Free Conscience #2
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People who paid for the advert, but none was there.
Neither their business name to trace it. He tried to contact the
News media to get the details of those who paid for the advert
But he was told that those who paid for the advert, cannot
Be traced because the person who has come to pay for the
Advert according to the journalist brought cash to the account
Department of the news media house and supplied the
Details unto them. After their deliberations, the journalist
Would tell the banker that something tells him that what this
Connotes was that it is likely that those people may be sending
A signal to someone or some groups of people that their friend
Is dead. Now the people such signal is meant for he cannot say.
The banker reasoned within him after hearing the man that
It may be a signal after all, may be the signal is to him or to
Some other people who the man has had business dealings with
In their island. But since his demise, no one has contacted
The bank neither has anyone talk to him about this, he thence
Kept the matter close to his heart and was expecting what
Would happen. By the twelfth year, when no one comes
To him nor the bank, he started thinking about the money in
His account what he can do about it. If the money be left like
That, the government would possess the money after
A while, and some of the government officials too would
Take out of it. Something comes to his mind, what of it
He seeks for someone to partner with and a deal
Be reached with the person on the money? If that could be
Done, who would that be? Who could he look for? He made
His research and comes up with what the person he
Shall reach out for must possess. After he has come up
With this, and he wants to take a step, then his conscience
Was not clear about going forward with the deal. He
Has been disturbed about the matter and was about to
Let it go when he remembers the story shared by his
Father In-law with him some years back. The man
Said that there was a man who puts money in his
Friend’s possession because he trusts his friend and he
Does not want to take the money home that day.
For the fear of the unknown and because he notices
Some strange faces following him after he left his office
That day. To confuse those people trailing him he went
To some other open places before calling his friend to meet
With him and he gave the person the money. As he has noticed
Those trailing him were truly thieves, and they killed him
Thinking the money was still on him, but when they do not
Found the money on him they knew he has dropped the money
With someone during the process of his moving around
Different places. That must have happened they reasoned when
They were pissed off by his movements and decided to stop
Following him but to go and stay for him very close to
His house. It was when he knew that he was not seeing them
Again that he called that friend and gave the money to him.
Telling the man to keep the money safe that he will
Come for it the following day. After given the money to
The man, he also threw off his phone and the SIM card and
As he gets another card and phone. After those people did
Not see money on him they knew he has known about them
And looked for his phone but the phone on him was new
One and there are no traces of last call on the phone
Thus, they cannot trace anyone. What they resolved to
Do is trying to trace those places visited by the man to
See if it was kept somewhere or see any strange person
But they could not. The police would soon get to know about
The incident and they took his body to the morgue.
The man’s friend when he gets home, he safely kept
The money somewhere and switched on his radio and
Heard the news about a man who was killed by gunmen
It was the following day when he did not see his friend
To come for the money as he promised that he started
Getting worried about him. And the news flash of his death
Was that if there is anyone looking for someone, a
Youth in his late twenties, about 170 centimeters in height
Among other details supplied such a person should go
To the government morgue to identify the corpse there
And claim the corpse to give it proper burial according to the
Culture of their island. The man had initially set out to go to
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