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On the verge of recovery came another blow – the death of a reformer. Suddenly, Mr. Zack a strong fighter of moral piracy of political wrekages and doctrines died on a plane crash .Investigators examining the wreckage ruled political sabotage. The elimination was inconsistence with the time-tested democratic system in practice in the country and elsewhere in the world. It became a tragedy and wound that never healed so fast. Things would never be the same again. History was forgotten and mistakes are to be repeated. Mr. President who headed the saddest chapter of the nation’s political history was fingered as directly responsible. Then came Mr. Ribadau who was dropped after along service at the altar of the ordained thin god Mr. President .He too died of political assassination. The double tragedy marked the genesis of a legal Ping-Pong that saw Mr. President behind the bar in just three years afterward.

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• Chapter 1 Introduction

  SHATTERED CASTLE
  Written
  By
  Emmanuel Ugokwe
  
  (C)
  
  Note
  Be mindful of the fact that all the settings, inci

• Chapter 2

  Contents
  Part one – Harvest of Tears
  Part two – The Cannibals and White Dragons
  Part three

• Chapter 3

  Because of the spirit with which the young nationalist pursued their independence, it was difficult

• Chapter 4

  It was Tuesday, everyone remembered, ten o’clock, the sad news made headline in the air.
  “…The milit

• Chapter 5

  a beginning of pangs of distress, the Republic of Kandala got nailed by such brutality. It beggared

• Chapter 6

  For these three years, this conflict torn the country apart. It was everywhere in the news that this

• Chapter 7

  “It is sufficiently sad and condemnable that in politics, the goods are the most vulnerable and the

• Chapter 8

  You could feel the tension as the government officials were about to leave. His speech was full of a

• Chapter 9

  The next day, it continued, going deep to other territories. A rumor which was later confirmed true

• Chapter 10

  Within days the office and house of General Sango had been bombed. The two generals had gone on diff

• Chapter 11

  Each part which the war had reached had it own verse of the story about the war. It was now a total

• Chapter 12

  At the hall, many were allowed in without interruption. The officers immaculately turned out in cris

• Chapter 13

  “No one wants to be absorbed into this war and that is why I still maintain that there is no war her

• Chapter 14

  “As this meeting lasts or even before it was called, a decision had been postponed indefinitely. Hon

• Chapter 15

  Eastern civilians and soldiers who could be found almost in all business flourishing cites in the Re

• Chapter 16

  He met his grandfather, the father of his father. The old man had long been expecting the homecoming

• Chapter 17

  The war had lasted for eighteen months apart from the earlier times. The eastern zone - a remote and

• Chapter 18

  It was purely a matter of chance that most of these young men were still alive, they might had been

• Chapter 19

  Isala was on air that morning for an official announcement for the end of the war. Every ear was on

• Chapter 20

  Fresh tears ran down her cheeks and made runnel down her make up the second times as she watched her

• Chapter 24

  The excitement at the beginning of the gathering got the adrenalin flowing to a higher degree. The c

• Chapter 25

  The first priest spoke loudly to the moderate volume that the microphone provided. He read this oath

• Chapter 26

  The church wedding did not drag much longer and they were blessed. It was time for grand reception w

• Chapter 27

  Many who so loved Mr. Zack gave vent to the emotions as he publicly teased and held his wife. See th

• Chapter 28

  On the second day, it would end. It was though evening and almost all guests had gone. Those who wer

• Chapter 20

  Part Two
  The Cannibals
  (1970’s and 1980’s)
  ‘ The men, happy men, full of kindly faces,
  happy for the chi

• Chapter 21

  All through the time it lasted, she sat staring into space, her eyes so fixed for long at one point

• Chapter 28

  Fresh tears ran down her cheeks and made runnel down her make up the second times as she watched her

• Chapter 29

  Wedding day! One’s happiest day. 
  It was the long-awaited day. The time had arrived for the whole wor

• Chapter 30

   
            The church wedding did not drag much longer and they were blessed. It was time for grand

• Chapter 31

  Everything about the movement of the plane was suspicious at first and always. No announcement was m

• Chapter 32

  The plans to rid him simply had not failed. The pilot had accepted his huge money to burn him on the

• Chapter 33

  The country was busy observing minute’s silence for the departed souls of these dignitaries, making

• Chapter 34

            Widows, orphans relatives and seething crowds of human beings from all corridors of life e

• Chapter 35

   “Where is he exactly”?
  “In heaven with God” was his reply.
  “Give him our love if see you him, and tel

• Chapter 36

  Silence!
  “I want to add that the society is getting more and more insecure. The country is fast decay

• Chapter 37

  It was a moment on wait. Time to explode. Time to do undo and show he had some secret which he knew

• Chapter 38

  Destitute at the gate and the streets around could only have a few days of this paradise sort as if

• Chapter 39

  Things never remained the same and never be the same. She had been a city woman, very popular in pol

• Chapter 40

   “Now Zack is dead” he continued” may his soul rest in Aljanar firdaus. You cannot continue this way

• Chapter 42

  *
  The rain that morning had stopped. It was only cold. And sometimes it brought down light showers an

• Chapter 42

   “Sit down and listen Pius” said Uka who himself was anxiously waiting for the forecasters who had b

• Chapter 43

  Nothing could make him come back. Her utmost priority was her children. She would have loved to offe

• Chapter 44

  The body was in no time acceptable to the majority. They were splitting hairs over the powers of the

• Chapter 45

  They knew nothing to say and do nothing to prove anything they had not said. They knew where to get

• Chapter 46

  By all outward pretense Mr. President deceived everyone into the belief that the investigators over

• Chapter 47

   “Guard, guard, guard. “He called out.
   No one seemed to be answering him. He was lost in thought ove

• Chapter 49

  *
  Pius was only thirteen when he left home to the den his friends introduced him to in his new public

• Chapter 49

   
  As young as he was, he was already missing Mr. Zack more than anyone who had missed him was. These

• Chapter 50

  They passed a gas station renowned Mr. Chills and Indiana Modern Bank building and the next was obvi

• Chapter 51

  “ I’ve often heard of you. We are not new to ourselves. Right from the university days in Italy, we

• Chapter 52

   
   
            At the time of his calling by Mr. Ribadau, he was sitting. He had fought his conscience

• Chapter 53

   
  The memory mood capriciously died away and everyone was set to leave. Pius walked to his father to

• Chapter 54

   
  Zanda was handsome enough, but indirectly lean, clean and hard as athletes. He was an impressive ge

• Chapter 55

   
  In all Muslim dominated territory, the story was the same. Ram bleats in all homes of both the rich

• Chapter 56

  Suddenly the voice of the Imam who had been busy with calls announced loudly to the hearing of every

• Chapter 56

  She was beginning to understand Africa and its politics and policies on power, not on papers anymore

• Chapter 58

  She looked radiantly beautiful and younger, slim and soft in skin, though an African to the fingerti

• Chapter 59

            By evening all sort of persons started coming home, but not even one of them escaped a bad

• Chapter 60

            “All my life, I have not stayed in a place like this. I loved my father sincerely, his dea

• Chapter 60

  Quickly, he rolled down his glass. Their eyes met for a few second, but no message was transferred,

• Chapter 61

   
            Having been long in women game life, it was a rare thing, cracking mind on how next to ha

• Chapter 63

  It was wonderful to see the effect those word had on him as she walked out majestically with her han

• Chapter 64

   
  *
  Time passed, painfully passed. Pius had learned a great deal in adjusting to life. Living in such

• Chapter 65

            As those moments of contemplation passed, he was not quite certain about the next step, in

• Chapter 66

            “Remember we are in a bad fix and can easily be known and dictated. Guys, be wise enough a

• Chapter 67

  Many problems confront the country now. Economic recession was beating the country hard. Only a hand

• Chapter 68

   “Ambassador Zack, I can as well compete with you on the seat of presidency. It is good we are warmi

• Chapter 69

  It was difficult to buy him over and for the worst part, the ruling party tried but he left them in

• Chapter 70

  ‘I never knew I was going to make the worst mistakes and decisions of my life. There may not be wron

• Chapter 71

  Mr. President sat with his fingers propping his chin as his usual custom and could not say anything

• Chapter 72

   
  That voice spoke again and again for emphasis in his mind; the president’s voice. He knew it was no

• Chapter 73

   
  And would die of fear if they ever caught sight of an enemy draw a dagger. He removed his cap and s

• Chapter 74

  This was the fear of everyone. No one wants to be Jesu Christi to die for the whole country, not the

• Chapter 75

  The party comrades who knew it all were all lying. How could he - an academician, holding degrees in

• Chapter 76

  He had managed to accept being sorely on the side of Deremo who would probably stand with him in try

• Chapter 22

  His name had been put to the mud. Many news reporters were paid to put him on the bad list, some wer

• Chapter 78

            That was Travor, the only man from another party during his regime as the governor. He was

• Chapter 79

            When the call came incessantly, Pius acceded and drafted plan to see him in a more mechani

• Chapter 80

  Something might be binding them. They could not just sit and transfer look. Both went into silence.

• Chapter 81

  “Come on please, you may have been constantly successful to a reasonable degree. Your reasoning if I

• Chapter 82

   
  Before he could withdraw his mouth from the direction where Uka was seated, Uka had poured him the

• Chapter 83

   
  Many generation had gone never seeing the dream that the war offered and generation that came were

• Chapter 84

   
  It was rumored that both the architecture and the building engineers that built the house died the

• Chapter 86

  ‘I fear a great deal, I do not see him at these times. I learnt he is in the city. He does give me c

• Chapter 86

   
  “I hope you have not allowed Pius issue and troubles to weigh you so down”. Asked Uka as he came ou

• Chapter 87

  “No”. He answered in a frantic smile and wiped away the tears.
  “Why? Do you know where he resides?”
   
  “

• Chapter 91

  She was full of regret now. Terribly regretting for her actions, but it was so late. All those years

• Chapter 92

            Because he had been in the bosom of his mother’s best friend and husband, he wanted to be

• Chapter 93

  ‘ Wild display of torture and possible extermination in public places, playing jungle justice and la

• Chapter 94

  On his appointment, there were high expectations, politically, socially and geographically. There we

• Chapter 95

  They had been left high and dry with no hope of expectation. Those ultra-loyals strove hard to out-d

• Chapter 97

   “I promise to do that” he replied solemnly. The gathering ended suddenly.
  Gatherings like that were

• Chapter 97

   “There is every reason to believe you. You know how big, strong and fit the people from the opposin

• Chapter 98

  Finally, Mr. President haughtily stood up adjusted himself and said.
  “ Uka my young professor and fri

• Chapter 99

  In the last one decade when he had planned to leave the office for a successor, he had publicly decl

• Chapter 100

  Ribadau had lost so much interest in many things. His wife only preached him to accept whatsoever th

• Chapter 101

  In the end, they caught Mrs. Zack coming in and a compelling voice force in Mr. Ribadau made her pul

• Chapter 102

  *
  That was a silent afternoon. The sun was still some moment from the horizon. It was beaten the eart

• Chapter 103

   
            The kitchen was a home to all modern foods and drinks of assorted kinds. The kitchen that

• Chapter 104

            “That is very unreasonable of you young lawyer. You know nothing about the law of politics

• Chapter 105

  To him and Pius, their greatest nightmare was the family crisis, that had defied solution as a resul

• Chapter 106

  Among the four legal children of Mr. Zack, he was one and only son that inherited one admirable trai

• Chapter 107

  ‘ What a disloyalty from mom! When I read that in her lines from the letter she wrote me in my unive

• Chapter 108

  ‘I agree to everything you said. Mother possibly would not like to come home, even if Mr. Ribadau is

• Chapter 106

  He was a man of principle and chivalry who was at the pinnacle of his political career and who could

• Chapter 107

  For days and weeks on end, thorny issue of who killed Mr. Ribadua had fortunately taken the front bu

• Chapter 108

  The ripe hour of his assassination came suddenly and Pius masterminded it on the influence of Gani f

• Chapter 109

  A round of cheers and applause followed and died down.
  “The new millennium ushers in a hope for the p

• Chapter 110

   
  *
  Mrs. Zack had clocked fifty seven, but looked twice older than her age. The many days of young wom

• Chapter 111

  She walked unaccompanied to the sitting room and sat herself, cried and cried and cried from the hea

• Chapter 112

  To her freshest and second adventure in forming marriage alliance with Mr. Ribadau, she hoped such a

• Chapter 113

  She and Uka had cuddled him like a baby and indulging him to every affair of the family, which he do

• Chapter 114

  The election reduced the ruling party’s prestige more in the eyes of the earth to a rump. They took

• Chapter 115

  Everybody had held before now Professor Uka high, because of his academic achievement, but his poor

• Chapter 117

  Bunch of potbellied former officials of stamp and nature who had long left office for other jobs wer

• Chapter 117

  It was late for such reconciliation, but he holds the power. They tricks of his predecessor would so

• Chapter 118

  Only if the post of vice president failed Mr. Ribadau, he would actually be the hot favorite initial

• Chapter 119

  The judge stared at the audience, putting his glasses on the table and cleared his face.
  It is time f