Street beggar saves money from begging to set-up a sachet water company and transport business
A lot of beggars on our streets take it as their profession. They beg and whatever they get, goes into buying their food with no sense of trying to make their lives better by either setting up a business or learning a trade. Well, just when the majority of beggars we have on our streets…
A lot of beggars on our streets take it as their profession. They beg and whatever they get, goes into buying their food with no sense of trying to make their lives better by either setting up a business or learning a trade.
Well, just when the majority of beggars we have on our streets aren’t sensible, there’s one from Lagos, Nigeria who has used his sense and he’s now a well-respected person in the community. His name is Alhaji Umar Dikko.
Alhaji Umar Dikko is not the regular day-to-day beggar you see in the streets of Lagos begging for alms from public-spirited Nigerians who take pity on their conditions and hand out stipend to them.
Alhaji Umar may be a beggar but he is a beggar with a difference as he is not only the Sarkin Maroka (King of Beggars) in the Ajegunle area of the state but has also carved a niche for himself as one of the richest beggars in Nigeria.
Though physically challenged, Alhaji Umar, is a wealthy man in every sense of the word, with four wives and 18 children to boast of, a thriving transportation business, a sachet water factory and five houses he built in his home State of Kano.
Reports have it that Alhaji Umar got his capital from his daily begging expenditures.
And instead of using all to buy food and come back to the streets to beg again, he invested his monies wisely and has now employed able-bodied men and women to work for him.
Below is his photo:
