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Jungle politics

It was a calm evening in the jungles of Congo, a calm breeze gently blew the trees back and forth. The jungle was alive that night, it was a night for a conference, a conference of the monkey tribe that lives in the jungle, they meet often to discuss  the structure and progress of their society. Recently a new leader took control of the tribe, the community became  uncertain of its future when this monkey took control, and there they were a few weeks later, in a conference with this new leader sitting at the head of the table.


 


 Head monkey: Order! Order! Order!


   I call this meeting to Order, let's discuss the issues at hand, our society is chaos, there are banana peels everywhere and we don't know who is eating the bananas.



Rep 1: Sir, you are rubbing your stomach right now because you are too full from eating too much banana



Head monkey:  Yeah, I understand that, I'm glad you see the peels everywhere too, who are the  perpetrators of this gruesome act.



  Head monkey asked while peeling a banana in front of everyone.



Rep 4: You are, look at You Mann, what happened to your stomach?



Rep 1: That's what I said.



Vice Head monkey: Monkeys! Monkeys! Monkeys!


 You can't  accuse the Head monkey without evidence. We will investigate the matter further.



Rep 3  walked to the table to directly point at the head monkey and yell.



 REP 3: look at him, he his eating one right now.




Vice Head monkey called for the security to come arrest rep 3 and get him out of the meeting.



 Head monkey stands up to give a speech,while rubbing his stomach still.



Head Monkey: This is our community , our home, we must look after it , groom it, make it great, clean up the peels and other garbages. We cannot achieve all this by turning on one another, we can't become each other's enemies when we have enemies out there.


  So my brothers, I have a few bananas for everyone.



 A security team came in to distribute 4 pieces of banana each to everyone in the room. The mood in the room change, a couple of monkeys start chanting to hype the head monkey. Head monkey continued;



Head monkey:  So my brothers and sisters, we should be friends, help each other, that's is the only way to progress.



Whilst everyone was enjoying their banana



Rep 4 confused said,


Rep 4:  Wetin  dey happen for here like?


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