Very Inspiring story. Mudashiru Obasa, a politician representing Agege
Constituency 1, who started his life as a street hawker who sold Nylon
bags and wrist watches and later became a bus conductor and Laborer, all
to eke a living while growing up in Lagos, today became the new speaker
of the Lagos state House of Assembly. He is pictured above taking his
oath of office. Congrats to him. Read about his early beginning below...
"I grew up in the Papa Ashafa area of Agege and there is hardly anything
I have not done to make money, except armed robbery. Maybe I was too
young to be an armed robber, but talking about hustling, there is hardly
any type I have not gone into. I did all this on my own volition and
not because my father could not afford to pay my school fees, but the
friends I grew up with were always in one engagement or another. We
would go to Agege Motor Road to sell nylon bags.
Then, 12 nylon bags is half the price when we buy and you would make
times two of the amount you invested. Within few hours, you would have
sold an encouraging amount. I was once a bus conductor, I was a
labourer…just mention it. For me, I don’t believe in staying idle and
that is why when people approach me asking for assistance to help them
pay their children’s school fees, their accommodation and others, I ask
them who is going to pay the next one. So why don’t you find something
to do? For me, I don’t believe in staying idle and that is why when
people approach me asking for assistance to help them pay their
children’s school fees, their accommodation and others, I ask them who
is going to pay the next one.
So why don’t you find something to do? That’s also why I don’t strongly
believe in unemployment. If your father is not Dangote or Otedola and
co, then you must look for something to do. It is only one with such as a
father that can dictate where he wants to work. You have to be engaged,
you have to do something to cross to another level,” he told PM news.
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