This will lead Nigeria no where. I after reading this, l keep wondering why we still say Nigeria an indivisible Nation.

BEFORE INNOSON....

WE WILL NOT FORGET

Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu : How the Izuogu Z-600 dream was destroyed

In 1997, a brilliant Igbo Electrical Engineer and Lecturer at the Federal polytechnic Nekede, Dr. Ezekiel Izogu designed and developed the Izuogu Z-600, the first African indigenous manufactured car.

The car was described by the BBC as ‘ the African dream machine as 90% of its parts were sourced locally. At a projected sales cost of 2000 dollars, it would have taken the world by storm and become the cheapest and most affordable car on earth. With mass production planned under Izogu Motors plant in Naze owerri, the prospects of an industrial revolution in Igbo land and Nigeria, was in the making.

The car was equipped with a self made 1.8L four cylinder engine that got 18mpg and allowed the car to achieve a top speed of 140 km/h. Front Wheel Drive (FWD) was chosen over Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) because a transmission tunnel, which RWD would require, would be more expensive to fabricate.

So 90% of the car’s components were made locally. General Sani Abacha set up a 12 man panel of inquiry made up of professionals to ascertain the road worthiness and authenticity of the car and after several days of probing, the committee gave Dr. Izuogu’s car a clean bill of health, recommending that some of the bumps on the body of the car be smoothened. It is worthy to note that this was five years before India built their first car known as the Indi.

At a well organized unveiling ceremony which had General Abacha represented by Oladipo Diya, over 20 foreign ambassadors and thousands of people in attendance, the federal government promised a grant of 235 million naira to Dr. Izuogu.

An excited Dr. Izuogu is still waiting for that grant till today. No dime was released to him. In 2006, the government of South Africa invited Dr. Izuogu to do a presentation about the car in the presence of several world class engineers. Being impressed with his presentation, they invited him to come and set up a plant in South Africa and begin the production of the car.

Dr. Izuogu reluctantly agreed, though he wasn’t happy that the benefits of employment generation will be lost on the locals of Naze and the Nigerian human resources environment. On Saturday, the 11th of March 2006, at about 2.00 a.m, a total of about 12 heavily armed men broke into Dr. Izogu’s factory in Naze and carted away various machines and tools including the design history notebook of Z-600, the design file Z-MASS, containing the design history for mass production of Z-600 car, and the moulds for various parts of the car.

According to Dr. Izogu:

“It seems that the target of this robbery is to stop the efforts we are making to mass-produce the first ever locally made car in Africa. Other items stolen included locally produced timing wheel, locally produced camshaft, locally produced crankshaft, locally produced engine tappets, all 20 pieces each.

Also stolen were ten pieces of locally produced Z-600 engine blocks, ten pieces of locally produced pistons, four pieces of engine block mounds, four pieces of top engine block moulds, ten pieces of engine fly wheel and two pieces each of rear car and front mudguard moulds.”The inventor regretted that not only did they lose over one N1 billion in monetary terms, but also time (about 10 years) and the energy it took to design and produce the moulds. “To worsen the matter, our design notebook was also stolen,” he stated.

He regarded the incident as a national economic disaster because the nation had lost a technological and intellectual property. This Press was quiet about this story. The set back and governments attitude frustrated Izuogu and his dream died.

Senseless post.

Have you forgot the phone conversation between Alhaji and Kunle? Alhaji said "After dealing with Igbos within this 4years, Igbos would not be relevant again in Nigeria.

So we are not suprise

Una don start another round of conspiracy theories! Smh

Be sure his fellow tribes men envious of his success orchestrated that rubbery. Igbos are their own greatest Enemy.


Trust me.

Still don't understand ur point.. Maybe u haven't read or heard about the history of Steve Jobs..

Your heading should be the inferiority complex of igbos and culture of lies and fraud
This is another dry poo from your anus, you mean in close to 20years of democracy in nigerai no one heard of ur ezemalu lambourgini until inoson defrauded GTbank

Balkan:
This will lead Nigeria no where. I after reading this, l keep wondering why we still say Nigeria an indivisible Nation.

If Igbos wake up to their evil plot now and take action, its still early.

I blame Innoson and many Igbo businessmen for using rogue banks as GTB.
I also blame some of the SE governors for not adequately patronizing igbo factories as Innoson, Ibeto etc and average Igboman that says everything is okay in Nigeria and believes the deceit that there is no war against him until the Fulani war against them make him jobless.

preacherz:
Be sure his fellow tribes men envious of his success orchestrated that rubbery. Igbos are their own greatest Enemy.


Trust me.

It was a robbery organised by the state. Planned and executed by the federal government.

dafeyankee:
Senseless post.

did you read at all? then point out the senseless things in the post?

Ten engine blocks and moulding machines all stolen. All prototypes and blueprints stolen as well in one single robbery.
I don't think 12 Anini and 12 Osisikankwu can steal everything in a mechanic's workshop in one single robbery not to think of a car making factory.
Fishy story.

Igbos should move en mass from the North and South West back to the East. Lets concentrate our investment back home.

Balkan:
It was a robbery organised by the state. Planned and executed by the federal government.

To what end? This story is all bunkum. Why didn't he take the South African offer? Did he forget how to design engines and vehicles the moment the first blueprint was stolen?

Is there a reason why Ibo is only ethnic group in Nigeria that whines about their difficult position?

Everyone is affected as well by every situation you face. Your businessmen need to stop crime and this wont be an issue. Name one Ibo business man with a clean hand. Just one!

I know some of you will name Orji Uzor Kalu, Chris Ubah, Ubeto and Nnamdi Kanu.

These crooks are all criminals, not entrepreneurs. Innoson just joined the gang.

Awon were!

This is the thing that was stolen and Mr. Izuogu couldn't remember how he made it.

The super armed robbers stole this "keke napep" and the memory of it's maker.

freeze20:
Igbos should move en mass from the North and South West back to the East. Lets concentrate our investment back home.

What happened when the same North issued you a gentle quit notice?
The truth is that Ibos will always hold the shortest end of the stick in any confrontation with any other tribe in Nigeria.

Make I dey hear dey observe.

BabaRamota1980:
Is there a reason why Ibo is only ethnic group in Nigeria that whines about their difficult position?

Everyone is affected as well by every situation you face. Your businessmen need to stop crime and this wont be an issue. Name one Ibo business man with a clean hand. Just one!

I know some of you will name Orji Uzor Kalu, Chris Ubah, Ubeto and Nnamdi Kanu.

These crooks are all criminals, not entrepreneurs. Innoson just joined the gang.

Awon were!

Adenuga is not crook, Dangote is saint, Dantata is innocent etc etc abi?

Check all the heavy looting in Nigeria, from Abacha to Dikko, from Ibb to....., all of them are from the north but yet they are always an EFCC chairman

F

Igbos ,victim mentality will not take us anywhere.
We even use it amongst n against ourselves as igbos.

I dnt like this kind of mentality.

GTBank dey their own lane jeje, Innoson carry him two legs waka go meet them ask for loan, still wan play them wayo on top again.

Stop being sentimental, ask the right questions and shame the devil.

Guestlander:
Ten engine blocks and moulding machines all stolen. All prototypes and blueprints stolen as well in one single robbery.
I don't think 12 Anini and 12 Osisikankwu can steal everything in a mechanic's workshop in one single robbery not to think of a car making factory.
Fishy story.

I wonder oh. Was his brain also stolen?

The most powerful asset of an inventor is his brain!

Whatever is stolen or destroyed can be recreated, except the work is a fraudulent one.

So for the past 11 years after his workshop was burgled, he still cannot recreate the work he was doing before, something definitely does not add up somewhere.

agabusta:


I wonder oh. Was his brain also stolen?

The most powerful asset of an inventor is his brain!

Whatever is stolen or destroyed can be recreated, except the work is a fraudulent one.

So for the past 11 years after his workshop was burgled, he still cannot recreate the work he was doing before, something definitely does not add up somewhere.

Do you think INNOSON would continue if there is sustained wickedness as we saw in the past few days?

What happened to the developments by Biafra scientists during the war?

You just sat there lazily mouthing sewage..Have you the prototype to even produce toothpick?

Okoroawusa:
Igbos ,victim mentality will not take us anywhere.
We even use it amongst n against ourselves as igbos.

I dnt like this kind of mentality.

Foolish man...Do you like the same mentality when Damian Anyanwu of Radio Mbaise fame was frustrated and he had to relocate to the US. Today he dines with US presidents and has many technological patents for the US.

Why would Nigeria hate and try to suppress any invention from the SE? Is SE not part of Nigeria? Won't the government and its people become the beneficiaries?

Stop this your talk of victim mentality and smell the coffee...

Cooly100:


Do you think INNOSON would continue if there is sustained wickedness as we saw in the past few days?

What happened to the developments by Biafra scientists during the war?

You just sat there lazily mouthing sewage..Have you the prototype to even produce toothpick?

Innoson doesn't have to worry about any prototype. He is an assembler of Chinese made CKD parts.

Cooly100:


Foolish man...Do you like the same mentality when Damian Anyanwu of Radio Mbaise fame was frustrated and he had to relocate to the US. Today he dines with US presidents and has many technological patents for the US.

Why would Nigeria hate and try to suppress any invention from the SE? Is SE not part of Nigeria? Won't the government and its people become the beneficiaries?

Stop this your talk of victim mentality and smell the coffee...

Foolish man?

Wetin bring that level?

Guestlander:



Innoson doesn't have to worry about any prototype. He is an assembler of Chinese made CKD parts.

Only a strong man with vision will use his name...on a product like that...

What of Damian Anyanwu who face the same problem as Izugo? Is he also an assembler?

Wicked bigots everywhere...

We are not supposed to be in the same country...as we are hurt bt the development by other tribes...

I blame Lugard for forcing us on each other...

Okoroawusa:

Foolish man?

Wetin bring that level?

No brain, na him bring am...

ManMountain:


What happened when the same North issued you a gentle quit notice?
The truth is that Ibos will always hold the shortest end of the stick in any confrontation with any other tribe in Nigeria.

That was an eye opener to those of our brothers that are still sleeping on bike. We already know that the best option for us is to move back and develop our homeland.

Cooly100:


Only a strong man with vision will use his name...on a product like that...

What of Damian Anyanwu who face the same problem as Izugo? Is he also an assembler?

Wicked bigots everywhere...

We are not supposed to be in the same country...as we are hurt bt the development by other tribes...

I blame Lugard for forcing us on each other...

Strong man indeed. If you can convince GTB to loan you enough money you too can have cooly 100 brand of vehicles courtesy of the Chinese.

Cooly100:


Do you think INNOSON would continue if there is sustained wickedness as we saw in the past few days?

What happened to the developments by Biafra scientists during the war?

You just sat there lazily mouthing sewage..Have you the prototype to even produce toothpick?

See this one. I'm a programmer, and I know what it means to code, and properly document it. Come back in the next two or three weeks and you'll be asking yourself questions. Time and energy is money, in most cases. Why do the Chinese hackers steal engineering designs and prototypes from major western corporation database? You think its easy to go back to same design and prototype when you have nothing to serve as a lead. Bro think.

Guestlander:


Strong man indeed. If you can convince GTB to loan you enough money you too can have cooly 100 brand of vehicles courtesy of the Chinese.

Why not start your own, if its that easy? Enemy of progress.