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There is a vending machine at one corner of the room filled with wrapped foods and bottled drinks. Next to the vending machine is a bronze sculpture of the Late Nigerian gynecologist, obstetrician, and federal health minister, Moses Majekodunmi -- the founder of the hospital. In front of the rows of benches is a beautifully lit mini-grocery store with an equally beautiful female store attendant reading a stripped copy of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, while wearing an enchanting smile.

 

 

EXT. IKOYI - SERIES OF ESTABLISHING SHOTS

 

  1. The head office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

 

  1. The white and brown two-storey building of the Lagos Preparatory School.

 

  1. The empty premises of the Church of The Assumption, Falomo.

 

  1. The quiet atmosphere of St. Georges Boys & Girls School.

 

  1. The eight-storey high-rise mixed-use Mulliner Towers.

 

 

EXT. NIGERIA POLICE STATION - SAME TIME - ESTABLISHING

 

Establishing shot of the Nigeria Police station at Awolowo Road, Ikoyi-Lagos -- a grey one-storey building, with the usual Police blue, yellow, and green stripes painted across its length, within a reasonably spacious compound. The compound walls are painted SAME colors. Police Officers in uniform are littered all over the interlocked compound - in bulletproof, dressed in camouflage, mostly with weapons in one arm, walking slowly in groups, chitchatting with one another, or standing put, dialoguing with civilians.

 

Screen Caption: THE NIGERIA POLICE STATION, IKOYI-LAGOS

 

A blue Police METRO PATROL van is PARKED in front of the station and along the TARRED road, with its engine STILL running. Two officers are in the van - one on the driver’s seat, and the other seated on one of the two long benches in the back of the van, dressed in a mobile Police uniform, with an AK-47 rifle in his possession. They seem to be patiently waiting, maliciously, for someone to arrive, or for something to happen.

 

Just behind the patrol van is a private blue truck with impounded motorcycles jam-packed in its carriage. There was a signboard that strictly prohibited loitering, hawking and parking.

 

 

INT. INCIDENT ROOM, NIGERIA POLICE STATION - CONTINOUS

 

A mini-size room with a small desk at one corner, and rough piles of paperback files defacing the top.