Fathers of Nations by Paul B Vitta --Chapter 1 summary overview [TICK IT]

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It is evening, four strangers check in at The Seamount hotel in Gambia’s capital” Banjul
None of them knows the other three

First to check in is Karanja Kimani, a professor in the Institute of Development at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He’s assigned a room on the fourth floor, east wing.

Ngobile Melusi, a comrade and a citizen of Zimbabwe is second to check in and is allocated a room on the fifth floor of the south wing.

Third to clock in is Chineke Chiamaka, a pastor at the Church Inside Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. Chiamaka is booked on the sixth floor of the west wing.

Last to report is another stranger,  his name is SeifTahir, an Engineer formerly employed by the Ministry of Defense in  Tripoli- Libya. He is assigned a room on the third-floor north wing.

In less than an hour after the booking, all the four “strangers,” receive a call from the same caller who declines to divulge details about himself, He only identifies himself as the guide and gives the same set of instructions about opening their briefcases using a similar code: one, one, two, four. The code number fails to open the briefcases in all the four cases.

Meanwhile, Dr. Abiola Afolabi, another guest at the hotel hears someone call him from behind. From the introduction, Dr. Afolabi meets Fiona McKenzie, a reporter with Gambia News, a Gambian who was adopted by Ian and Elspeth McKenzie- Scottish missionaries. She was brought up in Edingburg, Scotland and is now back to Banjul.

An interview ensues.
Dr. Abiola Afolabi, is disclosed, he schooled at Harvard University in the US and currently teaches at the University of Ibadan. He is forty-five and is an advisor to the heads of state.

Africa’s heads of state are soon to start a debate at Pinnacle Hotel, a hotel that is two streets from The Seamount Hotel.
The Heads of State are soon to discuss a document titled Way Omega. If adopted, Way Omega is expected to change African politics drastically; there are to be no more military coups, no more rigged elections, no more foul play.

Dr. Abiola Afolabi is the author of Failure of States in which he is so pessimistic about Africa’s state of affairs and yet in Way Omega he is very optimistic, He was invited by the presidents.
The interview ends prematurely after her boss calls her to the office.

On the other hand, 49 foreign heads of state are in Banjul for the summit. They still look happy.
For Gambians, the presence of so many visiting dignitaries isn’t fun. Here, before dignitaries came, bull dozers were dispatched at night in slum clearance ‘exercises,’ demolished road side kiosks on which whole families depended upon.
 Roads got rare layers of tarmac at times of maximum traffic. Checkpoints sprouted everywhere. 
Water taps dried up because all water had to go to the new water foundations built to mesmerize visitors.

Catastrophes can happen even at summits. All heads of state are to be put in one hotel; Pinnacle Hotel so that security is concentrated at the hotel instead of having fifty places to be manned

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