THE STORM MUST BOW BEFORE THE TORNADO!

THERE WAS AN AREA IN LAGOS STATE, IN NIGERIA KNOWN AS 'HUSTLER MUST survive'. THE AREA WAS WELL KNOWN FOR ITS NOTORIETY. NO BODY PASSES IT WHEN HOLDING A HANDSET. THERE WERE LOTS OF WELL ARMED HOOLIGANS WHO STAND ALONG ITS ROADS TO STEAL PEOPLE'S VALUABLES. ONE DAY, A CERTAIN RICH MAN PACKED TO THE AREA. HE WAS ALWAYS BEEN CARELESS WITH HIS MONEY AND OTHER VALUABLES. PEOPLE ALWAYS WARN HIM ABOUT THE MENACE OF BANDITS IN THE AREA,BUT HE NEVER TOOK THEM SERIOUS. ONE EVENING, HE DRESSED GORGEOUSLY WITH JEWELERIES ON BOTH HANDS AND NECK. HE ALSO HELD A VERY EXPENSIVE HANDSET AND A DIAMOND PLATED WRIST WATCH ON HIS LEFT WRIST. AS HE WALKED PASSED A MOTOR PARK, THE HOOLIGANS EMERGED FROM THE DARKNESS AND SWOOP ON HIM FROM ALL SIDE BRANDISHING ALL SORTS OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS AT HIM. THE LEADER OF THE FOURTEEN-MAN ROBBERY GANG ORDERED HIM THUS, "MR MAN, I AM CLOSING MY EYES AND BEFORE I OPEN THEM, I WANT TO SEE EVERY THING THAT YOU ARE PUTTING ON NOW OFF YOUR BODY OR I WILL BLOW OUT YOUR BRAINS." THE MAN QUICKLY COMPLIED WITH THE ORDER. THEY STRIPPED HIM OF EVERYTHING FROM HIS HEAD TO HIS TOES  AND HE WAS LEFT WITH ONLY PANT ON. THE HOOLIGANS WENT AWAY HAPPILY WITH HIS BELONGINGS AND HE WALKED HOME SADLY WITH ONLY PANT ON. THE SECOND DAY, HE WENT INTO HIS SHRINE TO CONJURE THE SPIRITS. FROM THERE HE INVOKED THE DEMONS AND COMMANDED ALL THOSE WHO TOOK HIS CLOTHES AND ADORNMENTS TO IMMEDIATELY APPEAR BEFORE HIM IN THE SHRINE. IN A TWINKLE OF AN EYE,THEY WERE ALL STANDING IN FRONT OF HIM. HE LOOKED AT THEM MALICIOUSLY AND LAUGHED WICKEDLY, "HA! HA! HA!!! HERE YOU ARE! YESTERDAY WAS YOU PEOPLE'S TURN AND TODAY IS MY TURN. HA! HA! HA!  I PITY YOU FOOLS. I COMMAND ALL OF YOU TO RETURN ALL MY THINGS WHICH YOU TOOK FROM ME YESTERDAY, THIS MINUTE." THEY HAVE SHARED THE THINGS AND THE MONEY THEY FOUND IN HIS POCKETS AMONG THEMSELVES AND SO MORE MEMBERS OF THE GANG APPEARED. HE SAID TO THEM, "I HAVE THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLAR WITH ME AT THE TIME YOU PEOPLE ATTACKED ME. NOW, I WANT EVERYTHING BACK INTACT AND AN ADDITIONAL INTEREST OF  20% ON TOP." AFTER HE HAD TAKEN ALL HIS PROPERTY AND MONEY, HE SAID, "YESTERDAY YOU PEOPLE ROBBED ME, BUT TODAY, I AM THE ONE WHO WILL ROB YOU. POWER HAS EXCHANGED HANDS. I AM NOW THE ONE WHOM MUST BE OBEYED. COMMON BRING OUT EVERY THING IN YOUR POSSESSION, AND DROP THEM ON THE FLOOR, INCLUDING YOUR PANTS. YOU PEOPLE CAN NOW GO, BUT FOR YOUR INFORMATION, ALL OF YOU ARE GOING TO REMAIN NAKED FOR TWO WEEKS BECAUSE ANY CLOTHES YOU PUT ON NOW WILL DISAPPEAR FROM YOUR BODY. GOODBYE AND ENJOY YOUR TEMPORARY MADNESS. HA! HA! HA!!!" FROM THAT DAY, ANY TIME THEY SEE HIM WITH HIS FRIENDS SPENDING MONEY LAVISHLY AND CARELESSLY, THEY ALWAYS KEEP AWAY FROM HIM. ONE DAY, THE HOOLIGANS WERE VERY HUNGRY AND WERE IN DIRE NEED OF MONEY AND THEY LAID IN WAIT AND VOWED THAT ANY BODY THAT PASSES-BY MUST BE ROBBED NO MATTER HOW ARMED HE OR SHE MAY BE, BUT IF NOBODY PASSES THEM; THEN THEY WILL REPENT AND LEAVE THE JOB HENCEFORTH. IT WAS GETTING LATE AND NOBODY WAS COMING. THEY COULD HARDLY TALK DUE TO HUNGER. SUDDENLY THEY SAW THE RICH GUY WALKING TOWARDS THEIR DIRECTION COUNTING MONEY AS HE WALKED. WITHOUT WASTING TIME THEY FLED AND SAID, "WE DID NOT SEE ANY BODY AND SO WE ARE REPENTING TONIGHT." THERE WAS A NEW MEMBER AMONG THEM WHO WAS NOT WITH THE GANG WHEN THE MAN TAUGHT THEM A BITTER LESSON OF THEIR LIFE. HE SAID TO HIS FELLOW ROBBERS, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE RUNNING AWAY. WE ARE ALMOST DYING OF STARVATION AND LUCKILY, GOD JUST BLESSED US BY THROWING DOWN MANNA FROM HEAVEN TO US. INSTEAD OF US GRABBING IT QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE,WE ALL RAN AWAY SAYING WE DID NOT SEE ANYBODY THEREBY  LEAVING BEHIND GOD'S BLESSING." THE OTHERS WHO KNEW THE MAN VERY WELL SAID TO HIM, "LOOK HERE, 'A STRANGER HAS BIG EYEBALLS, YET HE DOESN'T SEE FAR' SAYS OUR FOREFATHERS. WHAT YOU JUST SAW THERE NOW WAS GOD'S PUNISHMENT ON US AND NOT BLESSING. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND NOW BUT LATER YOU WILL FULLY UNDERSTAND. WE ARE TELLING YOU THAT WE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING AND THAT IS HOW IT IS. SEEING THAT MAN, IS THE SAME THING AS SEEING NOTHING. BECAUSE IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO ARGUE THAT YOU SAW SOMEONE COUNTING MONEY, THEN DON'T FORGET THAT THE MONKEY THAT INSISTS THAT HE WANTS TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE HUNTER AND HIS GUN BEFORE HE WILL BELIEVE THAT HE IS REALLY THE KILLER, WILL NOT LIVE TO TELL THE OTHER WHAT HE SAW."  (THE END)