…Says House Free To Make Their Choice
The Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, popularly known as Innoson, has said that the house is free to buy any vehicle that they like.
Speaking on Wednesday following a report that the house rejected Innoson jeeps, to spend N5bn on Toyota Camry, he said that it is a matter of choice whether you buy Innoson or Japanese products.
“Buying Innoson products is as good as buying Japanese products, with Mitsubishi engine or some American products.
“It is not purely a local technology yet, as the engine of the vehicles are imported from places like Japan and America. It has all the advantages of Made- in- Japan vehicles like fuel efficiency. Yet the vehicles were built for Nigerian roads.”
According to him one of the advantages of buying Innoson products is that the owner of the vehicle can return the vehicles to the factory for refurbishment.
“At the end of the day, your vehicle would come out almost as new. Our raw materials are sourced locally, except the ones that cannot be gotten locally.
“Presently, the company has made in-road into some African countries, such as Mali, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Chad, Niger, Togo.
As the first indigenous motor manufacturing company in Nigeria. Chukwuma has proven that Nigerians can produce a motor car.
Its record, within just a decade, confirms this: over 10,000 vehicles manufactured, over 7,000 human resources, and markets covering over 25 African countries.