This Man Built A House, Raised 2 Graduates Selling Chewing Sticks

This man built a house, raised 2 graduates selling chewing sticks
From TUNDE RAHEEM Akure

Friday, October 2, 2009
It sounds incredible that somebody could build a house and train children up to the university level, selling common chewing stick {pako}. But, this is true of a popular chewing stick seller in Akure ,Ondo State, Peter Ngwu, who has been in the business for over 30 years.



 


Ngwu, 63, said despite meagre returns, he has trained two of his children to university level.

The Ebonyi State- born father of five children said in an interview with Daily Sun that contrary to the view that whoever was dealing in his kind of business was a wretched man, he has been in the business for over three decades and made a success of it.

Baba pako as he is popularly called by his teeming customers said he had built his own house and trained his children to university level adding that : “I am still training the remaining three, I give glory to God”

On how he became a chewing stick seller, Ngwu said he was a successful business man dealing in kitchen utensils with a store at Arakale area. “I was doing fine in the business until I was robbed by an armed robbery syndicate at upper Uwenka in Onitsha many years back, Baba pako said, saying that the robbers carted away all his money meant to purchase goods to replenish his store at gun point in Onitsha. The development ruined him financially.

He was jobless for a long time, before a friend came to introduce the chewing stick business to him. “When he mentioned the business, I felt bad and I thought in my mind that how come somebody who was dealing in kitchen utensils in a big form would suddenly become a chewing stick seller. But, when there was no hope of getting money to continue the business, I didn’t have option than to accept the offer”

He said his friend gave him some money to start the business and after sometime the business gradually boomed. Ngwu said at a stage he used to make between N700 and N1000 profit per day.

Baba pako gets his bulk supplies from Calabar for both whole and retail sales in Akure.

He explained this : “It is very scarce to get the sticks here in Ondo State, but in Calabar, they plant them in large quantities, because they take it as a big time business, unlike in Ondo State.

Ngwu advised jobless youths to embark on cottage business that could keep them busy rather than engaging on unwholesome acts capable of ruining their lives.

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/oct/2/506.html

May he receive his reward in heaven

Whatever you do, always put God first and you would prosper.

Spot On.

Y'all bloody bastards called Yahoo yahoo should take note. This is an example of a honest man making a honest living.

Amen oo. Not even only in heaven gan sef,hopefully Earth as well.

What if you are an alaye?

awwwww so humbling.

seun please why did you lock the other topic?

Stemming from the same topic on another thread (now locked), I would like to comment on those who say the man achieved this feat due to the fact that he lives in Ondo. That is pure hogwash. According to the story, the raw material is sourced in Calabar and not Ondo. That explains why an Ondo man could not duplicate or replicate the same achievement, given that only Igbos (amongst the Nigerian groups) can live in another area and transact business from yet another area (in this case he is from Ebonyi, lives in Ondo and does business as far away as Calabar). Even Adenuga no feat do am

Again people need to educate themselves on the trend of academic pursuit in present-day Nigeria and the position of the Igbo on the ladder of such a trend.

So, I repeat again that in Nigeria, only an Igbo can do this, otherwise please supply a news report to counter my position.

That man in the pix isnt the man that built a house. But did he disclose the type of house he built. Is it a mud house or what cos in rural areas like ondo u get a plot of  land for 10k

Are there still mud houses in Akure?. What makes you think he will build a house in rural Ondo?

Of course he would make so much money, Nigerians don't like use brush to brush their teeth anymore.

Birds of a feather. 

For economical growth in this country i sincerely believe the igbo man would make the perfect president. Sadly that is not enough, politics is not their forte. Just to damned aggressive.  O.k let the missiles come

 

Ko ni ragba fun e. Olosi.