There is dignity in Labour, not everyone will sit in an office with tie to earn an income. If you have no skill, labour work remains one of your few options to earn a legitimate income.
It is only Nigerians that wants to eat rice, has no job, but sees rice growing as beneath them. We need to change our orientation, attitude to work and ethics

Mental Laziness!!!!


At Suleja, some wheelbarrow pushers become shop owners
By Balarabe Alkassim | Publish Date: Jul 23 2014

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/city-news/29813-at-suleja-some-wheelbarrow-pushers-become-shop-owners

Ahmed (not real name) came to Suleja from a village in Katsina State to eke out a living pushing a wheelbarrow. He traverses the areas around the market looking for customers, for whom he will carry goods to chosen destinations and collect his pay, depending on the volume of the goods, weight or distance covered.
He is one of the many young men, some in their teens, who left their various villages for the cities to work as barrow pushers.
Some, however, according to Sani, who came from a village in Katsina double as loaders as well as wheelbarrow pushers. He said they station themselves at major rice dealers shop to load and offload bags of the commodity from the trucks to warehouses and vice versa.



“We load the rice for a customer, who parks his vehicle close to the shop for N10 per bag. But we use our wheelbarrow to carry them elsewhere if the customer’s vehicle is parked at a distant place and collect N15 or N20 depending on the distance,’’ he said.
Sani added that there are many young men from his village, who are engaged in the wheelbarrow pushing business also in Abuja villages like Mararaba, Karmo, Gwagwa and other places.
He said many people in his village rely on the wheelbarrows for their survival as they make enough to help their parents back home. He said most families in his village have at least a child or two engaged in the business of wheelbarrow pushing.
Another person, Musa, seen offloading some bags of rice from his wheelbarrow, said he has been pushing wheelbarrow for over ten years. He said that he has built a house, married two wives and his younger brother is equally engaged in the same trade.
Being a Fulani man and the eldest in his household, he left home with his siblings to look after their parents’ cattle in the village. He said that some of his age mates from his village were also pushing the wheelbarrow, adding that, they send some money back home to support their family, siblings and buy some animals like sheep, goats and even cattle to keep, which they sell to do other things when they needed money.
When asked about whether he owns the wheelbarrow he was seen working with, he said that he bought it about a year ago and he has been working with it since then. He, however, said he hires it out whenever he wanted to travel home and the person working with it sends money to him on weekly basis.
Some wheelbarrow pushers seen offloading a truck of rice, which they put in the wheelbarrows and took to the owners shop, said the owner will pay them about N9,000 for the offloading at a rate of N15 per bag because they will use the wheelbarrow to take it to his shop in the market.
The shop owner confirms that the wheelbarrow pushers were the people, who offload all his goods, not only rice but anything that he brings from Lagos and elsewhere. He said some of them have been working in his shop for over ten years and he even attended their weddings in their villages.
He said there is no shop selling rice in the market that does not have at least five wheelbarrow pushers working in the shop. He said that they have developed and maintained a strong bond with them to the extent that they send some of them to some places to buy goods for them or collect money from their customers.
“They don’t only push the wheelbarrows but they help our customers to load their goods and get paid. They also introduce new customers to us. That is why we cannot do without them. They are of great help to us,” he said.
Three wheelbarrow pushers that our reporter came across pushing loads of 25-litre jerry cans of imported cooking oil, said they were taking them to a customer, who just bought them and will be taking them to Bwari.
Abdulrahman, a wheelbarrow pusher, who owns a fleet of about 15 wheelbarrows, informs our reporter that when he came to Suleja about 20 years ago, he worked with a wheelbarrow which belonged to a lady.
He said he paid the lady only N30 per week then and that when his brother came along, he also collected a wheelbarrow belonging to another lady, which he equally paid for on weekly basis.
He said they pool their resources together and bought their first wheelbarrow, a fairly used one which his brother started using and returned the other one which belonged to the lady.
According to him, within a space of about eight months, they bought their second wheelbarrow and he returned the other one he was using to the owner.
“Since then, we have steadily raised our income, if we buy two or three new wheelbarrows, we will sell two or three old ones and now we have 15 of them. We gave out 13 and work with two,” he said.
However, most of the wheelbarrow pushers, who spoke to Aso Chronicle, said they have no other choice but to engage in this business because they have nothing else to do. They said, however, that despite the tedious nature of their job, it provides them with enough to sustain their family and other dependants.
Some of them informed our reporter that many people, who came from their areas and presently own shops in the market, were wheelbarrow pushers before. One of them who did not want his name disclosed told our reporter the names of about five traders in the market who, hitherto, were wheelbarrow pushers.
“Most of our people don’t want to leave wheelbarrow pushing, but many of the people you are seeing have gotten enough to raise capital to start some small businesses which will sustain them. The problem with some of our people is that they prefer to keep animals in the village than engage in another business,” he said.
Some of the wheelbarrow pushers attend almost all the weekly markets to ply their trades. They attend markets in Madallah, Sabon Wuse, Lambata, Gosa, Gwagwalada and other markets. They load the wheelbarrows in trucks to the markets and return back when the market is over.
However, some of them, especially those that are attached to shop owners, remain in the towns unless if there is a need for them to go out or when sent by the shop owners to deliver goods which they do often.
Despite their seemingly unimportant trade, the wheelbarrow pushers provide service in the economy. They use their strength to push the wheelbarrow for survival and channel back their earnings albeit unknowingly into the nation’s economy.

Op, abeg, look for another story to cover this shame. this one will not fly today

Krossbow123:
Op, abeg, look for another story to cover this shame. this one will not fly today

I am not sure if you read the story. Some people became shop owners and built their own house from pushing wheel barrow.
My people say, poop money no dey smell. Na who thief, na him be bad pickin.
Moral of it all, there is dignity in Labour.

@op, may you get healed from mental slavery!

greatgod2012:
@op, may you get healed from mental slavery!

Hope you say the same prayers for yourself, cause you need it.

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