Importers of used vehicles will soon face the task of ensuring that such automobiles are accompanied by valid certificates of road-worthiness from the countries of origin, to indicate that they do not pose health and motoring hazards, before they can be allowed into the country.

The new Director General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council {NADDC}, Jelani Aliyu, stated this at a forum in Lagos where he met auto industry stakeholders for the first time since his appointment four months ago.

The former top designer with the General Motors in the United States of America said the council, which is charged with the responsibility of regulating activities in the automotive industry, is worried that most of the used vehicles coming into the country are in very bad shape and endanger public health and road safety.

Aliyu explained that some of the in-bound second-hand vehicles are dismantled before being shipped, only to be welded back and deployed to the roads, adding that in this process, safety standards are compromised.

To check the trend and ensure that only tokunbo vehicles that are still in good shape come into the country, the NADDC would work out an arrangement in conjunction with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria [SON] to make it mandatory for such vehicles to arrive the ports with road-worthiness certificates.

The document, according to him, would be proof that the vehicles were in good condition at the time they were leaving their countries of origin.

The Director General, however, stated that the council would not consider a total ban on the importation of the tokunbo vehicles pending the coming on stream, before the end of the year, of a finance scheme designed to ease the purchase of brand new cars by average Nigerians.

The vehicle purchase scheme which is being packaged in partnership with WesBank, a leading provider of motor vehicle and business finance in South Africa, is to ensure that Nigerians buy cars of their choice without having to pay the full value at once.

Guests at the forum were also informed that in line with the goals of the automotive policy, the council would encourage the domestic auto industry to produce vehicles that would be affordable in addition to meeting the needs of the local market.

The NADDC boss said that the production of vehicles that are relevant to the needs of the market would boost the campaign to encourage government ministries, departments and agencies to patronise made-in-Nigeria automobiles.

Commenting on the efforts made so far towards implementing the automotive policy, the NADDC Director in charge of Policy and Planning, Mr. Mamudu Luqman, said the council had procured hectares of land for the development of automotive supplier parks in Nnewi, Oshogbo and Kaduna.


One of the stakeholders, and Managing Director of ABC Transport, Frank Nneji, applauded the efforts so far made towards implementing the auto policy, but tasked the council on the imperative of boosting local content.

The transporter, who ventured into the assembly of heavy duty and light trucks, as well as mini buses in Enugu, said: “There is need for tyre industries to be developed; we should also be looking at battery, windscreen and other car accessories. The issue of input is one area that we want NADDC to focus on”.

A representative of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd, Nnewi, Cornel Osigwe, lamented the frustrating hurdles usually encountered by genuine auto plants in renewing their manufacturer status.

Osigwe’s suggestion that the council should consider making a case with the relevant ministry, for the validity of the certificate to be extended to a longer period, was well received by the NADDC Director of Policy and Planning.

https://autojosh.com/naddc-introduce-road-worthiness-proof-clearing-tokunbo-cars/

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When people do not know better it's the job of government to protect their interests and the interest of the general public who may suffer harm directly or indirectly from inordinate acts.

Most of the cars shipped in as Tokunboh are grievously 'accidented'. Their structural integrity has been fatal compromised such that in the event of another accident, the lives of passengers are at much more risk.

The irony is that this cars are sold as 'clean' cars so it is the shylock dealers who have no respect for the sanctity of human life that pocket huge gains.

Most cars that are imported from the United States have a Certificate of Destruction as title. You CANNOT resell the car in the US and they clearly state that it can ONLY be exported.

Na wa ooo, They don't want masses to use cars again. will this not allow the cost of cars to increase, people that buy salvaged cars to repair here and use no go fit do that again.

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Most cars in Nigeria are salvage cars from where and who will give them road worthiness certificates?

safiaaASSHOLE:


Stop lying ahan, a whole 99%

He is fairly accurate

This na real wa....

three:


He is fairly accurate

you mean 99% of cars imported here are like this ?

edit: oh, I didn't see the pictures you uploaded..

Maybe 95% but not 99%

they don't know what their are saying

we go by-pass them

INTERESTING....

safiaaASSHOLE:


you mean 99% of cars imported here are like this ?

edit: oh, I didn't see the pictures you uploaded..

Maybe 95% but not 99%

How do we know where the car we buy falls in? 1% of 100% or 5% of 100%?

By the time they panel beat the car and oven bake it one could swear it's a different car!

These cars are called lemons.

You will only end up paying Kazeem's children's school fees and completing his bungalow in Igbogbo!

gentleman, u r not serious

Confused set of Human being. Nigerians are hungry, unemployment is high. How many Nigerians can afford to buy Clean Title Cars? Let $1 become #180 and see if we won't drive New Cars....lol

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Confused set of Human being. Nigerians are hungry, unemployment is high. How many Nigerians can afford to buy Clean Title Cars? Let $1 become #180 and see if we won't drive New Cars....lol

Hungry today, dead tomorrow.

Salvage cars with a salvage title and complete airbags are okay!

PS. It costs less to import a car with no airbags than one with.

Death is cheap

Another revenue generating scheme. Nigerian authorities should be more worried about the states of our roads which pose more safety risk than these tokumbo vehicles.

Meanwhile, those Interstate buses that you use to travel, do you know that they are cut in two, sandwiched and squeezed into containers?

One 40 foot container can take up to 6 buses or more!

Go to Promise Land in Ladipo to see for yourself!

Stay safe people!

He is fairly accurate , kind %99 of cars

We buy mostly US accidented cars

how do one get such if they parked their car for 13 months in a garage and off road??

A very good policy if it could be fully implemented but one of the major banes of this country is so much propoganda without action, policy flipflop, nepotism and so on.

three:


How do we know where the car we buy falls in? 1% of 100% or 5% of 100%?

By the time they panel beat the car and oven bake it one could swear it's a different car!

These cars are called lemons. Wrong

You will only end up paying Kazeem's children's school fees and completing his bungalow in Igbogbo!

Salvage Cars are not lemons.
You posted the definition your self so why are you saying the wrong thing.
Which means you didn't read what you posted.
A lemon is a car with factory defect.

This is Bad news for car dealers .
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the ones repackaging salvage for us.
This is not even possible.
As long as cars are still smuggled in.
As long as the name of our country Nigeria doesn't change.
This can't work .