THE TORTOISE AND HIS HYPOCRISY

   Once upon a time, there were series of robbery and burglary in the animal kingdom. Every household was being burgled and robbed on the daily basis. I became so serious that the king of jungle himself, The Lion was advised to appoint The Tortoise as the chief security officer of the whole kingdom. The Tortoise had not experienced any robbery incident in his house since the trouble started. He had been going round, telling people that he had a magical ring that nobody could touch except him, that whenever those men of the underworld came near his house, they would die a mysterious death. The animals wanted him to use this magical ring to protect the entire kingdom. The king appointed him to grant the animals’ wish.

    One day The Tortoise asked the king to give him absolute power to investigate the palace chiefs because he had evidence that many of them were aiding and abetting some criminals. The Elephant was the first to disagree. ‘I doubt if your searchlight on we chiefs will take you anywhere near the truth. We are high chiefs. We have money, properties and name to protect. We are the victims here. The elephant told the tortoise.

     After the meeting, The Tortoise had a closed door meeting with the king and told him that his first suspect was The Elephant. ‘It is only those who have skeleton in their cupboard that feel uneasy when they are questioned. I see The Elephant as our first suspect. He aids and abets criminals because he has a motive. He wants to bring your government to disrepute. Don’t forget that he was also a candidate in the race of kingship. He thinks he is bigger and more suitable for the position. He has been going round telling other animals that your reign would be short-lived as long as he lives. The easiest way to make good his promises is to create chaos and pandemonium. The king reasoned with tortoise and ordered for The Elephant’s arrest . The spate of robbery was still incessant after the elephant’s arrest. It was getting worse.

  ‘Do you think The Elephant was working alone?’ The Tortoise asked the king. ‘He has co-conspirator; I mean those who are helping in his mission. They are in this palace and until they are brought to book, the problem in our kingdom would still persist. We need to search deeper’. That was how tortoise implicated The Tiger, The Hippopotamus, The Wolf and even The harmless Monkey! The Tortoise was later appointed as the Prime Minister and second-in-command who was in charge of food, treasure, security and welfare of people. The incidents of robbery became almost non-existence as all animals could now sleep with their eyes closed.

 ‘What do we do about those traitors in cells?’ The king asked tortoise.

‘They committed treason so they should be hanged!’

     They king ordered for their summary execution at the market square in the next two weeks. Filled with joy and admiration, the tortoise went round their cells and informed their guards to starve them for those two weeks. He told them to torture them by removing The Elephant’s tusks, slicing Hippo’s hide gradually cutting Monkey and Tiger’s tails and shaving The Pig’s snout. After all they were his enemies.

   The animals were happy and full of praises for The Tortoise who was their messiah from the wrath of robbers. They gave him royal reception wherever he went; after all he was the second-in-command.

   The Tortoise, who was carried was carried away with his new status and popularity, thought of another plan.’ What about being a king and the sole ruler of this kingdom?’ he said it almost to himself. He was never a time waster. He instructed his masked agents of robbery to be prepared for the last operation. He told them that after this operation he would dispose the ring that had been a spiritual help to him. It had no use again when he would have become a king!. They started looting, robbery at that very night.

  The animals summoned the king and The Tortoise to a conference in the next morning. They wanted to know why and what caused the incidence of robbery the previous night. Not after the those suspected chiefs had been arrested. They needed answer and they needed it now!

  The king was dumbfounded. His looks begged for answer from The Tortoise.

 ‘My fellow animals from this honourable kingdom’ the tortoise started. ‘I have always had the thought that leaders should lead by example; that the welfare of his subject should be his concerns. But I am disappointed here!’ The king was confused. He couldn’t understand where that speech was heading to.

‘Our king is a traitor! Everywhere was quiet. The king himself was lost in thought. ‘Our king has been harbouring, aiding and abetting criminal since he was appointed as the king. My intelligence officers have discovered a safe house in his palace where he has been keeping his loots. Go there and bring all your properties’. As an evil genius, he ordered for the immediate arrest of the king. He appointed The Hare and five other animals to go the safe house and bring the evidence to nail the king. They came back, of course, with a report.

  ‘We got to the house and we recovered all the loots after we forcefully opened the door.’ The animals were surprised. Some kept their mute while some started shouting ‘thief, robber,  killer. Our king should be hanged!’ At this point, the hare cautioned them and pleaded with them to listen before they jumped to conclusion. They listened.

  ‘It so unfortunate that many innocent heads roll in Ogun shrine because we never thoroughly investigate. We saw a revelation in the same safe house.’

‘What is it? We want to know.’ They shouted.

‘Our Prime Minister’s ring’      

There was a perfect decorum. The chains around the king was loosened and ordered for the release of the chiefs in prison.

And the tortoise was summarily beheaded.

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