“How I Became A Millionaire With Wheel Barrow Business” – Nigerian Man
A Nigerian man identified as Chukwuma Ezeh recently took to popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter to recount his inspiring story of how he became a millionaire through a wheel barrow business.
In 2015 I was living in Delta as a houseboy in the Igbo apprenticeship system. One of my duties every weekend was to buy and have processed two old layer hens at abraka market asaba.
There was a man, Boniface, who sold polythene there. He had a small kiosk & I’d often buy the bags to package my already cut up chicken from his store.
I had no idea the man has been admiring me.
One day he opened up. He told me he just liked me and that he wanted to be friends. I was wary at first but I thought, what could possibly go wrong? So I gave him my number and we became friends.
Every saturday I’d sit at his shop as my hens were cut & we’d talk. He looked poor & ordinary, but mentally he was a genius.
A treasure trove of MONEY MAKING IDEAS!!! He was way older than me but we developed deep respect for each other.
During our discussions we talked about converting the many opportunities that abound in this country, but the nearest to attainable one was starting a small scale barrow rental business around onitsha markets.
We wanted to help people out and of course also make money to better our lives. Being the trader amongst us, I did my research. Ran the numbers, sought & got permission from my then master and thus we went into the business of making & renting out barrows.
I registered and became the youngest member of the Anambra state barrow owners & pushers association – yes thats an actual union that regulates the barrow business and it cost quite some money to sign up into.
We started small with 6 barrows. I owned 5. Boniface owned one. We charged our employees; The barrowmen 200 naira (51 cents) per day for renting the barrows.
It seems small but it’s tiny, consistent drops of money like these, if properly channeled that creates oceans of wealth! We would later grow and expand, own more barrows and employ more barrowmen.
