Eleven pm in the street two shadows over slowly dragging a box to a parked car. They pull out a small item and fix it on a car and vanish. A dog howled nearby in the quiet Lavington estate. Elsewhere in Runda a group of men broke into a Range Rover, got in and out five minutes later. In Muthangari a white Mercedes Kompressa pulled out of the driveway into a waiting lorry. Five minutes later it was returned to the garage.
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The bus hooted loudly for the third time. Kevin gulped down his tea quickly, took his bag, kissed his mum and flew out just as the bus was leaving. It slowed down and he jumped in giving his most angelic face to the driver.
Kevin was a tall youth and thin youth, neatly dressed in a white tee and black slacks. He sat down and started combing his hair oblivious of the young girl who was watching him.
All got off at school rushing to class. A young professor got in pulling a line of mannequins assigning each one a dummy. They were to dress up the models with clothes. Kevin’s had a problem as it was leaning too much to the right making the dress to slip off all the time.
After five tries he got fed up and bent the manikin to the left.
SNAP!!!!
TICK TOCK!!!
He wondered where the sound was coming from before he pinpointed the source to the dummy. He put his ear against it and heard a mechanism ticking away. Colour drained from his face as he realized what it was.
‘RUN!!!’ He shouted loudly. The other fourteen students screamed with three jumping out of the window. He tried to follow then but his belt jammed on the work table. He tried to pry it loose but in vain.
BOOM!!!!!
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Lucy got up from bed, yawning as she ushered in the holidays. She wanted to come back home to Kenya but the small itsy bitsy issue of finances was eating her up.
The option of staying at campus for the holidays was not an option to her. Even if she couldn’t afford an air ticket she would swim the Atlantic Ocean and trek over West Africa to Kenya. She wanted the peace and tranquility of her beloved motherland. She made herself coffee and took down a box of Mackintosh Butter Cookies, plunging herself in the sofa.
She switched on the television to CNN.
‘Welcome to CNN you are with me Madge Swits and Tek Williams. About thirty minutes ago four explosions rocked the city. The first went off at 10:01am at the Stentworth Miller School of Art Fashion Music and Design and one was killed.’ Madge began.
‘At 10:03am Runda was the second place where the Internal Security minister lives. According to report he got into his Range Rover, started the ignition and it blew up. Him and his three bodyguards died on the spot,’ Tek took over.
‘The residence of Ikolomani South MP in Muthangari was the next site where the bomb exploded at 10:06am. His Mercedes blew up about twenty metres away but he survived the blast and was rushed to The Nairobi Hospital. Finally at 10:29am in Lavington Estate where the EAC minister resides the Passat that ferries him blew up but fortunately no one was hurt,’ Madge continued.
Tek cleared his throat, ‘Security has been tightened around the city. News just in now- Nakuru and Kisumu have also experienced car bombings just seconds ago, at the homes of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of State Development. We will keep you updated as events unfold.’
