Otti acknowledged this on Thursday throughout an annual public lecture sequence to commemorate the seventieth birthday ceremony of the chairman of Chisco Group of Companies, house owners of Chisco Transport Limited, Chief Chidi Anyaegbu.
The lecture sequence was organized by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State, in honour of the transport mogul to have a good time his birthday and likewise the institution of Department of Transportation within the college.
The occasion which was held on the college additionally featured a groundbreaking ceremony of the Chidi Anyaegbu Resource Center and the revealing of a guide in honour of Anyaegbu, with the title: Platinum footprints of enterprise: The life, management and legacies of Chief Chidi Anyaegbu.
“Sole proprietorship won’t give us the sting to contribute or lead in business. There is want for us to rethink the mannequin. Individual business ventures is turning into too restrictive. We ought to start to discover shared possession, however let’s discover methods to draw monetary backings. Competition shouldn’t be one thing to dread, it brings us out of our consolation zone. We must take a look at methods of increasing our companies with what’s internationally acceptable as that’s the solely method to maintain our companies.
“We can’t proceed to stay to the Okonkwo and Sons or Okafor and Bros Limited, or what we name the ikeotuonye philosophy (the ability of 1 man).”
Speaking of different methods Igbo businessmen can develop their companies and the teachings to study from how Anyaegbu grew, Otti stated folks must attempt to be reliable, devoted and laborious working, insisting that such time examined virtues can’t be changed with expertise or synthetic intelligence.
“Okiyi has proven that belief is a big capital in business. Diligence, trustworthiness cannot be substituted for expertise. I would be the final individual to make an argument in opposition to expertise, however belief, diligence are currencies that can not be wished away. Young ones who aspire to be the Chiscos of tomorrow must brace up as a result of the competitors is even stiffer in the present day. The quickest method to be a very good entrepreneur is to construct belief, it’s simpler for folks to refer you when you’re reliable.”
Earlier, the chairman of the event, former governor of Imo State, Chief Achike Udenwa in his opening deal with stated the event was one to have a good time laborious work, success and philanthropy.
“We are additionally right here to have a good time the substances that gave rise to success. We are celebrating self-discipline, willpower, laborious work, trustworthiness. If our benefactor in the present day did not have this attributes, we’d not have been right here to have a good time him. So we’re right here to have a good time the issues that made him succeed.
“Many folks have tried and did not succeed and a few who even had these attributes didn’t succeed as a result of they want God think about their lives. We may also need to acknowledge those that helped his future for him to come back as much as the place he’s in the present day.
“We additionally have to look and examine the philanthropy type of Anyaegbu. After he succeeded, he determined to assist others. He did not simply confine his philanthropy in Amichi (his village) however determined to take it far and vast. So I cost all, wherever you might be, as soon as God blesses you, please prioritize serving to others to succeed too.”
Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Prof Kate Omenugha stated the Department of Transportation will assist examine transport from an instructional perspective, not simply study from a person who constructed transport, logistics, oil and fuel companies and others from N150 settlement cash given to him by his grasp in 1976.
“This division will assist our college students to study that transportation isn’t just about revenue however about service to humanity, which is what Chief Chidi Anyaegbu, the godfather of transportation business in Nigeria stands for,” she acknowledged.
