Want to know the true colours of a man?-give him money.

O yes my good people of the ultimate read.cash platform, I guess everything seems to be going on well with you all and as such I'm glad to be here once again after some three days out of writing given my very tight schedules of recent.

These days, it is no longer news hearing people say i am loyal and quite different from the others who have been perceived to have failed in some certain approaches in life especially when they are entrusted with some certain responsibilities.

Most often, there has never ever being any reason for such unwarranted talks by them as they only seem to be saying such things either to gather a kind of support for themselves or perhaps, to show that they are better off with the handling of some kinds of responsibilities when called upon to do them than their too many contemporaries out there.

This article is coming on the backdrop of the fact that I have a friend who once showed all manners of sweet, undoubtedly and unquestionably absolute loyalty in virtually everything we all seem to be together in.

He rarely did like someone who could even kill an ant underneath his feet and with such high amount of a tactful pretence, we all believed him and as such were all deceived for taking his quietness and pretence for being a mere show of cowardice.

One day, a certain wealthy man in our town named Korede where we all hailed from came to say a bit hi to all members of the community and eventually pledge his support to some level of development given his long overdue absence from the country as he was but a businessman with much to do and think about.

Therefore, as his time to go back to his country of host was approaching very rapidly, he then decided to ask all those at the helm of affairs to assemble to a local meeting place where he will then dish out the funds for the developmental project in a fortnight.

We were all very excited by such a magnificent prospect of having someone who has shown so much interest in bringing the government down to the people with his road rebuilds and creations of some poverty alleviating schemes that could as well help the teeming youths become very gainfully employed.

The news of this fantastic behavior from the man was all over in the air and before the said meeting day with him, a lot of persons especially, the aged ones amongst the society have all started sending in gift items as a way of their saying thanks to his proposed projects that will address the community's poor road network issues amidst many of them.

Suddenly, as the D-day for the meeting with him was left off as a single day, we then got a call that Kolade the said friend of mine and that of every one in the community had already gone to represent the entire community members and had the Money collected for his own personal use.

When the news of this ugly event got to all of us eventually after some critical calls was made by me in order to enable the rest of us become aware of the latest development, some were in doubts over how on earth such a dastard act could happen given the viability of the information available at that time but the unfortunate thing was that it was mid night and we could barely do anything in ensuring we a certain whether all we heard was true or not, so we waited till the nest morning when the meeting is to be held.

The next then came and we all quickly assembled ourselves straight down to the Mr Korede's (the wealthy man) and got the worst shocking news of our entire lives and that was the fact that he had travelled in the early hours of the day after adjusting his flight schedules to meet with some of his business executives in his country of host.

After hearing that, we all felt if that was a bit of scam from Mr korede the wealthy man who had promised using his funds to see to the repairs of our bad roads and poverty alleviation schemes as no one could ever hardly speak of a certain word given the great disappointment that had befallen us and immediately, one of us then suggested we all go back home and try calling Kolade who has refused picking all calls and who's number then stopped connecting after a while and at once, we all went home and the next we heard after getting home was a call from a strange person unknown to us who then informed us of the kind of a lavish life style Kolade was living in other towns and communities away from ours and at once, we all quickly mobilized forces and went straight to track him down from the spot he was seen lavishing the said money he had collected from Mr Korede in our absence after he had deceived him of being charged with the responsibility of representing the entire community members.

The worst thing that happened was that on getting there, and very much unknown to us, he (Kolade) had already arranged and mobilized the police and some local street urchins who are to fight in his defence should there end up being any form of aggression whatsoever.

Therefore, as we all got there to grab hold of him, we were met with he biggest surprise of our lives as most of our community members were beaten by these dare devil and stern looking police officers and their street urchins cohorts.

I was even very lucky to have escaped untouched, unscathed and unharmed as I have to run as fast as my legs could carry me back to our community amidst gun shot and shouts from boys who were severely beaten almost to a pulp.

The most annoying aspect of it all lies in the fact that he(Kolade) even gave an order that all the caught boys be branded as criminals who had wanted to rob him of his money and not only that, sniffle the life out of him in a direct murder case charge.

However, it never stopped at that as the police also came down to the community in order to fish out the remaining of us that had taken to our heels but as luck would also find its way of smiling at me, I was still able to escape and this time, through the full support of the local king and all high and mighty in the community, the case and charge against us all were dropped and when eventually Mr Korede then heard what had happened, he felt very bad that he had been deceived by just the simple and quiet looks of Kolade and then entrusted him with such a huge amount of money and then after, he released a statement and ordered for the arrest of Kolade who at that time had squandered almost all the entire huge money that was left in his care.

Kolade was however charged for theft and a stealing by tricks plus a conspiracy to falsely dupe Mr Korede of his hard earned money that was aimed at developing the community and alleviating poverty so to say.

Kolade pleaded for mercy to be shown to him but as life would have it, his pleadings fell on deaf ears as he was sent to serve some nine(9) months jail sentence under hard labour for all the atrocities he had committed not only against his mates, but also, against his own people.

After the whole drama was all over, I was shocked to know that a person as quiet as Kolade was could actually end up becoming like a ravenous wolf in a sheep covering and as such, the true colours of a man could only be known when he makes money.

Thanks for reading my true life story and do have a great day ahead of you all.

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