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The next of kin

King Giza took over so quick such that he never considered conducting any formal meeting with the council members. He claimed that there was absolutely nothing they would have told him. At that moment, all those who were opposing his late father's regime, were too old and they couldn't even recall anything. Majority of them were his grandfather's council members therefore age was indeed limiting them. He already knew how difficult it was to have new council members considering that he was never a member himself. He was suppose to be guided by those council members who were loyal to his late father; he fired them all due to misguidance. King Giza was too blind to realize that his downfall started on the first day of his reign. He had to nominate council members who were suggested by his supporters who helped him in all his attempts of overthrowing his late father. They suggested the names of their sons and grandsons. The council was totally a messy.

Citizens were already afraid, they already had the feeling that their kingdom was going to be ruined completely. They were absolutely right, that's what was following. King Giza decided to increase the transportation cost. His aim was to generate more revenue. This was indeed sad moment for Mumbi kingdom citizens. They couldn't do anything because king Mumbi wasn't listening to anyone. Hundreds of citizens were sent behind bars just because of trying to oppose the king. The late king Nuru's council members were the ones who suffered the most. They couldn't allow seeing king Giza destroying what took them decades to establish. They were ready for persecutions but the only thing that they vowed not to let go was the good work done by the late king Nuru. They couldn't allow him skyrocket transportation cost just like that. They surely ended up in jail because the king had powers to call for an arrest of anyone whom he thought was frustrating his efforts.

King Giza wasn't happy with the number of students who were applying for education loans. These students were suppose to refund the loans after securing a job. Due to poor ruling, there was inadequate job opportunities hence majority of students couldn't pay their loans. King Giza never thought about creation of job opportunities but he thought of how to increase the loan interest rate so that less student can apply and again more revenue could be collected. Again, there were complain from all over the kingdom but he never considered listening to anyone. Not only increasing interest rates, he as well ensured that the process was indeed unbearable. Majority of students gave up in the process. Farmers were as well affected by his poor decision of trying to increase the revenue collection. He declared that there was no more free farm fertilizers supply. Each and every farmer was suppose to get deep into the pockets and purchase his/her own fertilizers.

King Giza was against almost everything his late father was doing. He hated LGBT community with passion. He never wanted them to have any sense of belonging in his kingdom. He reintroduced discrimination of same sex marriage. He as well promised to make them suffer. Due to his anger, a good number of individuals who were against same sex marriage got a push and they courageously began their series of homophobic attacks. They started hunting LGBT individuals like wild animals. Mumbi kingdom was no longer favorable for LGBT community. Thousands of lives were lost and hundreds of houses were demolished leading to lose of millions of cash. There was absolutely no one who had the gut to confront king Giza. That wasn't enough. King Giza introduced death penalty for all LGBT members and any other person who would have opposed him. There was no any court hearing when it came to LGBT community and disloyal individuals. They were given a death sentence without any chance of explaining anything. For the gay, bisexual and transgender men who got a chance of defending themselves, were sent for anal test. This was inhumane of the highest order. They had to go through it and it never helped them because none of those who went through the test was given a right to live. All of them died after that.

Criminal gangs were really enjoying. They were happy seeing one of them on the throne. It was never realized but king Giza was the one who was sponsoring criminal gangs. He always leaked all his late father's plans on how to fight them. He was indeed a green snake in a green grass. It was hard for the king to learn that because he always seemingly supported him in every initiative of bringing peace, love and unity. Indeed he was smart when it came to playing games. He just did everything right under his father's watch and he never suspected a thing. With the help of those gang members, he was able to accomplish plenty of his hidden missions; therefore they owed him a loyalty. King Giza was entirely the gang's slave. He couldn't do anything that wasn't favorable to them.

The king decided to urge his citizens to never let go their cultures. He condemned all those who were against female circumcision.

" Whether your fine or not, that's absolutely none of my business. When I was growing up, the kingdom used to conduct an initiation ceremony once per year. Young girls were circumcised before joining adulthood. Everything was fine before my father came up with a stupid idea of discriminating the act. Some bright council members tried to correct him but he was too dumb to realize his mistake. It was indeed sad seeing some women agreeing with him. This is a time for Mumbi kingdom to restore it's dignity. From today, I've decriminalized female circumcision and everyone should feel free to attend the ceremonies. I've spoken and it should be done. Woe to those who are thinking about opposing my decision, you all know what shall be your pay for that. I'll personally hang you. You were correct during my late father's regime but currently you're wrong and you'll always be wrong. My father through his stupid friends claimed that he was going to come back as a reincarnation. This is indeed impossible because no one can over throw me. Not even any of my children. I wish to warn them publicly that however shall dare do that, shall die on that very day. You may have a good day if it's possible where you're." king Giza's speech was indeed speaking volume of what else was expected from him.

Initially, female circumcision was not mandatory since there were individuals who were not ready to do it, indeed these were the individuals who supported the Mumbi kingdom's former king in ending the inhumane act. King Giza decided to make it a mandatory rite. To girl child, this was indeed painful.

After the late Mumbi kingdom's king banned reckless cutting down of trees, forests in the entire kingdom were full of trees. All tree species were available in Mumbi kingdom. Forests being a water catchment area, the kingdom had sufficient fresh water supply. Throughout his late father's reign, the kingdom never faced any water supply challenge. Indeed this seem to be absolutely non of his business. The king got a timber order from a neighboring kingdom and without any delay he grabbed it. The exercise of cutting down the trees begun. The king was using modern technology in cutting down the trees. Within a very shorter period of time, thousands of logs were ready for exportation. They were exported and more and more orders were received. The king was indeed happy. He was able to clear an entire forest within a week. After about three years, deforestation was greatly done. There were no more treed in Mumbi kingdom. King Giza never wondered why other kingdoms with fully packed forests were ordering logs from his kingdom instead of cutting down what they already had. King Giza did every imaginable damage in Mumbi kingdom. He seriously undone everything that was accomplished by his late father. The late king Nuru soul wasn't resting in peace.