 Socialist is not just by accident. You know how to plan it. So if you plan it and you believe in a criticism that some Dejuman can do for you to succeed, so can I be rich? I don't see any rich person in Ghana. No. Ghana here? No. As far as I know, there's not even one single soul in Ghana who is rich. No. Tell me one. What is your definition for rich person? A rich person is a person who has got wealth, a lot of wealth and also given it out. You have got the bank, the billionaire, dollar money, dollar terms, big money in the bank. Yes. And you also give impact to society. You can't just send a radio and say I'm rich. You can't go bankrupt. You can't inflate the prices until you are rich. No. So if you go bankrupt, it's not there. You're not there. Then you're not there. So that's official richness. It's not rich. It's cold rich. Welcome back to the YouTube channel and I hope you all have been enjoying the previous episode of a billionaire living in the forest. But I want to ask you a question. Answer me in the comment section. Would you ever live in a forest like this? Being so successful in life, would you ever go back to your roots? I believe that going back to our roots is very, very important. And this is why I am saying that the founder of Kasepreco is a living legend. Most of you are telling me that why I never mentioned Alom Obites. I'm so sorry. The legendary behind Alom Obites is living in a forest. The man behind Signature is living in the forest. The man behind Awake Mineral Water is living in the forest. The man behind Roya Crown, I mean a factory that produces kitchens in Ghana is living in the forest and is living in the forest just to make impact in the society. My coming here is to give back society, especially my roots where I was born. I hope each and every one of you, including myself, will learn something new from this man. I don't think this is content. This is a masterclass on its own. So stay tuned. There are more episodes coming up. But all I'm planning with you is to like this video. Share it so that other people can have a piece of this man. Because this world is a big stage, everybody will live at a point in time with the parts. So once the stage, you choose your character. Like a film. You choose your character. Just like going to the stadium. The stadium, you have the VIP. You have the poplar stand. You know the VIP is a bit pricey. Poplar stand is the common. So we can choose to go to the VIP or go to the poplar stand. But for me, I wanted to choose the VIP. And if there is any TV station out there who would love to work with us so that we will premiere this masterclass on the TV stations, I'll be so grateful. But I hope it's not going to be for free. Thank you. We are now entering the backyard garden. You have your own backyard garden? My own backyard garden. I just started. Okay. Because I told you, I just came in here about almost two weeks ago. But I had a land there already. About a land. Okay. And the orientation that I'll grow, what I eat here. So we call it Eden Garden. Eden Garden is where you plant everything that you consume. You know. So that's what I would say is the chicken droppings. You know, about a thousand pieces. You're going to use it to fertilize the land, you know, organically. I don't want to use chemical fertilizer. So that's what it is. You leave it there for about two to three weeks to decompose. And then you go and tilt it, the land, you know. But why are you growing your own food then? I always remember our former president, our champo, our champo. Preserve it yourself. And then I think the president came in to talking about self-lands. You know, instead of going to import onion from Okinawa, so and probably banana, plantain from Africa, you know. You cannot be in this tech forest. Let me just look at it. Tech forest, grain. You know. And buying things like that. No. So if I'm here and I don't grow things here, then I believe I'm changing myself. You know, because if you grow it will come. Exactly. So in their next after six months, they will say that I will buy probably salt. Because right now, where we are going, I'm going to structure two real sheep, fowls and pigs. Apart from the garden of that, I'll be planting. What about fish? You don't like fishes? I have fish. You have fish? I think I have four fish ponds now. Really? Yeah, you have mad fish, catfish, and I have tarapia. It's like you do everything here. That's why I'm here. I love living here. But I know you're born here and after spending your whole life in Accra, you decided to come back here. Why would you do that? Because this is the time to enjoy your life. But you know, for me, I believe in giving back to your roots. Wow. Giving back to your roots has been my dream, right? Because, you see, if you don't give back, these villages, they are sort of cut off, cut off completely. Here, there was no light, there was no road, there was no water, there was no hospital, you know, no police station. So like they were living visually, like, like animals, visually. Because if you are sick, you die. My coming here is to give back society, especially my roots, where I was born. My surgeon to America also taught me that, because I used to go to some villages in America, small villages, but they have everything. Small school, small restaurants, small mall, right? So the same thing, I cannot do it like in America, but helping them to also enjoy life a bit. Because I believe in what I call empowerment, yeah, yeah, human empowerment. So if you are rich, if God has blessed you, why don't you also impact on somebody's life? Why? Why do you have to take everything and invest in, they say, treasure birds, say in a car, you know, and enjoy all the goodies, right? Yeah, when I was in America, in fact, actually I was in an oceanfront apartment, you know, I could easily be a boat owner, go and be riding on the sea, enjoy catch fish and throw them inside. I go to the golf and be drinking beer, but I left it. When I was coming, my friend told me, I said, go to Ghana, Africa. Yeah, are you crazy? But I left all these things. I want to come to Ghana, not even in Accra, but not in Cape Coast, but my village where I was born, so that at least after I finish my assignment on this earth, right? At least I will leave a legacy here. So the whole world, you know, if you want to, actually, it's not money, but legacy. That's very, very important. That's why they say that the number of years you live on this earth doesn't matter. So my plan is to leave a legacy. I don't want to leave it in Accra because Accra, all the goodies, but the deprived people, you know, the Bible said, if you are not sick, you don't need a doctor. So these guys, these people here, they don't have anything, but probably through my association with them. What have you done in the village so far since you came? Since beginning, I mean, I started doing this when I was about almost 20, 26 years ago, 26 years. Yes, then I started helping them. You know, when I was working at Vaku, I came here and I saw that one of their structure, school structure was collapsing. So I bought two packet of iron sheets from a salary, not as a business man, you know, as a salary worker, you know, I had not even worked more than six months. You know, I bought two, the man who bought it is still alive. I can call him for you tomorrow. You know, it's okay. I've seen that this business collapsed because they were selling it with sheep and goats at that time. The school, the school, yeah, only one school, one small school, with a manager. I said, okay, so why can't I buy two packet of iron sheets to roof it for them? Because it was leaking all over, you know. So as a worker, I said, I don't know what came over me that as a salary worker, I was part of my salary to buy that two packet of iron sheets for them. You know, so that sort of business has been with me for a very long time. At that time, there was no road here, no cars coming here. When I was here, living here, cars are coming here. I'm telling you, you can't ask those in the grown-ups. If you hear that car has come, if you have a partner in Fufu, you all leave the Fufu and go and see a car. That's how the village was when I was growing up, you know. So doesn't mean you did the road for them? This road, I did it, but the bridges, the olden days, I tell you, I saw the government and they did the road, the bridges, because at that time, we had two roads on the river. So we can't even pass on. At the point the government came to do the road, right, and from that time, I've been taken over. Not the big one, but from the small one, just into this place. Yes, I remember some four years ago, I had to hire two Buddhists, yes, and then cleared it. When you were coming in, nobody would pass here. I used this road. This road, right? So you see that it's newly graded? Yeah. How did it happen to me? How did it happen to me? Yes, not that I command you, I did it. And so this is a farm. How do you feel anytime you come to your farm? It's a dream come true. It's a dream come true because it is what we wish if you wish to eat a burnt quail, get a burnt quail. You know, your space is elevated, elevated. So the same thing, if I came here, I'm very happy because I only came here to eat and sleep. I came here to farm and also to tell Ghanians who have got a bit of money. I believe they are also investing in agriculture. It's better. You see, I went to Germany some years back and I went to a restaurant and they told me that very soon, the rich people were becoming, this village, where come the rich people? They see the farmers. I saw about seven o'clock, they were coming with their heart, with their cigar. And they were enjoying drinking wine, you know, and conversing, you know. But I don't know why Ghanian rich people, rather, most of them refused to go into farming. For me, I wish, let's say, two, six months, you go in, you get your cabbage here, you get your watermelon, you get your cantaloupe. I say, oh, my nephews, get this since, you know, small cassava, small yam, you know, that's life. Because for me, I'm retired, you know, as a retiree, as a golden age, you have to, you know, engage in your passion. Yeah. No more for money, right? At this age, I'm no more looking for money, you know, it's passion. What is the theme of life, you know? So in my, in my, at this and there, I've got drafts. I will play with my, with my colleagues, friends, you know, sometimes you come to the farm, Devin, you go, or we can pray our draft to make, you know, so I'm ready to get together, put it together, you know? So for me, it's a fulfillment that I can buy, I can buy the maize, I can buy the, I can buy the tomatoes, I can buy the pepper, right? But you have to see, so you're going to make, you just say here, I said here, you know, I said here, when I come, sit on that edge. And then you'll be watching your process. So you believe that one can become a rich man by just farming? So that question, that question that you're asking me, right? If you go to Brazil, go to Brazil, that sugar, alcohol that we consume, they are from the farmers, you know? Yeah, yes, yes, very, very, yes. But the use of African things that it's not possible, including myself? Why not possible? Because we're trained that we should just go to school. You know, you see, that is the, the, the annoying thing about our education, you know, go to school, get a degree, study hard, get a degree and get a job. That's how we are trained, right? But it's a wrong thing, it's a wrong perception, you know? School can give you education, knowledge. It doesn't give you wisdom, right? Yeah, wisdom is at home, you see, it's inborn. So education without wisdom, right? It's like soup without salt. So, yeah, the real education is not the best. You see, if you don't ask wisdom, education can swell you up and vomit you wrong. It's a sprinkler, right? Yeah. So there's a tank. So I'm going to do all year round farming. See, the most, the third part of our farmers is that we don't engage in irrigation, you know? So if you lie on the weather, you know, the water too cannot be predicted. What is unpredictable? Because of the climate change, right? So if you are doing farming, especially those who have land along the big rivers, vortices and cobras, I don't know if you can see who has just poured our bodies, you know? The best is to do irrigation. That time, with that, you have control over your crops. So there's no linsees in, and there's no... Dry season. Dry season, right? So look at our farmers. They do tomatoes, they are the tomatoes farming. There's a cross. Yeah. And then they have nothing to do. They would just add other, sell it cheap or waste it. And when there is scarcity, you don't have... Because it didn't rain. So there's no tomatoes or there's no pepper because it didn't rain. Okay. So if you are able to do, even a small portion, and bring in, I think, an agriculture officer here, last three days, you know? To get in these agriculture officers to help you, you know, to maximize your yield, right? It's better to down the line on the, the water. The water cannot produce it. Especially once you are cutting the trees, right? Yeah. The rain pattern changes, yeah. So I'm trying to... But you started your farm right after retirement, or you had farms when you had your factories too? I have a farm at who? Kartik. Kartik. Okay. We plant cassava. It's a large farm. But you grow cassava? Yes, only cassava. It's used for eternal? For eternal, yes. For eternal. For now. We are supplying the agribus with the agal beer. Oh. We are supplying them the cassava flower. You know, cassava has got about 32 uses. Cassava. You can use it for agal mar. I do it for the way food, right? Yeah. You can use it for eternal. You can use it for glue. You use it for beer. You use it for chips. You know, because not chips. Nigeria, I think, every bread has about 15% of cassava in Nigeria, you know? So where I'm from, we only use cassava, fufufu. That's how I have a big stomach, eh? You know, the first time I found out that cassava is used for eternal, I'm like, no way. We are doing it now. Not that we do it. We are doing it now. But, you know, it's only a small position from the farm for our operation. So it's just a small farm, right? Yeah. So if you want to make it large, big, then we can get all our raw materials from the farm. You see, so if you are able to slow down a bit of the importation, right? That's where our economy can be, economy. But, you know, import-oriented economy can never survive, you know? If you are importing everything, including a toothpick, what tells you that economy will be sustainable? No, it can't. To encourage garners, you know, to do industrialization. One district, I say, eh? One district, one factory. One factory. It doesn't happen. What doesn't happen? Tell me, actually. I don't even know myself. Yes. But I think it was too politicized. Exactly. Yeah, I think so. Probably the best thing they think well. Because it was something that I've always been talking about, that we need industrial revolution. That's it. And when his excellencies started preaching about that, I was so excited. But I started doing my own research. They didn't take advantage of it. Yeah. Yeah. They thought government could do factories for them. Yeah. You know? Yeah. By government factories, are not sustainable. Yeah. You know? We had blastar line collapse, right? We have, even our flight, Ghana Airways collapse. So many factories. Encrumah built a lot for that. A lot, yes. Do you believe in ideologies of Encrumah? For me, I don't believe in socialist ideology at all. I believe in capitalism. All right? Yeah. Survival. I don't believe that let's cook everybody eat. What about the lazy people? When I came here last, when I came here the other time, here on this farm, the farmers have groups, right? And they return the land like this. You know, go in like this. All of them, they just land up like this. Like this. So they all work at the same pace, right? So the hard workers are being, you know, motivated by the lazy ones. Because we are all doing the same thing. Same thing. Aha. So I said, no. Now we are going to share everybody and your portion. When we finish, you can't go home. I'm telling you, by 12 o'clock, they're gone. You see, that is socialism, you know, and capitalism. You know, because if you do socialism, that talk about the brain, right? It's a poverty is a model of inversion, right? We are not poor. We are not poor. We all know it. That if you are doing something together, or that checks, I don't give up my best. Because if my best will not be recognized, you know. So you all sit down. You all sit on the bench. So for me, I don't believe in socialism. That's why East Germany and West isn't Germany. I don't know whether you knew that there were two Germans, right? Yeah. Yeah. The East and Germany's were jumping the wall to the West and Germany's. Why? East was socialist and inclined. And the West was capitalism. Yeah. Yeah. You know. So the East was very poor. But the West was rich. That's why, personally, I don't believe in socialism. But I believe in hard work. But socialism doesn't motivate people to work. Look at the view. Can you see the view? Look at the view. I said I should go and say in Akra. You lose the view. Okada, Akra, Okada, Bahia, Okada and no, no, no. And the traffic. No. No. So this one is not by accident. I think almost about 30 years ago, I decided to come here. So I started doing a palm plantation here. So that when I retire, I'll come and see my palm plantation. But very unfortunately, because if you are not close to your business, it doesn't succeed. So I abandoned it. So that's a struggle. But because I knew that I'll come one day, one day. You know, that's why I have some land here. Some land. I have a bit of land that I can farm, you know, all year round. So for me, because Kanda or Africa or the Black Rays, we want cheap tents. That is why with all due respect, there are so many paman churches in the system to enrich themselves and their tents with the poor. Because they know that I'm going there, I'll get money. I'll go to that place, I'll get money. And they are taking money from you. And they are very rich. That's a very vibrant business in Kanda now. You know, if you are smart and you are charismatic, just get some drums and you are good to go. You know, and Ganesh, I go in there, thinking you'll create some work for them. You know, so for me, I will not come to you to say pray for me. I'll tell you, go and bring incense. I'll add food and water, so I'll add something, water and I'll sell it to you. No, that's why you are poor. I'll probably see that you ask me whether you can wake up. That's the result of it. You want free goodies. Free goodies, you know, why they work a lot. The Chinese man, you go and you go. He works a lot. The Germans, they are like machines. You know, when they come to my factory, when you go to America, you employ the cleaners. You know, they are mostly from Mexico, the Latinos. They are like machines. They clean, they go away. You know, why you clean, you go and get a look at a person. So that's our problem. It's actually hard work. Simple, you know, yeah. You know, one, knowledge, wisdom, hard work. That's it. These three things, you know. The key to success. Yeah, success. That's it. If you do so, even win lotteries. Millions of lotteries. Two years time, some of them, they go back to the streets. If they are the street guys, you know. So success is not just by accident. You know, how to plan it. So if you're on planet and you believe in criticism that some Dejuman can do for you to succeed. So can I be rich? I don't see any rich person in Ghana. Nope. Ghana here? No. As far as I know, there's not even one single soul, Ghana, who is rich? No. Tell me one. What is your definition for riches then? Rich person is a person who have got wealth, right? Wealth, a lot of wealth, you know, and also giving it out. Yes, you know. You have got the bank, you could say billionaire, dollar money, dollar terms, big money in a bank, right? Yes. And you also give impact to society, you know. You can't just send the radio and make them say I'm rich. You can't go back on track. You go and inflate the prices. And say you are rich. No. So if a government is not there. You are not there. Then you are not there. So that's official richness. Is that rich? It's cooked rich. Richness is what we have sweat in ourselves, you know, to generate, to survive all the storm, you know, because you don't allow the government. I have never allowed the government. No. It's by myself. So we go to Ghana's definition. Whether it's NDC, whether it's MPP, we are moving on because I will not go and get the government to buy my water before I become rich. Well, why isn't that you hardly out there because I have never seen you anywhere? That's a tough one anyway. You see, for me, I don't believe being out there would add any value to what I'm doing. You see, you know, what I'm talking about, you see, Egil, when the Egil want to hunt, you know, it's steady, it's prey, you know, and go direct straight and pick it. You know that, the sea. Even they can't even catch snakes, you know, take it and pick it and go. So our focus, not being from buoyant, you know, so mine is focus, focus, focus. You know, if God gave us two years, how many maps? One. One? Why? Any reason? To listen more. More and talk less. You know, I also did not know you. I know the brand Casapereco, right? And I'm a big fan of African-owned businesses and I was tracing, like, African-owned beverages in Ghana and Casapereco came. So I was doing research and I'm like, who is the person behind Casapereco? And that's how I got to know. The mystic man. I got to know you. I had to reach out to Richard. And Richard was like, you know what? It's my dad, but my dad doesn't like talking. But how are we going to do it? And I'm like, Richard, you know what? You're not a story. Even if it's going to take me one year for me to get your dad, I'm going to wait. Didn't know it's been a year. Really? Trying to get you. Okay. So I think Richard has done a great job. That is quite persistence. Yeah. We are good. Yeah. You can just succeed. So it's good that... I never gave up, yeah. I never gave up, yeah. Champong said one thing that I believe also motivates me. He said it always good to be a first-class Ghanian and a second-class European. What makes you a first-class Ghanian? Because I'm a Ghanian. But by birth, I'm proud to be a Ghanian. You know, so if I even go and take a second citizenship in America, see, I'm just going to buy the citizenship. All right. So they called me Africa American. Oh my God, African American. I'm not American. Yeah. So by definition, I'm Africa and American. You know, but here, I'm a Ghanian. An entire village. I know you're going to love it. See you tomorrow. Thank you.