Not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.
More Nigerian Proverbs:
The house sweeper's buttock is never at one direction.Nigerian
If the stomachache were in the foot, one would go lame.
Nigerian
A wealthy man will always have followers.
Nigerian
Abundance will make cotton pull a stone.
Nigerian
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
Nigerian
The stone in the water does not know how hot the hill is, parched by the sun.
Nigerian