The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Jumoke Oduwole and the Director General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Joseph Osanipin, on Wednesday assured investors of adequate support in line with the Federal Government’s Nigerian first policy.
Speaking during a tour of SAGLEV Electric Vehicle (EV) Assembly and Manufacturing facility in Lagos State, the Minister and NADDC Boss explained that the auto sector is capable of generating numerous jobs for Nigerians.
The Minister said: “The Nigeria First Policy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is committed to supporting investors exactly like the demographics we are seeing here.
“We will continue to deliver workable reforms for small and medium sized enterprises as they scale, and manufacturers as they produce, we want them to be competitive”.
Also speaking, NADDC DG said the government is working assidiously for the implementation of the Auto Policy, adding that they have already adopted the Vehicle Electrification Policy.
Osanipin said “For the auto policy, we have the policy already but as you know, some part of the policy has to move it from policy to legislation. We have gone far on that. We have done the first and second review. So we noticed one or two elements that we need to work on. We have consulted with top lawyers that are working on the drafting. In the next few months, we will be ready for that.
“First of all, we came up with EV policy. That is vehicle electrification policy which is already on. And then, last week Thursday, we released the first National Occupational Standard (NOS), on how to maintaine and how to service electric vehicles. This is the first manual, just like curriculum that we will be using to train the technicians. Even the Universities, technical colleges and college of education and all the Polytechnics are going to derive their curriculum from this NOS which is going to be used to train people that will work on electric vehicles. These are part of the policies we have brought up to support the adoption of electric vehicles in Nigeria”the DG said.
In his submission, the Chief Executive Officer of SAGLEV, Dr Gbenga Faleye said the company has been working on the EV project for the past five years.
According to Faleye, SAGLEV has a Chinese Auto giant, Dongfeng Motors franchise for EV.
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