The chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment
Programme (SURE-P) Community Service, Kogi State,
Alhaji Abdullahi Ohiomah, has lauded what he
described as “the indigenous characteristics” of the
IVMG5, a mid-market sports utility vehicle (SUV)
manufactured in Nigeria by Innoson Motors Company Limited. Ohiomah told LEADERSHIP in Lokoja recently that
the SUV assembled at the Innoson’s Nnewi vehicle
manufacturing plant had proven that Nigeria could
do what the developed nations were doing if the
right policies were made and diligently
implemented. “When we wanted to get the vehicles, we had
initially preferred the Prado (Toyota), but the
federal government insisted that we must buy the
one made in Nigeria in line with the national
automotive policy. So we went for the IMVG5
manufactured here in Nigeria by Innoson Motors, and it is very close to what we wanted. It has been
one year now that I started using the vehicle and it
has been a great experience all along,” he said. We were not too comfortable when the vehicles
were given to us and it happened that there were
some minor problems we had with the vehicles
initially, but they were immediately fixed by the
manufacturer and since then, there has not been
any other problems and the manufacturer has laid to rest our discomfort. The engine is very reliable,”
he noted. Innoson IMVG5 is built with 2.0-litre Mitsubishi
4G69S4N engine measuring 1,815, 1,800 and
4,640 mm in width, height and length respectively
and a 2WD drive system. Like its rivals in the
Nigerian auto market such as the Rav4, Honda CRV
and the Nissan X-trail, the IMVG5 is fitted with five seats with calibration power of 100/5250 having
both manual and automatic transmission options. Ohiomah said having belonged to a generation that
began life with new vehicles, it was difficult to
switch to using a used car, as he admonished
automobile representatives in Nigeria to begin to
embrace the national automotive policy and invite
their parent companies into the country to access the option of local assemblage of the vehicles. “The reason for the auto policy is very clear. What
we were doing before (importation of vehicles) is
exportation of employment. There is no
employment, but if all of these auto makers are
assembling their vehicles here, there would be a
huge number of jobs,” he added.

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