1) And it came to pass after these
things, on the first day of the first
month of the twelfth year after the
second millennium, that king Jona son
of Bele announced to the people saying; there is no money left in the royal treasury, and the future
of the kingdom
is in great danger. 2) Therefore, a measure of oil shall no
longer sell for three scores of silver and
seven, but shall now be seven scores of
silver and one. But the people grumbled aloud, and said unto another, what shall
it profit our king to gain all these oil money and lose his
throne? 3) For it is appointed unto him to reign
but once, and after this prison, for many
are the atrocities which he has
committed. 4) So they said unto the king, eat thou thy food in peace in the palace, and
surround thou thyself with thine
women, only touch not our oil price and
do thy people no harm. 5) But the king would not listen,
and
said unto himself, I know my people, they shall only grumble for a while and
soon they shall forget. 6) But the people would not forget,
for
the burden was too much for them to
bear, and they said; now unto him that
is able to increase the price of oil exceeding abundantly above all that his
people can bear or think, according to the greed which
worketh in him; 7) Unto him be curses in the streets by
the masses throughout all ages,
protests without end. So they took to the streets and
gave the land no peace, and there was no
going out or coming in throughout the
kingdom for two weeks, and the king
feared greatly and said to himself,
surely these people shall overturn me if I answer them not.
9) So he called the head of the labourers unto the palace, and gave him
bags of gold, that they might turn off
the wrath of the people against the
king. 10) So the king assembled the people
and said unto them; a measure of oil
shall no longer be seven scores of silver and one, but shall now be four scores of
silver, one dozen and one, to this your
leaders have agreed. Praise me now therefore for I am a
benevolent king. 11) And after all these, the
Loudspeaker of the House of People
said, let us inquire into the king’s claim that there be no money in the royal
treasury. So they appointed Farcrook,
son of Lawal. 12) And said unto him, gather ye now
all the oil sellers, that we may know
who stole from the kingdom. This did
him with diligence, and came back with his report saying 13) Thieves abound in the land, and so
have the oil sellers stole from the
people, and gave them not oil, this they
did with the help of Aliyaro the king’s
mistress; and the amount he mentioned
was unheard of in the land. 14) When the people heard this, they
were dismayed, and sorrow gripped
their hearts. 15) But the oil sellers went in unto the
king in his chamber, and said;
rememberest thou O king that the what
we stole did we made available to thy campaign, and by thus did we make you
king. 16) If thou deliver us unto the people
that they may punish us, we will hold
not our tongue to tell the people that
thou art one of us. 17) And they said unto him, how else
shall we destroy the message if not to destroy the messenger? Let us
therefore implicate Farcrook the son of
Lawal in this matter. 1 So they sent a certain rich man from
the West by the name Otedollar, and he
took Farcrook into his house and gave
him some money, that he may alter the report which he had set before the
people. 19) And it was that Otedollar went
before an assembly of the people and
said unto them, trust ye this man who
said we stole from the treasury? Surely
he is one of us, for he came unto me in the middle of the night, and he left with his pockets full of
money. 20) And the people where amazed, and
their hearts bled, for Farcrook was a
man in whom they had to their trust. 21) So Farcrook arose,
and said;
Otedollar is my briber, I did not request. He maketh me to sit down in his
Maitama house; he leadeth me beside
the chilled champagne. 22) He exploited me greed; he
leadeth
me in the paths of marked dollars for
subsidy’s sake. 23) Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of EFCC, I will fear
no arrest: for bribes are with me; my
loots and my kickbacks they comfort
me. 24) Thou preparest the dollars before
me, in the presence of the SSS: thou
anointest my mouth with wine; my pocket runneth over. 25) Surely the shame and reproach
shall
follow me all the days of my life, but I
will dwell in the house of PDP forever
and ever. 26) And the people wept, but there was
no one to console them.
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