Nigeria, June 23, 2016 – The Automobile, Boatyards, Transport, Equipment and Allied Senior Staff Association (AUTOBATE) has commended the Federal Government for its affirmative position and endorsement of the National Automotive Policy introduced by the past administration.
“We are particularly elated that the endorsement vindicates our earlier position that the auto policy must be fully implemented in order to boost local production and create more jobs’’, the union said in a statement signed by its President and Secretary, Comrades Julius David and Sola Olorunfemi respectively.
It explained that the essence of a real change seeking economy is human development adding that it remains one precise way to correctly demonstrate industrial growth.
“AUTOBATE firmly believes that the Auto Policy should only be progressively reviewed. The Federal Government should continue with its promise to engage banks and other financiers to act as technical partners both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria to provide funding for operators.
“ It is also a right step that the Federal Government is planning to “leverage technology to fight smuggling of used cars across the border,” the group said.
It called on the Federal Government to move further by directly investing in the industry and making history with a public-sector auto company that will make Nigeria a real local producer of automobile.
“This will widen public profit and create much more massive employment. AUTOBATE congratulates auto stakeholders for agreeing with our viewpoint rather than continual preference of a second hand industry. We hereby urge all auto companies to treat workers welfare as utmost, and stop the recent redundancy’’, it said.
It congratulated Engineer Jalal and his team at NAIDP for the forthrightness, eternal vigilance
