Operation Jivundu: Scribe's quest

By Chimba Kabayi

It is only guts and glory that produce the world's Richest men. When the Ban chili's, Deveraux, Ngwiza, Bindwo's worlds intertwine they have no idea what's at stake. Until two enthusiastic reporter aspirants come along things change.

As Michael Fwando and Jake Chingu finally admit that bein

• Language: English
• Publisher: GoldTouch Press, LLC
• Release date: Aug 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952155710

Chimba Kabayi

Chimba Moses Kabayi was born on 7th January, 1984. First born son of Parents Late, Mr. E.K Kabayi and Mrs. J.L Kabayi; Author was born into a family of three gents. He did his primary school across the country in five various schools. Secondary school in Northern Province of Zambia and Copper belt collectively. There after he went on to train as a primary school teacher at Kitwe College of Education and graduated in 2009 with a Primary Teaching Certificate. Currently he has been serving under the Ministry of General Education for 9 years. In 2019 August,he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in English and Literature with minor in Computer and Management Information Systems, from Rusangu University, Monze Zambia. He is married to Penelope C. Mweemba and they have three daughters. His hobbies are cycling, swimming, listening to music, cooking, literature and poetry, drama writing.

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Chimba Kabayi

Copyright © 2020 by Chimba Kabayi.

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter 1 – The Beginning

Chapter 2 – The Confrontation

Chapter 3 – An Old Trail

Chapter 4 – Cracking The Puzzle

Chapter 5 – The Final Score

Dedication

For Mum, Dad and my Grandfather

Acknowledgments

Mrs. E. Chibende, Mrs. Dube for providing me with the Xlibris experience. Mr. D. Simfukwe, Mr. M. Mwiinga for their support and encouragement. Judith, Rita, Margaret, Annette for assistance rendered. Mr. Kapya for lending me his laptop to finish the novel. Most importantly my brothers Evaristo and Jonathan, my wife especially for her patience and diligence to bring this work to reality.

Prologue

In the world of reporting it is only virtue and good instincts that keep you going. That’s what happens to two friends when they decide to join the world of scribes, people who are fearless to bring the truth to light.

This leads them to discover that they have more than so much in common. As they both discover that they have got estranged siblings and more follows them from history. Michael Fwando and Jake Chingu along with Vasco, Jack, and Virginia are the centers of this intriguing story.

With mercenaries on their trail after exposing them in the media. Michael and Jake must outwit their adversaries and stay ahead. However, after Jake’s sister’s murder, things change they get something more than they bargained for! Someone is hunting them and they have to stay ahead of him.

With the help of Vasco, they must expose and bring down the Banchili’s, leaders of the mercenaries. Who are deadly because they leave no prisoners.

Chapter One

The Beginning

Operation Jivundu

Ideas were racing in my mind, stuck with the guiltiness of letting my friend cover the story alone. His body badly wounded by bullets that hit him on the battlefield. To make matters worse he had lost a lot of blood due to excessive bleeding as he lay on the bed in the hospital. Narrating between sobs and gasping how he was caught up in crossfire which was going between a mercenary-like small army and the state army. All this happened in a small country called Bamvunde in a city called Manguvu. My friend battling for his life managed to give me patches of the information, word had it that an oilfield, an undeveloped goldmine, and some illegal dealings. These issues and a couple of heavens know what!! These events happened in just one month, I was covering two col umns:

Have your Say and who’s in charge.

But in the meantime let me take you back six years ago when Michael Fwando, that’s me and Jake Chingu, my best friend had just finished college. I discovered that Jake and I had a lot in common-even our ambitions were a little similar. I loved writing articles; he liked reporting, digging for information, that kind of thing. But our first break wasn’t anything to do with journalism. I was working for a cotton ginnery and my friend was working for a papermaking factory. This was right after high school. Then things suddenly began to change; I was a keen reader of the Blaze Daily newspaper. I developed an interest in writing articles to the editor in the people’s column. Meanwhile, my friend was interested in gathering information from the local area. Working at the cotton ginnery wasn’t really my area of interest,