A year in office, he had embezzled so much money from the accounts of the council that there was nothing left to steal except wait for allocation from the federal government. Some business transaction papers went missing. People were crying out in pains and sufferings. There were no good road and adequate housing. Anyone could erect a mansion anywhere he liked as far as he had bribed the people at the council headquarters. Polycarp engineered this settlement tradition. The highest bidder would become his own lawyer, landowner, law enforcement officer and his own thief too. Available land portions and plots of land were shamefacedly allocated to his praise singers and die-hard friends. All the car parks and playing grounds were snatched away and sold out to the highest bidders. Sewage track
