Meet the Ghanaian chief who is a taxi driver in America (Video)
- Nana Gyensare Osei V, a chief of the Akwamu people in the Eastern Region works as a taxi driver in New York
- Nana Gyensare V and his wife Elizabeth Otolizz have grown the taxi business into a firm they call the Napasei Taxi Management Corporation
- Elizabeth Otolizz is the second wife of Nana Gyensare V who has turned his life around
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It has come out that Nana Gyensare Osei V, a chief of the Akwamu people, who oversees the residents of five towns across the Eastern Region, is a taxi driver in America.
In a short documentary by Barcroft.tv that was sighted by YEN.com.gh on the powerful life story of Osei, his double life of managing a throne and his taxi started after his brother died.
According to the chief who is known in his locality in America as Isaac Osei, his brother was the chief at Akwamu who died in 2006, causing Isaac Osei to become the new chief.
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Before then, Isaac who is one of 19 children, had moved to New York in 1977 to make a better living for himself. He began driving a taxi and soon bought a medallion in 1982.
Things did not go on well in the search of greener pastures as the hardworking man ended up in many financial entanglements. At that low point in his life, Isaac Osei, underwent a divorce as well.
Life started to come together for Nana Gyensare V when he found another woman named Elizabeth Otolizz who got married to him.
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Elizabeth saved Osei from all his financial troubles through hard work and diligence. Reports indicate that the two of them met at a small restaurant that Isaac had tried to put together just before 1990.
At the time the lovers met, she worked as a home health nurse, a newspaper deliverywoman and a taxi driver all at the same time.
Together, the husband and wife started doing taxis. Through hard work and diligence, Elizabeth Otolizz and her husband turned their taxi driving business into a company in Manhattan, New York City, that is now growing into an empire.
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The two call the firm Napasei Taxi Management Corporation and reports indicate that Elizabeth Otolizz runs it as the president while Nana Gyensare V himself serves as the vice president.
Speaking about how it is to run both the taxi business and settle family & property disputes back in Ghana, the chief describes he has to travel back and forth every time.
Nana Gyensare V added that though he gets worshipped as a king back in Ghana, he is treated like a normal 'nobody' when he is in America.
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“When I’m here in New York, it’s a different thing. No one knows me,” Osei said.
Watch the video below:
There have been a number of powerful life stories of Ghanaian individuals lately.
Just recently, YEN.com.gh reported that a popular radio presenter in Ghana named Emmanuel Agyemang successfully went from a junior high school called Kaneshie Anglican to the African University College of Communication (AUCC) without attending SHS.
In an interview with YEN.com.gh, the top radio presenter who now works at Onua FM as a mid-morning presenter indicates that when he graduated JSS in 1999, his family could not afford to send him to SSS. He revealed how he struggled to later become who he is today.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
