By April this year, the old Volkswagen plant will come
back to life in Nigeria.
In no distant future, Nigerians should begin to witness
the result of the Federal Government’s automotive policy early this year as
Nissan says it’s first made in Nigeria car will be rolled out this April.
Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive officer of Nissan Motors, announced this at
an interactive audience granted by President Goodluck Jonathan to him (Ghosn)
and representatives of Nissan’s partners in Nigeria on the sidelines of the
ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday.
Nigeria is a major market for most cars manufactured in Asia, Europe and
America with statistics from the Nigerian Automotive Manufacturers Association
(NAMA), the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development indicating that a total of 400,000 vehicles (300,000
used and 100,000 new) valued at N550 billion (US$3.451 billion) were imported
in 2012 alone.
President Jonathan had, while introducing the new Federal Government automotive
policy, last year, declared
that the automotive industry when fully operational has the potential of
creating 70,000 skilled and semi-skilled jobs along with 210,000 indirect jobs
in SMEs that will supply the assembly plants.
The Nissan Motor Company, makers of the Nissan brand of vehicles, quickly keyed
into the project and announced that it was willing to set up automobile plant
in Nigeria, in an industry that is capable of creating another 490,000 jobs in
the raw material supply industry.
Ghosn informed President Jonathan that Nissan Motors is now ready to “roll-out
the first made in Nigeria 4 X 4 Utility SUV in April this year using the old
Volkswagen assembly plant owned by its partners”.
Ghosn, who said that it was possible to produce two to three million cars in
Nigeria annually with the consequent creation of thousands of direct and
indirect jobs, told the president that Nissan intends to increase its
investment in Nigeria and establish its own vehicle production plant in the
country.
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