From ‘Tokunbo’ to home-grown: NADDC DG seeks shift to Nigeria-used vehicle market

By Moses Akaigwe
The Director General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Otunba Oluwemimo Joseph Osanipin, has called for the development of a robust domestic used-vehicle market that will reduce Nigeria’s continued dependence on imported used vehicles, popularly known as “tokunbo”.
Osanipin said Nigeria’s used-vehicle market should be built around vehicles originally purchased and used within the country, rather than relying almost exclusively on automobiles discarded or sold off by users in other countries.
The NADDC boss spoke when the Managing Director of The Sun Publishing Company Limited, Mr. Onuoha Ukeh, paid   a courtesy visit to the Counci...