The minutes of the last meeting was read by the secretary of the association, the humming bird, and the motion for its adoption was moved by two prominent members of the association: the monkey and the elephant.
It is now time to listen to the address of the king, the lion. He rose majestically in response to the loud and deafening ovation of the animals. He roared and boasted of his exploits, only to be confronted by one of the members present at the meeting. It was one tiny female fly. She shouted as loud as she could, claiming she has done more exploits than most of the animals, including the king. What a claim from an arrogant brat: a tiny, female fly. The king could barely see the mosquito* making the boast. The anger of the king was kindled! "This thing will not live to tell the story. Save for the fact that you have no nutritional value, by now--" the king fumed! It took the intervention of prominent executive members to calm the nerves of the proud king. But the matter will not rest there, it became a legal tussle.
At the court, the mosquito* claimed that her name is longer than the names of most animals, referencing the name of the king in particular. If you count by syllables: mo-squi-to, that's three syllables. If you choose to count by letters: m-o-s-q-u-i-t-o, I beat the king to it! To further do damage to the ego of a visibly angry king, she claimed she perches on the rich and poor among human beings and denies them sleep."With epileptic power supply in Sub-Saharan Africa, I own and rule the night," she boastfully declared.
She further boasts: "I have made companies rich, companies that produce mosquito nets." She wished she had a wide chest to beat. Nonetheless, she went on to say that such companies are grateful to her, for making them rich. "Who will not remember Johnson Wax Raid, Mortein, and the popular Cock mosquito coil? Humans know and patronise them, just because of the infection I spread. I have even made Bill Gates commit more than $150 million of his earnings to the eradication of my infection, malaria. How many of my colleagues have made a man spend that much? And what of hundreds of medical journals all over the world that have published researches on the infection I spread?"
Crowning her testimonies, she added that the food she eats can only be on the wish list of other animals. "I feed on human blood. I don't kill fellow animals, like some other animals do," she said, intentionally looking towards the direction where the king sat. She concluded by saying that, if she perched on human beings, she made them inflict pains on themselves by slapping themselves hard in a bid to get rid of her. "Long reign the king," she said spitefully, you can now have the floor."
The writer is aware that only certain species of mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus and only females of the species can transmit malaria.
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