Nigerian Motorcycles To Be Produced En Mass

Mohammed Haruna, the executive vice chairman of
the National Agency for Science and Engineering
Infrastructure (NASENI), has said this to Leadership.
Haruna noted that the move was for consistency.

The company had launched its first ever wholly
made-in-Nigeria motorcycle in June 2013.
The NASENI M1, 80C engine motorcycle, was
imagined, designed and factory-made, using local
materials by Nigerian engineers at the National
Engineering Design Development Institute, one of the
nine research and development (R&D) organizations
managed by the agency.
The boss of the company said its purpose was to
produce the prototype and assist industries with
ability to take over from the agency and mass
produce the motorbikes.
He said: “We produced three prototypes and
perfected its production, however, for uniformity and
commercial production, Innosson Nigeria Limited is
now trying to set up an assembly that will do mass
production of that and when that is achieved the
NASENI would have achieved its mandate, target and
aim under that project. Our aim is not to flood the
market with the products but to have someone else
with capacity to mass produce our models and pay
royalty to the agency.”
Naming other products by the automobile company
which are offered for commercialisation, he also said
the agency has produced solar panels, science kits
for tertiary institutions and block moulding machines.

About 20 million Nigerians today rely on motorcycle
as means of transportation and many unemployed
youths and men support their families or earn a living
from running motorcycle as a commercial venture.
It should be noted that first Nigeria-made
cars named IVM Fox and IVM UMU were presented
six months ago.