A former Nsawam, and Kumasi Prisons inmate, now a self-made “Millionaire”

“when I check what I have been getting in America in relation to what I do make in Ghana, one day I stood up and told my people, I have to come back home” this words of Mr, Laryea, an accomplished businessman who fortunately or unfortunately happens to be a former inmate of both Kumasi and Nsawam Prisons, heralds yet another edition of felixscorner.com periodic inspirational interviews from ‘great minds, making it in Ghana, absolutely out of nothing.

 

Mr. Atinka

 Mr, Daniel Laryea also known as “Atinka”, in a thirty minutes interview he granted Felixscorner.com at his Nugua Residence, Accra, shares the story of how he became a millionaire.

 Mr Laryea is the brain behind the success story of Bebeto Industries Limited, an industry headquartered in Kumasi, Ashanti Region with various distribution outlets spared across the nook and crannies of the country. 

Down memory lane, Mr Laryea, who is also affectionately referred to as ‘Atinka’ started by walking ‘felixscorner.com’ through some ordeals he went through as a foreigner on his sojourn faraway America. Paramount among such ordeals was his daily job haunt, but to no avail. An ordeal he opined even sent some colleague greener pasture seekers like him drink and smoke, all against their own will. Situations he attested got worsen by his inability to raise enough money to come back home. So through his daily struggle to raise money to return home, he ended up committing a crime that landed him in the custody of the Immigrations in American.

The process that landed him into the waiting arms of the immigration officers he revealed was a calculated one because he knew that was the only way he could get back home, since his finances at the time could not have helped him meet such a dream.

In response to a question, ‘Mr Atinka’, the owner of Bebeto Industries Limited, produces of beverages of different assortment, vehemently debunked the assertion that ‘grass is only greener abroad’. Years abroad could not help him raise the millions he enjoys now.

 In a sentimental manner, he admonished the youth against the insatiable crave to go abroad. “Ghana is better” he stressed. He buttressed his assertion with the example that, he in person has advised several colleagues against the notion of going abroad, but to no avail. Such colleagues he revealed after their return home on an unsuccessful sojourn abroad come to regret going against his advice, just because he as an individual have made it big right  here in Ghana.

 “Some of them broke into tears when I gave them the opportunity to come and have a look at my company in Kumasi”

For what might be termed as his darker part, he confessed to have ever been an inmate of Kumasi and Nsawam Prisons for various crimes committed, a situation which could have stifled his efforts, but for the help of God.

He admonished the youth especially those from very destitute homes to never give up on their life time dreams, but with persistence and determination, they should with humility and trustworthiness handle whatever that comes their way without fault, in so doing, he said, God in heaven would shower his blessings on their handy works.