"THE CHAMELEON CAN EASILY CHANGE ITS COLOURS BUT NOT ITS CHARACTER OF SLOW MOVEMENT".

The following ensued between a journalist and a leader whom was accused of stealing billions of naira.

JOURNALIST: Your Excellency, the allegations against you are weighty. In count one, you are accused of stealing fifty billion naira which you keep in a foreign account. Secondly, the sum of eighty billion naira was found in your local accounts. It is alleged that the money found in your local accounts were supposed to be for the execution of different projects. Is not a disgrace for your Excellency to have stolen so much money from the government?

HIS EXCELLENCY: Mr journalist, on point of correction, never should you used that word stealing for the money found in my accounts. I am not a thief. A thief is someone who stole yams, plantains, fish and other petty things.

I can sue you for defamation of character and get justice.

So l am too big to steal. What l did is money laundering and misappropriation of funds which of course is normal.

As far as l am concern, this is not stealing!

For you to believe that what l did is not stealing, is that,  if both of us should be charged to court, the man who either stole yams or garri who l told you is the real thief will get a bail of not less than five million naira but my bail will just be thousands of naira. Now, you can see what l mean.