Sabageria Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa
State.
young entrepreneur entered into the business due to how tough life has
been for her and her family.
Peace had struggled to finish secondary school selling recharge cards and hawking oranges.
She told BodmasNews that she still lives with her parents and her
younger ones and since she went into entrepreneurship, life has been
more easy for them.
When asked what pushed her into all of this, she explained that while in
secondary school, there were challenges of finance to register for WAEC
and other fees, she then went to some big politicians she knew as
community leaders then, but they demanded sex before they could help
her.
Seeing that she could not stoop herself so low, she began hawking
oranges and selling recharge cards which she did for about five years,
supporting her family with it.
The income was not still enough as she also wanted to further her
eduction to the university, Peace then met one of her customers who buys
cards from her, a keke driver, and pleaded with him to teach her.
At first he was reluctant but he later did.
After she had learnt, she then made moves to get a “KEKE” where she
could submit returns after use, which she did and since then, has been
driving it.
conditions, her younger ones were now comfortable, they could pay their
rent without difficulty and she was also saving for her education.
keke, her reply was that she needed funds to get her own Keke. Apart
from that, she had no other challenges.