Murder In Okaka
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In a country where poverty, unemployment and crime are the order of the day, a young Harvard trained engineer is gunned down in the cold desolate streets of okaka a sleepy town in southern Nigeria.
Sergeant okoro an upright veteran police officer in the midst of a corrupt and inefficient regime is saddled with unraveling the mystery behind the assassination.
The story exposes the deep seated corruption in the Nigerian police force, the government and the nation at large.
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