The Chairman/CEO of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd (IVM), Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, CON, has urged governors and other public office holders to borrow a leaf from their counterpart in Adamawa who has adopted a policy of buying only made-in-Nigeria products.
He stated this at his plant in Nnewi when members of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations led by Dr Ike Neliaku paid him a visit.
Chief Chukwuma said that Gov. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State has been consistently patronising IVM-branded range of vehicles – a patriotic habit which, he said, is worth emulating.
According to Chief Chukwuma, Nigeria’s economy would develop rapidly if other governor’s take a cue from Gov. Fintiri.
He assured that as the first indigenous motorcycle and automobile manufacturer, he is irrevocably committed to making products that meet the needs of Nigerians in terms of quality standards and affordability.
He, therefore, urged decision makers in government at all levels and Nigerians in general, to always look inwards in their purchases.
“All of us in Nigeria should work hard to move our country forward. On my part, I am working hard to see that Nigeria is the base of auto manufacturing in Africa just like the governor of Adamawa State is doing to develop his state and improve the life of his people,” Chukwuuma remarked.
Applauding Gov. Fintiri for always preferring IVM vehicles as evident in the CNG buses he ordered recently from the Nnewi plant, the Innoson Chairman spoke further: “The governor is one of my best customers. If other governor’s behave like him, Nigeria will be much better.
Go to Adamawa, you will see that everything there is made-in-Nigeria.
“And many of the government vehicles on the road there in Adamawa are Innoson, and they don’t have problems.”
He commended governors and government agencies that have been patronising Innoson vehicle models and other locally made products.
He, however, decried the attitude of some state governors, other government officials and even those in the private sector whom Innoson trusted and sold vehicles to on credit, only for them to abuse the trust by refusing to pay the debts even many years after.
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