@ Mr R. Abati
perhaps a more serious problem in the Nigerian automotive industry is the absence of a crop of skilled Nigerians who can maintain the sophisticated electronic vehicles that are now being produced in keeping with advancements in technology. Nigerian streets are full of road-side mechanics who served their apprenticeship with vehicles made in the 70s. Faced with sophisticated, modern vehicles, they are completely incompetent. Many cars have been ruined. In the garages maintained by car dealers, the bill is often outrageous. Nigeria's education system is not producing engineers and scientists, who can function in a modern society, rather it is churning out graduates who would rather sell cars by the roadsides, or run a pepper-soup joint.
What is new here. I disagree with you about graduates selling cars or setting up pepper soup joints. Willl a degree pay their bills? Feed them? Pay rent?Feed their family.Get real Rueben!!! "Man must hold belle first".
As for the neglect in the automotive industry its natural that since most industries are in decline the automotive industry should be no different. Also the cost of these so called automobiles and the exorbitant bank interest rates ( which incidently I find very strange that most if not all Nigerian banks do not publish their rates on their websites ), not to talk about how somtimes to get the loan you must also insure your car with an insurance company ( no doubt a subsidiary company of the bank ) and may probably not pay out if your car gets damaged.
I remember two men one in the East and somewhere in Western Nigeria developed prototype cars in the past but had two fingers waved at them by the goverment.Look at India and how they encouraged and supported Financially tata.
Personally I will take my chances with a tokunbo than paying the extortionist prices for cars in Nigeria ( which might not even be brand new,remember the arch 419 Vaswani brothers and their 'omo' washed second hand Hondas passed off as new.)
. Anyway I suppose after a while in Nigeria your immune to the everyday sabotage of Nigeria by Nigerians.
