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This bird reminds one of avaricious buccaneers like Wa Mwara and others like him

It'll build a nest the size of a Toyota Probox or sometimes a Toyota Noah. Then instead of relaxing and raising chicks like normal birds, it begins a lifelong procurement scandal. It flies around collecting every useless object in sight: rusty cups, cow ropes, bicycle sprockets, broken hoe heads, axe blades, cracked pots, cattle skulls that survived generations of dogs, and random metal whose original purpose even ancestors forgot.

You look at the nest and wonder: is this a home or a corruption exhibit? None of these items help the bird. It cannot drink tea from the cup, ride the bicycle sprocket, or plough with the broken jembe tine. But still it gathers more. The bird is not nesting—it is looting.

That is why many corrupt people must be close relatives of the Hamerkop(look at its characteristic head, that Kisogo, does it remind you of someone?). They also collect things they will never use. Billions hidden in foreign accounts. Thousands of acres where only antelopes hold title deeds and foxes pay no rent. Mansions so large they need a map, yet only three rooms are occupied.

The Hamerkop hoards scrap metal. Politicians hoard public money. The only difference is the bird has a brain the size of a plankton, while some leaders have no excuse at all.