Tanzanian Man Who Quit Police Service To Be Truck Driver Becomes Multimillionaire: "Mungu Ni Mwema"

• Chris Lukos, the founder and sole proprietor of KC Global Links, went from being a police officer to a millionaire after his colleagues mistreated him
• The father of two quit his job as a policeman to become a truck driver in Botswana and eventually left for the UK
• After struggling, doing odd jobs in the UK, he eventually started his freight business which now boasts five containers of cars and household goods each month

Chris Lukos, whose imports company is the talk of social media streets and Tanzania in general, is now minting millions after leaving the police service and painstakingly building his company.

Chris leaves the police service

Chris, a native of Isanga in Mbeya, is 51 years old and was only educated up to Form Four; he opted to join the police service instead of furthering his education.

"When I was still in the service, I bought a very huge bicycle, and that caused people to feel jealous and start hating me; they made me hate my job, so I quit it," he said on Ayo TV.

"I believe hard work is the only way of removing yourself from poverty," said the KC Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

He would soon leave the service, citing frustrations and travelled from Tanzania to Botswana, where he started driving huge trucks.

"Most of the time, I travelled from Gaborone to Windhoek, Namibia and also within Botswana.and I enjoyed life there," he shared.

"I fought so hard and went to the UK at only 27 years. I entered the UK as a student and life was so hard. I washed windows, worked in warehouses and washed toilets," he said.

Struggle to succeed in the UK

According to the CEO, his perseverance saw him get a job as a traffic warden at the Westminister Council and later as a CCTV operator where he worked for five years.

"I soon started my company called Seregeti Freight Global Services and started transporting goods. However it failed because my partner and I had different ideas of running it," said Chris.

It went bankrupt and I started KC Global Links with only KSh 70,000, the only cash between me and poverty. I remember my first sale had only five kettles and two microwaves. I tried selling them on Facebook and people bought them," he said.

He had borrowed money to expand his business and paid it back until now he owns a multimillion business.

"I now sell big , flashy cars such as Range Rover Sports, Range Rover Vogue, Range Rover Discovery and BMX X5; cars that will earn you respect and not bowls," he said.

"I also sell small but very stylish cars; the differences between European and Japanese cars is that the former have a lot of safety features and are very comfortable," he enthused.

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In the past, people used to fear them because of spare parts, but my company has since addressed the issue and sells spare parts.

"The most expensive car in my yard is KSh 3 million, and there is also a KSh 635,000 Mini Cooper among the vehicles," he revealed.

KC sells cars in Tanzania and the United Kingdom; in a month, he imports five containers worth of cars and household goods from the UK. Everything is sold by the time they all get to Tanzania.

"There is no easy life, and I have gone through so much. One of the things I went through was being segregated because of my colour; so many things were done to me in the UK because I was black," said the father of two daughters.

Chris divorces UK-based wife

"I could not participate in auctions, I was discriminated at the shipyards and some would not even let me inside their yards. I had to peep from outside. However, right now they really respect me and a very good percentage of my workers are white," he said.

Chris's family lives in the UK since he divorced his wife.

"We had an amicable separation; she is a Tanzaninan like me. I don't fear marrying a white woman because those who mess up rich men who for mega- rich people; I am a hustler," he said.

4 billionaires who were once policemen

Closer home, some renowned businessmen were once hardworking policemen who left to pursue other interests.

According to the TUKO.co.ke report, presidential aspirant Jimmy Wanjigi was once a senior police reservist but was fired for threatening citizens with firearms.

Former spy chief James Kanyotu reportedly accumulated an estimated KSh 20 billion having risen from an inspector of police Grade 1 to National Intelligence Service (NIS) boss.

Joshua Kulei was a prison warder who rose to become the late retired president Daniel arap Moi's personal assistant and later invested across different sectors of the economy.