When my boss, His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello spoke about the many millionaires the state has produced in the last few years, he was sneered at by naysayers and army of pessimists whose only preoccupation is to gyrate on the dance floor of sadism but the man was not grandstanding, he was speaking from the podium of facts and undiluted truth. Available testimonies to his assertion are now coming out unsolicited or not prodded to speak in credence to what the Governor has said. One of such is Mr and Mrs Oladipo Benjamin, owners of Emmanuel Bakeries Ltd in Lokoja who came to share with me the story of their business fortunes in Kogi state.
The couples who started with just a shop and 10 workers in the Pre-Bello era now sit atop the largest warehouse in Kogi state and by extension North Central Nigeria and working with over 15 major manufacturing companies with hundreds of product lines. Today having a verified number of about 163 workers under its payroll with about 20%…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
