Founder and chairman of Nigeria’s automobile company, Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma is revealing how he got an order to supply $4.7m worth of his
Founder and chairman of Nigeria’s automobile company, Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma is revealing how he got an order to supply $4.7m worth of his cars to Sierria Leone after the Nigeria’s National Assembly members rejected his vehicles, preferring instead to go for a Japanese brand.
In an interview with Vanguard, he said, “Didn’t you see what happened at the National Assembly recently? They decided to buy Toyota cars made in Japan, that they are too big to drive made in Nigeria cars. Didn’t you hear it in the news? I have order of about $4.7million worth of vehicles from Sierra Leone. That’s what I’m producing now for Sierra Leone government.”
Reacting to tales of his company only assembling car parts and not production, Innoson said, “Innoson does not assemble vehicles, we manufacture. We build 100 percent vehicle body here and over 60 percent of the products used in manufacturing the vehicle are gotten from Nigeria. We make all the carcass of all our vehicles here. We only import some engines and electrical components but produce all the plastic parts here.
“We have produced many new vehicles according to the demands of our customers and what they need those vehicles for. Even if they need what we do not have, we make the mould and produce their request and to specifications. That is why we are a vehicle manufacturing company, not assembling company.”
