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"And the last but not the least, kidnapping of a female figure in the Maurice family"
" You're wrong Detective"
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"Anything now Detective?" they asked
"No. " he replied still in a deep thought.
" It's time for torture" he said as he walked out of the room. His men had no other option than to follow him