Council to move Nigeria’s auto industry to Completely-Knocked-Down Production Capacity

The National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC has reiterated its commitment to move the Nigeria auto industry from Semi- Knocked Down (SKD) to Completely- Knocked Down (CKD)production capacity in the nearest future.

The Director General NADDC, Mr Oluwemimo Osanipin revealed this when he visited NORD Motors, Proforce, Mikano Motors , CIG and Simba Group in continuation of the familiarisation visit to the local auto assembly plants.

In a statement during the tour, the Director General, Osanipin said the facilities have enough capacity in terms of installed capacity and level of operation even beyond the perception of the public.

According to him, “At NADDC, our ambition is to increase the local components of every vehicle that is coming out from the assembly plants. Basically our intention is to move from SKD to CKD in the next three to four years.

“The essence of this tour is to establish where we are, what is our reality, where are we in moving from SKD to CKD?. And from what we have seen, we have seen what we need to do, those we need to talk to, and the kind of synergy we need to have with other stakeholders to move ahead.” Mr Osanipin stated.

“To achieve CKD production capacity in the auto industry, we need to do backward integration and meet the components manufacturers and start bringing them up, because it is a complete ecosystem and no one can do it alone.”

The NADDC boss applauded the readiness of the assembly plants to embrace CNG- production as some of the auto makers were already producing either direct CNG- Powered vehicles or converting to CNG.

Hauwa Abu