Two women came to King Solomon to have an argument settled. “Please my lord” one of them began, “this woman and I live in the same house. Due to the removal of fuel subsidy, and the followed increase in fuel price, I decided to store my jerrycan of fuel in the house. Three days later this woman also decided to bring her own jerrycan of fuel to the house for storage too. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house. For safety reasons, we both sleep with our jerrycans by our sides.

“But her fuel poured during the night when she rolled over her jerrycan. Then she got up and took my jerrycan of fuel while I was asleep. She put her empty jerrycan by my side and took mine to her side.

“In the morning when I tried to fill my car tank , the jerrycan was empty ! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw it wasn’t my jerrycan at all.”

Then the other woman interrupted, “It certainly was your jerrycan, the full jerrycan is mine.”

“No,” the first woman said, “the full jerrycan is mine , the empty one is yours.” And so they argued back and forth before the King.

Then the King said , “Lets get the facts straight. Both of you claim the full jerrycan of fuel is yours, and each says that the empty one belongs to the other. All right , bring me the full jerrycan of fuel”. So the jerrycan was brought to the King.

Then he said , “I will pour this fuel away , so that at the end of the day nobody will get anything”.

Then the woman who was the real owner of the full jerrycan , cried out , “Jo ni to ri Olorun ! In the name of God! Don’t pour this fuel, if you see how I hustled for this fuel King Solo you will pity me , just give her the fuel instead of wasting this result of my hustle”.

But the other woman said, “All right , pour the fuel , this removal of fuel subsidy will kill us both ! ”

Then the King said “Do not pour the fuel, but give the woman who does not want it wasted , for she truly hustled for it , she is the owner.”

Then the true owner of the fuel said “Thank you for your wise judgment my lord! How can I ever repay you?”

“You can repay me in one way” King Solomon replied. “You see this removal of fuel subsidy is affecting me too , there is no fuel in my car. Please give me small fuel from this your full jerrycan, Jo e ma bi nu, please don’t be angry”.

And the lady with the full jerrycan gladly shared her fuel with the King.

When all people heard the king’s decision, the people were in awe of King Solomon, for they saw the wisdom God had given him for rendering justice. Indeed they were in great awe.