The day you meet your destiny

Born as a Virgo into a very humble family I decided at age 12 not to die simple-minded like my parents. I started to write books to create my own world and to understand the world around me. Teaching and writing are Virgo's strengths.

It was never on my mind to become rich and famous. Why hassle for money when we all die naked one day? To influence future generations with what I understand about life instead would have a greater impact on my name and the world of the future. The brother-in-law of my youngest sister born two months before me wanted big money to retire early in glorious grace. He rose through the ranks and became CEO of the world's fourth-biggest Oil Seed company before ending his professional career as CEO of the second-biggest sugar company in Europe.

Instead of blood chocolate runs through my venes. Using my political connections, I wanted to cooperate with the cocoa importers in Hamburg, Germany the most important port of this commodity. My man in the Ministry of Commerce made me understand after his careful investigation no one wanted to cooperate with an outsider and his innovative ideas but rather enjoy a high well-established profit margin. This got me going.

Cocoa beans are a food item. Food is of its highest quality when processed right after harvesting. To send a 64 kg sack from Ghana the country with the best cocoa beans in the world to any company in Europe for producing chocolate takes 3-4 months of transport. In Hamburg, the dead cocoa beans get sorted out but the rest is affected by the dead "body" still ready for consumption. I wanted to give consumers the chance to enjoy the best possible chocolate from the source of production while reducing the cost of the chocolate for the benefit of African consumers as well as worldwide.

My eyes were set on CPC Ltd in Tema, Ghana (Brandname "Goldentree") as state-owned and in constant turmoil, with a poor portfolio of chocolates, even locals don't praise. It is a national treasure and prestige object yet not giving the nation a glorious name.

As a witness "The man behind the Scene," I signed a contract for over $ 1 Billion to be invested in Ghana with Asian partners part of the money to be used for buying CPC Ltd and developing the cocoa industry of the nation. In his Adabraka Palace, the GA King trained in the USA, the Ochehenye he promised me CPC Ltd would be sold to me being convinced my concept would work.

Instead, our money got stolen by the ruling party, and our lives were threatened my wife and I hid in a Guest House in Greda Estate for two months, and me being arrested for asking for our money. Shame and disgrace were put on us sometimes nothing to eat anymore.

Bediako my partner in a local company and I sat one day in the office of the most renowned expert in Europe for chocolate production the late Joachim Burmeister by the hint of a friend constructing chocolate factories. In his white and shining Villa in Hamburg-Othmarschen did we share ideas about chocolate. His office was in the basement a double garage with wide open doors to the garden above. He smiled at us constantly in a certain way which I did not understand. His advice was precious to a novice like me. He stopped talking and looked over to his wife, his former secretary, and asked me:" Do you know who I am?" He smiled with a tender touch on his face. I answered that he was seen by many as the best expert in the chocolate industry. He looked at me like a teenager having certain intentions. Then he got up. He walked over to the shelf with many files and came back with one big black file. "Here these are all the papers for one chocolate factory. That is what you will go into." I had a good look at the technical drawings little did I understand. He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Do you know who I am?" I was confused. With his tender smile did he look over his shoulder to his wife. She smiled back. I got more confused and insecure. "This is CPC Ltd." So it was he the man behind "my" company mandated in 1965 by the first President of Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to establish a national chocolate factory. Employing originally 700 workers now only less than 200 underpaid workers sometimes get paid at the end of the month.

A few weeks after being back in Ghana my wife and I attended church Friday service. With the blessings of my prophet on my head, we all in the church asked to take honey as the symbol that life is sweet. Back from the church kiosk I tasted burnt sugar never honey. I got upset and angry. The louder I complained the more I saw a picture before my eyes. God spoke over the picture and told me as I has come to Ghana it would be my mandate to change the story of chocolate. What exactly he showed me is confidential as of now but really exciting.

Be ready for the moment destiny touches your heart to see it!