There And Back On Time - Season 1 - Episode 56

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There And Back On Time - Season 1 - Episode 56

Goodbye Germany

Germany Dilemma
On August 2005, I had another encounter with
the police.

They had been monitoring my movements.
There was a man that sold pizza in the city.
At exactly 12pm, every day between monday
and friday, he would call me to supply him
with 50 euro worth of weeds.

He was my most consistent customer and
because of his consistency, I had decided to
keep him.

I didn’t know that the police had been
following me each time I went to supply the
man along the canal.

That fateful day, he had called me but I had
only 1 gram of weeds which I had kept for
myself. I had supplied everything to the
retailers.

I told him I had only one and he begged that I
sold it to him. He was already at our meeting
point when I arrived. Unknowingly to us, the
police had sorounded the Area with dogs.
They were about 10 of them, fully kitted as if
they were going to arrest Pablo Escoba of
Colombia.

I had learnt not to run whenever they caught
me, so I remained where I was when I heard
” herr Ebot, bleiben sie in ein platz” ( Mr
Ebot, stay in one place and don’t move).
I stood there until they came and searched
me. I had only one gram of weed with me.
They took it, took the name of the customer
and told him to go. He was going to be a
witness in court on the case of State
Brandenburg vs Ebot Solomon.

They took me to my room in the glaring eyes
of everybody. The HEIM was in panic, the
major dealer had been captured.

They searched my room and found nothing.

They were disappointed again. I had beaten
them once more.

The one gram they found wasn’t enough to
lock me up. They just took me to the police
station and finger-printed me.

It was my first drug related finger printing. I
spent about an hour while they processed
me.

I told them that I was not going to say
anything until I see my lawyer. They called my
lawyer in Potsdam and he asked them not to
question me.

They fixed a court for my hearing on
November 29, 2005, and released me to go.
When I got to the HEIM, everybody couldn’t
believe their eyes. They thought I was going
to be locked away. They thought I had been
captured with a lot of drugs. After the
incident, I closed down my business entirely.
Obinna, a guy from Udi Enugu state had come
two months earlier. I had taken him under my
wing and tutored him.

I handed my business empire to him and
spent most of my time with Agnes and Victor.
I also frequented Berlin to stay with
Okoronkwo.

I told my supplier that I needed some break.

He had bought two bags of weeds and had
wanted to supply them to me before the last
police incident.

He begged me to take and supply them
before we began the break. Somehow he had
managed to convince me.

The day he brought the drugs to
Brandenburg, I divided them and supplied to
the small dealers in the HEIM. I hid the rest in
my room and went to sleep in Agnes’ room.
At about 4am, they invaded the Brandenburg
HEIM again. They had searched my room and
found nothing but when it was time for them
to leave, Fadi, the lebanese snitch had told
them that I had a gun.

They had gone back to search for it and
found the drugs I had hidden inside the wall. I
had opened a hole in the wall and hid the
drugs there, then I placed a Football poster
over it.

I had also hidden 5000 euros on the
fluorescent holder on the concrete ceiling.
They found the drugs but didn’t find the
money.

Fadi told them where I was and they came to
Agnes’ room with dogs. I was on a boxer
when they came. They brought me outside
and made a video of me and the drugs they
found.

They also took many pictures.

I had bought a motorola razor phone a day
before the last invasion. I left it in Agnes’
room. I told her my brother’s name in the
phone and told her to call him and tell him
that the police had taken me.

When we got to the station, they called my
lawyer. He came from Potsdam and after
some paper works, they agreed that the
lawyer would bring me to court on November
29, the same day I was to appear in court
for the previous crime.

Surprisingly, they left me to go. That was it.
That was the one chance I thought I would
never have again.

My cup was full,

It was time to leave Germany.
It was time to try my luck elsewhere and
It was time to start traveling around Europe.
Thank you Germany.

Thank you Brandenburg an der Havel.

Thank you Agnes for making me feel loved.

Thank you Victor for teaching me how to be a
father.

Thank you.

The following morning, I called Johnson and
gave him my key. I had went back to my room
and saw the 5000 euros I had hidden in the
fluorescent holder.

I took the money and went to Berlin.
The local Brandenburg newspaper had me
and the drugs on the cover page.

They bragged that they had finally caught me,
that the evidence was there for everyone to
see. They had asked every kid who knew me
as a drug dealer to come to court on the
29th of November.

I hired a resident permit card of my friend
Emeka and bought a one-way ticket to Lisbon
Portugal. Around midday on October 28, 2005,
a month to my court appearance, I flew out
of Schonefeld airport Berlin to Palma de
Mallorca with Air Berlin. Then I boarded
another flight and flew to Lisbon….. It was
goodbye Germany…

Season 1 Part 1 ENDS HERE.