ROGUE - Seyi Dinma Samuel

Something is different about me, I can't  tell what, but I feel sad. I have a new job, moved into a better apartment, yet something was missing, it was already 11:25pm so there were fewer cars on the road, but even on a busy night, there would have been little or no slow traffic, its Ilorin after all. I reduced my speed as I noticed the police checkpoint ahead, the men in black used their torchlights to flag me down, I wasn't worried or scared, maybe if I was a man I would ,but I wasn't in the mood so no coke money for them, now that I think of it, they weren't here this morning. As I put off the car, I noticed they weren't just police men but the "day light robbers" SARS.

"Madam, comot key for the motor and step outside" the leader said, he was drunk, his speech was dragged.

"Officer any  problem?" I asked, 

"Be like say this one dey mad, forget you be woman! I go shoot shoot all the make up comot your destiny, I say come down!!"

His colleagues had surrounded the car, couldn't make out their faces, but I was scared, I came down begging them to let me go,

"Why she dey cry? We be thief?" Another said, the rest laughed,

"No mind am, she dey do hard girl, na ashawo she be oh" the leader  replied.

I was enraged! But fear didn't make me talk out of anger, "Sir, I'm not a prostitute, I work for Coca-Cola" 

"Josh, abeg shoot this girl for leg, she still dey talk oyinbo" I screamed after hearing that, 

"Shut up now!" They said in unision, I covered my mouth with my hand.

"Anyway aunty coke, find us small 100k for tonight"  the leader said,

"Sir, I don't have such money" I replied, he held my hand and moved me away from the rest, "sister, you know say you fine, settle us or my Oga go implicate you" I nodded in approval, he let me go to my phone and joined the rest of the gang,  in no time, I picked my phone, shut the door and ran! I could hear them bark orders at each other, what followed was a loud sound and excruciating pain on my left butt cheek, I was shot, but didn't stop running.