In a move to institutionalise and strengthen the
industrialisation of Nigeria by being on the vanguard of the
true change in political will amidst the cloudy future of
Nigeria’s major export, crude oil which has continued to
plummet at an impactful low record, the common sense
advocate, Senator Ben Murray Bruce has undoubtedly brake
different frontiers by not just postulating but walking the
talk to revitalise Nigeria’s economy through the made-in-
Nigeria crusade.


Weaved into the rejuvenation of Nigeria’s economy for a
guaranteed turnaround aimed at combating the continued
weakening of the naira which is currently at the epi-centre
of the wobbling economy is the made-in-Nigeria products. The
government had in not one occasion reaffirmed its
commitment to encourage a self-sustaining country that is
tilted towards locally manufactured products than an import-
oriented economy to help strengthen the local currency and
stabilise the socio-economic landscape of Nigeria.


Keying into this policy thrust, Senator Ben Bruce has brought
to the fore different practical economic strides to forestall
the polity and a move to shore up the local industry. The auto
industry as one of the major sectors with potentials of
rescuing the nation’s economy in its current comatose
cannot be left untapped and this has made the senator to
encourage the government to patronise the locally assembled
vehicles.

The senator took delivery of the made-in-Nigeria Kia Soul,
one of the locally produced Kia model range and applauded
the commitment and determination of Kia in partnering with
the federal government to advance the country’s economy.
As one of the leading automobile brands in Nigeria with an
enviable record of offering best-in-class and top of the
segment vehicles at an affordable cost to the Nigerian
market, Kia Motors Nigeria has again reinforced its
unwavering commitment to the industrialisation of Nigerian
economy and its indelible contributions to the success of the
auto industry by investing heavily in an assembly plant. It's
state of the art technologies are arguably at par with any
renowned and international plant in the world. The plant
launched at the wake of the year 2015, prides itself on the
production of nine tropicalized and made-for-Nigeria models
with their respective trims in the country with over 2500
units rolled out since its launch.

The Chief Commercial Officer, Sandeep Malhotra alluded to
the fact that the success of the plant is premised on
Nigerian government’s favourable disposition to empowering
local industry. In his submission, he stated that Kia Motors
Nigeria remained resolute and committed to the long term
investment in the auto industry despite the short term
challenges currently faced. The plant has the capacity to
produce 27,000 vehicles annually and there is a provision to
increase the production lines depending on the demand.

The assembly line has been built to the high standard of KIA
Motors Corporation. Culminating in several months of
construction, installation of technologically advanced
equipment and the training of its staff have snowballed into
its first assembly lines that assembles Kia models, such as its
best-selling Kia Rio, Cerato, Optima, Sportage and the all-
new 2015 Kia Sorento recently unveiled globally amongst
others are all products from the plant. With the quality of
the vehicles produced locally in the company’s Lagos plant,
it’s apparently lucid that there was no compromise on the
high standard of the plant and it remains one of the best in
the country.

source www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/ben-bruce-makes-case-for-made-in-nigeria-vehicles/.

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