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Chapter 79 - the radio house seige

The wailing of the emergency sirens across the capital avenues was deafening, cutting through the hot afternoon air like a blade. General Bello's rogue loyalists had moved with terrifying speed, blocking the main roads leading to the central district with heavy military trucks, while their ghost units stormed the Federal Radio House, cutting off the mainstream broadcast lines to plunge the nation into total confusion.Inside General Bello's dark office, the atmosphere was frozen in a sub-zero Mexican standoff."You think your street boys can stop a synchronized military mutiny, Solomon?" General Bello laughed brutally, his face twisted in unhinged, psychopathic energy as Corporal Titus's rifle barrel remained pressed tightly against his forehead [INDEX]. "Right now, my men are live on the national frequency declaring a State of Emergency. The President is trapped inside his bunker, and the markets are crashing. Your crown is made of paper!"Chief Solomon didn't flinch. He slowly adjusted his desert beret, his large, calloused hand tightening over the golden Staff of Office [INDEX]. He looked at General Bello with the cold, ancient pity of a veteran warlord who had survived real battlefields while Bello was still studying big-man connections in air-conditioned offices [INDEX]."Bello, you are a novice who reads scripts," Chief Solomon growled, his deep voice carrying the terrifying vibration of a tiger preparing a terminal strike [INDEX]. "You forgot that before you learned how to handle a radio, I was the one who built the transmission lines. Adekunle, execute the mainland protocol."Adekunle stepped forward, pulling out his glowing tablet, his face a stone mask of absolute corporate-kingpin calculation. "Sledge... Kazeem... the radio house perimeter is yours. Clear the frequency.""Standard!" Sledge's wild, chaotic voice crackled through the earpiece from the capital streets.Two blocks away from the Federal Radio House, the massive line of twenty unbranded armored shipping trailers violently veered off the expressway, smashing through the concrete security barriers of the radio station yard with earth-shattering force [INDEX].CRASH—BOOM!The rogue mutiny soldiers guarding the entrance didn't even have time to raise their automatic rifles. The automated side panels of Kazeem's ten-millimeter ballistic steel containers slammed open all at once, exposing the heavy tactical weapons and the four hundred mainland street boys [INDEX]."Oya! Mainland army, sweep the corridor!" Sledge roared, jumping out of the lead cabin with his automatic rifle flashing in the afternoon sun [INDEX].It was an absolute, unadulterated execution of street tactics inside a government facility. Sledge's boys and Corporal Titus's undercover commandos flooded the courtyard like a human wave, their synchronized firepower chewing through the rogue soldiers' positions within exactly three minutes. The mutiny guards threw their weapons into the dirt, falling to their knees in pure, terrified surrender as the armored trailers locked down every exit route [INDEX].Inside the main live broadcasting studio upstairs, the rogue transmission captain was sweating profusely, pointing his microphone at the console to read the mutiny declaration. "Fellow Nigerians... the government has fallen... General Bello is now the supreme command—"BAM!The heavy soundproof oak door of the studio was violently kicked off its hinges, flying across the room and smashing the mixing console into static.Sledge marched inside, his native agbada stained with red dust and gunpowder, his automatic rifle pointed straight between the captain's eyes [INDEX]. Behind him walked Adekunle, looking completely flawless in his sharp charcoal-grey billionaire suit, his skinhead buzz cut sharp under the studio LED lights [INDEX].Adekunle walked calmly over to the master microphone panel, pulled the rogue captain away by his collar, and adjusted the audio frequency slider to link the broadcast live to every radio station, television network, and internet streaming platform across the entire country."Good afternoon, fellow Nigerians," Adekunle's voice boomed through the national airwaves, smooth, quiet, and dripping with supreme, absolute dominance [INDEX]. "The minor political disturbance inside the capital has been completely neutralized by the Mainland Security Council. The rogue mutiny is dead, and the system is fully operational. Sit tight... because your true commander is about to take the microphone to address his ungrateful government face-to-face."

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