Oluwole Ayorinde, a Yoruba man who grew up in Mushin, embraced Car Spare Parts Business

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Dr. Tope Oloniniyi

Oluwole Ayorinde, a Yoruba man grew up in Mushin, a sprawling commercial community in metropolitan Lagos. As a young man, he dropped out of school at some point because his mother could no longer afford the required school fees needed to further his education. He has an Ibo friend in the community who started learning Car Rim business about the same time.

His Ibo friend dragged him to come and learn the trade. He was very reluctant because there is no single Yoruba boy in that line of trade in Ladipo at the time. He reluctantly joined and later embraced the business. Mushin is the home of vehicle spare parts and accessories in Lagos. I have served as an RCCG Pastor in the heart of Mushin before and I understand the terrain quite well.

He successfully learned the ropes of the business in the last 10 years. He is fully integrated into the Ibo community in the market. He said they all showed him much love and affection over the years that he couldn’t believe it.

Oluwole speaks Ibo fluently and can even make proverbs in Igbo. He gave his children Ibo names along with their Yoruba names. He has followed his Ibo friends to the East on several occasions for marriage or burial ceremonies. He experienced the same love in the East whenever he travelled with his friends. In one of his recent trips, the father of his friend gave him a piece of land as a gift.

I am happy for Oluwole. He did not end up as a Lagos thug. Many of the today’s thugs are people that have challenges similar to his own when they were young. I think the Ibo tradition of Apprenticeship is worth studying and modernizing for adoption on bigger scale as a tool for reducing unemployment in Nigeria.

Ethnic profiling and hatred is evil and ungodly. God loves everyone. The worst level of spiritual bankruptcy is instigating tribal hatred against others. This trend always rears its ugly heads up in elections time because evil politicians are behind it. They stir up the sentiments to enable them get block votes from certain groups. Unfortunately, the people being oppressed by the politicians are the same people being used, as ‘mumu’ to go and fight other tribes.

May God bless Nigeria and all those that love Nigeria. May God strengthen all godly politicians. May all wicked politicians using tribal sentiments to divide us be forced into retirement. Amen

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love” 1 John 4:7,8.

Dr. Tope Oloniniyi is a financial expert and Pastor in Lagos

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