nedekid:

Na wah.
The life of an businessman and risk. As they say, no pain no gain.
Hope you recovered from your injury and have found your niche.

sure bro I'm into automobiles now and that's where I'm growing in

nedekid:

Abeg, I am waiting.

set out from oyinbo Lagos to SOKOTO via a Young shall grow CHINKO bus loaded to the brim with automobile engines and motorbikes among other heavy loads. We journeyed for 3 days because the excess load kept damaging the balloons of the very fragile Chinese bus. Finally got to SOKOTO on the 3rd day. My body was already slimy from stress and sweat. Took off straight to the market and found myself a shack to sleep in after managing to shower at a public bathroom. Fourth day I set out to market and bought about 10 bags via a so called middle man versed in the business. I never knew I dug my grave by playing into his hands. This guy bought me 8 bags of bad onions covered by good ones. Set out back to Lagos on 5th day and I boarded a separate bus to Lagos. It took about 2&½ days for my onions to arrive Lagos and by the time it could arrive mile12 it has started decaying with a clear evidence of the bags dripping with water. I handed it over to another middleman who helps people like me to sell and take commission. I told him I will be selling at so and so price after getting the market value from other sellers, then I left when we had an agreement. The next day or so, I had a terrible accident that got me bedridden, my phone got destroyed in the process and so I lost all contacts, therefore couldn't call the middleman in-charge of selling my onions. After about 2 weeks when I mustered every ounce of strength to move outside, I headed to mile12 straight. On getting there some of the northerners that recognised me were all over me staring moronically at my battered right hand. Lastly after exchanging pleasantries I went straight to the man in-charge of my onion bags to get my cash only to be shown where my onion bags were stacked already rotten. For some minutes I was confused and dazed at the same time. I opened my mouth to speak and no word was coming out, when I gathered the last strength in my body to speak and asked the man why he didn't sell my onions, he said that I didn't give him permission to bargain with buyers and that I just pegged the price and left, gosh I was flaggerbasted at the stupidity of this malaam who I didn't know whether he was being inhumane to me because of my tribe or he was simply being brainless. Long and short of it is that a business I went into with about 250K didn't yield up to 70K capital and profit in return. As I walked away from mile12, something in me knew that I wasn't coming back anytime soon. It was a very terrible experience for me and honestly the stress wasn't worth it.

nedekid:

Horrible. Just after nysc, I think 1996/97 or so. Someone told me of yam business and how lucrative. I interviewed him, got details. I went to mile 12, did my research. Saw it might be lucrative. I then gathered 150k then, took the guy along. We went early in the morning and entered transport with one of the yam traders to buy. Paid her transport to show us the way. Most, if not all were women. Na so journey start. From description it was meant to be few hours journey. Omo we traveled for over 9-12hrs to get there. Cannot remember the name of the place. But I remember passing a old colonial sign board with old Oyo empire written on it. We further entered a rickety vehicle that drove on a dirt dusty road for a long time. By the time we got to the place my hair, nostrils etc was red from the dust! I looked like someone from Mars!
Now the yam market was in a very large clearing, like a field. The farmers will bring the yam and place them in bundles of 10, 20, 50 or 100 ( cannot exactly remember). You will the go and price each bundle with other buyers. Truelly they were cheap. When you buy you have people you pay that will gather your bundles.
Time is of essence. You must buy fast and accumulate the quantity you need to load them early in a truck before morning. I bought enough to fill half a 911 mecedes truck the following day. Those women will buy and do groupage. Ie several buyers loading in same truck.
See, different people will come for fees oh. Tickets etc.
By 3 am in morning the truck moved. Do you know the women climbed the stacked up yam on the truck and told me ajebuter to climb too .? Me that bought half truck! I no gree. Bottomline I had to squeeze in the cabin after 1 woman dropped.
Now traveling back to Lagos was another matter. Nobody told me you will meet checkpoint where you have to pay. Aside police, you have farmer union, forestry, produce people, local government and all sorts on the road that late at night. Before the truck changes gear, another stop and pay. Their work is to collect both legal and illigal taxes.
We even met an accident where an truck that left before us rolled over. Several women died and some injured.
Finally we got to Lagos ie mile 12. A whole new ball game.
You as the importer of the yam cannot sell. You have people that own space that you will offload your yam too that will sell for you! You will pay them first for ground, then they sell and also make theirs. So my "seller" was selling mine and others. Omo, he will negotiate anyhow price with people and tell me to take the money! Me I will be arguing as a "jew" man while the women will shake their head and take the money saying sometimes you make loss. As howww!!
Me I did not know the dangers of not selling and they did not tell me.
I sat down in the sun all day waiting for gradual sales. Do you know those women sold anyhow, gathered their small money and disappeared. Apparently they had entered the boot of those trucks and headed back to that jungle after old Oyo empire!
That night I went home. Finally had a bath after 3 days.
As early as 5 am I was back at mile 12, see shocker, they had moved my yams aside as new trucks had arrived with fresh yams, for the first time I heard of what is called "old yam". My yam was now old yam and had shurnked, was darker in color than the freshly offloaded ones! A bundle they priced for eg 8k the day before and I refused was now being priced 4500! Infact few people were pricing them. New trucks with fresh ones kept comming!
To cut the story short, I had to get a vehicle to pack my remaining yams home. Out of my 150k I had only sold recovered like 50k!
Some women around the area stated buying them as if they were doing me charity work. I don't think I saw up to 65k of my money.
Anyway what I found out is that those women "importers" are stuck in the vicious circle. They have no option. as the travel to market, they don't get home for weeks, as from there they sell, gather what they can and enter returning trucks back and forth.
Do they make money, well, that is relative. Is the risk worth it? To me, no. There are easier ways of making money.
Theirs is what jay z calls a "hard knock life" .
Pardon my long story. You asked for it.
Nb: The type of yam was called Abuja yam back then.

well detailed. I'm coming with my onions business saga later

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Even the book of revelation didn't pamper the truth of what is to befall sinners, so you want me to tell you that if you sin you are still on track for heaven? Hell is awaiting such term it condemnation that is your cup of zobo . We are in the perilous time guys. If you want to be cold be cold if you want to be hot be hot.. It is better we work out our salvation with fear

it's an already saved person that understands the horror of hell and starts working out his salvation. An unsaved man has no inkling because the devil blows his breeze of stupor over him. Saving such a man has to be thru love alone. Children don't turn out good because you put fear in them.

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