Yesterday, news broke that Innoson Motors Nig Ltd has laid off 50% of its work force, largely due to poor patronage and the harsh economic condition; no thanks to the fall of naira in the currency market.

According to the report, if things continue this way, the company might as well be on its way to folding up!

Innoson Motors is a purely indigenous automobile manufacturing firm, owned by Chief (Dr) Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, situated in Anambra state, South East Nigeria.

For me, the courage of this gentleman should be rewarded by the government and citizenry, by way of patronage.

The last administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan did encourage him by purchasing IVM (Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing) automobiles for use by government functionaries . Ditto for Mr Peter Obi, erstwhile governor of Anambra state.http://www.newissuesmagazine.com/innoson-motors-the-shame-of-a-nation/

I hope it's not true because if it is then it is inexcusable and i blame the SE governors, with the exception of Rochas, for their half-hearted support for the brand. Obiano's Anambra should be Innoson's biggest customer. This country can't continue to kill her own local manufacturers. It's insane.

Lalasticala, Ishilove, Mynd44.

with which money will an average Nigerian use to buy the cars?, when there has been to unemployment and hunger in the country. A normal working class Nigerian will prefer to buy a tokunbo vehicle than new ones, and it becomes worse when bulk of the nations population which are supposed to be working class are jobless. The leaders should create job and give out loans to youth who have the intellectual capacity to start something, that way the economy begins to bounce back then people start thinking of buying brand new cars whether Nigerian made or foreign made.