Into wealth’

a bag of injection or blowing materials was being sold for between N100 and N140 per kilogramme to plastic producing companies mainly in Lagos, Onitsha and Kano.

He said the number of his clientele had increased overtime.

“Plastic companies book ahead and sometimes we won’t be able to meet their demands”, he said.

He merely laughed off our reporter’s inquiry of whether he would accept a government job if he is offered one. ``How much does a graduate get paid at the end month? As you can see I am already an employer of labour and by the time you visit here next time, with our expansion plan, many graduates would be in our employment,” he boasted.

But his expansion plan is being constrained by epileptic power supply and funding. As he prepares to demonstrate the crushing process to this reporter, the electricity supply went off.

“That is one of the constraints we face every day in addition to inadequate funding because my long term plan is to establish my own plastic producing company here in Minna,” he noted.

He called on the government to come to his aide through the Bank of Industry (BoI) and other institutions to enable him realize his dreams.

But as he awaits such interventions, his modest effort remains an inspiration to the teeming unemployed graduates.