| Parable of mustard seed
By EMMANUEL OGOIGBE, Warri
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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Pastor Abrefera
• PHOTO: Sun News Publishing
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At long last, reprieve came the way of jobless youths in
Delta State as Mustard Seed Micro Investment Limited rolled
out employment opportunities to more than 250 of them.
However, for Pastor Glory Abrefera, president of the Mustard
Seed Conglomerate, it is a tip of the iceberg as more job
opportunities would be created in no distant future, just
as the firm has mapped out strategies to spread its tentacles
across the country and beyond the shores of the federartion.
He told Daily Sun, during the first get-together luncheon
and award for the staff that hardwork will continue to be
rewarded even as he foresees the grace of God on the firm.
According to him, the company which is less than two years
old, has grown tremendously from Mustard Seed to Mustard Tree.
He attributed the fortunes to God and the hardwork and dedication
of workers.
Pastor Abrefera said that 2008 would further strengthen the
workers and usher in good tidings for them.
“We really appreaciate the resolve of the workers, who,
like a colossus, mounted the plough and never looked back
with the sole aim of forward ever, backward never.
The get-together is our own little way of saying thank you
to those elegant workers, who did not allow their intimidating
educational qualification to get into their heads and thus
remain docile,” said Abrefera.
He took time off to lecture the cream of eminent persons and
workers who graced the occasion on how cooperative society
started in Britain in the 18th century and Britons thought
that such should serve as a self-employment purpose.
“Every concept start from a particular point, but cooperative
society is now globalized to serve the international labour
sector. No doubt, the Mustard Seed vision was packaged in
line with that concept,” he remarked.
The president maintained that the company had a drive for
the people, hence it opted for real investment. He recounted
the fortunes the company made in less than two years after
it was inaugurated.
“If we muster our funds, it will grow like the mustard
seed and we hope to grow higher if we also decides to garner
whatever things we are doing,” stressed Pastor Abrefera.
He said that all hands must be on deck to wipe out tears of
the difficulties encountered in starting any business.
He said that if cooperative society could succeed in Britain,
with all strength and vigour, it could also be a national
scheme that would better the lot of Nigerians.
“In this wise, staff should study the scheme and see
what we intend to achieve. If we establish 20 viable schemes,
it will also encourages the people. The sky will be the limit,”
he stressed.
He, however, reminded the workers that what they were doing
was purely entrepreneurial scheme to assist the people, adding
that if the cooperative society could achieve what had been
garnered in its two years of existence, then it was a step
in the right direction.
“If we run the scheme with the strength and vigour with
which we started, the company could grow beyond the sub-region.
With the advancement in technology, we can achieve better
in years ahead,” he said.
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