Chapter 8: Musa and Olawale—Profile of a Devil

So e make another risky move: e break confidentiality, go meet Abuja psychiatric expert for help.

E fit cost am im job, but e no send. For Musa, to catch killer na life and death matter.

E want make expert join am reason the kind person wey fit be killer.

E yarn all the details. Some police dey say, "Oga, you dey risk too much," but e just wave dem.

Almost everybody say no, except one—

Others dey fear say case go spoil, but this one person gree to help.

And this person go play big role to solve the case.

Na im, the famous psychiatrist Dr. Olawale.

For Naija, dem dey respect Olawale well. E sabi book, e get big beard, e dey talk small small but everybody dey listen.

Olawale himself na one kain person. With just small info, e sharply describe the killer.

E look Musa, rub beard, begin dey talk like say e see the person with im two eye.

At last, killer face dey show small small.

For Musa, na like light dey break for darkness. Im hope dey grow.

Olawale say the killer na man between 35–55 years, about 1.8 meters tall, get sexual wahala.

E explain say, "The man get wahala wey no be ordinary. E go dey behave like person wey no get joy for life."

E be sadist, get obsessive-compulsive disorder, no fit enjoy life except to dey cause pain, always dey hungry to kill.

E dey plan im killing like say na project for school, dey clean up well after am, dey change style to confuse police.

So, e dey mad?

Musa ask am direct, "Doctor, na craze dey worry am?"

Olawale tell Musa straight: No.

"No be madness. E get sense, e dey plan. Na only wickedness dey worry am."

The killer dey plan everything well, dey do am step by step—e get sense.

E dey reason pass most people for area. For Naija, we dey call am "devil wey sabi book."

Now wey dem get profile, dem fit find am?

Musa dey hopeful, but Olawale warn am, "Profile no be magic. E go take patience."

No.

Na so everybody for task force dey disappoint. Hope wey dem get just fade.

Strangely, as police and expert join hand, killer disappear.

Like say e dey hear dem for meeting. For six months, everywhere quiet. Musa dey fear say e don run go another state.

For months, no dead body show.

Na so people begin relax small. Some dey talk say, "God don answer prayer."

But as Musa dey reason the case for midnight, e no know say devil dey plan next move just two streets away.