Meet Moses, Man Who Trained Himself in School by Hawking in Suit, Says He Makes Over 24k a Day

A 24-year-old man, Moses Eteng, who sells agidi dressed as a banker has revealed that he used his profit to train himself in secondary school.

Eteng from Uyo in Akwa Ibom State, dorns a neat suit and well-fitted tie daily as he goes to work hawking corn flour jello, popularly called Agidi in Nigerian languages.

The Agidi carefully wrapped and placed on the tray on his head sells for N100 each and he has N20,000 worth on it.

A job considered as low-class in this part of the world has been given a new narrative by Eteng.

In an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday, Mr Eteng said he chose his dressing style to enable him stand out while he is hawking on the streets.

“When you’re doing business, you must study people to know what people like. What I’m doing, people like it but they cannot do it, and that’s what makes me stand out. I dress like this because this is my brand and I am trying to promote my brand.

“Anybody that looks at me will know that my products are exactly the way I look. Most times, people don’t want to buy but when they look at me, they will say, if you are neat like this, it means your product is neat.

“So my dressing encourages a lot of people to patronise me,” he said.

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A PREMIUM TIMES reporter, who spoke with Mr Eteng on the street where he was hawking, witnessed when a customer bought the agidi and said, “I’m buying from him because he is a hardworking guy and I love how he is dressing, not necessarily because I need it (the agidi)”.

Apart from attracting customers to him, Mr Eteng’s dressing has also earned his business the nickname “educated agidi” among the customers.

Mr Eteng, a self-sponsored secondary school graduate, began selling agidi for his aunty in 2008 till 2018. He started his own business of selling agidi in July 2018.

He is from Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State.

“I have done this business for 14 years (now). My 14 years of being in Akwa Ibom State makes me 14 years in this business. I started by serving someone. I served a woman for 10 years, from 2008 to 2018, when I left her.

“I decided not to stay with her again so she took me back to my village. I had to gather money and come back to Akwa Ibom. When I came back, I started the business by myself.

“Then, I was still in school and this is the business I used to train myself from my SS1 to SS3. That is how I started the business,” he added.

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