THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARROT.

To the North of South Africa is a country that once was and no longer is - well barely. The President of this (Once fair land) President Makalottakakka - who gained power by failing to notice that he had lost the elections - was up for a special award. As a regional hero he was going to be given a very special memento at a dazzling ceremony to be paid for with some of the United States food aid cash donated to his country.  For President Makalottakakka money was never an object of concern with all the countries of the world making aid donations to buy him a private airliner and build a house the size of a small town. And he knew for sure that he deserved this special award because he had resisted the British and American efforts to take away his country.
The night of the award  arrived and all the African big-wigs duly arrived for the event. Van was present due to his status as a freelance reporter that specialized in covering stories of the rich and famous of Africa.
The award was handed over after a short speech by Africa's famous astronaut I M Moontoo. When the crowd were shown the award they were stunned into silence , even forgetting about the marvelous meal of Sadza and nyama spread before them. (A delicious starter course of mopani worms had already been served)
The award was a beautiful Kariba green parrot name Chiwenga. It is well known that the President has a liking for unusual living creatures, as he already had a prime breeding pair of Nile crocodiles.  But Chiwenga was a very special parrot - He could actually talk 25 languages, including Japanese and English. World experts put the value of this bird at over $1,000,000 US, which is more than Mrs. Makalottakakka spends in a day when she and her children are in Europe on their annual 10 month holiday!
The President humbly and gratefully thanked all concerned, and agreed that Van should interview him in seven days time to ask the President's feelings about the great awards and honors he had received in his lifetime. (This award was so important to President Makalottakakka that he had taken time off from supervising the bulldozing down of the houses of people that voted against him in the recent elections he had lost.)
True to his word, the President met Van for the interview. Van opened the interview with this question :"Mr President, what do you think of Chiwenga your Million dollar Parrot?  " President Makalottakakka smiled with unconcealed joy as he he thought about how he had been honored by this irreplaceable one of a kind gift. "It was delicious he replied..........."