Chairman, Board of Directors, G. U. Okeke Transport Services Company Limited, Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke has opened up on  how his Odyssey  into transportation business immediately after the civil war in 1970.

Chief Okeke who is also the Chairman, Board of Directors, ANAMMCO LTD said that  immidietly was made that the Nigerian Civil war has come to an end , he , with his  brother trekked a long  distance from   Adazi-Ani community to Nnewi, Anambra state just to confirm the News.

After it was  confirmed  that the war has ended, Chief Okeke took his parent’s Peugeot 404 saloon car to Onitsha to check if the family business were still intact.
Chief Okeke said as he was about to return to Adazi Ani, when many passengers going to Enugu were milling around his car.

“They were asking me if I was headed for  Enugu , as  they are not sure if any other vehicles would come around, so I conveyed eight passengers to Ogbete in Enugu at the cost of one pound each.”

“Interestingly, when I got to Enugu, immediately the ones I picked from Onitsha came down, the ones headed for  Onitsha rushed to my car and I took them charging them the same amount, ” he recalled.

“In view of what happened that day, I arrived at Onitsha from Adazi-Ani as early as 5.00am to resume conveying passengers from Onitsha to  Enugu”.

This ,according to him signaled his foray into transportation business.

He  later acquired a Volkswagen Combi bus to carry passengers from Onitsha to Lagos.

“I also introduced a two Mercedes 911 for haulage and interestingly that was how the journey started,” he concluded.