Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

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Two days after the attack on Jane’s boys and her near miss with death, she made an unscheduled trip to Calabar. The 2i/c prior to Jade’s phone call, had already intimated first thing the morning after the attack about the incident and that everything was taken by their attackers.

When she asked him who must have carried out the attack, he responded saying it couldn’t have been a by chance robbery attack but rather a reprisal of some sort due to Peter’s body which was also found at the scene and the state it was.


Hence it was obviously a planned operation.

She demanded to know what Jade had been up to for the past months and was told about her last demand for the clamp down on some of her rival boys on the streets. How must of them were arrested and others who went underground or flee the city.

She didn’t like the idea of a hostile take over of the City’s drug scene. Besides, her initial idea of allowing Jane to remain in the business even after discovering she is her biological daughter was for her to keep a form of bond she could easily manipulate to get the girl when the time came. But with the way the she was becoming power intoxicated, she knew the girl would sooner than later end up dead. Especially when she must have gotten too much attention to herself. So she made her decision to shut her down.


She immediately gave instructions to him to shut down all her crew’s operations in the City. This included retrieving their weapons, locking up the safe house and provide no assistance to her in whatever form with regards to the drug business. This was easy because the boys actually worked and took instructions from Jane because the 2i/c asked them to.



Next people to get instructions were Jama’s boys who she explained to that she didn’t want Jane running any show again because she was beginning to get out of hand. They too, on the orders of Jama were not to provide her assistance until further notice.



And when Jane called later that morning to inform her, she knew the girl must have known she had already been informed. She asked the girl how she was faring, if she was scared, suggested her coming over to Lagos with her for her holidays, the need to double her private security in and around campus and all before she dropped the bombshell that she was shutting her down. The girl had paused briefly, and then was about to give her reasons why she shouldn’t but she ended the call at that point.


She knew she had to be resolute with her decision. At least she has found her daughter, there were other methods of reconciling with her other than allowing her to remain in crime which might end up getting her killed. Something she wouldn’t forgive herself if that had happened the previous night.



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Exactly 9:45 am, her flight touched down in Calabar. The 2i/c had already sent a driver to pick her up straight to the force headquarters. She met and discussed with him at length about her decision and the way forward. Agreed the sales were good like he insisted and tried to talk her out of it, but operations must be shut down. This was because she wasn’t here to oversee things for herself. But after a while she decided to compromise and opted to have someone else take Jade’s place and it was up to him to come up with that person. She really wanted her out of the business.


After her meeting with the 2i/c, she proceeded to her hotel room and called Ima who had been waiting for her call to meet her up.


When she eventually came, she wanted to hug her all over but held back. She didn’t want to show her motherly side rather, her bossy side.



The girl was obviously not happy with that decision.

And when the Jane left the hotel later that afternoon, something told her the girl was going to cut all communication between them. But she never expected it to be up to a year.